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The article offers world news briefs as of January 2018. Topics of the news include the violent protests against the government and leadership of Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, a career profile for the presidential candidates, for the upcoming Presidential elections in Italy and the approval of a regulation which makes it illegal to pay men more than women employee, for doing the same job in Iceland.

The article offers world news briefs. Topics discussed include increase in the number of cases of influenza and ineffectiveness of flu vaccine; killing of Rohingya Muslims by Myanmar government forces between August-September, 2017; and allowing enlistment of Transgender people in military after federal judge rejected legal challenge by administration of U.S. President Donald Trump.

The article looks at the major news events that took place during the first half of 2011. Issues discussed include the Arab Spring uprisings in the Middle East, the 9.0 earthquake that hit Japan in March, and the killing of terrorist leader Osama Bin Laden. Natural disasters that took place in Brazil, New Zealand, and the United States are also examined.

The article presents business news briefs. U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner extended Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) through October 2010. The U.S. Democratic Party announced that they have agreed to not include a public option in their health care reform bill. The Japanese Democratic Party won parliamentary approval to remove a plan to privatize Japan Post, a postal services agency.

The article presents world business, economic, and financial news briefs. U.S. auto makers General Motors, Chrysler, and Ford have requested financial bailouts totaling $34 billion. Data show the U.S. is experiencing what is expected to be the longest economic downturn since the Great Depression. High economic growth in India may be hurt by the global financial crisis and the terrorist attacks in Mumbai.

The article presents business news briefs from around the world for the week of October 20, 2008. The fall of the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) is discussed, along with stock market rates from European and Asian stock markets. A Bank of America report of a 68% earnings drop in the third quarter is noted, and a legal feud between banks Citigroup and Wachovia is described, regarding the question of who will acquire Wachovia.

The article offers business news briefs from September 2008. Mortgage lenders Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have been placed into conservatorship, Washington Mutual chief executive officer Kerry Killinger was replaced, and the London Stock Exchange shut down on September 8, 2008. The article also compares the market capitalization of Lehman Brothers Inc. from September 2007 to September 2008.

The article provides several news briefs on business, finance, and economic matters from around the world. Automobile manufacturer Chrysler Motor Corp. will reduce its production to offset its financial troubles. After years of economic growth, India is said to be experiencing high inflation rates and the loss of foreign investments. The coffee retailer Starbucks plans to close 600 of its stores in the U.S.

The article offers world news briefs. Due to the housing crisis, top executives are losing their jobs, including Wachovia Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Ken Thompson and Washington Mutual CEO Kerry Killinger. As Sport Utility Vehicles (SUV) sales decline, General Motors (GM) Chairman and CEO G. Richard Wagoner announced GM will shift focus and will be releasing new smaller cars, including the Chevrolet Volt electric car. U.S. Presidential candidate Barack Obama outlined programs and tax-cuts.

The article contains news briefs from around the world. Oil prices fell 10% per barrel in one week after November 21, 2007's all time high, while Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates continued to deny pleas from the U.S. to pump more oil. Motorola's chief executive officer Ed Zander resigned on November 30, 2007, leaving Motorola looking for his replacement. Investment funds in the Persian Gulf area are care becoming more costly as competition to invest increases.

The article reveals "Fortune" Magazine editor's performance picks for notable political figures, celebrities, and news moments. The list includes U.S. vice president Dick Cheney who accidentally shot a colleague while hunting. An outbreak of the bacteria E. coli was discovered in spinach. After winning the Tour de France, cyclist Floyd Landis tested positive for doping. Former U.S. vice president Al Gore's documentary film "An Inconvenient Truth" foretold the death of the planet.

The article presents world news briefs. The daily wage for Vietnamese factory workers who make stuffed animals that will be sold in the U.S. is $2. Filipino mothers set a new world record for simultaneously breastfeeding their babies in a Manila stadium in order to raise awareness not only of the benefits of breastfeeding, but also of the 16,000 Filipino children who die annually due to formula feeding. According to studies backed up by the United Nations, the value of the world's ecosystems is $33 trillion.

Offers world news briefs. Speculation over President George W. Bush's second Supreme Court nominee; Question of whether the Vatican will bar gay men from attending seminaries to train for the priesthood; How candidates Gerhard Schroeder and Angela Merkel fared in German elections; Death of Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal; Introduction of legislation designed to keep people and their pets together in future disasters; Other news.

