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The world’s most powerful finance ministers and central bankers are meeting in Washington tomorrow; but as they preoccupy themselves with the global credit crunch, another crisis, far more grave, is facing the world’s poorest people.
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A group of University of Iowa scientists is looking for marijuana smokers to help gain insight into the drug’s effects. And they plan to pay subjects as much as 600 dollars to smoke their pot.
The turmoil in the U.S. airline industry deepened Friday as the fourth U.S. low-cost carrier in less than a month filed for bankruptcy, and American Airlines cancelled nearly 600 additional U.S. flights for inspections.
In all, American has canceled...
China’s conflict with the Dalai Lama was purely a question of national unity and nothing to do with ethnicity, religion or human rights, Chinese President Hu Jintao said on Saturday.
He spoke after China again bared its teeth against foreign...
Aged 29, Karen Overhill was diagnosed with Multiple Personality Disorder. In one of the most intriguing and disturbing cases of its kind, her psychiatrist helped her identify 17 distinct personalities - the result of abuse she’d suffered at the...
Even as Australia glowed through an almost unparalleled era of prosperity, the number of homeless youths roaming its streets has doubled over the past 20 years, a new report has found.
And the modest inroads made in recent years appear likely to be...
The Colombian government of Álvaro Uribe is making strenuous efforts to identify the Farc guerrilla movement as the chief threat to the country’s security and progress. But the evisceration of Colombia’s state and society by paramilitary violence...
Shi’ite Muslim cleric Moqtada al-Sadr threatened yesterday to formally end an already tattered cease-fire he had ordered his Mahdi Army militia to obey. The radical preacher also canceled plans for a massive protest march against the Iraqi...
Army Gen. David H. Petraeus, testifying on Capitol Hill for a second day on the situation in Iraq, today dismissed the idea of calling for another buildup of U.S. forces in the country if violence escalates, saying he would rely instead on American and...
The Antonov An-225 is the world’s heaviest and largest jet for strategic airlift transport built by Antonov Design Bureau. It is larger than the Airbus A380 airliner and is listed in the Guinness Book of Recor as the largest airplane.
It has a...
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