Car Index Indicates Growth Potential High in Developing Nations Despite forecasts for a slowdown in the global economy, a little known economic indicator is starting to gain traction. The so called car index is an attempt to measure the world's middl...
Oil-rich Cabinda Still Waits for Independence from Angola Until recently, worshippers at Sunday mass in Cabinda would hear political sermons in favor of independence, but not any more. The former priest is gone, and the current one refuses interviews...
Clinton Global Initiative Wraps NY Meeting The explosive growth of the worlds population figured in several CGI discussions over the past three days. Judith Rodin, president of the Rockefeller Foundation, underscored the ramifications for food securi...
Colorado Business Owners Divided about Presidential Politics At Codi Manufacturing's plant in Golden, Colorado, 23 workers make equipment parts. Owner and manager Jared Jones says he would like to hire more people, but his costs keep going up. Every...
Remembering Andy Williams Williams debuted on the pop charts in April of 1956 and less than one year later scored his first Number One hit with Butterfly. Born in Wall Lake, Iowa, Williams began his career at age eight when he teamed up with his thre...
Morsi: Egypt faces Challenges and Opportunities Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi Tuesday addressed the closing session of the Clinton Global Initiatives annual meeting. He spoke of the challenges facing his government and the region. President Morsi...
Planned Parenthood Expands Services for Teens Planned Parenthood says it is expanding its services in Africa and Latin America. The organization made the announcement Tuesday at the Clinton Global Initiatives annual meeting in New York. Planned Paren...
Vietnam Could Become World's Biggest Rice Exporter Long ranked second in terms of rice exporters, Vietnam is expected to export around seven million tons of rice this year. Estimates put Thailand at around 6.5 million tons. Nguyen Van Don, general di...
Americana Music Industry Hands Out Honors Booker T. Jones of Booker T The MGs fame opened the two-and-a-half-hour-long awards ceremony by performing his classic hit Green Onions with a star-studded band that included Richard Thompson on electric guit...
Kix Brooks Goes Solo on 'New To This Town' The title track to Kix Brooks new solo album New To This Town features Eagles guitarist Joe Walsh. Brooks also brought in Rascal Flatts member Jay DeMarcus to co-produce the collection. Brooks recorded his f...
Obama Calls Human Trafficking 'Slavery,' Announces New Measures Calling the fight against human trafficking one of the great human rights causes of our time, Obama announced new steps to deal with a problem he called barbaric and evil with no place i...
Colorado Hispanic Vote Important in 2012 Election On a hot day in Pueblo, Dominic Martinez goes house-to-house, trying to find voters who favored the Democratic Party four years ago. He has to contend with yapping dogs as well as people who are reluc...
Schwarzenegger Becomes Policy Analyst The Los Angeles campus is the new stage for the Hollywood star, who brings his fame from movies like The Terminator and seven years experience as Californias governor, to an audience of students and visiting poli...
Colorado May Determine 2012 Presidential Election Thousands of Obama supporters were on the streets of the Denver suburb of Golden, Colorado recently, when the president came to visit. Obama won here four years ago and many of his supporters remain e...
Leaders at UN Express Concern About Anti-Islam Violence, Syria Obama said the recent attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, in which four Americans were killed, was not just an attack on America, but upon the ideals on which the United Nati...
