@charset "utf-8";
/* CSS Document */

@font-face {
    font-family: 'sourcesans';
    src: url('http://www.mercatornet.com/fonts/sourcesanspro-bold-webfont.eot');
    src: url('http://www.mercatornet.com/fonts/sourcesanspro-bold-webfont.eot?#iefix') format('embedded-opentype'),
         url('http://www.mercatornet.com/fonts/sourcesanspro-bold-webfont.woff2') format('woff2'),
         url('http://www.mercatornet.com/fonts/sourcesanspro-bold-webfont.woff') format('woff'),
         url('http://www.mercatornet.com/fonts/sourcesanspro-bold-webfont.ttf') format('truetype'),
         url('http://www.mercatornet.com/fonts/sourcesanspro-bold-webfont.svg#source_sans_probold') format('svg');
    font-weight: normal;
    font-style: normal;
}

a {
	text-decoration: none;
}

a:hover {
	text-decoration: underline;
}

/*blockquote{
background-image:url(http://www.mercatornet.com/images/stories/bg-block.jpg);
width:505px;
padding-left:30px;
padding-right:10px;
padding-top:10px;
padding-bottom:10px;
margin:0px; 
font-style:italic;
}*/

.article p{
	margin-top: 0em;
  margin-bottom: 1em;        
}

/*--------------------------New Menu Start----------------------------------------*/ 
.mainbody{ /*----This is opsonal Class----------------------*/ 
 width:100%;
 padding:0;
 margin:auto;
 position:relative;
 }
 
 /*--------------------------2.Top MENU ----------------------------------------*/ 
 
.topmenu_bg{
width:1000px;
height:31px;
font:bold 11px Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
color:#000;
}


#sddm
{	margin: 0 0 0 15px;
	padding-left: 30px;
	z-index: 30;
}

#sddm li
{	margin: 0;
	padding: 0;
	list-style: none;
	float: left;
	font:normal 11px Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	}

#sddm li a
{	display: block;
	margin: 4px 1px 0 0;
	padding: 6px 6px;
	background: none;
	color:#000;
	text-align: center;
	text-decoration: none}

#sddm li a:hover
{	background:none;
	color:#005a80;
opacity: 0.8;
}

#sddm div
{	position: absolute;
	visibility: hidden;
	margin: 0;
	padding: 0;
	background: #a0e6f2;
	}

	#sddm div a
	{	position: relative;
		display: block;
		margin: 0;
margin-left:-10px;
		padding: 5px 30px 5px 15px;
		width: auto;
		white-space: nowrap;
		text-align: left;
		text-decoration: none;
		background: #005a80;
		color:#fff;
		font: normal 11px  Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
		}

	#sddm div a:hover
	{	background: #fff;
		color: #000;
opacity: 0.8;
}
 /*--------------------------2.banner ----------------------------------------*/ 
 
 .topbanner{
 width:1000px;
 height:120px;
margin:auto;
 }
 /*--------------------------Submenu----------------------------------------*/ 
 
 .submenu_bg{
width:1000px;
height:auto;
font: normal 11px Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
color:#000;
}
.submenu_bg a{
color:#000;
text-decoration:none;
}

.subsearch{
font: normal 12px Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
color:#000;
padding: 0 20px;
}

.subsearch_fil{
border:1px solid #fff;
height:18px;
}
/*--------------------------New Menu End----------------------------------------*/ 

.chromestyle{
width: 100%;
font-weight: normal;
font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size:11px;
color:#fff;

}


.header-container {
	width:100%;
	height:auto;
	background-color:#2371b9;
}

.container {
	max-width: 1050px;
width: 100%;
margin: 0 auto;
padding-top: 20px;
}

.body-container {
max-width: 1050px;
width: 100%;
margin: 0 auto;
padding-top: 0px;
}

.logo {
	width:100%;
	max-width:430px;
	height:auto;
	margin-top:-1px;
}


.clearfix {
	clear:both;
}

.page-lable {
	line-height:15px;
	font-family:"Trebuchet MS", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	font-weight:200;
	margin-top:3px;
	letter-spacing:2px;
	text-align:right;
	text-transform:uppercase;
}

