The leaders of Asian, African and Latin American countries took part in the 14th summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) and the 7th BRICS summit that took place in the Russian city of Ufa on July 8-10, 2015. The BRICS summit, most importantly, resulted in the decision to launch […]

Payday Lenders have become the scapegoat for the UK economy’s effect on our standard of living. The newspapers, radio, and parliament have been up in arms about the ‘legal loan sharks’ and their exploitation of the poor. The problem with these sentiments is that they do not represent that of those […]

It’s that time of year that everyone hates… The hype of Christmas and new year are out the way and our bank balances have felt the pinch. For most of us a month pay has had to stretch from before christmas to the end of January which is a very […]

Busy agencies hiring seasonal workers for the UK’s farms invite many Eastern Europeans every year and in full contrast to the domestic low interest in agriculture, the allowance of 21, 250 places for seasonal workers is never spared. But essentially UK fails to grasp its heavy dependence on citizens from […]

A one-year food import ban decree signed on August 6, 2014, by Vladimir Putin, the President of the Russian Federation, caused massive backlash among the European farmers, as well as foreign politicians and analysts. The decree bans the import of certain foods, such as beef, pork, poultry and chicken, fruit, […]

The creation of the New Development Bank (NDB) became one of the most debated outcomes of the 6th BRICS summit which took place in the Brazilian city of Fortaleza on July 15–17. According to the declaration signed on the first day of the summit, the capital of the BRICS’ new […]

The new cabinet of Egypt headed by Prime Minister Ibrahim Mahlab took the oath of office on June 17 after Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, former Minister of Defense who organized the 2013 coup d’état, became the next President after the election which took place on May 26-28. The country’s new leader […]

In the fourth quarter of 2013, car insurance prices were reported to have dropped by as much as 12.5% annually with a 7.5% drop for third party insurance as well. This welcome news comes at a time when the financial times is reporting that the car insurance companies price “war” […]