Israel killed 50 more Palestinians in Gaza, including 22 from one family.

Both Israel and Hamas desire fighting in Gaza for political reasons, expecting the situation to be unchanged when the fighting stops (except for the casualties).

The software patent war has extended to data centers.

An analysis of the development of the world's global problems since 1945.

Islamists in Libya have gone on the offensive.

Haiti's cardinal condemned Voodoo, saying that that religion distracts believers from real solutions to their problems.

Religion generally tends to do that, but I am skeptical of the claim that belief in Voodoo is what typically leads poor Haitians not to use the services of doctors or lawyers. I suspect that poverty is responsible for that, and they turn to Voodoo as an affordable substitute.