Omani blogger Muscati is back to wearing glasses, after the effects of his Lasek operation wore off!

Over the next few days she was bled, purged, and operated on, without anaesthetic, but there was no improvement in her condition.

The sale of Trade Development Bank to American Express for more than US 450 million in 1983, turned into a legal battle between the two parties.

An amount of 4,871,270 is attributable to increases in the compensation package to the contractor's international staff, which is still under review.

In other words, a concerted effort to strengthen government capacity and efficiency would be an excellent complement to the SDGs. But it should be carried out with a practical eye.

Mexico believes it essential that States not parties to the 1995 Fish Stocks Agreement participate on equal footing in the Agreement's review conference and its preparatory process.

Once these sanctions begin to bite, no one can say who will be hurt or how badly. And, as Russia s experience in 1998, and Argentina s after 2002, demonstrated, the process of restoring confidence among market participants is a long and painful one.

But, happily for us, our evolution is determined not only by entropy, but also by the accumulation of knowledge and technological progress a process that is just as irreversible as the decrease in stocks of non renewable resources and the degradation of environmental quality.

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.

To be sure, central bank intervention is not the only way to quell self fulfilling crises in the eurozone. Fiscal transfers, whereby eurozone countries commit to provide funds to their distressed counterparts, could also work.

In a new photo essay on MiMundo.org, photojournalist James Rodríguez follows residents of Pambach, Guatemala, as they receive the skeletal remains of six wartime victims who were taken by the army after a military incursion to the village on June 3rd, 1982, during the de facto government of Efraín Ríos Montt, and were never seen again.