The Beijing Olympics might still be some months away but the controversy over broadcasting rights have already started to crop up. Such controversies are not that uncommon in a global market where lucrative sponsorship deals and collaborations with top...

At the start of the season, Tottenham Hotspur were expected to provide a stiff challenge for a much coveted spot in the top four of the English Premiership. But just three months into the new season and the hope of playing in the UEFA Champions League...

For a child to develop properly, it is inevitable that it gets to grow up with both its parents. Child psychologists and health doctors have consistently repeated that a child could remain in close contact with both of its parents during its formative...

The US military strategy in Iraq has once more been put to the sword. The fiction between the US officials and the Iraqi authorities is going to increase even more in the wake of another US raid all gone wrong. The center of the controversy this time...

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is at a crossroad. The bitter Israeli-Palestinian dispute has for long been dragging on endlessly. One after another peace talks have been held, but everything appears to be stagnated at square one. It is...

The Bush administration is bent on stopping Iran from going nuclear one way or another. While President George W Bush was quite overt in his speech on Wednesday, Vice-president Dick Cheney was moderate in his remonstrance on the Iran nuclear...

For long, the Horn of Africa has remained a notorious region. A considerable fraction of the region is desert, but that hardly repels today’s modernized terrorists. On the contrary, its isolation and the internal problems that nations in the...

Democratic Republic of Congo is one of the poorest nations of Africa and also one of the most war-ridden. In the last 15 years, there have been two separate occasions, in which the nation has been forced into civil wars. Peace and progress have been...

At the heart of the surge of global terrorism is the conflict among religions. Faith proves a strong reason for many to turn against humanity and the world religious leaders are now trying their very best to teach the people how to maintain peace and...

At the start of the season, West Ham United and Sunderland were both anticipated to be involved in a relegation dogfight in the English Premiership and their clash at Upton Park on Sunday was built a potential 6-pointer. There’s nothing much...