After its upset victory over Canada on Sunday, the United States men’s hockey team was supposed to have landed itself on the easy side of the bracket leading to the gold medal. While the two favorites, Russia and Canada, faced each other Wednesday in a game of epochal significance for both countries, the Americans had [...]

Barack Obama admits his need to tackle a flurry of crises has weakened his bond with Americans. (Reuters: Jason Reed) // The chastened US President Barack Obama concedes he has made some mistakes in his first year in office. The Democratic Party’s loss of a key Senate seat in Massachusetts has been an anniversary gift [...]

The Copenhagen climate summit’s search for a deal to curb the world’s greenhouse gas emissions won’t succeed unless there is agreement on another thing too – money. Many of the countries which are most at risk from climate change are poor. They say they can’t afford to switch to cleaner energy generation or to defend [...]

Barack Obama, the US president, has arrived in Norway to accept the Nobel Peace Prize for his “extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy”. Military helicopters circled above the hotel where Obama is due stay on Thursday in  Oslo, the capital. Obama has been seen as a controversial nominee for the award because of the United [...]

South African runner Caster Semenya should be on top of the world. Instead she is on a suicide watch. She set a world record in the 800 meters and became a national hero. Now her life is in tatters. For that, we can thank Athletics South Africa (the South African athletics federation), and the utterly [...]

U.S. President Barack Obama smiles as he arrives at a hall to deliver a speech in Tokyo, Japan U.S. President Barack Obama is calling for a new era in trans-Pacific relations.  In a speech in Tokyo, the  president said America is determined to partner with Asia to meet the global challenges of today. President Obama [...]

The releasing date of one of the most awaited movies has finally been declared. YES!  Dharma Productions ‘My Name is Khan’ starring the heartthrob of millions Shah Rukh Khan and the beautiful and talented Kajol Devgan is set to release on Feb. 12, 2010.   MNIK will hit the theaters in over 40 countries like United States, [...]

With the White House’s reluctant embrace on Sunday of Hamid Karzai as the winner of Afghanistan’s suddenly moot presidential runoff, President Obama now faces a new complication: enabling a badly tarnished partner to regain enough legitimacy to help the United States find the way out of an eight-year-old war. It will not be easy. As [...]

Billy Bell illness and So You Think You Can Dance Billy Bell. The talented dancer from West Palm Beach Billy Bell has been forced to withdraw from wildly popular reality dance show So You Think You Can Dance. The news has come as a shock to many of his supporters who had been very impressed [...]