Last week, the ACC Chairman said that ACC needs to increase levies that we pay. ACC means Accident Compensation Corporation. It provides insurance to pay for health care if we have an accident. This is a No Fault insurance because we cannot sue a per...
Some of the world's top scientists are wrapping up a three-day, climate-change meeting in Copenhagen with a grim warning that global warming is arriving faster than previously expected. The Copenhagen meeting drew about 2,000 scientists from around...
In America, as in most cultures, you risk offending people if you call them dumb or an idiot to their faces. You also risk a punch in the nose. It seems as if there's not a question that can't be answered, or problem solved, these days by one of th...
By Peta Thornycroft Harare 05 April 2008 In Zimbabwe, Morgan Tsvangirai, who led his party to victory in parliamentary elections, said Saturday there is no need for a runoff of the presidential election, because he won that vote as well with a 50 per...
By Cathy Majtenyi Nairobi 11 March 2008 Kenyans are beginning to come to terms with the violence that followed the country's 2007 elections in which more than 1,000 people were killed and as many as 600,000 were displaced. There are growing calls for...
By Luis Ramirez Bangkok 07 January 2008 Supporters of ousted Thai leader Thaksin Shinawatra accuse the opposition of using dirty tricks to bar them from forming a new government, following their victory in last month's general elections. The election...
By Meredith Buel Washington 30 November 2006 President Bush and Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki are pledging to accelerate the training of Iraqi security forces so the Iraqi government can fight terrorists and provide stability for the country....