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Bootleg Chicken Is Selling For Record Prices In Iran As Sanctions Kick In
Organized smugglers are exploiting Iran's deepening economic woes by spiriting away vast quantities of chicken so they can then be sold at inflated prices on the black market, officials have said. In...
View ArticleRussia Just Lost Two Multi-Million Dollar Satellites
MOSCOW – Russia’s Proton rocket failed to bring two satellites into orbit after the launch late on Monday from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan, the Russian Federal Space Agency Roscosmos said....
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It's Now A Crime To Tell An Italian Man He Has 'No Balls'
Apparently Italians do not live by the idea that "sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me," as the Italian court just ruled that insulting a man by telling him he has "no...
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Guatemala Won Its First Ever Olympic Medal In This Really Bizarre Sport
On Saturday, Erick Barrondo won silver in the 20-kilometer race walk [Yes, race walking is an Olympic sport – Read this.]. Barrondo won the first Olympic medal for Guatemala, a country which has been...
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70 Members Of A Religious Sect Have Been Found Living Underground In Russia
Seventy members of an Islamist sect who have been living in an underground bunker without heat or sunlight for nearly a decade have been discovered living on the outskirts of the city of Kazan in...
View ArticleWe're Spectators To Europe's Show
Millions of Americans, including some of my Palisades Hudson co-workers, can hardly wait for Sunday’s closing ceremonies at the London Olympics. They have been riveted by the athletes’ performances...
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The 9 Youngest Billionaires Around The World
The world's biggest youngest billionaire is Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, but who else is young and flush with cash? Bankrate took a look at published reports and compiled the top nine, other than...
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Now That The Olympics Are Over, England Can Get Back To Its Decade Of Austerity
After the party, the hangover looms: London's golden Olympics may soon be a distant memory as Britain returns to the reality of its economic mess and years of more belt tightening. The 2012 Games have...
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The Arrest Of Five Chinese Activists On A Japanese Island Reflect...
Chinese activists landed on an island claimed by Japan and China on Wednesday and five were arrested as tension between Japan and its Asian neighbors escalated on the 67th anniversary of the end of...
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India's Austerity Sham
In the aftermath of the global economic crisis, governments around the world have taken on controversial austerity measures to grapple with crippling deficits and mounting debt. In Europe, Spain has...
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INFOGRAPHIC: The Truth About Conflict Minerals
The valuable minerals mined in the barbaric conditions of armed conflict are termed as ‘Blood minerals’ or ‘Conflict minerals’. These are prominently found in the Eastern Provinces of the Democratic...
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China's Most Compelling Celebrity Is A Transsexual Dancer And Former Army...
Interviewing Jin Xing is tiring enough: her emphatic but accelerated delivery fills pages of a notebook within minutes. Being her must be truly exhausting. Her starring role in a Shanghai play has...
View ArticlePussy Riot And The WTO
In most places, a feminist punk rock band and the official body that governs international trade would not have much common ground, but this column is not about most places. It is about Russia. Pussy...
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Russia Reveals It Is Sitting On 'Trillions Of Carats' Of Diamonds
MOSCOW — Russia has just declassified news that will shake world gem markets to their core: the discovery of a vast new diamond field containing "trillions of carats," enough to supply global markets...
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Dominique Strauss Kahn Has A Brilliant Idea That Could Save The Eurozone
PARIS - Is there a way that the countries of southern Europe can avoid sinking further into debt at unsustainable interest rates, without resorting to euro bonds, which Germany refuses to consider?...
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How The Affordable Care Act Is Going To Change The Rest Of The World
SAN JOSE, Costa Rica — Sitting in blue scrubs in a hospital room, plastic surgeon Christian Rivera ponders a potential sea change for this Central American country’s private hospitals, triggered by...
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Why Exactly Did Venezuela Re-Elect Hugo Chavez?
Hugo Chávez has said he wants to remain in office as Venezuela’s president until 2031. He moved six years closer to that goal on October 7, when voters re-elected him to a new term, by a margin of...
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Infectious Ideas for a Connected World
With a greater international exchange of ideas, goods, services, and talent today, our world has never been more wired and connected. Globalization has wholly transformed how people across continents...
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Anonymous Is Pulling Its Support For Wikileaks
The Anonymous collective has publicly pulled its support for Julian Assange and his infamous whistleblowing website, Wikileaks. Taking issue with Assange’s personal use of the site and its...
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China's Growth Slows, But The Worst May Be Over (FXI, HAO, MCHI)
Amid concerns of a hard landing, China's latest data dump was largely positive. Third quarter GDP came in line with expectations and industrial production, retail sales and fixed asset investment all...
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