2007

Australians go to the polls to elect a new Prime Minister on November 24 and — if the polls are to be believed — the country’s second longest serving Prime …

The awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize this October to former US Vice President Al Gore and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has sent an unprecedented message to …

How world politics can have an impact on a local level was nicely demonstrated on October 17 in Boston, where the Somerville Human Rights Committee held a special meeting regarding …

One comes out of the IMF/World Bank annual meetings in Washington DC realizing how much the world economic landscape has changed over the last several years. The rise of emerging …

When I left England in 1996, I had no e-mail address and no cellular phone, Tony Blair was yet to become prime minister, and Manchester United had just won the …

What is it about watches that drive people to distraction? Why can something whose function is purely to tell us the time be the object of such obsession and devotion? …

Beirut’s Rafic Hariri International Airport (RHIA) is still reeling from last year’s war between Israel and Hizbullah, with passenger numbers down and some $19 million needed for a second radar …

President Bouteflika’s 2005 Charter for Peace and National Reconciliation closed a chapter of Algeria’s tumultuous past and focused instead on solid economic development program and reforms. This has been dovetailed …

What is your brand’s overall strategy for the Middle East? Our strategy is to be the leading luxury passenger car and SUV brand in the Middle East and Levant. How …

Earlier this year, Sao Paolo’s conservative mayor Gilberto Kassab made a radical decision when he introduced a Clean City Law that banned all public advertising in the metropolis, saying it …