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You can't keep the rich down for long. Global wealth made a remarkable comeback in 2009, increasing by 11.5% to $111.5 trillion. That's according to a new report, The Boston Consulting Group's Global Wealth 2010 Report, released Thursday by Boston Consulting Group. The report breaks down wealth by region and by country, creating a geographic portrait of where the world's wealth is accumulating and at what rate.

Helen Thomas, the veteran journalist and dean of the White House Press Corp, abruptly retired on Monday in the wake of a comment she made following the Israeli raid on the Turkish Flotilla in international waters that killed nine activists, including an American citizen. During a conversation that was videotaped, the interviewer asked Ms. Thomas to make a comment about the Israeli raid. She responded by saying, "Tell them to get the hell out of Palestine. Remember, [Palestinians] are occupied and it's their land.

Letter allegedly says: 'You have 180 days left to live.'

Rihanna may have raved about her "amazing" trip to Israel several days ago, but most of the rest of the world, and namely Europe, isn't as impressed with the Jewish state.

Most EU governments and their citizens seem to have united in their criticism of Israel's raid on the "Freedom Flotilla" that had aimed to bring humanitarian aid to Gaza.

It's happening again.

The same forces - with a few new additions and minus a few smart defectors - who pushed the United States into a needless and deadly war with Iraq are now organizing for the next war.

This time the target is Iran, which, just like Iraq, is said to be on the verge of creating weapons of mass destruction.

Also, just like Iraq, its president is a supposed madman determined to destroy Israel.

The conjoined Palestinian twins that made the long, difficult journey out of the blockaded Gaza Strip to Saudi Arabia cannot be separated and do not have long to live, the Saudi health minister said Saturday.
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Yesterday evening (late night Israel time), Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced that he would not, after all, be attending next week's Nuclear Security Summit to be hosted by President Obama in Washington, DC.

The Angry Generation in the Mideast

In past weeks, all things I touch lead to Jerusalem. I pick up a random book and find within a map of the Holy City. I drift off to sleep in a guest room of a loving home, the last image before I lose consciousness is of a child's Torah. A reader pulls me aside from a throng, unclasping her gold bracelet bought in Bethlehem to reveal the Shema, in Arabic. Signing a book, my gaze falls upon a complex Russian ring fashioned as King David's Gate. Its cap opens, revealing his Lapis Lazuli shield.

To harness power, one must first acknowledge power. To some people, the ubiquitous cell phone is still 'just' a phone.

To others, it is so much more. It is the world in the palm of their hand - literally.

But challenges lie ahead. As cell phones have become an integral part of people's lives, the quality of their lives is changing. Sometimes for better; sometimes for worse. Sometimes without even realizing it.