US bankruptcy, fiscal 'child abuse' and six-decade Ponzi scheme US unemployment is on the rise again – it has reached nine point six per cent, the first increase in four months. Some economists are arguing that the Obama administration needs to introduce another stimulus programme to create new jobs. But Larry Kotlikoff, professor of economics [...]
Mother of the child in image that went around the world tells of her family’s struggle It was an image that conveyed the human cost of the Pakistani floods – and the failure to deliver aid to those affected – more powerfully than any statistic: four young children lying on a filthy patchwork quilt, one [...]
Want a girl child? Then you need to stop eating bananas, reduce your salt intake and go to bed together often, says a new study. Scientists at Maastricht University in Holland have found that a combination of the right food and the timing of sex are the key to a prospective mother’s having a girl [...]