By John Terrett on November 18th, 2009
Reports on the aftermath of September 11, 2001 seldom focus on the group of people I spent Wednesday morning with. They're the first responders...
By Gabriel Elizondo on November 18th, 2009
Do you want to know what it can be like to live in Rio de Janeiro? Take a look at this 58 second Youtube video, for a raw, unedited scene from...
By John Terrett on November 18th, 2009
At the height of the great financial collapse of 2008, insurance giant AIG could not come up with enough cash to reimburse the many companies...
By Abdurahman Warsame on November 20th, 2009
I visited Afghanistan in September for two weeks, spending many days walking the streets of Kabul. I also visited the north and the Western...
By James Bays on November 18th, 2009
When the second round of Afghanistan’s controversial presidential election was called off and Hamid Karzai, the incumbent, was...
By Kamal Hyder on November 17th, 2009
Cutoff from the outside world Sararogha, is a town built on the edge of dry wadis that swell to roaring torrents after the winter rains. For now...
By Hamish Macdonald on November 20th, 2009
 The US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger once famously asked the question "Who do I call if I want to call Europe?" Now, for...
By Hamish Macdonald on November 18th, 2009
We've spent the day wading through the murky waters of European politics. Leaders from across Europe arrive here in Brussels on Thursday to...
By Hamish Macdonald on November 17th, 2009
I thought this was an interesting observation on social media from the independent Australian Website Crikey. The statement was sent to...
By Mohamed Vall on November 16th, 2009
As if the ever increasing tribal clashes in the south were not enough, political divisions among southern Sudanese are getting deeper by the day...
By Andrew Simmons on November 7th, 2009
The International Criminal Court’s Prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo announced before leaving Kenya on Saturday that he had a “strong...
By Andrew Simmons on November 5th, 2009
Kenyan politics was to blame for the bloodbath in the wake of Presidential elections – and the politics of this country are also to blame...
By Mohamed Vall on November 20th, 2009
The aftermath of the World Cup qualifying match between Algeria and Egypt has amounted to a diplomatic storm over the North African region...
By Nour Odeh on November 19th, 2009
    They are illegal, a contravention of the Fourth Geneva Convention, "dangerous", "concerning"; they are Israel...
By Teymoor Nabili on November 19th, 2009
The U.S. State Department's 2009 Report on International Religious Freedom went almost entirely un-noticed by the international media. In fact,...
By Gabriel Elizondo on November 19th, 2009
What do Apple, Hewlett-Packard and Google all have in common? Answer: All three companies had lower profits in the third quarter of 2009 than...
By John Terrett on November 16th, 2009
Protesters gathered outside the Washington DC headquarters of Goldman Sachs on Monday. They were there to protest the giant bank's plans to pay...
By Teymoor Nabili on November 13th, 2009