He had a large face with heavy jowls, a soft chin, and surprisingly gentle eyes.

Here is a video showing a dark polluted Tehran at noon as an airplane lands in Mehrabad's airport.

Across the English Channel, British Euroskeptics rejoice that they have kept their distance from a sinking ship.

Bogged down in Iraq and Afghanistan, America is in no mood to open a third front against the Islamic world.

Before the green revolution, Nobel Prize winning economist Gunnar Myrdal predicted a bleak future for an Asia mired in poverty.

Archeologists still find elaborate (and probably expensive in those days) two pan balance scales and weights on sunken bronze age merchant ships.

For example, because atheists supposedly lack a moral compass, they should be guided by pure self interest and walk by the drowning child.

63. Requests States to take appropriate measures with regard to ships flying their flag or of their registry to address hazards that may be caused by wrecks and drifting or sunken cargo to navigation or the marine environment

70. Requests States to take appropriate measures with regard to ships flying their flag or of their registry to address hazards that may be caused by wrecks and drifting or sunken cargo to navigation or the marine environment

Structural adjustment programs demanded by the IMF and the World Bank ended up transforming these countries into dumping grounds for over subsidized Western agricultural surpluses and over priced and obsolete manufactured goods.

Emphasizing that underwater archaeological, cultural and historical heritage, including shipwrecks and watercrafts, holds essential information on the history of humankind and that such heritage is a resource that needs to be protected and preserved,

The problem for post WWII Europe, mired in depression and inflation, was that it lacked foreign reserves, which meant that trade carried a high opportunity cost. To facilitate trade without requiring payment after each transaction, the Organization for European Economic Cooperation created the European Payments Union in 1950.

Emphasizing that underwater archaeological, cultural and historical heritage, including shipwrecks and watercrafts, holds essential information on the history of humankind and that such heritage is a resource that needs to be protected and preserved,

What is needed today is nothing less than a new consensus between alliances that are frayed, between wealthy nations and poor, and among peoples mired in mistrust across an apparently widening cultural abyss.

MANILA The tragedy of the sinking of the Princess of the Stars ferry in the waters off Romblon in the Philippines with hundreds of corpses still believed trapped inside is proof that the country is prone not only to natural calamities, but to manmade ones as well.

Incredibly, the European Union s response to the drowning deaths in the Mediterranean has been to cut the budget for the naval response unit charged with monitoring refugee crossings and rescuing shipwreck survivors. This not only flies in the face of morality it is also counterproductive.