I see always, it stirs my heart a picture of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

It made me question and curious How could someone actually find joy in cleaning toilets for a living?

This year s summit, which will take place in Cartagena, Colombia, in mid April, has already generated controversy. Two traditional hot button issues will dominate the discussions Cuba and drugs.

Language has long been a contested issue in France, where the onslaught of anglicisms and the rise of English as the preeminent international language have caused concern in some quarters.

At the end of February, for example, German Chancellor Angela Merkel made a spectacle insisting that no bigger financial firewall was needed to protect other eurozone countries from a disorderly Greek default.

BUENOS AIRES A controversial agreement between Iran and Argentina to investigate jointly a terrorist attack against a Jewish organization in Buenos Aires in 1994, which killed 85 people, has opened an intense debate about Iranian influence in Latin America.

But the tiny number of Ebola cases in rich countries and the ensuing panic inducing headlines and quarantine measures have brought home the global nature of infectious disease today. Mass travel has made effective containment of epidemics extremely difficult.

North Korea has long been adept at flaunting its willingness to take risks, provoking a crisis in 2010 by sinking a South Korean naval vessel and shelling a South Korean island. This spring, it conducted a nuclear test and a series of missile tests, accompanied by a stream of bellicose rhetoric.