By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard UK Telegraph Senior advisers to Chancellor Angela Merkel are pushing for better-off households to pay towards the cost of any future bail-outs for the weaker members of the single currency. The proposals,… more »

Travel and Leisure magazine just recently released its annual listing of the world's most dangerous countries. But while the travel and lifestyle magazine largely focuses on the simple fact of how dangerous a particular country is  and those dangers th… more »

The Sideshow By Eric Pfeiffer | A mysterious light seen over several countries in the Middle East on Thursday night has been confirmed by multiple sources as a Russian intercontinental ballistic missile test. There had been speculation that the st… more »

BBC An Arab and Western-backed resolution condemning the violent crackdown in Syria has been vetoed at the UN Security Council by Russia and China. They rejected the draft as "unbalanced" hours after activists accused troops of killing at least 55 pe… more »

The Lookout By Liz Goodwin Pay Pal founder and early Facebook investor Peter Thiel has given $1.25 million to an initiative to create floating libertarian countries in international waters, according to a profile of the billionaire in Details magaz… more »