All the details President Barack Obama addresses the U.S. Congress on Tuesday about the $787 billion emergency economic stimulus that combines new federal spending with temporary tax cuts targeted at workers and
By Simon Rabinovitch The parched farmlands of central China hold no future for Li Honglin, but she is trapped there until word comes from a clothing factory far away on the coast
By Lefteris Papadimas and Daniel Flynn A corroded mechanism recovered by sponge divers from a sunken wreck near the Greek island of Antikythera in 1902 changed the study of the ancient world
“Négociant/Éleveur†Rex Smith of Paphos Emails me: “I have just started taking in interest in wine. The other day I noticed on a bottle of French wine, at the bottom of the
THE RISK WATCH COLUMN: Dr Alan Waring No, this article is not about the risks of HIV or other social diseases. Nevertheless, there are some uncomfortable analogies when it comes to protecting
. Everybody keeps on saying that the tourism industry is vital to the island’s economy and that it needs all the support it can get, yet when it comes to actually pumping
Factbox Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Friday officials were working too slowly to ease the economic crisis. Russia's $1.7 trillion economy is set to contract this year for the first time
By Jane Sutton Festivals celebrating everything from high culture to humble farm products are struggling in the United States as sponsors trim their support in tough times and revelers tighten their purse
. By Ozay Mehmet, Ph.D Professor Emeritus of International Affairs, Carleton University, CANADA Everything must come to an end, even the Cyprus Problem, the never ending saga of Turkish and Greek Cypriots
By Krisztina Than and Balazs Koranyi Hungary will raise the main value-added tax rate to 23 percent from 20 from July to create room to cut taxes on labour, aiming to boost
