

Wednesday 4 November '09
The year 1989 was a turning point for Europe and for the world, a time when history went into high gear. This acceleration was symbolised by the fall...Wednesday 4 November '09
Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai, in his first speech since he was declared the winner of the disputed presidential election, said on Tuesday...Tuesday
3 November '09Afghan officials on Monday cancelled plans for a runoff vote, declaring President Hamid Karzai the winner after the withdrawal on Sunday of rival Abdullah Abdullah.Tuesday
3 November '09In what may seem a media business version of the Stockholm syndrome, television network executives have fallen in love with a former tormentor: the digital video recorder.Monday
2 November '09More and more lately, I find people asking me: What do you think President Obama really believes about this or that issue? I find that odd.Sunday
1 November '09A new examination of skulls from the royal cemetery at Ur, discovered in Iraq almost a century ago, appears to support a...Saturday
31 October '09US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, on a visit meant to improve relations with Pakistan, strongly suggested that some Pakistani officials...Saturday
31 October '09Pakistani forces pushing toward a lair of hardcore Taliban fighters found documents this week linked to a member of the Hamburg...Saturday
31 October '09Iran told the United Nations nuclear watchdog on Thursday that it would not accept a plan its negotiators agreed to last week to send...Friday
30 October '09Ending the longest contraction since World War II, the US finally grew in the third quarter of this year, the Commerce Department said on Thursday....Friday
30 October '09Iran has made an initial response to the United Nations nuclear watchdog on a plan to send the country’s uranium abroad for processing, but neither the agency nor Iran made the response public....Friday
30 October '09US President Barack Obama travelled to Dover Air Force Base in Delaware early Thursday morning to pay his respects as the bodies of 18 American troops killed this week in Afghanistan returned home....Friday
30 October '09Is Obama finally willing to let women in on the games?Thursday
29 October '09America must shrink its presence in AfghanistanThursday
29 October '09Wednesday
28 October '09Earlier this month, a sodden and unshaven man emerged from the woods near the southern Russian village of Goryachy Klyuch, telling rescuers...Wednesday
28 October '09Money does not always buy happiness or success in the NBA, but the right transaction can occasionally deliver a slice of nirvana.Tuesday
27 October '09The heavy clay-laced mud behind the cattle pen on Antoine Renault’s farm looks as treacherous as it must have been nearly...Tuesday
27 October '09All the students at Luolang Elementary School in southern China, know the key rules: Do not run in the halls.Tuesday
27 October '09Congress and the Obama administration are about to take up one of the most fundamental issues stemming from the near...Tuesday
27 October '09By the looks of it, the ceremony that unfolded last week inside the Presidential Palace in Kabul was marking a joyous, even triumphant, occasion.Tuesday
27 October '09Soon after polls closed in regional elections this month, a blogger called Uborshizzza huddled away in his Moscow apartment began...Tuesday
27 October '09When McDonald’s France announced a plan to open a restaurant in the commercial mall under the Louvre, the scene appeared to be set...Monday
26 October '09A Church janitor was arrested on Saturday in the killing of a Catholic priest, whose body was found in his rectory in New Jersey with 32 knife wounds.Monday
26 October '09Trevor Graham sat in a memento-filled den in his basement culling through files that traced his own disgrace.