British authorities try to quell damaging financial rumors
iht.com - 20/03/2008

LONDON - In a rare move to calm investors' nerves, British financial authorities stepped forward on Wednesday to quench a string of "unfounded rumors" that had sent some financial stocks in London into a tailspin.

Will the fat cats suffer?
dailymail.co.uk by Max Hastings - 19/03/2008

LONDON - Will the fat cats who've got us into this financial mess suffer? You bet they won't . . . But WE will.

Risk seen in letting the dollar fall too far
reuters.com By Nick Olivari and Vivianne Rodrigues - 19/03/2008

NEW YORK - The dollar's relentless decline may increase the dangers facing the U.S. economy, with the potential for risk-averse investors to stop funding the U.S. current account deficit.

CDS market adds to risks that banks will fail
reuters.com By Jane Baird - Analysis - 19/03/2008

LONDON - The $45 trillion credit derivatives market, created as a way for banks to hedge their lending, is now also contributing to the risks that banks will fail. The rise of the market over the past 15 years, however, also makes it crucial that a big bank not be allowed to go down.

Financial crises: Lessons from history
BBC By Steve Schifferes - 19/03/2008

INTERNATIONAL - The current market jitters are centred on disturbances in the world's credit markets. Worries about the viability of sub-prime mortgage lending have spread around the financial system, and the central banks have been forced to pump in billions of dollars to oil the wheels of lending.

TB killed 1.7 million globally in 2006, WHO says
reuters.com - 19/03/2008

WASHINGTON, - The rate of tuberculosis incidence fell slightly worldwide for a second straight year in 2006, but there were still 9.2 million new cases and the disease killed 1.7 million people, the U.N. health agency said on Monday,

Panel alleges Nigeria corruption
BBC - 19/03/2008

NIGERIA - The government of former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo paid $50m (£25m) to non-existent companies, a parliamentary panel alleges.

Iraq war shows limits of US power
BBC by John Simpson - 19/03/2008

USA - It has lasted almost as long as World War II and cost almost as much. Only one of its original aims, the overthrow of Saddam Hussein, has been achieved.

Scottish chickens on 1,000-mile round trip
dailymail.co.uk - 19/03/2008

UK - Tesco came under attack from green campaigners last night after it was revealed that its "local" chicken goes on a 1,000-mile round trip before being put on sale. Britain's biggest supermarket sends Scottish chickens 499 miles south to Essex to be packaged, then returns them to Scotland.

Cost of essentials soars 40 per cent
dailymail.co.uk - 19/03/2008

UK - Families will have to spend an extra £572 a year as cost of essentials soars 40 per cent

How the decline of marriage is destroying our pupils
dailymail.co.uk - 19/03/2008

UK - The decline of marriage is leading to widespread underachievement and indiscipline in schools, teachers warned yesterday.

Wen: China worried about US financial woes
chinadaily.com.cn - 18/03/2008

CHINA - Beijing is very much worried about the potential global economic fallout from the US subprime crisis and expanding financial woes, which could make China's job of balancing growth and fighting inflation more difficult, Premier Wen Jiabao said on Tuesday in Beijing.

Merkel: A nuclear Iran would have terrible consequences
jpost.com - 18/03/2008

ISRAEL - "If Iran were to obtain nuclear weapons, it would have disastrous consequences," German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Tuesday in a special address to the Knesset. "We have to prevent this."

US Fed votes to cut interest rates by 0.75%
business.timesonline.co.uk - 18/03/2008

USA - America's Federal Reserve has voted to cut interest rates by 0.75 per cent, below an expected 1 per cent reduction, but admitted it will take further action if the fragile economic climate worsens.

Experiment's with Aspartame
mercola.com - 18/03/2008

USA - Victoria Inness-Brown's family was addicted to diet soda. After researching the effects of aspartame, she strongly believed the artificial sweetener might one day lead to their illness or even their early deaths.

“Just what is an APOSTLE?”
Just what is an Apostle?

Today we find the Church of God in a “wilderness of religious confusion!”

The confusion is not merely around the Church – within the religions of the world outside – but WITHIN the very heart of The True Church itself!

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Listen to Me, You who know righteousness, You people in whose heart is My Law: …I have put My words in your mouth, I have covered you with the shadow of My hand, That I may plant the heavens, Lay the foundations of the earth, and say to Zion, “you are My people” (Isaiah 51:7,16)