Thursday 19 November, 2009
It was, veterans of economic summitry noted, the kind of idea a French minister would once have floated simply to annoy Gordon Brown.Thursday 19 November, 2009
It is no small feat to compact any people’s history into a single volume. The task is even more difficult with the Arabs, an ancient nation...
Wednesday 18 November, 2009
US President Barack Obama and Chinese President Hu Jintao promised a determined, joint effort to tackle climate change, nuclear disarmament...Wednesday 18 November, 2009
Most women should start regular breast cancer screening at age 50, not 40, say new guidelines released on Monday by an influential group...Wednesday 18 November, 2009
Detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi is ready to cooperate with Myanmar’s ruling junta in lifting foreign sanctions...Wednesday 18 November, 2009
With the issue of triumph over Tamil Tigers likely to dominate the upcoming Presidential elections in Sri Lanka, there appears to be a race between...Wednesday 18 November, 2009
US President Barack Obama’s deep bow to Japan's emperor during the weekend, has sparked a debate that the US commander in chief was groveling to a foreign leader.Wednesday 18 November, 2009
Though Benito Mussolini regarded Adolf Hitler as a “kind man”, he was “jealous” of his power and fame, declassified diaries of the Italian dictator’s mistress have revealed.Wednesday 18 November, 2009
Exercisers trying to cut down on calories might want to take a run in the sun instead of a climate-controlled gym, according to a small Australian study.Wednesday 18 November, 2009
A letter written in Persian by Lakshmibai, Rani of Jhansi, to the then governor-general of the East India Company Lord Dalhousie has been discovered in the British Library.Wednesday 18 November, 2009
Pakistan Army on Tuesday claimed that its forces waging a tough ground offensive in the lawless South Waziristan tribal region have captured...Wednesday 18 November, 2009
The New Oxford American Dictionary has named “unfriend” — as in deleting someone as a friend on a social network such as Facebook...Wednesday 18 November, 2009
Former Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf was quizzed last week by a UN panel probing the assassination of former premier Benazir Bhutto.Wednesday 18 November, 2009
Yukio Hato-yama, Japan’s prime minister, likens his role to that of a conductor trying to achieve “harmony”—one of his favourite words—from a pickup orchestra (for which read, novice cabinet).Wednesday 18 November, 2009
When Brazil’s president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, identified Dilma Rousseff, his chief-of-staff, as his preferred successor in the top job...Wednesday 18 November, 2009
The new American ambassador to Germany, Philip Murphy, introduced himself to Berliners recently in an Obama-style town-hall meeting at Humboldt University.
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