Pope Francis preaches peace, love & tenderness in first Christmas message at Vatican

Pope Francis, celebrating his first Christmas as leader of the world’s 1.2 billion Roman Catholics, on Wednesday called for dialogue to end the conflict in ...

Childhood cancer’s new conundrum

“Their overall physical being resembles that of people 30 years older than they are,” said Kirsten Ness, associate member of the Department of Epidemiology and ...

Climate Change This Week: The Good, The Bad, The Old, The New in 2013, and More!

Most Important Climate Message: “You CAN Do Something About It” is what people need to hear most, says a new Read More

Michael McIntyre’s Christmas Charity Show, Hammersmith Apollo, London

I’m not quite sure why they don’t televise  Read More

ANGELINA JOLIE AND BRAD PITT HAVE CHARITY CHRISTMAS

A moved Jolie said, “My Christmas message to Colombian refugees and t...

Bill Gates Looks Ahead

If you measure progress — as I do — by the decreasing number of children who die of preventable causes or by the growing number of people who escape extreme pov...

Having given up on world peace, here's a modest Christmas wish list for Santa Claus

Top of my list would be for Americans to stop confusing politics with morality, law with ethics. Government has an important job: to protect us in the exercise of our right...

What's Poverty Got to Do With It?

The world’s poverty benchmark is an income less than US $2 (about 300 Naira) per day and by that statistic about 50 percent of the World’s 7 billion people live...

Press Release : Gay Rights are Human Rights

FLASHPOINT Human Rights Film Festival in the city sparks off discussions on LGBT rights

The recently concluded FLASHPOINT Human Rights Film F...