Presents news briefs from around the world as of June 2003. Threat of climate change to long-term investments in the U.S.; Information on the community-managed wind turbine at Wales' Centre for Alternative Technology in Great Britain; Result of pelagic trawl fisheries.

Presents news briefs from around the world as of October 2002. Decision of the supreme court of Colombia regarding the reconstruction of a village demolished by mining company Intercor in 2001; Information on the 'Provider Pals' program in several middle-school classrooms in cities across the U.S.; Source of energy preferred by people in Great Britain.

Presents news briefs from around the world as of October 2001. Percentage of British who disapprove the decision of United States (U.S.) President George W. Bush on the Kyoto Protocol; Increase in corporate funding of university research in the U.S.; Percentage of the world's cigarettes consumed by the Chinese population.

Looks back at defining moments of 1998. The degradation of President Bill Clinton; Devastation wrought by Hurricane Mitch; School shootings by Kip Kinkel; Brutal murders of James Byrd Jr. and Matthew Shepard; Middle East accord at Maryland's Wye River; The Asian economic meltdown; Heroes including John Glenn and Mark McGuire; Violence in Omagh, Northern Ireland and the Balkans; Famine in Sudan; Bombings of United States embassies in East Africa; Antitrust investigation of Microsoft Corp.; Death of Frank Sinatra and others.

U.S. and world political news briefs are presented. Former U.S. vice president and senator Joe Biden remained the leader for the 2020 Democratic Party presidential nomination. Chinese trade negotiators abandoned earlier concessions they seemed willing to make with the U.S. U.S. representative Richard Neal ordered U.S. treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin to deliver six years of U.S. president Donald Trump's tax returns to the House Ways and Means Committee.

The article offers world political news briefs. The former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden announced his candidacy for the 2020 U.S. presidential election. U.S. Senator and 2020 presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren declared her policy plan for student loan-debt forgiveness and free college tuition. The intelligence of Sri Lankan government officials on the terrorist bombings in Sri Lanka on 2019 Easter Sunday is mentioned.

U.S. and world political news briefs are presented. U.S. senator Bernie Sanders reintroduced legislation known as the Medicare for All bill. South Bend, Indiana, mayor and U.S. presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg gained popularity in many opinion polls. The Paris, France, cathedral Notre Dame caught on fire as the result of an apparent accident. INSET: THE CASE FOR FEDERALISM.

U.S. and world political news briefs are presented. Several Democratic Party candidates for the 2020 nomination for the U.S. presidency including U.S. senators Elizabeth Warren, Kamala Harris, and Kirsten Gillibrand proposed U.S. Supreme Court expansion plans. U.S. president Donald Trump considered closing the U.S. border with Mexico. Nevada politician Lucy Flores accused former U.S. vice president of unwanted touching.

U.S. and world political news briefs are presented. Former U.S. congressman Robert "Beto" O'Rourke announced that he was entering the race for the 2020 Democratic Party presidential nomination. U.S. representative Ilhan Omar made controversial anti-Semitic remarks that resulted in a U.S. House resolution against hate. Two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, were the targets of a mass murderer, resulting in the deaths of 50 people.

U.S. and world political news briefs are presented. The U.S. House of Representatives voted to disapprove of U.S. president Donald Trump's border emergency declaration. Former Trump attorney Michael Cohen testified before the U.S. House Oversight and Reform Committee. U.S. presidential candidates Elizabeth Warren and Kamala Harris promoted the concept of slavery reparations.

U.S. and world political news briefs are presented about topics including the sentencing of U.S. president Donald Trump's former attorney Michael Cohen, a televised meeting at the White House involving Trump, U.S. representative and Democratic Party leader Nancy Pelosi, and U.S. senator and Democratic Party leader Chuck Schumer concerning a possible government shutdown, and the resignation of U.S. interior secretary Ryan Zinke.

The article offers information on the top 10 news stories around the world in 2018. Topics include the trade dispute between the U.S. and China, the Beijing Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) in September 2018, and the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey.

The article offers world news briefs. The U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts' criticism of U.S. President Donald Trump's comment on the allegedly political nature of U.S. Ninth Circuit Judge Jon Tigar is reported. The U.S. political left's criticism of the U.S. border agents' use of tear gas against Central American immigrants at the U.S. border is discussed. Chinese scientists have edited the genes of human embryos to make individuals resistant to the HIV virus.

