There was no flag-waving, no speeches and no government resolution to thank the dozens of local veterans of World War I, World War II, Korea and Vietnam who over the past century played an important role in the community, raised money for scholarships, …

After one year of President Morsi ruling the country, the country is in more debt, we have long queues for petrol, our currency value has dropped by 25 percent; this means more expensive imports for us as we import 80 percent of our needs in Egypt …

Seven years later, the world's leading emerging-market telecoms company may wish it had some shelter from the controversy it has generated from its association with Iran and Syria, its war-ravaged ally. Touted as one of South Africa's biggest corporate …

Somalia, under a Western-backed government that took office last year, is trying to rebuild after 20 years of war in which the nation was carved up into fiefdoms by warlords and then ruled by Islamist militants. Its public institutions remain feeble …

Data published by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism showed that box office climbed by 13% in local currency terms from KRW642 billion to KRW724 billion in the Jan-June period. In dollar terms that represents a 14% increase from US$634 million …

It's also commonly used as a currency on the black market, frequently among warlords and guerrillas. Researchers at the University of … Most of these tests were performed between 1952 and 1962, the height of the Cold War. Hopes are high that this new …

In these days air pollution in China quickly blows to Japan; forest fires in Sumatra spread a noxious pall over Singapore and Malaysia; and one country's tinkering with its currency affects all its trading partners, us all. It is especially … For …

From a teenage war correspondent and refugee she is now a presidential adviser and teaches a university course about tolerance and resolving conflict, in a country sitting across political, religious and ethnic fault-lines. Kosovo is still a country …

Wagner said his father received the currency during World War II and believes the bills are from the early 1940s or earlier. He would like to know if any Herald readers could provide him with the value of the currency and what year it was printed …