Nine out of ten of the poorest areas in England are in the north-west, a church charity has said. Liverpool features heavily in the list, with five areas making the top ten, including Toxteth West, which has up to 64% of children and 63% of pensioners living in poverty. Greater Manchester features three times, with [...]
At its summit in Chicago this weekend, Nato is set to announce its new ballistic missile defence system has reached what it calls "interim operational capability". However, a leading expert on missile defence technology, Professor Theodore Postol of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, believes that this potential threat has been much overstated. But Nato's missile [...]
Malawi, a largely agricultural country, is making efforts to overcome decades of underdevelopment and the more recent impact of a growing HIV-Aids problem. Most Malawians rely on subsistence farming, but the food supply situation is precarious and the country is prone to natural disasters of both extremes – from drought to heavy rainfalls – putting [...]
The world's largest democracy and second most populous country emerged as a major power in the 1990s. It is militarily strong, has major cultural influence and a fast-growing and powerful economy. A peace process, which started in 2004, stayed on track despite tension over Kashmir and several high-profile bombings until the Mumbai attacks of November [...]
A key player on the world stage and a country at the political heart of Europe, France paid a high price in both economic and human terms during the two world wars. The years which followed saw protracted conflicts culminating in independence for Algeria and most other French colonies in Africa as well as decolonisation [...]
Dubai: It’s been four years since Dushyant Bhatia, a Dubai-based entrepreneur, has had a work-free holiday. By his own admittance, even weekends suffer the same treatment. He can recall only one weekend in February 2010 when he did not work. After starting his second company Gozoop, a global online marketing agency specialising in Online Reputation [...]
The largest of the Balkan countries, Romania has dramatic mountain scenery and a coastline on the Black Sea. It has seen numerous empires come and go from the Roman, to the Ottoman, to the Austro-Hungarian. After World War II the country was under communist rule although the leadership pursued a foreign policy independent of that [...]
Published May 19th, 2012 – 13:44 GMT Last Friday concluded the final auditions for the hit talent show Arabs Got Talent, marking the beginning of the final stage that switches to the format of viewers voting via text messages for their favorite contestant. Just as riveting as the fifth episode, the sixth and final round [...]
Until now. In what experts consider nothing short of a miracle, a Polish oil company worker recently discovered the plane believed to have been flown by missing Flight Sgt. Dennis Copping. And almost 70 years after the accident, it’s extraordinarily well-preserved. The fighter’s “state of preservation is incredible,” British military historian Andy Saunders told CNN. [...]
Story By: by Elise Hu Former President George W. Bush, standing with President Obama, speaks about relief efforts in Haiti in January 2010. Later this month, former President George W. Bush will make his first public visit to the White House in more than two years, reports The Dallas Morning News. He will be joined [...]
