The six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) angered Iran and Iraq with the communique issued at the end of their December 2000 summit.

The availability of water is important enough a concern to be included in the "final status" issues yet to be resolved between the Israelis and Palestinians.

Addressing the weighty moral objections to cloning, Dr. Severino Antoniori of Rome declared that humans will be cloned in the very near future, "whether we like it or not."

In his inauguration, George W. Bush referred to an observation by a founding father that an angel was directing the storm surrounding the United States. Today, the storm is here, but is the angel?

"Political uncertainty over the presidency is to be expected in some of the poorer, less political stable nations. People do not expect to see the same in the richest nation in the world."

The next four years could bring thorny problems for America's leadership role in the world. The next president will face the consequences of missed opportunities in the 1990's.

Will we learn from history?

The pope invited an audience of 30,000 to join in bringing about the Kingdom of God in the world.

As the outgoing U.S. president pushes Palestinian-Israeli peace negotiations, hoping to accrue to himself this positive legacy in the annals of history, the present reality implies that war is more likely than peace.

Americans, whether or not they actually pray, understand and warm to such a request.

In the name of marketing in a way that the public will be drawn to purchase their products, British merchants have changed how they present the traditional nativity.

Britain's Parliament voted December 19, 2000, to amend an existing law to allow stem cell research to go ahead.

Long perceived to be a leading European nation, is Germany poised to become the EU's undisputed leader?

From many perspectives, the year 2000 was not a good year. What dos the Bible say about the pangs this world is experiencing?

What happens if Europe doesn't get the euro in gear? German economist Bruno Hollnagel pens a scary scenario in his book Euro Crash 2007 - The Countdown Has Started.

Is the U.S. form of government "the best existing, or that ever did exist"? Does its system of "checks and balances" produce strength—or contentiousness?

Are you going to buy an expensive Sony Playstation? Would you believe a good book can be far more valuable? Benjamin Franklin said, "The great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have...

The "glacier" of European unity is now moving at a faster pace.

The world has been watching and evaluating the spectacle. Has the United States' image, and more importantly, its power and prestige, been compromised?

Political stability is rare. It's essential that those countries that have found the way to enduring stability hold fast. Has the historical stability of the U.S. form of government begun to wane?