Quoted: A young Zimbabwean professional, living and working in Harare, recounts her challenges trying to lead a normal life.

Quoted: A key hearing on whether Guantanamo Bay inmates should have access to civilian courts is held in the US.

Quoted: Were Barack Obama to win the Democratic nomination, he may prove harder for the Republicans to rally against and defeat than the all-powerful Clinton machine.

interesting article on WTO multilateralism and unilateralism

Quoted: Would you prefer the world to be run by the United States or the United Nations? Most people outside the United States would probably answer, ...

talk about taking different walks of life...more like coming from two different planets.

Quoted: There's no sign of a family reunion planned, but U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney and Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama are distant cousins.

"Trivia again distracts media from issues voters care about"

Quoted: Now that the unusually lengthy presidential campaign is starting to close in on the first primary contests, one would hope the national press corps would focus on the candidates\' policies pertaining to the issues that Americans are

How can not this be a racist campaign? I think it is so incongruous to say that crime is higher among foreigners, but yet the country has always been a refuge for all of the world’s top criminals, dictators, mass murderers and drug lords.

SVP [Swiss People's Party] officials insist that their campaign is not racist, just anticrime. “Every statistic shows that the participation of foreigners in crime is quite high,” said Ulrich Schlüer, an SVP Parliament deputy who has also led an initiative to ban minarets in Switzerland. “We cannot accept this. We are the only party that addresses this problem.”

Quoted: The posters taped on the walls at a political rally here capture the rawness of Switzerland’s national electoral campaign: three white sheep stand on the swiss flag as one of them kicks a single black sheep away