No Longer Just Nordic
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In one of his most popular songs, Swedish hip-hop artist Timbuktu sings of two strangers warily eying each other on a Stockholm subway, one a white Swede, the other an immigrant, each with his own thoughts and ...
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In the snow sports industry, progress doesn't just trump aesthetics. It usually obliterates everything in its path.
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Until this morning, not many non-Germans knew that a woman called Elfriede Jelinek existed. This state of unknowing underwent a dramatic change with an oracular announcement: The Nobel Prize in Literature
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By Victor Keegan  LONDON: It is curious how the globalization of people is happening much faster than the globalization of goods.
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Much more than hot dogs, beaches and long weekends.
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A different way of calculating the medal standings brings some interesting results.
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"This is yet another example of the 'Alice in Wonderland' world of human rights. If you break British law for long enough, you acquire rights, not penalties."  BELFAST, Northern Ireland. Perhaps there will not always be an England. An exodus unprecedented in modern times, coupled with a record influx of foreigners, threatens to erode the character of the land of ... via Washington Times
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At least until the last few decades, people in Iceland have tended overwhelmingly to live, marry and die where they were born.
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Not all of the Arctic thaw is caused by man. Nature plays a role, too, but that doesn't let us off the hook for the damage we've done.
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The Christian Science Monitor - Britain is seriously considering adopting a controversial approach to prostitution pioneered in Sweden that targets the customer instead of the sex worker, making it a crime to buy â but not to sell â sex.
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The names of the characters have also changed.
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By Sonia Kolesnikov-Jessop  Development is not always a one-way process of environmental destruction.
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The winds of change are upon us.
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The word 'globalization' seems to have evolved into a cliche and handy dandy fighting word for ideologues. The alternative (and often conflicting) definitions and interpretations are enough to make you dizzy.
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There is growth, but it's not homemade.
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Scientists have taken an important step towards a new way of treating disease by switching off key genes.
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Global warming is increasingly rendering Inuit and other Arctic peoples at a loss for words. They simply do not have names in their languages for the temperate species flocking up from the south.