The next time you take a Bayer aspirin for a headache, think about mass murder and genocide.

Acclaimed author and investigative journalist Edwin Black will lecture on the Redline Agreement - a diplomatic manouevre by the Great Powers to secure oil in the Mideast in the early 20th century. He will speak at Florida Atlantic University on Feb.5.

France's Socialist president, Francois Hollande, is calling for 'maximum mobilization' in the face of disappointing job figures. As many as 9 million are without work in France.

Peugeot was the first car maker in Europe to suffer from a decrease in sales in Europe since last summer.

Can Romney trick the pollsters by pulling a 1980 Reagan?

UN: Sustainable Development Conference will shape how we can reduce poverty, advance social equity and ensure environmental protection on an ever more crowded planet to get to the future we want.

Tavis Smiley and Cornel West's new book claims there is no hope for anyone to rise out of poverty without government boosting them using other people's money.

Nearly 90 faculty members and priests at Georgetown University signed a letter criticizing Rep. Paul Ryan’s visit to the campus. They say his budget plan represents a “continuing misuse of Catholic teaching” because it allegedly hurts the poor.

Moving from place to place because of foreclosure, and homelessness, causes education gaps for children, as well as behavioral problems.

There are snakeheads coming to your town. Beware!

Pope Benedict spoke with President Castro of Cuba and asked that Good Friday be made a national holiday.

Pope Benedict says Communism 'no longer correspond to reality' in advance of meeting with the Castro Bros. in Cuba.

Paraguay remains the step-child of the Southern Cone, importing more from MERCOSUR than its partners import from the land-locked country.

What does the economy do for people? What does it do to people? And how do people participate in it?

As Europe's economies suffer, Germany's reliance on exports are at risk and may send it into a recession during the first quarter of 2012.

Car companies seeing their sales decrease by half over the same period last year.

Irresponsible rich people and their followers think of the struggle fo spiritual and social transformation as 'class warfare'. We are all the poorer for this.

Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks of the UK gave a talk on January 13 at the Pontifical Gregorian University at Rome. Fixing Europe is more than stabilising the euro currency.

Peace between the U.S. and Iran is more likely if Obama ralies the allies, while also demonstrating American power.

An American icon is now about to disappear.

Marking the 120th anniversary of Rerum Novarum, the Pope spoke to members of Italian Catholic cooperatives who seek harmony between the individuals and the wider community.

Unlike the New Deal, which responded to the Great Depression of the 1930s, Americans are getting a Raw Deal to salve the Great Depression. Desperate families are taking desperate measures.

Food pantries in Michigan face funding cuts just as demand for food increases.

If Republicans are serious about deficit reduction, rather than assailing government, a burst of economic growth may follow.