A tragedy in Nepal and an election in Bulgaria brought attention to the world's remaining monarchies-and the possible restoration of former monarchies in Europe.

It is easy to form a negative impression of not only biblical prophecy, but also of today's world conditions and man's efforts to chart his way through the challenges of life.

Conversations with German citizens show the diversity of feelings attached to the newly reconstructed German capital-a diversity that reflects different age groups, as well as an East vs. West mentality within the unified German state.

Lung cancer caused by smoking is now the biggest killer of females with cancer, says United States surgeon general David Satcher.

Some young women in Eastern European nations, desperate for a better way of life through well-paying jobs, are tricked, then threatened and abducted and finally bought and sold like so much livestock.

According to government figures, British farmers' incomes dropped by almost 75 percent in five years.

With the U.S. networks continually cutting back on international coverage, where can a Christian turn to watch world events?

Italy's wealthiest citizen has a new job-prime minister of the country. In its May 13th general election, the electorate handed the job to Silvio Berlusconi, at the same time as it gave his conservative alliance a clear majority in both...

The Catholic auxiliary bishop of Liverpool, Vincent Malone, explained the national decline in terms of people's growing feeling of self-sufficiency.

Japan looks to change its consitution while Russia makes progress in advancing beyond the United States' space capabilities.

On the AIDS front, a terrifying report announced on June 1 shows that 32 percent of young black homosexual men in the United States are infected with the AIDS virus.

"One Billion Asians Could Be Parched in 24 Years, Say Experts" sounds like the title of a science-fiction novel. Actually, it's the title of an Agence France Presse report on a meeting of world experts on water supply who met...

Civil unrest and recent deployments have eroded discipline; field units ignore rules of engagement and even open fire on other forces. An outbreak of violence across the country will make it impossible for the army to hold the nation of...

Will Europe move beyond economic union to political union? Notable European politicians continue to raise the call for moving in that direction. Others are equally passionate in their opposition. Does the current situation relate to the "iron and clay" prophecy...

British trading-standards officers are investigating a likely source of the foot-and-mouth epidemic.

Europe, home of so much Christian history and tradition, has in the last century grown increasingly agnostic and atheistic.

Europe's experience with Christianity—including the dark side of its abuses and excesses—tells an astonishing and even violent tale. If Bible prophecy is any indication, that story will again be dark and violent.

While most people on the Continent itself are either enthused about the prospect of further European integration or at least willing to let it happen, many in the United Kingdom are skeptical, even fearful, of further European unity.

"In 1990 there were two superpowers. Now there is only one. Could there soon be another?"

The rise and fall of empires isn't a dry subject only for academics and historians- especially when the next collapsing empire may be today's superpower, the United States.