.color-white {
	color:#FFFFFF;
}

.color-blue {
	color:#00aced;
}

.color-grey {
	color:#AAAAAA;
}

.align-right {
	/*text-align:right;*/
}

.page-tag {
	display:block;
	line-height:15px;
	font-size:14px;
	font-family:"Trebuchet MS", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	text-align:right;
	text-transform:uppercase;
	letter-spacing:2px;
	font-weight:100;
	margin-bottom:10px;
}

.navbar-list {
	display:block;
	list-style:none;
	margin-bottom:0px;
	margin-top:14px;
}

.navbar-list li {
	display:block;
	float:left;
	border-right:solid 1px #FFFFFF;
	font-weight:normal;
	line-height:16px;
	font-size:12px;
	letter-spacing:0px;
        margin-bottom:0;
}

.navbar-list li a {
	display:block;
	padding:0px 7px;
	color:#FFF;
	text-decoration:none;
}

.navbar-list li a:hover {
	text-decoration:underline;
	opacity:0.6;
}

.navbar-list li:first-child a {
	padding-left:0;
}

.navbar-list li:last-child {
	border:none;
}

.search-field {
	width:50%;
	float:right;
	margin-left:15px;
}

.sb {
	float:right;
	border:none;
	width:5%;
	background:none;
	color:#FFF;
	margin-right:6px;
        margin-left:5px;
}

.searchform {
	/*margin-top:-8px;*/
        display:inline;
	margin-top:4px;
	margin-bottom:0px;
	float:right;
}

.right {
	float:right;
}

.space {
	height:15px;
}

.space2 {
	height:4px;
}

.list-head {
	font:bold 14px arial, sans-serif;
	margin-bottom:0;
	margin-top:10px;
}

.list-brief {
	font:normal 13px/15px Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	margin:0;
	margin-top:15px;
}

.browsing-list {
	color:#000;
	text-decoration:none;
}

.list-img {
	width:100%;
	display:block;
	background-color:#FF0000;
	text-align:center;
}

.list-img img {
	width:100%;
}

.content-head {
	/*font: lighter 24px/32px arial, sans-serif;
	margin:0;
	padding: 0;
	text-align: left;*/
        font-family:'sourcesans';
	font-size:40px;
	margin:0;
}

.content-date {
	font-size:25px;
	margin:0;
	text-transform:uppercase;
}

.content-print-cell {
	width:100%;
	height:auto;
	border-bottom:dotted 1px #aaa;
	border-top:dotted 1px #9F9F9F;
	margin-top:20px;
	padding:5px 0;
}

.content-author {
	font-size:14px;
	line-height:30px;
	text-transform:uppercase;
}

.content-links {
	display:block;
	margin:4px 0 0 0;
	padding:0;
}

.content-links li {
	list-style:none;
	float:left;
	margin:0 0;
	cursor:pointer;
}

.face-color {
	color:#3e59b2;
}

.tweet-color {
	color:#03b9fb;
}

.google-color {
	color:#c03f2a;
}

.digg-color {
	color:#336596;
}

.linked-color {
	color:#04798d;
}

.share-color {
	color:#04c603;
}

.content-img {
	width:100%;
	height:auto;
	margin:40px 0;
}

.content-img img {
	width:100%;
	height:auto;
}

.content-para {
	font-size: 16px;
	line-height: 24px;
	color:#464646;
	margin:20px 0 30px 0;
	font-weight:200;
	font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	text-align:justify;
}

.content-para p{
	font-size: 18px;
	line-height: 24px;
}

.para-head {
	font-size:14px;
	font-weight:bold;
	color:#474747;
	letter-spacing:1px;
}

.more-topics {
	width:98%;
	height:auto;
	margin:20px 0px;
	background-color:#f4f2f3;
	padding-left:2%;padding-top:10px;padding-right:2%;padding-bottom:2%;
	line-height:20px;
        text-align:left;
        vertical-align:middle;
}

