US space shuttle, Discovery, has landed safely at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, bringing its 27-year flying career as the world’s most-traveled spaceship to a close. Discovery is NASA’s oldest shuttle, and has flown…
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Everyone remembers U.S. President Barack Obama’s speech at Cairo University on June 4, 2009, in which he proclaimed his solidarity with the suffering of the Palestinian people living under Israeli occupation. In it, he promised…
World No 1 John Higgins of Scotland and Chinese ace Ding Junhui will spearhead a star-studded International Snooker Classic to be held Thursday in Boao, a county of south China’s Hainan province. A total of…
Spain put the brakes on the use of clean energies to generate electricity, as the government approved an energy savings programme to cope with its large oil bill which affects its commitment to reduce non-renewable…
American government accused of spending millions on courses giving police a distorted impression of Muslims. The US government is being accused of pumping millions of dollars into unregulated training schemes for local police officers and…
In recognition of their successful operation, U.K. authorities are considering whether to set up more Confucius Institutes in the country in the following years. The initiation is echoing a Chinese fever that is starting to…
Rising steel and oil prices in Russia, more honest disclosure in Brazil and booming economies in China and India have fueled a spike in billionaires in the so-called BRIC countries. Moscow is now home to…
British Prime Minister David Cameron has met with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in London, in the hope of accelerating the Middle East peace process. In a diplomatic gesture by the UK, the status of the…
Barack Obama is only repeating what successive American governments have done over time in Latin America. Once again, the Israeli government was able to make the United Nations Security Council condone the illegal settlement constructions…
Army kills three men and one woman as thousands of women protest against Laurent Gbagbo holding onto power. Marches by thousands of women in protest at Ivory Coast‘s president Laurent Gbagbo have ended in bloodshed…