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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 happened just a [...]
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 [...]
A protest of Uigurs (Muslim ethnic minority) in western China has left at least 129 dead and 816 wounded since the beginning of this Sunday.
The news agency Xinhua reports that the demonstrators took the streets protesting against the death of two of this Chinese ethnicity last week.
The police estimated that up to 3,000 people have [...]
According to Amnesty International (AI), the oil pollution in the Niger Delta has deprived tens of millions of people from their most fundamental right to food, water, and health. In a thick report, AI describes the environmental degradation in the delta where about 31 million people live. The group calls it a tragedy of human [...]
American troops have withdrawn from Iraqi cities, and US President Barack Obama has warned that Iraq faces difficult days ahead. While the US president congratulated Iraq on its important step that is being celebrated as a national holiday of sovereignty and unity, he reminds the country that violence will continue in Iraq as it takes [...]