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 to new extremes. During its Top 40
music countdown Sunday…
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…
Abortion |
The first abortion center on the island of Ireland opened Thursday
in Belfast, sparking protests by conservatives from both the
Catholic and Protestant sides…
