One of the world’s most renowned leaders and South Africa’s first black President Nelson Mandela has decided to withdraw from public engagements and appearances. Rumors and speculations about 91 year old Mandela health were put to rest after the announcement by Nelson Mandela Foundation. The statement said that icon of anti-apartheid movement was doing well [...]

Daily Mail’s controversial homophobic column by Jan Moir after death of Stephen Gately has met with severe criticism and public outrage. More than 21,000 complaints have been filed about the piece with Press Complaints Commission. This is more than sum total of all the complaints PCC has ever received in last five years. PCC cannot [...]

Obama’s refusal to give an interview to Fox news has foxed the channel completely. Fox News has publicly declared that it’s a war between Obama administration and the channel since it takes Republican stand on all the matters. The daggers are all out in open.
White House is adamant too since Fox News acts a propaganda [...]

Looks like everything that a celebrity does becomes news. This time around it’s Miley Cyrus, the sixteen year old teenager who starred in “The Hannah Montana” is making news for such an insignificant reason of deleting her account from the famous social networking site, “Twitter”. Who is to be blamed now for this? The teenager [...]

Lance Corporal Joshua Bernard was a 21 year old Marine who succumbed to injuries in Afghanistan recently. Julie Jacobson of Associated Press had captured a picture of Bernard as he lay in the mud after an ambush. The picture was published recently on front pages and it has sparked a debate in America. It is [...]

Wildfires which spread through various islands around Athens in Greece are still not entirely under control. There have been no casualties but there has been huge damage to property. More than 20,000 people are homeless and more are being evacuated.
Meanwhile Greece’s government has come under severe criticism both by media and opposition parties.  Most of [...]

The swine is in the news these days thanks to the swine flu which is spreading fast globally across various countries. The Swine flu getting attention in developed countries is understandable.  Not many killer diseases or killing living conditions stalk people there. But it getting attention in developing nations and even under developed countries is [...]

Al Gore, the biggest and noisiest pusher, mover, and shaker of global warming politics repeatedly claims that 98 percent of scientists agree with him. He also urges media to ignore the climate skeptics. Cynical politics may be redundant, but it’s hard to imagine a more cynical political issue than global warming. The underlying agenda of [...]

According to a survey conducted by Pew Research Center for the People and the Press in America every two in three Americans have said media gave too much coverage to Michael Jackson’s death. Nearly 64 percent feel it was overplayed, 29 percent think the news was covered appropriately and 3 percent felt there was not [...]

The news is making headlines everywhere for nearly 48 hours. Michael Jackson is no more. Clippings from musical videos are being played over and over again. Fans are keeping vigil and celebrating life and music of Michael Jackson all over the globe. Incredible it may seem, but truly Michael Jackson is making his fans dance [...]