The Tibet protests had initially unnerved the Chinese government. With the Beijing Olympics just a few months away, it could not throw in battalions of PLA soldiers with orders to crush the rebellion brutally. Instead, it is dealing with the rebellion...

Democracy has taken few steps backwards in Africa. The glorious years were in the 1990s when many nations on the continent went democratic. But in the last few years there seems to be a regression. Kenya, Zimbabwe and Nigeria come to mind. The biggest...

President Bush seems to desperately want to add laurels to his presidency in its twilight hour. How else could one explain the striking off of North Korea from the terrorism blacklist? It is very likely that North Korea has been supplying nuclear arms...

Ralph Nader, the David who slew the Detroit Goliath in the previous century, has thrown his hat into the presidential race. To the uninitiated, Nader is the one who fought against the major US auto companies and forced them to pay greater attention to...

The spurt in oil prices has hurt the global economies, with its epicenter in some African countries. Here, we are here not talking about oil-rich nations like Nigeria, but of the 13 non-oil-producing African countries, including South Africa, Ghana,...

The latest G8 Summit at Hokkaido is supposed to address (besides other issues) the problem of global food scarcity. Ban Ki-moon rightly urged the world leaders to be generous and give immediate food assistance to the poorest nations of the world. But...

Oh my Gosh! “Who on earth is that” is what comes to mind when we see Heidi Montag without her war paint on. These moments are rare. For someone like Heidi and Spencer Pratt who live on posing all the time, being seen publicly without...

The July issue of ‘Vogue Italia’ is special. It features two stunning black beauties, Tocarra and Naomi Campbell. Tocarra Jones is going to be America’s next top model. As for Naomi Campbell, there is hardly anything left to be said....

Some have called it divine justice. A-Rod was gallivanting with Guy Ritchie’s wife behind his back, and now his wife Cynthia Rodriguez has gone off to Lenny Kravitz. Lenny though has denied that there is anything romantic cooking between him and...

Nicole Richie’s life is going well. Little Harlow is the joy in her and Joel Madden’s life. The life with Madden, without exchanging the marriage vows, is going great. Her guest appearance in Chuck has been appreciated. But there is something...