After the last weeks when most of the articles in newspapers and blogs were about the financial crisis or the sensational trials in the US and Italy and the freakish wedding of an 85 year old Spanish aristocrat with a 61 year old civil servant, the press today brought us finally some news worthy of being published. Read the rest of this entry »

It is a sad day for women, specially American women, when the Supreme Court blocked a sexual discrimination lawsuit against the retail giant Wal-Mart. With their ruling yesterday, the highest court overturned an earlier ruling which would have allowed 1.6 million female Wal-Mart employees to sue the company for allegedly paying women less than men and for giving them fewer promotions that their male co-workers. Read the rest of this entry »

While in the United States the high-speed rail does not appear to have a good future, as it has been one of the programs cut from the budget, Europe is going the opposite way. Read the rest of this entry »

In this world of tragedies, wars and disasters, the French government, ubiquitous in its involvement abroad, is also keeping busy at home in a different way. One could say that Nicolas Sarkozy is trying to save women that live in France from being abused. In some cases without taken into account if the women agree with some of the measures or not. Read the rest of this entry »

While many countries are keeping their eyes fixed in the Middle East revolts, they also have to continue the daily tasks of governing, changing laws and continue implementing the existing ones. The European Union with its 27 member states has sometimes a hard job with changing or adding laws and it is not always well liked by all. Read the rest of this entry »

When the massive earthquake of January 12 devastated Haiti, the world seemed to be for once unified to help the already impoverished country. Everybody wanted to help and donations appear to be ready to help the Haitians to reconstruct their country and help them to survive. Read the rest of this entry »

After the incredible rescue last October of the 33 Chilean miners, the world was hoping something similar could happen in New Zealand where 29 miners were trapped in a mine after the blast that occurred last Friday. Read the rest of this entry »