SOUTH AMERICA
Earthquake strikes Chile AT LEAST eight people have been killed in a powerful 7.9 magnitude earthquake that struck northern Chile. Three people died as buildings collapsed and another five were
Tax evasion
SUCCESSIVE GOVERNMENTS in Portugal have come to realise that tax evasion is doubly destructive.In addition to the obvious loss of revenue, any ethic of compliance is completely undermined when rampant
Dozy dogs and rampant rodents
“Stop the world I want to get off” – sometimes it begins to feel like that and then I look from my office window into a stand of eucalyptus trees.
Let your children spread their wings
HERE AT PDM we often get asked about the rules for one parent travelling alone with their children and the procedure for booking flights for unaccompanied children. We are pleased
Ambassador on UK foreign policy
CREATING A safer world from global terrorism and weapons of mass destruction, and commitment to the challenge of global warming are some of the UK’s cornerstone international strategic priorities, according
Jackson cleared on all counts
POP STAR Michael Jackson has been found not guilty of all charges at the end of his four-month-long child abuse trial. Fans gathered outside the courtroom reacted jubilantly as the
The non competitiveness of the European Union
TODAY, one mentions frequently the failure of the Lisbon Agenda that is the European Union Prime Ministers meeting in Lisbon (2000), which “decided” to make of Europe the most competitive
Those were the days my friends
THE FONDNESS for a particular decade centres around our gilded memories of growing up, those seldom angst-ridden, often euphoric teenage halcyon days, when the world was still “all right” and
Diabetes
Know your enemy and control it, don’t let it control you! LET’S START with a little bit of a history lesson to see how diabetes was discovered as I find
AFRICA
Migrants drown off Morocco AT LEAST 14 people, including six infants, have reportedly drowned after a boat trying to reach Europe illegally capsized off the Moroccan coast. The crowded rubber