Decorating your home is easier once you have decided on your art decorating style. This year's hot trends in interior decorating and design feature natural elegance coupled with striking statements. Art and wall decor are major factors in 2008 and
MOSCOW, May 16 (RIA Novosti) - The official death toll following Myanmar's Cyclone Nargis, which hit the Southeast Asian country two weeks ago, has risen to 77,738, and 56,000 are missing, national television reported on Friday. The cyclone, which has
TALLINN, May 16 (RIA Novosti) - A brown bear was caught by an Estonian environmental inspector in the Narva River swimming toward the Russian border, the Eesti Paevaleht daily reported on Friday. The bear had swum almost 100 meters until
MOSCOW, May 16 (RIA Novosti) - Georgia will continue to block Russia's entry to the World Trade Organization until Moscow withdraws its support for the breakaway Georgian region of Abkhazia, the country's reintegration minister said on Friday. Tensions between Moscow
MOSCOW, May 16 (RIA Novosti) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has urged countries set to take part in a Mideast peace conference in Moscow to agree on a timetable for the meeting as soon as possible. Russia, a member
KABUL, May 17 (RIA Novosti) - Pakistan's envoy to Afghanistan, kidnapped more than three months ago by militants believed to belong to the radical Islamic Taliban movement, has been freed, a Pakistani embassy official said on Saturday. "I can't give
S. sanctions could face a number of problems but will not be seriously affected, the country's first deputy prime minister said * The Georgian Interior Ministry has dismissed as a 'provocation' Russian reports that a Georgian intelligence service agent had
As CMD has reported previously, the infant formula industry in the U.S. is committed to making sure that women aren't, as they put it, made to feel guilty about not breast feeding. But it seems that formula producers are also
Listen to this week's edition of the "Weekly Radio Spin," the Center for Media and Democracy's audio report on the stories behind the news. This week, we look at why we should pity the oil industry, how invasion of privacy
The Pentagon is moving forward with plans to build a new, 40-acredetention complex on the main American military base in Afghanistan,said officials, in a stark acknowledgment that the United States islikely to continue to hold prisoners overseas for years to
Britain's £800 million ($1.6 billion) international project to help the poorest countriesin the world adapt to climate change was under fire last night after itemerged that almost all the money offered by Prime Minister Gordon Brown will have tobe repaid
Jaber Elbaneh is one of the world's most-wanted terrorism suspects. In 2003, theU.S. government indicted him, posted a $5 million reward for hiscapture and distributed posters bearing photos of him around the globe.None of it worked. Elbaneh remains at large,
A psychologist who helps lead the post-traumatic stress disorderprogram at a medical facility for veterans in Texas told staff membersto refrain from diagnosing PTSD because so many veterans were seekinggovernment disability payments for the condition."Given that we are having more
Saudi Arabia Friday rebuffed President Bush's request to immediatelypump more oil to lower record prices, saying it does not see enoughdemand to increase production. The Saudis said they would increase production if customersdemanded it, said Steven Hadley, Bush's national security
The global food crisis has arrived at Safia Aliâ ™s hut.She cannot afford rice or wheat or powdered milk anymore.At the same time, a drought has decimated her familyâ ™s herd ofgoats, turning their sole livelihood into a pile of
Is Barack Obama naïve enough to think that an extremist ideological organization like Hezbollah can be mollified with a less corrupt patronage system and some electoral reform?
Though most Muslims reject Islamism and its propaganda, anti-Semitic messages from satellite channels like the Hamas-run Al-Aqsa are helping to bring a message of hate and intolerance to Europe. The effects of such hate preaching can already be felt in
In a pan-European operation, police in France, Germany and the Netherlands have detained 10 men they suspect of financing a terror group in Uzbekistan. Some of the men are thought to have acted as couriers funneling cash to the jihadists.
It's time for the Ypulse monthly roundup of what's inside next month's issues of the big teen mags.This month's Teen Vogue has an Olympic spin with athletic profiles, all-American fashion spreads, and a red-white-and-blue cover starring [super] Heroes' Hayden Panettiere.
