World News and Prophecy: September - October 1999

Germany wrestles with its "store closing law."

Results of a Rutgers University study are sobering and disconcerting-the majority of today's young adults are inclined toward living together outside...

Stratfor's organizing theme for its 1999 Annual Forecast is found in the title: "A New and Dangerous World." That concept remains valid and the...

This summer's withering heat has forced some power companies to warn they are on the brink of running out of electricity. And just because it hasn't...

President Boris Yeltsin met his Chinese counterpart Jiang Zemin, and the Russian leader renewed his call for the two nations to work together to build...

Warring couples in Britain can now end their marriage quickly and cheaply-using the Internet.

Nearly a third of the world's population is infected with the bacterium that causes tuberculosis, according to a report published [in August], with 7...

Illegal drug use declined among younger teens in the United States last year, but increased slightly among young adults, according to the U.S...

Reports are mounting that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein may be preparing to step down, thus paving the way for the removal of sanctions against Iraq.

Saudi fugitive Osama Bin Laden is believed to have up to 20 nuclear bombs.

"Winning the war, but losing the peace" is a well-known maxim in history.

A woman in southern Kazakhstan has been hospitalized in the seventh case of bubonic plague registered this year.