The next few days will no doubt be filled with much pontificating on what President Obama should be doing in Egypt, and political scientist Jonathan Bernstein has some advice for those watching and listening: Do something, anything! “Media-watchers should remember that there’s usually a media bias here in favor of…
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What looks like political unrest in Tunisia and Egypt actually has economic beginnings. On this episode of Counting the Cost, we look at the economies of North Africa and the economic seeds that blossomed into political unrest. Plus, we report from the World Economic Forum in Davos and ask whether snow can really be blamed for a terrible quarter of UK economic growth.
Continue reading …Not every Facebook-inspired flash mob is about toppling governments: A recent one in Canada has set off a national debate on women’s right to breastfeed in public, reports AOL News . It began when a mother in Montreal got kicked out of a kids’ store after she had discreetly begun feeding…
Continue reading …No pressure, Chelsea, but Hillary Clinton wants to be a grandma more than she ever wanted to be leader of the free world. Or so says Bill Clinton in a lighter moment of an interview at Davos, reports Reuters. When asked what he’d like to achieve in the next 10…
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The popular Arab singer and actress describes growing up as a musical prodigy and her decades of international success.
Continue reading …Must have been a really uncontrollable case of the giggles, but just after “laughing too hard” landed Charlie Sheen in the hospital with a hernia, the Two and a Half Men star has now landed in rehab, reports People . Sheen “has voluntarily entered an undisclosed rehabilitation center today,” says a…
Continue reading …The United States is demanding the release of an American diplomat charged yesterday in the murders of two Pakistanis he says were trying to rob him, reports the AP. “The United States Embassy in Pakistan calls for the immediate release,” according to a statement that cited Raymond Davis’ immunity, and…
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Author and journalist Eliza Griswold examines the complex relationship between Muslims and Christians along the tenth parallel, the line of latitude 1100 kilometres north of the equator where more than half of the world’s Muslims and over 60 per cent of the world’s Christians live.
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