Author : EW News Desk Team

Americans have always assumed that wealth comes and goes. A poor person can work hard, become rich and pass his money on to his children and grandchildren. But then,...

From the moment, George W Bush and his controller, "Vice-President" Dick Cheney began the post 9/11 drumbeat for war against Iraq, we argued it was NOT about oil - everyone...

Great sweeps of Guatemalan rain forest, once the cradle of one of the world’s great civilizations, are being razed to clear land for cattle-ranching drug barons. Other parts of...

Losses at Greece's national Hellenic Railways are mounting at the rate of 3 million euros ($3.8 million) a day. Its total debt has increased to $13 billion, or about...

Loans to European companies fell in June - a sign that economic expansion remains tepid, according to data issued by the European Central Bank in July. Growth in so-called...

The economic insecurity of the American families is greater than at any time on record, according to a new report from the Rockefeller Foundation. One in five Americans, the...

In a laboratory where almost all the test tubes look green, the tools of modern biotechnology are being applied to lowly pond scum. Foreign genes are being spliced into...

Well-heeled Syrians had already been coming to the ancient Turkish industrial city of Gaziantep, drawn here by Louis Vuitton purses and storefront signs in Arabic. But local shop owners...

Ericsson, the world’s largest maker of telecom network equipment, said an industry-wide shortage of key components had contributed to an 8 percent decline in sales in the second quarter,...

Just a few weeks ago, we did a Feature on how "well" - that is, poorly - the austerity program now being prescribed all over the "advanced" world was...