OPEC is desperately trying to maintain a steady flow of oil. December 14, 2011- OPEC ministers were close to making a decision to maintain oil production at the steady rate it currently is producing. They were also trying to mend the vast differences between Iran and Saudi Arabia that led to the previous meetings collapsing last June. De facto leader of OPEC and Saudi oil minister Ali Naimi said before Wednesday’s meeting that, “There will be an agreement made.” OPEC has been outputting over... 

Former Panamanian president Manuel Noriega is headed back to Panama. December 11, 2011- After decades away serving prison sentences in the United States and France, Manuel Noriega will return Sunday to Panama. Nevertheless, he is still not a free man, as he will begin a 20-year prison term in his own country for the murders he committed while a military dictator during the 1980s. Noriega is 77 today but was just in his mid 50s when his dictatorship was toppled by the U.S. in 1989. He was convicted...