Over the past year or two there has been diet backlash in America. We’re finding that “diets” don’t work. Just the sound of the word diet, sends some into sheer terror. It conjures up thoughts of tasteless lettuce and constant hunger pangs.
Here we are tracking and counting carbs, fat and calories, meanwhile those in Europe [...]
As Russia grapples with the security crisis triggered by the Moscow bombings, top political figures find themselves no longer immune from the local media’s distrust and criticism. Within hours of Monday’s suicide bombings, the Moscow Metro stations affected were back in service. By the evening, at the Lubyanka station where the first bomb was detonated, [...]
UNITED NATIONS – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday accepted a request from Pakistan’s president to delay the release of a report on the assassination of his wife, former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, until April 15. U.N. spokesman Martin Nesirky made the announcement just two hours before a three-member U.N. commission that investigated Bhutto’s death was [...]
Fighters from ’s Lord’s Resistance Army have hacked or beaten to death at least 321 Congolese villagers in one of the worst single atrocities of their 23-year insurgency. The attacks occurred in a remote part of northern Democratic Republic of Congo between 14 and 17 December last year, but their scale has only now been [...]