.more-topics a {
	text-decoration:none;
	color:#000;
	font-weight:bold;
	font-size:13px;
}

.content-rights {
	border:solid 4px #e1e1e1;
	/*background:#f4f2f3;*/
        padding:10px;
}

.rights-text {
	width:100%;
	height:auto;	
	font:normal 13px/16px Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	text-align:justify;
        margin:0 0 0 0;
}

.comment-closed {
	background-color:#888687;
	color:#FFFFFF;
	font-size:13px;
	padding:15px;
	margin:20px 0;
}

.comment-head {
	height:auto;
	border-bottom:solid 2px #aaa;
	margin-bottom:10px;
}

.comment-head a {
	height:30px;
	margin-right:40px;
	text-decoration:none;
	color:#878586;
	line-height:40px;
}

.comment-head a.active, .comment-head a:hover {
	border-bottom:solid 2px #069;
}

.comment-head span {
	float:right;
}

.comment-head2 span {
	margin-right:20px;
}

.comment-head2 span.sort {
	float:right;
}

.comments-container {
	margin-bottom:30px;
}

.comments {
	
}

.comment-thumb {
	width:64px;
	height:64px;
	float:left;
}

.comment-thumb img {
	width:100%;
	height:auto;
	border:solid 1px #CCCCCC;
}

.comment-content {
	width:90%;
	float:right;
}

.comment-content p {
	padding:0;
	margin:0;
	color:#3e4648;
}

.comment-content p.comcon {
	font-size:12px;
	line-height:15px;
	margin-top:10px;
}

.load-comments {
	background-color:#888687;
	text-align:center;
	padding:10px 0;
	color:#FFFFFF;
	font-family:"Trebuchet MS", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	font-size:14px;
	margin-bottom:30px;
}

.load-comments a, .backTotop a {
	display:block;
	text-decoration:none;
	color:#FFF;
}

.backTotop {
	background-color:#2371b8;
	text-align:center;
	padding:10px 0;
	color:#FFFFFF;
	font-family:"Trebuchet MS", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	font-size:14px;
	margin-bottom:30px;
	text-transform:uppercase;
	letter-spacing:1px;
}

.backTotop:hover {
	background-color:#0099FF;
}

.component-box {
	width:93%;
	height:auto;
	margin:0 auto;
	border:solid 4px #e1e1e1;
	padding:2%;
	font-size:12px;
	margin-bottom:30px;
	/*background-color:#ffffff;*/
}

.component-box p {
	display:block;
	text-align:justify;
        margin-bottom:0;
        font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	font-size: 14px;
        line-height: 20px;
}

.component-box .text-center {
	text-align:center;
	font-size:15px;
	font-weight:700;
	padding-top:25px;
        padding-bottom:10px;
}

.component-box form {
	width:80%;
	margin:0 auto;
	padding-bottom:15px;
}

.component-box form input {
	width:100%;
	height:30px;
	line-height:30px;
}

.component-box form .sub-btn {
	background-color:#2371b9;
	color:#fff;
}

.most-read-head {
	text-align:center;
}

.most-read-list {
	list-style-type: decimal;
	margin-bottom:0;
	
}

.most-read-list li {
	font-size:14px;
	border-bottom:solid 1px #d2d2d2;
	color:#00aced;
	margin:0;
	/*line-height:25px;*/
    padding-top:5px;
}

.most-read-list li:last-child {
	border:none;
}
.most-read-list li:first-child {
	padding-top:0px;
}
.most-read-list li a {
	text-decoration:none;
}

.social {
	margin-right:4px;
}

#signup {
	width:55%;
	float:left;
	margin:0;
	margin-right:5%;
}

#signup_sub {
	width:40%;
	float:left;
}

#form2 {
	padding:0;
	margin:0;
}
#conditions1 {
	clear: both;
	font-size: 12px;
}
blockquote{
background-image:url(http://www.mercatornet.com/images/stories/bg-block3.jpg);
width:auto;
padding-left:20px;
padding-right:5px;
padding-top:20px;
padding-bottom:5px;
margin-top: 0em;
margin-bottom: 1em;
margin-left: 0em;
margin-right: 0em;
font-style:italic;
}

blockquote p{
margin-top: 0em;
margin-bottom: 1em;
margin-left: 0em;
margin-right: 0em;
}

