Rice grower Robin Crawford takes little comfort from soaring world rice prices.She won't be able to cash in until the drought in Australia eases and there issignificantly more water in the dams that supply her water-intensivecrop. "We had no rice
I had never been arrested before and the prospect of prison inZimbabwe, one of the poorest, most repressive places on earth, seemedespecially forbidding: the squalor, the teeming cells, the possibilityof beatings. But I told myself what Iâ ™d repeatedly taught
For John McCain, it was either the perfect political photo op thatreflected an image he's worked years to polish or a moment of striking,and potentially damaging, political dissonance. It was a breezy, sunny day this week in lush southwest Alabama.
The Republican and Democratic presidential candidates differstrikingly in their approaches to taxes and spending, but their fiscalplans have at least one thing in common: each could significantly swellthe budget deficit and increase the national debt by trillions ofdollars, according to
The Veterans Administration has lied about the number of veteranswho've attempted suicide, a senator charged Wednesday, citing internale-mails that put the number at 12,000 a year when the department waspublicly saying it was fewer than 800. "The suicide rate is
Friday, as a perfect morning sky cast its rosy hue over the crowd of 40,000people, Mr. Duffell stood with his son Peter and niece Jocelyn Hannemannto acknowledge Australian soldiers who died at war. Mr. Duffell served in the 30th infantry
Fire broke out at a mattress factory in the Moroccan coastal city of Casablanca on Saturday killing 55 people, state news agency MAP reported.Twelve others including a police officer were seriously injured in the blaze which took hold on the
Wachovia Corp.is being investigated by federal prosecutors as part of a probe into alleged laundering of drug proceeds by Mexican and Colombian money-transfer companies, the Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday.An official of Charlotte, North Carolina-based Wachovia, the country's fourth
The plumed slouch hat of the Australian Light Horseman returned tothe battlefields of France after 90 years Friday to mark a new era inAnzac Day celebrations.This first dawn service to remember the Australian contribution tothe war on the Western Front
Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister Dinsha Patel publicly advised Narendra Modi to cultivate the habit of speaking truth at a college inaugural function in Nadiad.
Mayawati had on April 7 claimed that she had come to know 'when this Prince returns to his home in Delhi after meeting and eating with Dalits, he is given a bath with a special soap'.
The US and Germany recently signed a deal that would allow them to share data on suspected terrorists. Now it turns out that the new agreement allows for the countries to swap data on suspects' ethnic origin, religious beliefs and
A new German Foreign Ministry report is extremely critical of the human rights situation in China. The confidential report, which has been seen by SPIEGEL, contains a long list of abuses of human rights and democratic principles.
Reasons include a rise in divorce - one in three children will experience the separation or divorce of their parents before the age of 16; a growing trend for cohabitation - a more unstable model than marriage, with nearly one
