Israel’s election and the Gaza conflict have revealed the scale of the challenge facing U.S. President Barack Obama in jump-starting Israeli-Palestinian peace efforts
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Why Lincoln still matters
Two hundred years after his birth in a log cabin in Kentucky, Abraham Lincoln continues to fascinate.
Being Green May Help Business in Bad Times
It hardly bears pointing out that during these days of 7.6% unemployment, when the business pages of the local newspaper look more like the obituaries, no industry is doing well — and that includes green business. Wind and solar manufacturers, starved for credit, are cutting back on projects and laying off workers
Obama and the Huffington Post Question Spark More Questions
Change in Washington comes in increments, and a door was cracked open on Feb. 9 when, in the first official press conference of the Obama Administration, the President took a question from a reporter who writes only for a Web outlet.
This Is Why You’re Fat
The word of God is on the move in London — literally. Beginning Feb.
Christians and Atheists Battle in London Bus Wars
The word of God is on the move in London — literally.
The Unkindest Cut: A Czech Solution for Sex Offenders
A doctor makes an incision in a man’s scrotal sac and, deftly wielding his scalpel, quickly removes both testicles. In the Czech Republic, that simple operation is the punishment for male sex offenders. But to the Council of Europe, the region’s leading human-rights body, the procedure is “invasive, irreversible and mutilating.” In a report issued last week, the council called the punishment “degrading” and demanded it be scrapped immediately
Amputee, doctor of poor faces losing his home
Luis Caplan served the poor of the South Bronx for decades out of a small medical office. His leg was amputated after a bout with cancer in 1990, yet he continued to work for another five years
U.S. concerned about Chinese blogger
Days before U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton heads to Asia on her first international trip, the State Department Tuesday voiced concern about an imprisoned Chinese blogger whose trial has been indefinitely delayed. “We are disturbed that prominent Chinese human rights activist Huang Qi remains in detention,” acting deputy spokesman Gordon Duguid told CNN.
France’s Sarkozy in Iraq to rebuild ties
French President Nicolas Sarkozy made a surprise visit to Baghdad Tuesday on a trip seen as aimed at raising his country’s stake in Iraqi reconstruction and easing frictions with Washington over the U.S.-led invasion of 2003. Sarkozy, the first French president to visit the country, met with Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki during the brief trip ahead of a tour of Gulf states. The French leader described his visit as a vanguard of French economic involvement in rebuilding Iraq and an attempt to strengthen European ties