The U.S. has a plan to strike on Iranian nuclear facilities, said chief of staff of the Central Command U.S. armed forces, General David Petraeus. It would be irresponsible on the part of the Central Command did not consider all possible scenarios and actions in case of some circumstances, "- said Petraeus. According to him, the U.S. military considered all possible options for action in the regio ...

Six hours of talks between Presidents Dmitry Medvedev and Barack Obama in Copenhagen failed to clinch a new nuclear arms treaty between Russia and the United States, leaving officials scrambling to assert that a replacement for START-1 was still on the cards early in the New Year.
"Some technical details remain that require additional work," Medvedev said after the talks - held on the sidelines of the United Nations climate change summit, while Obama insisted the two sides had made "excellent progress" and were "quite close" to an agreement.
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MOSCOW — Leading Russian chemist Vladimir Novotortsev calls him a modern Thomas Edison. The now-defunct Nuclear Power Ministry nominated him for a Nobel Prize. And former U.S. President George W. Bush sought his advice on purifying water.
Furthermore, he and State Duma Speaker Boris Gryzlov co-own a patent for a filter to clean radioactive water, and he holds a separate patent for a water filter that could reap millions of dollars in sales next year after winning a United Russia contest.
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This winter, instead of the traditional story about a little orphaned ice bear cub or cute little elephant baby, the world was fed a different kind of story. For variation's sake, the cute animal tales are sometimes replaced by some horror story. Just before last Christmas, a carefully scripted charade was enacted by the combined security services of the US and one of its European client states. There is no need to retell the details of the Detroit incident starring the “crotch bomber,” or “underpants bomber,” as the poor Nigerian patsy is usually referred to. Anyone with a minimum of intelligence should have immediately seen the story for what it is: a scam.

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In 2009, the appearance of the H1N1 influenza virus saw the world brace itself for the first influenza pandemic since 1968. This was with the backdrop of the global financial crisis, that could negatively impact spending on health.
While there were concerns regarding malnutrition among children especially and hunger generally, in the developed countries such as the US there is a growing concern about obesity in kids. The University of Michigan in Ann Arbor states: "Public concern about childhood obesity is on the rise and it continues to outrank all other health problems as the No. 1 concern for children in the United States. This is the first year the three major racial/ethnic groups all agree,” says Matthew Davis, M.D., director of the poll. “In 2008, among whites, the chief concern was obesity, while among blacks the chief concern was teen pregnancy, and among Hispanics the chief concern was smoking.”
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