Over the years, the popular soft drink company Coca Cola has sported many international slogans. Here in America it has been touted as “The real thing,” while in India the Hindi slogan reads, “Jo chache ho johe” or “Whatever you want, happens.”
Yet such a statement is ill -fitting for a corporation that has expanded its global reach by exploiting the Indian people and compromising their resources and health.

Henry Higgins in My Fair Lady quipped that “in America, they haven’t used English in years.” I don’t know what we’ve been speaking stateside, but it’s certainly not the same language they use on this side of the pond.
When I came to England to study abroad, I hoped that sharing a native language would allow me to join seamlessly into British student culture.

Forget “you can’t get a decent cup of coffee”-what you can’t get in England is a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, even a bad one. Mention that you’re craving some PB&J and they’ll stare blankly at you; spell it out and their looks will turn to disgust and disbelief.

The question I get the most often since going abroad: “Is it what you expected?”
You see, I’ve always been an Anglophile. I knew lots of specifically British swear words before arriving. I knew a Liverpudlian accent from a Birmingham one. I was prepared for the revolting kebabs everyone suddenly craves after a few pints.

I find myself writing this article on the terraced top of The American University’s library. The sun sets over the cityscape of Cairo, as I look back at my month-and-a-half stay fii Masr (in Egypt, for all you non-Arabic speakers).
Fifty meters below my perch, the city awakens.

Ban Ki-moon (born 1944) is a diplomat from the Republic of Korea who is currently serving as the eighth Secretary-General of the United Nations. He began in January 2006 and will continue to serve until December 2011. Ki-moon studied German Language and Literature at Seoul National University in 1970.

A Google search for “multinational cooperation + Africa” brings up 1,010,000 hits (in 0.20 seconds) and one of them is www.africa-union.org. This is the website of the ultimate symbol of cooperation among African countries, the African Union.
A 53-member body organization, the African Union was created in 2001 to establish democracy, human rights and a sustainable economy in African countries.

The NATO headquarters office buildings are getting a face-lift and someone needs to ask the obvious question: does that mean NATO’s mandate is too?
Whether the new offices (constructed across the street from the original building, under the direction of the Government of Belgium and strikingly reminiscent of The Jetsons) are a symbolic calling-cry to the organization’s attempts of agency transparency is debatable.

Three of the top ten wealthiest countries in the world-Norway, Switzerland and Iceland-are not members of the European Union.
A group of developing Balkan countries, including the Czech Republic, Turkey, Bulgaria and Greece, are also less than willing to accept EU policies as their own.

On February 8, a group of illegal immigrants were attacked by gunmen near Tucson, Arizona, as they were migrating across the Mexican-U.S. Border. Several immigrants were wounded, three of them fatally and others disappeared, presumably taken captive by the gunmen.