Parents fearful of speeding carsTuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 6:12PMAs many as 30% of parents think their children are at greater risk from speeding traffic in the UK than in most other European countries, a new survey shows.
Peter Singer: Treating animals better shows our moral progressSunday, July 17, 2011 @ 3:03AMMahatma Gandhi acutely observed that “the greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.” To seek to reduce the suffering of those who are completely under one’s domination, and unable to fight back, is truly a mark of a civilized society.
Sponsored bySunday, July 17, 2011 @ 2:42AMAylesbury businessman Mark Rutland, who runs Blue Pepper Designs. Mark is a partner of the Florence Nightingale Hospice Charity What’s your earliest memory?
Ballston spa business owner practices her faith with Barbados humanitarian missionPublished July 17, 2011Sunday, July 17, 2011 @ 2:10AMBALLSTON SPA — Traveling has a way of opening a person’s mind to new ideas. Within the United States, the cultural differences between the North and South, the city and country living can be large. Landscape, food, colloquial expressions, businesses and ideals are a few examples of changes that one sees while traveling. Abroad, these differences are magnified, as local business owner Jill Lyons ...
Stolen Petroglyph Returns To Canyon After Rocky JourneySunday, July 17, 2011 @ 1:59AMLeroy Howell scrambles up the rocks of the canyon wall and lays his eyes on what he has come to inspect: a 300-pound boulder bearing the distinct images of several bighorn sheep. Thoughtlessly - and illegally - snatched from its original resting place
Khalid travelling the worldSaturday, July 16, 2011 @ 9:03PMMUJAHID KHALID is living proof that you can find a Bajan anywhere in the world.
Beefing up the voting processSaturday, July 16, 2011 @ 6:23PMThe Election Commission and the conduct of elections have come under scrutiny recently. Here EC chairman Tan Sri Abdul Aziz Mohd Yusof addresses some of the issues
20. Beefing up the voting processSaturday, July 16, 2011 @ 4:52PMThe Election Commission and the conduct of elections have come under scrutiny recently. Election Commission chairman Tan Sri Abdul Aziz Mohd Yusof addresses some of the issues.
Taking the plungeSaturday, July 16, 2011 @ 4:52PMFor his new film, Yann Arthus-Bertrand gets submerged in a whole new realm.
Real Madrid Transfer Rumors: Robin Van Persie, Ricardo Kaka, Carlos TevezSaturday, July 16, 2011 @ 4:14PMReal Madrid manager Jose Mourinho is one of the elite managers who has won the Champions League with two different clubs, but he is unlikely to rest on the laurels of the past as he prepares his team for the 2011-12 season, which is extremely important for the club and for him as a manager. The Portuguese tactician has in the past stated that the team is stronger in his second year than the ...
It Gets Better –– With a Time MachineFriday, July 15, 2011 @ 7:07PMBob Smith’s new novel “Remembrance of Things I Forgot” has done the impossible –– it more than lives up to its blurbs!
A hidden gemFriday, July 15, 2011 @ 5:38PMRuisui in Hualien county, Taiwan, is a little-heard-of town and seldom visited but it’s a place with an abundance of natural attractions.
Times have changed.....Friday, July 15, 2011 @ 9:00AMI’ve never really thought of myself as a victim...in spite of all the awful things which have happened to me during my life, I’ve never really done the victim “thing”.
Journey of despairFriday, July 15, 2011 @ 7:23AMMillions of starving people are on the move as war and a savage drought grip the Horn of Africa.
Living against the elementsFriday, July 15, 2011 @ 7:18AMYou can tell Muhammad Hussain is starving by the orange tinge in his hair and by his enormous black eyes.
Africa: On the African AwakeningsFriday, July 15, 2011 @ 7:15AMThe social unrest that has swept through Africa in 2011 has its roots in the stripping of African economies by international finance, argues Pambazuka News editor-in-chief Firoze Manji, in a speech delivered for the Beyond Juba Distinguished Lecture on 22 June. Now is the time to map out a path towards emancipation, he writes.