Those were the days, my friend. In a new commercial for the South African restaurant chain Nando's, Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe is spending a l...

BUCHAREST, Romania — The mystery of where former Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife Elena were buried moved closer to resolution W...

Nicolae Ceausescu today is the iconic example of the arrogance of power brought to an end by the will of the people.

I recently found myself involved in a discussion with a 20-year-old friend about how striptease could be an empowering experience for a woman and how it could also be completely free of sexual content.

A man wearing civilian clothes was firing a Kalashnikov right next to us, aiming up at a building. We were herded again to another position and we ran, jumping over pools of blood.

Outside of Yugoslavia, I think Romania in the 60's was among the luckier of the countries in the communist world. But unlike Yugoslavians, we were not free to travel or express ourselves so openly.

The damaged caused over decades in communist and post-communist Romania has left scars still visible today, evident in the lack of self-respect, trust and hope among the people.