
Saturday 11 July, 2009
Chinese authorities banned prayer gatherings at mosques here on Friday, the principal day of prayer for Muslims....Saturday 11 July, 2009
Iraq’s Kurdish leaders are pushing ahead with a new constitution for their semi-autonomous region...Saturday 11 July, 2009
Chairman of US Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mike Mullen has said the al-Qaeda leadership resides...Saturday 11 July, 2009
The Guardian has done the unthinkable: put a leash on one of Rupert Murdoch’s most ferocious hounds...Saturday 11 July, 2009
North Korea has delayed sending two convicted US journalists to a prison labour camp in a possible attempt...Saturday 11 July, 2009
Spot the odd one out: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Xinjiang.Saturday 11 July, 2009
Quantification was a word Robert McNamara loved. Numbers could express almost any human activity.Saturday 11 July, 2009
The announcement came as a humble blog post on Google's corporate website late on July 7th, but it heralds what could be a dramatic...
Friday 10 July, 2009
Security forces began clashing with protesters shortly after they began massing in the streets of Tehran on Thursday evening, as an initially festive demonstration quickly turned grim, witnesses saidFriday 10 July, 2009
Pakistan on Thursday said the objectives of the anti-Taliban operation in the Swat valley had been “achieved” and the...Friday 10 July, 2009
Attacks in Baghdad and a city in northern Iraq killed at least 41 people and wounded dozens more on Thursday, the worst violence since Iraq celebrated...Friday 10 July, 2009
An explosion outside a school south of the Afghan capital on Thursday killed at least 25 people, including 15 students, officials said, the worst toll from a single blast in a year.Friday 10 July, 2009
Chinese President Hu Jintao, forced to abandon a G-8 summit in Italy by ethnic violence in restive Xinjiang, said that maintaining...Friday 10 July, 2009
Britain’s most senior policeman ordered an inquiry on Thursday into reports that journalists at Rupert Murdoch’s bestselling...Friday 10 July, 2009
US President Barack Obama took a subtle swipe at Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi at the G-8 by praising the leader of the state for his “integrity”. Obama praised President Giorgio Napolitano, saying that he enjoyed the “admiration of the Italian people”.Friday 10 July, 2009
Given its history of financial meltdown and subsequent recovery, Sweden, which assumed the presidency of the European Union on July 1st, is the ideal country to orchestrate the reform of Europe’s financial landscape.