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ScienceDaily (Nov. 22, 2009) — A new study from Norwegian and New Zealand scientists provides updated numbers for CO2 emissions from fossil fuels. While the global financial crisis may have slowed down the emission growth, it...
"In the village in India where I was born and raised, the notion of child rights does not exist," Om Prakash Gurjar said. As his father had no means to pay off the family's debt, five-year-old Om Prakash had to become a bonded...
Nov. 20 is the day for the world to focus on how it is treating its children, according to the head of the UN's child welfare body. November 20 marks the 20th anniversary of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the...
AFP/File – A Belarussian woman watches President Alexander Lukashenko giving his annual address on television at … by Amelie Herenstein Amelie Herenstein – 12 mins ago MINSK (AFP) – Scorned as Europe's last dictatorship, ranked...
"There is a beginning of a bubble in financial markets." - economist Nouriel Roubini, who predicted last year's global financial crisis "We have eight of them, and if we ration those - maybe have half an Eggo in one sitting -...
By Michael Riley The Denver Post WASHINGTON — His shirt sleeves rolled up, U.S. Rep. Ed Perlmutter was in a fighting mood as he worked fellow members of the Financial Services Committee last week, but by then the cause was...
There's no need to go to Washington to hear the increasingly shrill arguments over phantom congressional districts and the number of jobs created by the $787 billion economic-stimulus plan. That dispute is raging across South...
Loss in human welfare benefits due to high carbon emission equates anywhere between $2 to $4.5 trillion annually ? much higher than the total loss in global financial crisis, a top expert said yesterday.
American Voters Trusted the General in the Wake of Global Crises Ending the Korean War, achieving a budget surplus, and presiding over a period of increasing prosperity enabled Dwight D. Eisenhower to win over 57% of the vote...
MAASTRICHT.- TEFAF Maastricht, the world’s most influential art and antiques fair, will have a record number of 260 exhibitors from 17 countries when the 23rd edition opens at the MECC (Maastricht Exhibition and Congress...