.footLink {
	color: #000;
	text-decoration: none;
        font-weight: normal;
}

.footLink:hover {
	color: #444444;
        background-color: #e1e1e1;
	text-decoration: underline;
}


/****************** NEW SLIDER THEME ************************/

.wrapper {
	/*margin:0 60px;*/
        margin:0 0;
}

.owl-theme .owl-controls{
	margin-top: 10px;
	text-align: center;
}

/* Styling Next and Prev buttons */

.owl-theme .owl-controls .owl-buttons div{
	color: #FFF;
	display: inline-block;
	zoom: 1;
	*display: inline;/*IE7 life-saver */
	margin: 5px;
	padding: 3px 10px;
	background: #869791;
}
/* Clickable class fix problem with hover on touch devices */
/* Use it for non-touch hover action */
.owl-theme .owl-controls.clickable .owl-buttons div:hover{
	text-decoration: none;
}

/* Styling Pagination*/

.owl-theme .owl-controls .owl-page{
	display: inline-block;
	zoom: 1;
	*display: inline;/*IE7 life-saver */
}
.owl-theme .owl-controls .owl-page span{
	display: block;
	width: 12px;
	height: 12px;
	margin: 5px 7px;
	background: #869791;
}

.owl-theme .owl-controls .owl-page.active span,
.owl-theme .owl-controls.clickable .owl-page:hover span{

}

/* If PaginationNumbers is true */

.owl-theme .owl-controls .owl-page span.owl-numbers{
	height: auto;
	width: auto;
	color: #FFF;
	padding: 2px 10px;
	font-size: 12px;
}

/* preloading images */
.owl-item.loading{
	min-height: 150px;
	background: url(../images/AjaxLoader.gif) no-repeat center center;
}

#owl-demo .owl-item > div img {
    display: block;
    width: 100%;
    height: auto;
    margin-bottom:4px;
}

#owl-demo .owl-item > div{
  margin:3px;
  border:1px white;
}

.wrapper-with-margin{
  margin:0px 50px;
}

 
.owl-theme .owl-controls .owl-buttons div {
  position: absolute;
}
 
.owl-theme .owl-controls .owl-buttons .owl-prev{
	width:35px;
	height:71px;
  left: -5px;
  top: 40px;
  border-radius:0;
  -moz-border-radius:0;
  -webkit-border-radius:0;
  background:url(../images/prev.png) no-repeat center center;
}
 
.owl-theme .owl-controls .owl-buttons .owl-next{
	width:35px;
	height:71px;
  right: -5px;
  top: 40px;
   border-radius:0;
  -moz-border-radius:0;
  -webkit-border-radius:0;
  background:url(../images/next.png) no-repeat center center;
}
.authordate {
	font-size: 12px;
	margin-top: 10px;
	font-weight: normal;
	color: #666;
}

.authordate a {
	text-decoration:none;
}

.authordate a:hover {
	text-decoration:none;
}
/************************************ NEW SOCIAL SET **********************************/
.social-cell {
	margin-top:20px;
	margin-bottom:20px;
}

.social-cell a, .social-cell div {
	text-decoration:none;
	float:left;
	width:auto;
	height:34px;
	padding:0px 10px 0px 30px;
}

.social-cell a {
	position:relative;
}

.social-cell a span.icon {
	position:absolute;
	left:-2px;
}

.social-text {
	font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	font-size:11px;
	font-weight:bold;
	color:#FFFFFF;
	font-style:italic;
	text-align:center;
	line-height:34px;
}

.social-text a {
	font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	font-size:11px;
	font-weight:bold;
	color:#FFFFFF;
	font-style:italic;
	text-align:center;
	line-height:34px;
}

