The U.S dollar is shrinking as a percentage of the world's currency supply, raising concerns that the greenback is about to see its long run as the world's premier denomination come to an end.

When compared to its peers, the dollar has drifted to a 15-year low, according to the International Monetary Fund, indicating that more countries are willing to use other currencies to do business.

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Benedict had installed Viganò to enact a series of reforms within the Vatican. But some of Rome’s highest-ranking cardinals undercut the efforts and hastened Viganò’s exile to the United States.

Viganò’s plight and other unflattering machinations would soon become public in an unprecedented leak of the pontiff’s personal correspondence. Much of the media — and the Vatican — focused on the sour

An Islamist militia linked to the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi and kicked out of the city by locals is back openly manning checkpoints and building up support promising much-needed security.

Heavily bearded youths from Ansar al-Sharia control the western entrance into Libya's second biggest metropolis, patrol a hospital and check cars and trucks passing through another checkpoint i

Under the cloak of a small increase in school funding, the budget pushes for the dramatic expansion of charter schools. At the same time, it funnels money extracted from the populace into the pockets of Wall Street, in the form of debt payments.
The new budget restores little, if any, of the billions of dollars that have been stripped from public education. The K-12 system, which has been cut by

Father Gabriel Amorth, 86, who has carried out more than 70,000 exorcisms in a career spanning 25 years after being appointed by the late Pope John Paul II, said: "Pope Benedict has done many things for exorcists.

"He has allowed them within the catechism of the Catholic Church, consenting them to administer the sacrament of exorcism to people suffering from demonic possession.

"But not onl

This is not the first time Israel has hidden information related to the whereabouts and conditions of prisoners. Consider, for example, reports of the three Iranian diplomats kidnapped by the Lebanese Forces during the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982, who were reportedly moved to prisons in occupied Palestine.

Then consider the case of Lebanese prisoner Yahya Skaf. In addition to a wealth

In the London borough of Camden, 2816 men, women and children – 761 households in all – are about to be kicked out of their homes if they cannot find an extra £90 a week for rent.

No-one says they are bad tenants. These families are simply among the victims of the Coalition's benefits cap.

Camden's council says the households will have to be "relocated" up to 200 miles away, where rents are

Spain just can’t catch a break—a horrid economy with dizzying unemployment, collapsing banks, and a prime minister along with the ruling party tarred by corruption. Now a political espionage scandal blew up, scattering debris and money laundering allegations far and wide.

Unemployment in Spain was 26% in December, youth unemployment 55%. GDP last quarter dropped for the fifth month in a row (-

Concerns are starting to re-emerge in the euro zone.
Today's fourth-quarter GDP results out of the currency bloc were worse than expected, confirming fears that the pace of contraction in the euro-zone economy is accelerating.

These disappointing growth figures are tied directly to the biggest problem that the eurozone now must face – staggering levels of youth unemployment across the region.

Unveiling the plans for an FTT backed by 11 EU countries, Taxation Commissioner Algirdas Semeta said that it was a "fair, technically sound and legally robust tax."

The proposal puts a 0.1 percent levy on bonds and shares and 0.01 percent on derivative products. Measures have also been put in place to prevent traders from circumventing the system by operating from outside the EU-11.

The use

Henry VI was executed on the order of King Edward IV and his council. Richard, then Duke of Gloucester, was a member of that council and, as constable of England, probably delivered the order to the constable of the tower. One contemporary source put Richard at the Tower of London on the night of the execution, along with many others, but there is no evidence that Richard played any personal role

“Some days we are fighters; others we are archaeologists,” Jihad Abu Saoud, a 27-year-old rebel from the Syrian city of Idlib, said in an interview in this northern Jordanian city. Saoud claimed to have recently uncovered tablets from the Bronze Age city of Ebla inscribed in the Sumerian script.

Since the onset of the conflict in Syria, the international community has expressed alarm over the

In truth, the youth wage subsidy has failed in the US, the UK, Turkey, Denmark and many other countries. The International Labour Organisation exposed the scheme as having dead weight and a substitution (displacement) effect with a turnover of more than 70% of the older and the existing labour force replaced by cheaper younger workers.

The UK's national treasury, as part of its new deal, dismi

A new study using data from a pair of gravity-measuring NASA satellites finds that large parts of the arid Middle East region lost freshwater reserves rapidly during the past decade.

The program was designed to place detainee interrogations beyond the reach of law. Suspected terrorists were seized and secretly flown across national borders to be interrogated by foreign governments that used torture, or by the CIA itself in clandestine “black sites” using torture techniques.