Endemol and Fox in the States are running a reality show that has employees of struggling firms voting each other out of a job ! As sure as momma's apple pie we will have this bollocks here with in the month, with gurning brain deads having their 15 mins of fame on schlock TV

Well, yesterday was certainly interesting. One minute we have a monummentous celebration in Beijing, and the next, Russia invades Georgia over a tiny rebellious mountainous enclave. So two universal truths are reinforced. One, the Chinese know how to throw a good party. Two, the Caucasus remain one of the world’s most irritable sores. Now, on to

The call came early that morning, my mother's voice tight, low, worried. I was sweeping the floor or loading the dishwasher, busy with some mundane task, no thought for the world outside my door. "Turn on the tv, the World Trader Center was hit. A plane crashed into the building, turn on the tv!"  I watched the burning building, phone held to my ear as the second plane hit. Jesus, I coul...

Unless he cancels at the last minute, Putin will be the opening speaker at the World Economic Forum on Jan. 28, which gives him a splendid chance to reassure nervous investors that Russia is a reliable partner and a stable environment for the world’s shrinking pool of capital. Or not.

As yet another ‘world’s toughest job’ show, Oil Riggers feels like a substandard rip-off with a Texan accent.

The conventional wisdom is that the TV debates changed the election. And they certainly seemed to be doing just that. But did they? Experience around the world, which I drew on (I am, I'm afraid a bit smug about this...

The government was right to go to India to carve out a new relationship based on the changing balance of economic activity and power in the world. The world Stock market index still reflects the world as it was in the last century. The USA

Seeing this photo of Barack Obama’s small TV reminded me of this story about the size of the TV installed in the office of the then Labour leader of Haringey Council. I’m sure there are plenty of good reasons why the leader of a council needs a much bigger TV than the leader of the

While many of us deplore the way in which the tabloids act on occasions, we can at least console ourselves with the fact that our press is one of the freest in the world. We have a wide range of newspapers, TV channels and blogs to choose from, and even the BBC, though paid for through tax, is at least independent in the sense that the government does not control its world view (not that it needs ...

The world has been weighing in on the U.S. presidential election intermittently over the past two years, but what would happen if the countries of the world could cast a collective vote on Nov. 4? Would the world elect Barack Obama or John McCain? FP teamed up with the folks at the Gallup World Poll to create this must-see interactive map of their findings. The polls, conducted in 70 countries fro...