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.
Tuesday 17 November, 2009
He didn’t explicitly call on China’s leaders to lift the veil of state control that restricts Internet access and online social networking here.Tuesday 17 November, 2009
The Obama administration is stepping up pressure on Pakistan to expand and reorient its fight against the Taliban and al-Qaeda...Tuesday 17 November, 2009
Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd apologised on Monday for years of abuse suffered by thousands of orphans and children sent to Australia...Tuesday 17 November, 2009
General Sarath Fonseka on Monday bade farewell to the Army and said he will announce his future plans in a couple of days...Tuesday 17 November, 2009
Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, in Rome for a UN food summit, spent several hours in the company of 200 Italian women recruited...Tuesday 17 November, 2009
Putin’s surprise appearance on a music channel to hand out awards came as a shock even to the journalists his minders handpicked to follow him around.Tuesday 17 November, 2009
A team of Australian surgeons have begun a marathon 16-hour risky surgery to separate three-year old Bangladeshi twins Krishna and Trishna who are joined at the head.Tuesday 17 November, 2009
America will not pass a cap-and-trade law in time for the global climate-change summit in Copenhagen next month.Tuesday 17 November, 2009
Bearded fighters gleefully picked through the ruins of an abandoned American base in Kamdesh, in the mountains of Nuristan in eastern Afghanistan.Tuesday 17 November, 2009
You open a window on your computer’s screen. You type in the name of a cheesy song from the 1980s. A list of results appears.Tuesday 17 November, 2009
Middle Easterners have had a habit of making war but they suffer a stronger addiction to hummus, the chickpea dip that is a staple of Levantine cuisine.Tuesday 17 November, 2009
Insurgents fired two rockets on Monday into a market northeast of Kabul where the head of French forces in Afghanistan was holding a meeting with tribal elders.Tuesday 17 November, 2009
President Obama’s first official visit to China brings him this weekend to a country that, despite the global downturn, is increasingly wealthy...Tuesday 17 November, 2009
Perhaps not since Egypt built the great pyramids of Giza, or more recently tamed the Nile with the Aswan High Dam...
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