Last week a news came out that 44 million people have been pushed under the poverty line since June last year due to rising food prices. The current FAO food price index, which stands on 230.7, has already surpassed the index level that of 2008 when food riots occurred in more than 14 countries. So the obvious question is, what led the world to this problem of food crisis again?

Disclaimer: What you are about to read is not from The Onion, but is in fact real, live news. We can’t make up this kind of gold.

On February 9th, not even a week had passed after the announcement of the final result from last month’s referendum when the people of Jonglei in Southern Sudan saw violent conflicts between South Sudan’s Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA) and the rebel army of George Athor.

Following intense clashes and protests that have left many gasoline depots blockaded, the French government moved recently to return a sense of order to the country. The protests, and concurrent strike, stem from a move by Sarkozy’s government to raise the retirement age. Currently, the retirement age is 60 (in the US it is 65); Sarkozy wants it raised to 62.

Perhaps the only topic more widely discussed than the Rocky Horror episode of Glee is the coming midterm elections to be held on Tuesday, November 2nd. According to a recent poll by the Washington Post and ABC news, the GOP stands to enjoy a landslide rivaling the 1994 congressional upset.

The door is creaking open to the great big closet that is the US Military. Judge Virginia Phillips of the Ninth District Court ordered the US Military to stop enforcing its Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy that bans LGBTQ service members from serving openly. The Justice Department has 60 days to appeal the ruling if it chooses to do so.

Does anybody remember that whole big thing that happened in the fall of 2008? Even though I was just a firstie at the time, I seem to remember something about a financial meltdown, and lots of apocalyptic talk. I definitely also heard the name Lehman Brothers thrown around.

A recently published Army memoir of the war in the Middle East is stirring things up in the intelligence community over supposedly classified material included in the text.

By now we all know that the Conservative Party (read Republican) won big time in the United Kingdom’s elections this past May, ending the Labour (read Democrat) Party’s 13 years in power.

On September 21, 2010, the United States Senate had the opportunity to closely examine the moral and ethical implications of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” a fiercely defended law preventing openly gay and lesbian soldiers from serving in the military.