A luncheon engagement this past Monday turned out to be more than a midday feeding of the body or a pleasant get-together with a friend; it presented an opportunity to look into the mirror of my soul. You know… that two-sided mirror of our conscience which is both concave and convex,..
The Federal Australian Rudd Labor Government was given a massive electoral victory in November 2007 and one of the key election issues was man-made global warming. The first act of the new Rudd Labor Government was to sign the Kyoto Protocol, ending a decade of intransigence in which Australia, together with the US, refused to sign. The US remains a major stand-out non-signatory of the Kyoto Protocol.
The Judiciary Committee, we held a full day of hearings that focused entirely on the crimes of George W. Bush and Dick Cheney, and featured testimony by Rep. Dennis Kucinich regarding his Articles of Impeachment against President Bush.
Raul Castro, Cuba’s president, has made a keynote speech as part of celebrations to mark 55 years since the communist government took power in the country.
Authorities in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad have arrested 30 people as they search for those responsible for a series of bomb explosions that killed at least 45 people.
An Egyptian criminal court has found the owner of a Red Sea ferry not guilty of manslaughter over the deaths of more than 1,000 passengers in an accident in 2006, court sources say.
In an exclusive interview with Al Jazeera, the lawyer for Radovan Karadzic has confirmed that he lodged an appeal against the former Bosnian Serb leader's extradition to the war crimes court in The Hague.
Australian investigators are said to be exploring the possibility that an oxygen cylinder exploded midflight on the Qantas jumbo jet that made an emergency landing in the Philippines with a giant hole in its fuselage.