Billions of dollars are streaming into the Swiss-based organisation from broadcasting rights, advertising revenue, and ticket and hospitality sales, but have the fans been left high and dry?
[caption id="attachment_55234614" align="aligncenter" width="620"] 15th February 1955: A twelve-year-old Sea Cadet trying out a new Sterling Sub-Machine Gun, the weapon at the center of James…
[caption id="attachment_55234515" align="alignnone" width="620"] An Iraqi oil worker works at Al-Doura oil refinery [/caption]Iraq could become the second-largest oil exporter in the world by the…
[caption id="attachment_55234316" align="alignleft" width="620"] The outlook for Saudi Arabia's Economy is favourable[/caption]Barclays’ Capital (BarCap) has recently released projections that Saudi…
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[caption id="attachment_55233662" align="aligncenter" width="620"] An investor watches his stocks at a securities exchange in Shanghai on August 22, 2012. Chinese shares were down 0.34 percent in…
[caption id="attachment_55233273" align="aligncenter" width="620"] An armed National Transitional Council (NTC) fighter provides security inside the Zawiya Oil Refinery, some 40 km west of Tripoli,…
[caption id="attachment_55232601" align="aligncenter" width="620"] Riyadh by night - Saudi's economy must diversify to sustain itself in the long term[/caption]Saudi Arabia’s role as a leading…
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From Hitler and Mussolini to South American dictators, world leaders have long seen in football's biggest tournament an opportunity to further an agenda
From 3D players to data-transmitting balls, the sport's biggest tournament is awash with technology to help with everything from offside decisions to viewer angles, but does this come at a cost?
Netanyahu continues to defy calls from Washington to pump the brakes on Israel's offensive in Lebanon, something Iran has linked to a future peace deal
While it could be tied to military calculations related to the current US-Iran war, it also reflects a deeper struggle between two opposing regional visions