Senator John McCain, announcing his candidature for 2008 US President Election, has put the unpopular Iraq War at the centre stage of the unfolding campaign for the coming up White House vacancy, for the Republicans. McCain, the maverick four term...

The Stock Market is a fragile world. The 9 percent slide in Chinese Stocks on Tuesday did send the stocks on Wall Street tumbling 3 percent, the lowest since the 9/11 terrorist attack in 2001. The big question emerging is - Is the party over? Are the...

Rationalists attacking the Christian faith about the belief regarding resurrection of Jesus Christ after having been crucified on the cross and questioning his relationship with Mary Madeline have indeed shaken the foundations of the Christian...

Iraq slowly sinks into a bloody civil war that sure is going to last long. Scramble for oil is turning each ethnic and religious group into a fanatic. President Bush’s ‘light of democracy’ has put a stable Islamic society onto a path...

The Iraq raid had indeed proved a cake walk for the American armed forces forty-three months ago and the rats that were on Presidents George Bush’s ship to the Persian Gulf are beginning to abandon it. Kenneth Adelman, the former Reagan...

The rich heritage of Africa is finally emerging from the cellars where it had been put away into so as to save it from marauding invaders over the centuries. The large number (150,000) of texts that have been collected for preservation from Timbuktu,...

Putting errant nuclear reactors in hostile territory out of business is bound to heighten global tensions. In an insecure environment, nuclear weapon does instill a false hope of deterrence but it also undermines the authority of the existing nuclear...

Never did one think that the ‘war on terror’ would come down to the level of Republicans versus the Democrats. When Bush says, “The Democrat approach in Iraq comes down to this: The terrorists win and America loses,” one can...

Containing terrorism in Pakistan is proving harder than all the rhetoric General Pervez Musharraf has been able to muster for once supporting the now disgraced Taliban regime. An Islamist - Non Islamist confrontation around the globe is polarizing...

The world is getting used to higher energy costs, as oil touches new highs every day. Tensions over the Israeli, Lebanese and Palestinian conflict is threatening to escalate further as Hezbollah, the southern Lebanon based militant group, has declared...