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With a more than understandable concern, many parents monitor the games their children play on PCs and consoles, and avoid the most exposure to violent games, for fear that they can influence their children. However, a recent survey conducted at the University of Villanova, United States, found that only young people affected by violent video games [...]

Valentine’s Day mood has set in and the cupid struck lovers have already made plans weeks ahead to make most of Valentine’s Day weekend. All major cities in the world will be celebrating the day of love but dark political clouds are threatening to turn it into date of hate in Mumbai and other parts of India thanks to the age old Indian legacy of [...]

US President Barack Obama accepted his Nobel Peace Prize while ‘justifying the deployment of 30,000 more troops to the “graveyard of empires”.’ Obama’s acceptance speech was used as a rationale to deliver a ‘lengthy defense of the “just war” theory and dismiss the idea that nonviolence is capable of addressing the world’s [...]

The last time you drank from a glass at the bar, did you ever think that it could be spiked with drugs like GHB or Ketamine? Well, we all are at risk of being served drinks that are spiked by people who have devious plans for us after-party. Though the common assumption is that women’s drinks get spiked with drugs all the time so that they can [...]

There are quite a few conflict zones in the world today where everyday civilians are being caught in the crossfire, their villages are devastated due to bombing and homes are reduced to rubble. There is no normalcy and hence no regular source of livelihood and income. People live in rehabilitation and refugee camps. More than adults it’s the children [...]

There has been much controversy about Barack Obama being awarded Nobel peace Prize for 2009. It is indeed intriguing that President of United States of America who is sending more troops and is engaging in a war in Afghanistan should be declared as an ambassador of global peace. Interestingly Obama even maintained a tactical silence when Israel was [...]

For at least a generation, millions of families in Mexico survived – sometimes until they prospered – with the money that children, daughters, siblings and sisters sent of the USA. In 2007, those remittances increased for more of US$ 26 billion – almost the double of the amount generated a year for the solid section of Mexican tourism. [...]

Many people were killed and hundreds injured in various deadly bomb explosions which rocked Baghdad today. The coordinated mortar fire and car bomb attacks were mainly targeted at all official government buildings including the most deadly one near Foreign Ministry. Sunni extremists are suspected to be responsible for these attacks. The attacks have [...]

Islamist groups launched new attacks against security forces in northern Nigeria, a day after nearly 40 people died in bloody clashes between police and a radical Islamic group in Bauchi. The BBC also reported a tally of ‘100 bodies, mostly of militants, near the police headquarters in Maiduguri, Borno State, where hundreds are fleeing their homes.’ [...]

Prior to its publication next month, The Independent on Sunday was able to access the 6,700-paged report entitled 2009 State of the Future which is ‘backed by a diverse range of leading organizations such as UNESCO, the World Bank, the US army, and the Rockefeller Foundation.’ The report, composed of contributions from 2,700 experts around the [...]