"The campaign to make poverty history-a central moral challenge of our age-cannot remain a task for the few, it must become a calling for the many. On this International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, I urge everyone to join this struggle. Together!"

This is just something to watch before deciding what YOU're going to be doing on October 17--World Poverty Day. [p.s. starvation HURTS like hell]

A US study has suggested that more than 80 million people in China will die in the next 25 years as a result of lung disease. The research says the vast majority of those premature deaths are preventable. The study focused on the devastating impact of s

In France, which has only four Muslim schools, some of the country's 8,847 Roman Catholic schools have become refuges for Muslims seeking what an overburdened, secularist public sector often lacks: spirituality and higher academic standards.

The beginning of civilization looks in some parts like the end in the world's second largest continent. This continent is so large that a full population census has never been made.

f you had the vote, would you be in favour of the Lisbon Treaty ? (the Irish were the only people allowed to vote) This has been seen in June 2008 by the Irish having a referendum where they said NO, but the EU does not accept the result.

Don't shed too many tears for Lehman Brothers and their ilk, but do look at the bigger picture...

This pictures was taken when Niagara Falls was completely frozen in the year 1911. People were able to walk across from Canada to USA on it! A very rare photos.

The single manuscript page, long hidden in a provincial French library, has been verified as the work of Mozart, the apparent underpinnings for a Mass he never composed.

Nigerian militants on Monday attacked a Shell-operated oil facility, killing two and forcing the evacuation of nearly 100 staff, in a third day of fighting with security forces in the Niger Delta.