The article offers world news briefs. The Democratic protesters behavior towards Republicans, or members of the GOP, is discussed. The increase of the U.S. federal deficit, including the role government spending and tax cuts play in this regard, is discussed. An appeal has been issued by the Pakistani woman Asia Bibi, who received a capital punishment sentence for blasphemy.

Presents news briefs pertaining to various issues from around the world. Incorrect information published about icy comments said to be pelting the Earth's atmosphere; What chemical, butyrate, can do in relation to colon cancer; Possibility that mystery surrounding last ice age may be solved by scientists in Wales.

The article provides world news briefs. Ohio Representative Charles Vanik, a member of the House Ways and Means Committee, discovered a tax reform which will allow certain oil companies to avoid paying millions of dollars in taxes that would have had to have been turned over to the U.S. Treasury. The responses from the governments of Portugal and Spain to political crises in their countries are detailed. Foreign intervention to the conflict between two factions in Angola is explored.

The article offers world news briefs. The attitude of U.S. officials towards President of South Vietnam, Nguyen Van Thieu and the capitulation of the South Vietnamese government with its replacement by a Communist domination is examined. The U.S. had promised it would react on behalf of the Saigon regime if the North Vietnamese violated the Paris accords. U.S. President Gerald Ford and Sen. Edward Kennedy's involvement in air-lifting out orphan children from Vietnam is detailed.

The article offers world news briefs. The book "Bleak House," by Charles Dickens is reviewed. The longest court trial in the U.S. involving the International Business Machines Corp. starts to submit evidence to refute the claims of justice Department against the company. Several odd estate wills appear after the death of Howard Hughes, who died in a plane en route from Mexico, which being trialed to test the authenticity that is scheduled on August 15, 1977.

The article presents world news briefs on various topics. In the U.S., the federal aid for research and development for this year will see major cutbacks. A law was passed by the state legislature of Arkansas, which stated that creationism should be included in the curricula of public schools along with evolution. A team of biochemists of the People's Republic of China has directly synthesized the transfer ribonucleic acid for the first time.

Presents updates on people, places, and events making the news in 1996. People being Susan McDougal, Elizabeth Dole, the Freemen, Lisa Hathaway, Sherry Rowlands, and Lori Lucas; Places being Dunblane, Scotland, and the Citadel; Events being the murder of Tupac Shakur and the approval of Olestra.

Offers national news highlights for January 20-February 4, 1995. President Bill Clinton's economic rescue package for Mexico; Trade skirmish with China; Nomination of Henry Foster Jr., a Nashville obstetrician/gynecologist for the position of Surgeon General; More.

The article offers world news briefs related to people. U.S. President Ronald Reagan has launched the domestic counterrevolution that changes drastically the direction of the American government. It notes 23 political assassinations in Italy and other political killings, including Bangladesh President Ziaur Rahman, and Ireland's burned-out firebrand Bernadette Devlin McAliskey. It mentions Lady Diana Spencer's fame of being the woman engaged and eventually marriage to Prince Charles of Wales.

The article presents world news briefs as of February 1, 1960. Debate about national defense, the missile gap, and the military power of the U.S. has been restarted. Laos has been having trouble maintaining political stability, and may be taken over by a dictatorship. Ghana is mainly controlled by Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah and the Convention Peoples' Party (CCP), which is concerned with Ghana's national identity and economic security.

The article presents world news briefs as of January 11, 1960. It is speculated that Representative Chester Bowles may be nominated to run for U.S. president by the U.S. Democratic Party. The debate over whether the U.S. should ratify a ban on the testing of nuclear weapons continues. It appears as if war may break out in the Middle East.

World news briefs are presented. The economic improvements made by Western European countries and the military and political situation of NATO in Europe are cited. The economic and environmental aspects of the Hungry Horse federal dam on Montana's Flathead River are examined. The possibility of U.S. federal assistance to commuter railroads, and the growth of urban areas in the United States, is discussed.

The article presents world news briefs. A possible run for Governor of Illinois by Chicago mayor Richard J. Daley is discussed. An investigation into the prices of prescription drugs by the U.S. Senate Anti-Monopoly Subcommittee is examined. A report in "Ecumenical Review" focusing on a conference of Protestant, Anglican and Orthodox religious leaders and physicians, concerning the subject of global population control, is mentioned.