International | The State Department on Tuesday released its 2012 International
Religious Freedom Report. In particular, the report highlights
“undue and inappropriate restrictions” on religious groups and
abuse of adherents in…
Politics |
BELFAST, Northern Ireland—The death of former British Prime
Minister Margaret Thatcher has prompted reactions from Britain’s
far left that takes bad taste…
Money |
January ends. The first month of the year is behind us, and from
the stock market’s perspective it was a good month. The Dow was up
5.8 percent for the…
Money | Editor's Note: Introducing a new roundup of the week's financial
news, which will be posted each Friday.
Stocks strong. We’re now well into earnings season on…
Newsworthy |
Drain in Spain. The economic news in the United States has been
pretty good lately. The Dow and the S&P 500 are at five-year
highs. This week, the number…
International |
In Washington it’s Inauguration Day. In Paris and other European
capitals, it’s a snow day. Big headaches for European travelers but
a fond view for those…
Newsworthy |
Airbrushing Jesus.
The Telegraph
in London reports that a team of “mystery shoppers from Nielsen
brand auditors visited the card aisles in branches of…
Abortion |
After Irish pro-abortion advocates used Savita Halappanavar's death
to urge changes to the country’s pro-life laws, the reporter who
broke the story now…
Culture |
Christmas shopping for the kids just got a whole lot more
complicated for parents in Sweden, where Top-Toy Group, a licensee
of the Toys R Us brand, decided…
International |
Operation World is a great resource—loaded with demographic
information about religious and ethnic groups around the world—but
it’s also a daily prayer…
Europe |
While secession petitions gain signatures in Texas, the separatist
movement that might be successful is in Catalonia, the part of
northeast Spain that boasts…
International |
The euro is falling, this time over unexpectedly bad numbers from
Germany—Europe’s economic powerhouse—that show the eurozone crisis
oozing into the…
