In an utterly unexpected election outcome, the people of Sri Lanka have decisively rejected incumbent President Mahinda Rajapaksa, electing in his place a former associate of the former president, Maithripala Sirisena, who had accused Rajapaksa of corruption and nepotism, and of wanting to establish a dictatorship. Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena Rajapaksa had installed relatives…
As Christmas approaches, we inevitably think of our families and loved ones, and seek to embrace the spirit expressed most beautifully by the angelic host which appeared to shepherds who were living rough, out in the fields, on that first Christmas night. St Luke described how an angel, surrounded by light, suddenly appeared to shepherds…
After years of high oil prices driven by scarcity of oil and fears that oil is running out, the price of crude oil has fallen from about $US115 to less than $US70 a barrel over the past six months, causing a dramatic and welcome fall in the price of petrol at the bowser. Crude oil…
U.S. President Obama and China’s President, Xi Jinping, have been widely praised in the media for signing an agreement in Beijing, on November 11, to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from 2020. President Xi Jinping of China Their agreement comes just weeks before this December’s UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) meeting in Lima, Peru,…
