Let me tell you my dear readers that it is easy to write about certain issues, but quite often it is difficult to practice what you preach, and one area for me was forgiveness. One day a friend of mine, heard m
As my daughter left back to her home in New York last month, my eyes were moist, was this ‘the little girl I carried?’ I wondered, and my mind went back a few years: All you fathers having daughters kn
As the global downturn continues, the crypto scam revenue for 2022 also dropped 65 per cent at $1.6 billion this year, lower than where it was through the end of July in 2021
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As the global downturn c
No, not a coach to have taught Hitler to paint better, though I do believe if he’d had one to show him how to paint houses better, he would have been the richest house painter in Austria, and the world would
Reconciliation has a practical role to play because it gives us a mindset by which we can accept our differences and move beyond our harmful belief that anyone who is not with us is the “other”
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It was a week after the funeral. She had buried her hard working accountant husband, who had painstakingly worked from morn till sundown, risen from clerk to bank manager, sent two children to college and jobs
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Rebeca Grynspan and Pamela Coke-Hamilton
Inter Press Service
We are in the toughest period the world economy has faced since the creation of the multilateral system more than three-quar
Mario Osava
Inter Press Service
The mandatory initial permit granted by Brazil’s environmental authority for the repaving of the BR-319 highway, in the heart of the Amazon jungle, intensified the alar
Author Salman Rushdie pictured in London in 2017. Grant Pollard/AP
Myriam Renaud, Union Institute & University
Author Salman Rushdie is in the hospital with serious injuries after being stabbed by
This morning as I looked out of my window, I saw a scooterist skidding. No pleasant sight as the bike rattled like a helpless animal and the rider fell heavily to the ground. Luckily, he was wearing a helmet, b
Trust us for coining words that haves no parallel. “Give me a missed call!” I told my American friend as I left him at his hotel.“A what?”“A missed call!” I explained.“What’s a missed call,” h
Alexander Müller, Adam Prakash and Elena Lazutkaite
Inter Press Service
A growing mountain of data and analysis points to an unprecedented global crisis in the making, due to the convergence of “
Maddie Burakoff
The Associated Press
It’s a question that keeps some scientists awake at night: Do spiders sleep?
Daniela Roessler and her colleagues trained cameras on baby jumping spiders at nigh
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We ask not of a country but of homeland,
Of refuge when we were a naked band.
The land we cared for and calls home,
The land we roamed and lend our lives for.
We've embraced change but never
Priya stopped backing her car into the vacant space, next to her building and looked at the angry old man who was standing behind, blocking her way, “Who are you?” she asked.“I am the secretary of this so
“Where are we going grandpa?” asked the little fellow as he was all dressed up and ready to go. “To the airport!” said the grandfather, “to welcome your father back.”“Dad!” shouted the little fe
Seth Borenstein
The Associated Press
Climate hazards such as flooding, heat waves and drought have worsened more than half of the hundreds of known infectious diseases in people, including malaria, ha
Alli Ajagbe“The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race…it would take off on its own, and re-design itself at an ever-increasing rate. Humans, who are limited by sl
Ah! The awesome, exalting sound of a pipe organ as it fills a hall! What a magnificent, glorious sound! And what a majestic looking instrument; its flute-like pipes rising high into the roof and see
Dr Dolly Kikon in conversation with Dr (Fr) Vijay D’Souza
Dolly Kikon (DK): As 2022-2032 marks the United Nations’ International Decade of Indigenous Languages, I wanted to take this op