World view: Alternative fuel progress could influence oil price
There is an extraordinary disconnect between what the experts write about oil prices, and what is likely to happen out in the real world.
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Sudan split sets a precedent
Egyptians doing it for themselves
They wouldn't do it for al Qaeda, but they finally did it for themselves.
World view: At a time when bold steps are called for ...
In his first public comment on the unfolding drama in Egypt, Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel's prime minister, worried aloud last week that the right analogy may be the Iranian revolution of 1979: "Our
Arab heartland at the crossroads
Duvalier's curious return
World view: Vietnam: what was that war all about?
Communist Party congresses are generally tedious events, and the recent 11th congress of the Vietnamese Communist Party is no exception.
Explosion of riots will match the spread of food shortages
If all the food in the world were shared out evenly, there would be enough to go around.
Bid to bypass demographics
What does it mean when the United States, Britain, France and Spain upgrade the diplomatic status of the Palestinian delegations in their capitals, as they all did in the past year?
Earthquakes, floods, volcanoes, war - not a bad year
Fake elections in Egypt, Burma and Belarus. A massive earthquake in Haiti, devastating floods in Pakistan, and a volcano in Iceland that killed nobody but inconvenienced millions.