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On August 5th, the Romanian gymnast Sandra Izbaşa won the Women’s Vault Final at the London Olympics 2012 (Bogdan Maran/BPA Images ) Year in, year out, they train up for to 12 hours a day, they run, they jump, they backflip. And the better they do it, the closer they […]

Bulgarian universities are failing to respond to the needs of companies which means that graduates are unequipped to deal with the rigors of an already tight labor market.

On 23 June 2012, Papua New Guinea voters, including 87% from rural districts, began the difficult travail (on average a two hour walk across rugged mountains and dense rainforest) to confirm their vote for Papua New Guinea’s political future. One significant item on the electoral agenda is the vital need to restructure […]

    Africa Village brings diverse African culture to London this summer. The world converges in London this year, with the Olympics acting as an extraordinary inter-cultural extravaganza. In parallel with the Olympics, a rally of cultures runs through the city. Despite heading to London to cheer on their countries, […]

  “Do the Olympics highlight “free and fair” competition, or is it just one more scene in which the developing world’s disadvantages are starkly visible?” This is the question that was on my mind when I watched the Olympic Procession on July 28. Olympiads clad in colorful regalia pranced and […]