Is Divided Government Good for America?
More than two in five Americans (43%) believe that it is good for the country to have a president and a majority in Congress belonging to different parties, a number…
Wikileaks Leaks Out Secret US Embassy Cables
By Rakesh Raman Wikileaks, a not-for-profit media organisation that releases classified information for public consumption, began on Sunday Nov. 28 publishing 251,287 leaked United States embassy cables (communications). It is…
Football Players Unite to Block the Lockout
This holiday season, NFL legends Tony Dorsett and Barry Sanders share with fans some of their greatest Thanksgiving Day memories. As standouts with the Dallas Cowboys and Detroit Lions, Dorsett…
Population of African Cities to Triple: UN
The population of African cities is set to triple over the next 40 years, warns UN-Habitat’s new report: The State of African Cities 2010: Governance, Inequalities and Urban Land Markets.…
TSA Still Asks You to Show Your Bodies
By Rakesh Raman Notwithstanding the travelers’ outcries against getting their full bodies exposed under the scanning machines manned by humans, Transportation Security Administration (TSA) in the U.S is still pushing…
Football Field is New Battlefield for Afghanistan
The Dutch company GreenFields, a leading synthetic turf company, has completed the installation of a new football field at the future Olympic Centre in Kabul. As part of the FIFA…