Americas • Business

GSU Forecaster: Global Uncertainty to Dampen Georgia Recovery

by Trevor Williams | May 24, 2013 Georgia's slowing export growth is indicative of a sluggish global economy that will dampen the state's job creation figures for the rest of the year, according to a Georgia State University economic forecaster.  More
Europe • Culture

Tomorrow: Bid on a Four-Ton Piece of the Berlin Wall

by Trevor Williams | May 24, 2013 Check eBay, and you can find many small fragments purportedly from the Berlin Wall, which came down in 1989, reuniting Germany and signaling the fall of the Soviet Union.  More
Americas • Education

Atlanta and Warm Springs to Host Haitian Youths With Disabilities

by Phil Bolton | May 24, 2013 Twelve Haitian youths with varying disabilities are to arrive in Atlanta the evening of May 24 under a U.S. State Department cultural and sports exchange program overseen by BlazaSports America. More
Americas • Culture

Jamaican Mayor Visits Atlanta

by Trevor Williams | May 24, 2013 A delegation including the mayor of Montego Bay, Jamaica, was in Atlanta this week, learning from the city's fire department and seeking other ways to heat up its longstanding sister-city ties.  More
Africa • Economic Development

Survivor of Burundian Holocaust Receives Emory Honorary Degree

by Phil Bolton | May 23, 2013 U.S. aid agencies must be focused in their overseas development work on supporting highly localized family and community initiatives, Marguerite “Maggy” Barankitse said during a UNICEF meeting in Atlanta May 15. She said that they also must be wary of the misappropriation of funds by politicians, whom she mistrusts and often publicly denounces. More