It's not been confirmed yet, but there's news of another liberated village, this time Panhe in southern Zhejiang: According to World Journal, the Wukan uprising’s ultimate success inspired Panhe villagers to decide to hold widespread demonstrations starting February 1. Since...

The government is promising the health secretary will keep ultimate control over the NHS in England, as it pushes for Parliament to pass the NHS bill.

The ultimate pre-flight procedure, courtesy of Southwest Airlines....

Europe's economic and financial challenges are not the ultimate or even the defining threat to the European project, says Marin Lessenki, author of a new report published by the European Policies Initiative and Open Society Institute in Sofia. More »

Christmas Day Flashback! Of course another Presidential round of golf takes precedence over Marines spending Christmas at home with their families! Part of the role of a chief executive is to maintain the morale of those who work under them. Sometimes this may mean making what for them is the ultimate sacrifice of missing a round of golf so that other can spend time with their families. Not Barack...

Further proof for my theory that, just like the Ultimate Question & Answer in the Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy, you can either know the felon's background or the victim's, but never the two at once. Yep, two Afghanis - probably Mormons - stalk the streets and rape a 'woman'. Really? Any particular type of woman? Anything in particular driving this choice of victim? Considering she was pulled of...

The Durban Climate Conference I reported on here and here has come to an end. President Obama and the UN were unsuccessful in their attempt to soak America with a huge 'climate tax' and transfer billions to the UN while bypassing Congress, but the can was essentially kicked down the road until next year, and there was some progress towards that ultimate goal. The Chinese and India, who q...

              The UK’s foreign policy objectives are currently very muddled.  The UK wants the Euro area to adopt bond buying and quantitative easing. This would delay but not prevent the ultimate crash of the Euro. It would mean bigger debts and more unemployment by the time  Greece and other weaker members...

...the more likely possibility is that there will be asymmetric shocks hitting the different countries. That will mean that the only adjustment mechanism they have to meet that with is fiscal and unemployment: pressure on wages, pressure on prices. They have no way out. With a currency board, there is always the ultimate alternative that you can break the currency board. Hong Kong can dismantle it...

Mocked by fellow leaders over his handling of the sovereign debt crisis, the Italian PM is running out of time to come up with a convincing plan