In 1956, President Dwight Eisenhower created the idea of sister cities to promote international cooperation.
“The idea of sister cities was founded after the Second World War to kind of promote this...
Panama is the new Switzerland if the ongoing Panama Papers leaks are any indication.
Made available to German newspaper Sueddeutsche Zeitung in chunks at the outset of 2015, the Panama Papers are a collection...
The final four days of March marked the 5th annual National Rx Drug Abuse & Heroin Summit. U.S. President Barack Obama was one of many presenters covering topics of narcotic abuse, recovery and...
Australia
Victoria became the first state in Australia to legalize the use of medical marijuana. On April 12, the Access to Medicinal Cannabis bill passed in Parliament. According to the Australian...
Bright coral, crystal blue water, rainbow- colored fish, pesticides, run-off, trash. This is what the Great Barrier Reef has come to, and it is about to get worse.
In order to handle coal exports, Queensland,...
It is time to start stockpiling your Kit Kats and Hershey’s Kisses. The world is beginning to run low on chocolate.
Due to factors including climate change, disease, aging farmers and aging cocoa...
It is hard to find an aspect of modern life that has not been touched by terrorism.
If you go to an airport in the United States, the Transportation Safety Administration will meet you at the door....
Iceland
Sigmundur David Gunnlaugsson resigned from his position as Iceland’s prime minister on April 5. Gunnlaugsson and other politicians like Bjarni Benediktsson, minister for finance and economic...
For several decades, Greensboro and the North Carolina Department of Transportation have dreamed of working on a road project to ease traffic congestion in the city. Over the next few years, that project...
