| The former President of Brazil Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was feted across the world for bringing millions of Brazilians out of poverty. However, the rich also did very well under his left-wing government. Brazil has an ever increasing number of ... |  BBC News |
| While Republicans dominate the political spotlight in Florida, President Obama's re-election campaign has been quietly but aggressively mobilizing operations for a general election fight over the state's 29 electoral votes. Obama now has 11 campaign ... |  ABC News (blog) |
| With the death of Cuban dissident Wilman Villar Mendoza, Cuba has lost one of its precious remaining brave souls. While a sputtering dissident movement shows occasional signs of life, reminding us of the hell the Cuban people endure, it casts a pale ... |  Forbes |
| The lack of employment opportunities for Palestine refugee prolong and intensify their hardship and poverty. As politicians like Newt Gingrich stoke the fires of hate toward Palestine, these Israeli Jews work to bring freedom and human equality to the ... |  Salem-News.Com |
| It's all fun to cover, all interesting, all catnip for political junkies but less likely to shape the rest of the race in the Republican primaries, and the fall campaign than the Hispanic unemployment rate in October. |  PBS NewsHour |
| The world is running out of time to make sure there is enough food, water and energy to meet the needs of a rapidly growing population and to avoid sending up to three billion people into poverty, a UN report warns. The world is running out of time to ... |  Stuff.co.nz |
| By Dale Carson January 30, 2012 Spanning seven countries on the western coast of current-day South America, the Andes Mountains have given us much natural beauty and many tales of adventure. They have also given us the potato, cultivated there by the ... |  Indian Country Today Media Network.com |
| He plugged his main talking points on vouchers, tenure reform and charter schools and chided one of the state's two biggest teachers unions for remarks that its executive director made last week about parents struggling with poverty. |  NOLA.com |
| A Mexican man arrested in connection with the brutal beating of Canadian tourist Sheila Nabb at a five-star resort could face up to 14 years in prison if convicted. Authorities trotted out Jose Ramon Acosta Quintero at a news conference on Saturday, ... |  CBC.ca |
| By Dr Akmal Hussain For the first time in half a century the idea of systemic change is beginning to grip the popular imagination in many countries of the third world stretching from Africa, South Asia, South East Asia and Latin America. |  The Express Tribune |
| During the coming years, tens of millions of people across Asia and Latin America would be lifted out of poverty and join the middle class, driving strong domestic demand. While the forum's annual meeting attracted a record 2600 leaders from the worlds ... |  BBC News |
| By Bassam Za'za', Senior Reporter A woman who took a trip around the world to smuggle two kilos of cocaine from Brazil to Mozambique, transiting through Dubai, is to spend ten years in jail. Dubai: A woman who took a trip around the world to smuggle ... |  gulfnews.com |
| The crime shocked America and helped defeat a bill to abolish the death penalty in the state of Connecticut. Komisarjevsky's accomplice, Steven Hayes, was sentenced to death in 2010. The two were on parole for burglary when they broke into a home in ... |  BBC News |
| While much attention is paid to the 34 US states that still administer the death penalty, federal and military systems of executions also exist. The retention of the US federal death penalty undermines those states that have abolished capital ... |  The Guardian |
