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The protesters gathered in a park in the shadow of corporate headquarter skyscrapers, a short walk from Ginza, Tokyo’s most upscale shopping district.
Hundreds strong, they included workers already laid off as the global downturn battered...
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Even before its Lincolnesque inauguration, the Barack Obama presidency and Latin America already seem to be on a collision course.This Tuesday, in a groundbreaking, wide-ranging, 33-country Latin American and Caribbean summit coordinated by the...
The US justice department warned this week that Mexican drug gangs pose the biggest organized crime threat to the US. But Mexico’s southern neighbours are also increasingly worried by the drug trafficking threat.Children walk past soldiers and a...
They came as slaves; vast human cargo transported on tall British ships bound for the Americas. They were shipped by the hundreds of thousands and included men, women, and even the youngest of children.
Diabetes affects 24 million Americans and an increasing number of children. It can lead to limb loss and heart attacks. Yet people are more afraid of snakes and flying.In an online survey by the American Diabetes Association (ADA), conducted in August...
I’ve been watching the news for the last few days (or maybe the last week) and frankly the fact that any intelligent idea actually gets out and discussed in the national media seems far-fetched and impossible.
The iPhone 3G has been making wave after wave of news and more of it has come again. This most recent piece of news may have people wondering about how romantic a device the iPhone is turning out to be. This device would be just as popular amongst the...
The extinction of the dinosaurs was most probably caused by an asteroid hitting the Earth - but what would have happened if the giant space rock had missed?
Light a candle and bake a cake, then pop down to the shop to pick up a hilarious card – your CPU has just turned 30! While its best years aren’t behind it quite yet, it could do with cheering up.
Looks like what is left of the Bretton Woods system will be canned after the election. I used to think gold would just drift upward over the next several years until it reached 2500-3000. It looks like we are in for a one time massive devaluation of the...
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