Guinea Bissau: From Africa’s bright hope to narco state?
Elements of the armed forces of the small West African Republic of Guinea Bissau seized the capital and arrested Acting President Raimundo Pereira and the former prime minister, Carlos Gomes Junior.
Was Islamophobia to blame for the resignation of Germany's president?
President Christian Wulff resigns! This has been in the making since December, so it was no surprise but rather a drawn out misery.
Argentina president Fernandez does well in primary elections
The incumbent president of Argentina, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, confounded skeptics and hostile media by doing extremely well in primary elections on August 14. However, supporters warn that the right wing opposition still may have tricks up its sleeve.
In UK riots, Conservative Party rewriting doesn't wash
Iain Duncan Smith told BBC's Panorama that our recent riots were nothing to do with unemployment.
Women's World Cup: bright spot for Japan, women's sports
After a deadly earthquake, devastating tsunami and nuclear power plant disaster, the Japanese people got some good news July 17, when their women's soccer team won the 2011 FIFA World Cup Final.
Chile seeks truth about deaths of Allende and Neruda
The body of former Chilean President Salvador Allende was exhumed in May in an attempt to determine whether the democratically elected socialist president was murdered.
Winners and losers in Bremen elections
Today in Bremen, most shipyards are a thing of the past and it is struggling to climb out of its heavy debt as a container port.
In Mexico, world loses giants for justice
Two heavy blows in one week and a day! First, journalist, poet, commentator, lifelong post-beat Beatnik and activist for hopeless causes Johnny Ross, 72, died of liver cancer on the shores of Lake Patzcuaro in western Mexico, on January 17.
State election may determine future of Mexican left
On July 3, voters in the central State of Mexico, in Mexico, will elect a new governor. More is at stake than one governorship out of 31 in this country of 108 million people. The future of the main left-center electoral party, the PRD (Revolutionary Democratic Party) also hangs in the balance.
China, India and U.S. role: Afghanistan and beyond
Concerned about Afghanistan? Then pay attention to one of the world's most unlikely potential hotspots, tucked into the folds of the Himalayas, where two huge Asian nations have been facing off.
