Tuesday 03 November, 2009
When he was elected president, Barack Obama made it plain that this was an event of some importance.Tuesday 03 November, 2009
He has almost been cropped from the photograph, and his name is a blank in the key. An interpreter's lot, perhaps.Tuesday 03 November, 2009
The opening minutes of the soccer game brought a quick goal, and Ruben Bres and the 15 guests who had joined him around his battered TV erupted in cheers.Tuesday 03 November, 2009
For much of their lives, Yona Sabar and his son Ariel were like warring countries with radically different customs, languages and concerns.Tuesday 03 November, 2009
They are ships that fell from the sky; two immovable objects, their very presence defying reason. Residents call them acts of God.Tuesday 03 November, 2009
Since policy makers in Washington D.C. decided to provide financial support to Pakistan to aid in its battle with extremists, the country’s urban...
Monday 02 November, 2009
Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai’s challenger Abdullah Abdullah withdrew on Sunday from next weekend’s runoff election...Monday 02 November, 2009
Iran President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Sunday compared the power of Iran’s enemies to a “mosquito,” saying Iran deals with the West from a position of power.Monday 02 November, 2009
A British civil servant is in the eye of a controversy for claiming that 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks were not an act of terrorism.Monday 02 November, 2009
Sri Lankan Army General Sarath Fonseka, who presided over the offensive on the LTTE, has been asked by US authorities to testify before...Monday 02 November, 2009
Nobel laureate T S Eliot, considered the greatest poet of the 20th century, was dogged throughout his later years by the...Monday 02 November, 2009
Prince Harry’s dreams of taking on the Taliban in an Apache helicopter in war-ravaged Afghanistan is said to have been...Monday 02 November, 2009
An 11-year-old schoolgirl in Bulgaria is said to have become the world’s youngest mother after she gave birth to a baby on her wedding day.Monday 02 November, 2009
US national David Coleman Headley, nabbed by FBI for plotting a major terror attack in India at LeT’s behest, was a frequent flyer who made...Monday 02 November, 2009
A spate of bombings across Iraq, including two suicide attacks and a bicycle bomb, killed seven people and wounded more than 40 on...Monday 02 November, 2009
In India, drought sometimes turns to deluge. This summer the country suffered its worst monsoon since 1972, which left half its rural districts...