A date has been set for the beatification of Pope John Paul II, who died in 2005 after an almost 27-year-long papacy. Vast crowds of pilgrims are expected in Rome on 1 May 2011 to witness the ceremony, performed by the current pope Benedict XVI, ...
In America, meat is big business. The meat and poultry industry is the largest sector of US agriculture, grossing an impressive US $ 155 billion in 2009 and employing a total of some 6.2 million people in companies involved in meat production along with ...
Call centre consultants are like doctors - they need to get under the client's skin to find out the most effective way of selling a product or getting valuable feedback. Call centre work is readily available and in most cases doesn't require any ...
Wika Szmyt is not your typical grandmother. 'Maturity has its charm' she says, smiling elegantly but a little reserved. 'Some people already know what they want when they are 20 while others grow up for longer. I think that I am in the second ...
About half a million people commute into Warsaw, the Polish capital, from surrounding towns and villages every day. For a city of 1.7 million, this constitutes a huge daily ebb and flow of workers, some of whom have to rise in the early hours to ...
During the Tour de France, the roads and byways of the country are lined with thousands of keen spectators. But it's not necessarily the riders they have come to see. The so-called Caravan Pubicitaire is the main draw for approximately 39% of all ...
Ekon Association in Warsaw is a recycling plant that provides jobs for people with learning difficulties or mental health issues who would otherwise find it difficult to get work.Some people working at Ekon have disabilities which they were born ...
It may not be everyone's taste in popular music but in Poland, Disco Polo is filling the clubs, blaring out of countless sound-systems up and down the country and drawing even some of the most ambivalent revellers onto the dance floor as the night ...
Every day, over half a million people commute into 'The City', London's traditional financial district, and Canary Wharf, its second business hub in East London. London generates almost a quarter of the UK's GDP, mainly through financial services. ...
Almost three years after his beatification, former pope John Paul II will be made a saint by Pope Francis on 27 April 2014 along with his predecessor, Pope John XXIII. John Paul II, revered by many Catholics, and nowhere more than in Poland, died in ...
Glasgow may well be the most passionate football city on earth. Its two mighty teams, Celtic and Rangers, are known collectively as the 'Old Firm', a sobriquet which hints at the stranglehold they have had on Scottish football for over 100 years. The ...
The 1992 famine in Somalia was, in common with many famines, as much the result of the civil war as the climatic conditions. In 1991 President Barre was overthrown by opposing clans, but they failed to agree on a replacement and plunged the country into ...
On 29th August 1949 the first Russian plutonium bomb was exploded at the Semipalatinsk nuclear test site, which came to be known as 'The Polygon'. This first detonation was followed by more than 500 nuclear explosions, both atmospheric and underground. ...
During the four year conflict in Bosnia more than 200,000 citizens were killed. Most of these were Muslim civilians murdered by paramilitaries during the ethnic cleansing of eastern and western Bosnia. Towns like Priedor, Banja Luka, Foca, Zepa and of ...
From the beginning of the Bosnian conflict in 1992, Paul Lowe takes us on a journey through Sarajevo, Srebrenica, Gorazde and Mostar - places that back then reverberated in the daily headlines much as Fallujah and Basra have done in more recent times. ...
It has a peculiar beauty, a concrete monolith winding across the landscape like a modernist snake in featureless grey concrete. Forty years after a war in which the Israeli military easily defeated the armies of three Arab nations and trebled its ...