.shares {
	background-color:#d3401e;
}

.face {
	background:#3b5999;
}

.face span.icon {
	display:block;
	width:15px;
	height:15px;
	background:url(../images/icon-set-1.png) no-repeat 0px 0px;
	margin-top:9px;
	margin-left:10px;
}

.face:hover {
	color:#3b5999;
	background-color:#FFF;
}

.face:hover span.icon {
	background:url(../images/icon-set-1.png) no-repeat 0px -15px;
}

.tweeter {
	background-color:#4099ff;
}

.tweeter span.icon {
	display:block;
	width:15px;
	height:15px;
	background:url(../images/icon-set-1.png) no-repeat -15px 0px;
	margin-top:9px;
	margin-left:10px;
}

.tweeter:hover {
	color:#4099ff;
	background-color:#FFF;
}

.tweeter:hover span.icon {
	background:url(../images/icon-set-1.png) no-repeat -15px -15px;
}

.social-cell a.share {
	width:50px;
	background-color:#c7d601;
	padding:0;
	height:34px;
}

.social-cell a.share i {
	margin-top:8px;
	padding-bottom:0px;
}

.social-cell a.share:hover {
	color:#c7d601;
	background-color:#FFFFFF;
	border:dotted 1px #c7d601;
	height:32px;
	width:48px;
}

.social-cell a.comment {
	float:right;
	font-style:normal;
	width:100px;
	border-radius:25px;
	-moz-border-radius:25px;
	-webkit-border-radius:25px;
	background-color:#4187bb;
	position:relative;
}

.social-cell a.comment span {
	width:12px;
	height:8px;
	position:absolute;
	top:21px;
	left:50%;
}

.social-cell a.comment:hover {
	color:#FFF;
}


.social-cell a.print {
	width:50px;
	background-color:#FF6600;
	padding:0;
	height:34px;
}

.social-cell a.print i {
	margin-top:5px;
	padding-bottom:0px;
}

.social-cell a.print:hover {
	color:#ff6600;
	background-color:#FFFFFF;
	border:dotted 1px #ff6600;
	height:32px;
	width:48px;
}

.social-cell a.comment2 {
		display:none;
		color:#FFFFFF;
		background-color:#4187bb;
		text-align:center;
	}

.social-cell .nopadding {
	padding:0px;
}

.social-cell .minpadding {
	padding:0px 10px;
}

.social-cell a.newsletter {
	width:auto;
	background-color:#d8352a;
	padding:0 10px;
	height:34px;
}

.social-cell a.newsletter i {
	margin-top:5px;
	padding-bottom:0px;
	font-size:17px;
}

.social-cell a.newsletter:hover {
	color:#FF3300;
	background-color:#FFFFFF;
	border:dotted 1px #d8352a;
	height:34px;
	width:auto;
}

/* Portrait */
@media screen and (max-width: 640px), @media only screen and (max-width: 640px) {
	  
	 .social-cell a, .social-cell div {
		display:block;
		text-decoration:none;
		float:left;
		width:16%;
		height:34px;
		overflow:hidden;
	}
	
	.social-cell a.share {
		width:16%;
	}
	
	.social-cell a.print {
		width:16%;
	}
	
	.social-cell a.comment {
		float:right;
		width:16%;
	}
	
	.social-cell .social-text span.hide {
		display:none;
	}
	
	.face span.icon, .tweeter span.icon {
		text-align:center;
		margin-left:13px;
	}
	
	.social-cell a.comment {
		display:none;
	}
	
	.social-cell a.comment2 {
		display:block;
	}
}


@media print {
  .DONTPrint{ 
  display:none;
  }
#main{ width :100%; float : left; padding: 10px; border:none;}
.article {
	text-align: left;
        margin-top: -20px;
        font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	font-size: 20px;
        width:100%;
}

.article p{
	font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	font-size: 18px;
        line-height: 24px;
}
iframe, embed, iframe {display:none;}

.sumome-smartbar-popup {display:none;}
}