Monday 16 November '09
After five hapless years as the Palestinians’ president, Mahmoud Abbas (also known as Abu Mazen) suddenly declared on November...Monday 16 November '09
On November 8th, a cold and rainy Sunday night, the First Baptist Church of Killeen held a prayer service to commemorate the victims...Monday
16 November '09Since last year, Cambodian and Thai troops have intermittently clashed over a disputed border temple.Monday
16 November '09Ludwig Van Beethoven, in his late period, produced some of the most sublime chamber music ever written. Woody Allen abandoned Russian...Friday
13 November '09If the forthcoming United Nations meeting in Copenhagen truly is a precious chance to save the planet from rising seas and...Friday
13 November '09Environmentalism is a hard corner to fight in Louisiana, a state where oil, gas and chemical companies are big in the economy and politics.Friday
13 November '09Not even six months has elapsed since the protracted war with Tamil Tiger rebels ended in a bloody climax, leading to the Sri Lankan government’s triumph.Friday
13 November '09Murder, dynastic intrigues, espionage and war: 16th-century France and England were not for the fainthearted. Underlying the mayhem...Thursday
12 November '09Despite protestations to the contrary, China needs NATO to fight in Afghanistan....Thursday
12 November '09The European Union is likely to choose weak leaders. It needs strong ones....Thursday
12 November '09More grief for the Rohingyas....Thursday
12 November '09Why conservative in-fighting may matter less than you might think....Wednesday
11 November '09The election is over and it was a charade. A fortnight ago, Western leaders pushed Hamid Karzai, Afghanistan’s president...Wednesday
11 November '09Five months after Obama persuaded most of the Arab world, in a ringing declaration of even-handedness, that he would face down Israel in his quest for a Palestinian state, American policy seems to have run into the sand.Wednesday
11 November '09So was it a referendum or wasn’t it, and if so on whom? On November 3rd the Republicans trounced the Democrats in...Tuesday
10 November '09To Russia's once and possibly future president, Vladimir Putin, the collapse of the Soviet Union-two years after the fall of the...Tuesday
10 November '09Why all the fuss about 1989? Twenty years on, the idea of millions of people yearning for the humdrum joys of daily life in welfare...Tuesday
10 November '09The East German people are now strengthening their unity under the leadership of the party."Monday
9 November '09Of all places it was in divided Berlin in divided Germany in divided Europe that the cold war erupted into an east-west street party,” this newspaper observed 20 years ago....Monday
9 November '09Picture yourself in a smoky café somewhere in the middle of Europe—Prague, say—in late 1989. Sipping muddy coffee sweetened with gritty sugar, served by a sullen waiter at a greasy table, you are discussing the future with friends....Monday
9 November '09The fall of the Berlin Wall was not big news in Russia. Neither was it a surprise. It was a logical consequence of the process that began in Moscow in 1985 when Mikhail Gorbachev came to power....Friday
6 November '09Scaremongering is where defence-planning and politics overlap. Big military exercises in western Russia and Belarus, which finished...Friday
6 November '09Fat, raccoon-faced, and with the severed head of one of his enemies at his feet, Ieyasu Tokugawa, Japan’s mightiest shogun, hardly looks like a heartthrob.Friday
6 November '09The story of Vincent van Gogh’s life is more heartbreaking, and heart-lifting, than the romantic myth that has enshrouded him for decades.Thursday
5 November '09That red wine is not to be paired with seafood is nearly a religious dogma among connoisseurs. Their reason is that the combination usually results in a strong and unpleasant fishy aftertaste.
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