Former US president George W. Bush convoluted some definitions. ‘The ambiguity began shortly after 9/11, when then-U.S. President George W. Bush defined two missions: waging a war on terror, and bringing Osama bin Laden and his followers to justice. Both made for good rhetoric. But they also were fundamentally contradictory. A war is not a [...]

Apple Inc. has announced that its next flagship store to be inaugurated at the prestigious Broadway, New York will be opened for operations on Nov. 14. The opening of the new Apple Store  coincides with the holiday shopping season, a time when the electronics industry generally witnesses a hike in sales and does everything possible [...]

The state of Vermont has long been hailed as the greenest place in the United States due to the ‘consistent thinking about low-impact living.’ The state, after all, is profuse with trees, farms, and backyard compost heaps. It also has environmentally aware citizens, and no crowded expressways. In other words, Vermont is green basically because [...]

In the war against the obesity, the scientists found a new enemy: the sugary drinks. A group of renowned studious and specialists in nutrition asked the federal government from the USA that applies a new tax on that type of refreshments, that, according to them, are big responsible for the overweight epidemic that the [...]

The US Health Department is all set to fight obesity amongst the citizen of its country. 32.2 percent of adults and 17.1 percent of children are clinically obese in the United States costing the government $147 billion every year.  An advertisement is aired in the New York to make the people aware, rather shock them. [...]

His speech was long and rambling about nothing much more than his aversion to the powers of the Security Council. His first translator got very tired. At the end of his speech, the hall was half-empty.
Some of his rantings were: Israel having had a hand in the JFK assassination, swine flu might be a military [...]

Based on the proceedings of September 22 ‘disappointing climate change summit’ at the UN headquarters in New York, there is now a nagging doubt that not much can be achieved in the huge climate change summit to be held in Copenhagen this December. So far, the said pre-Copenhagen UN summit has been ‘the highest-level summit [...]

In New York, there is a campaign war against soda and other sweetened drinks. The city’s health department has launched ‘a public-awareness campaign, which includes posters in the subway system and a multilingual Health Bulletin’ that began on the end of August and will run for three months.
The new campaign asks New Yorkers if they’re [...]

In the countdown to the much-awaited and carefully-prepared for climate summit to be held in Copenhagen towards the end of 2009, ‘the United Nations is planning a form of diplomatic shock therapy for world leaders this week in the hope of injecting badly needed urgency into negotiations for a climate change treaty that, it is [...]

The WWF denies any connection to or knowledge of a ‘tasteless’ 9/11 ad that bears its logo. The ad shows a squadron of planes about to attack Manhattan, an obvious reminder of the 9/11 explosive tragedy. The ad bears the copy: “The tsunami killed 100 times more people than 9/11. The planet is brutally powerful. [...]