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Like millions of my fellow Americans I want Barack Obama to succeed in governing America and reviving the economy, despite my opposition to his candidacy. I had hoped that being the cautious man he appears to be, President-elect Obama would...

By Gilad Atzmon*/ Muslim India :: "You will chase your enemies, and they shall fall by the sword before you. Five of you shall chase a hundred, and a hundred of you shall put ten thousand to flight; your enemies...

South Korean prosecutors have detained a man over an on-line posting which they say has falsely claimed the nation's government is pressing leading firms and banks not to buy US dollars. The prosecutors say the 30-year-old South Korean national posted...

The UN aid agency has suspended work in the Gaza Strip, saying its staff was at risk from Israeli forces battling Hamas fighters. The agency has decided to suspend all its operations in the Gaza Strip because of the increasingly...

More than 120 cases of pirate attacks against tankers and cargo ships occurred in the region last year. The US Navy will launch a multinational naval force next week to cope with pirates off the coast of Somalia. Many countries...

I was rather miffed when I first heard this wondering what they were talking about! I did not realize it was not official until Congress th this case officiated by Cheney the dink! Its official! Obama and Joe Biden received...

Hyderabad::An accounting fraud was the last thing investors in India would have imagined as a trigger for a reversal in investor sentiment. The Satyam accounting fiasco has come at a time when the sentiment is already brittle and is likely...

Palin takes digs at Fey, Couric Sarah Palin is credited with making Tina Fey a world-wide star and boosting Katie Couric's ratings at CBS. During her 5 minutes of fame when that farce Eva Braun Palin made a joke of...

Chinese computer maker Lenovo Group says it will lay off 2,500 workers as it struggles to reconstruct its business hit by the global financial crisis. Lenovo announced in a statement released on Thursday that it will cut 11 percent of...

The US federal budget deficit will hit an unparalleled 1.2 trillion dollars for the current fiscal year, more than doubling last year's previous record of 455 billion dollars. The deficit from October 2008 to September 2009 reflects plummeting income tax...