No eyebrows are raised today at the thought of women going out to work. Plenty of lip service is paid to the idea of equality of men and women. And yet no one would...

You could not make up this headline: Palestinian arrested for possessing Israeli weapons! Americans liberals often like to piously lecture the Palestinians that their...

This is what the United States considers a strategic relationship with an Arab nation: “US defence group Lockheed Martin has won a contract worth $841.9m...

Dear Editor, It is this to bring to your notice that Tarnaka area St No 5 is becoming unsafe day by day and children are facing unsafe circumstances as molestation...

The lines between two souls Cross all the rivers of creation It plucks love from the feet of the sky And dips it into the ocean of wonders On the tip of the rainbow It...

Melquisedet Angulo Córdova was 30 years old. He had served in the Mexican Navy since 1998 and was the father of two young children. He was killed last week in...

Almost daily we read about Robert Mugabe whinging about the targeted travel sanctions in place against him, his family and members of his administration. There are also...

I do not why 2009 is so rich on tragedies and celebrities passing away. However, it’s hard to ignore sad news about Kim Peek having left forever: he was already...

At least 30 people have been killed in clashes between herders and farmers in Nigeria’s central Nasarawa State, witnesses say. Local people have described armed...

China’s first government-backed gay bar has finally opened, very discreetly, after the original scheduled launch was delayed for almost three weeks due to intense...

Osama bin Laden’s closest relatives are living in a secret compound in Iran, members of the family said last night. They include a wife and children who disappeared...

Bosnia’s constitution discriminates against Jews and Roma, the European Court of Human Rights has ruled. The constitution had prevented two Bosnian men - one...

Thirty years ago this week, the Red Army began its invasion of Afghanistan, a move that sank the Soviet Union in a decade of guerrilla war and hastened the collapse of...

Lebanon’s drug-producing heartland is back in business with a resurgence of marijuana and poppy fields, challenging the country’s underpowered security...

Caqueta state Gov. Luis Francisco Cuellar was found dead Tuesday, Colombian authorities said, less than a day after he was abducted from his home by suspected leftist...

What future for the “Greater Land of Israel”? Six decades after its founding, Israel has grown into one of the world’s top 20 industrial states, and...

Tears filled Abdul Kadir Ali’s eyes as he sat in a rundown community centre in Acton, West London, and told of his sister’s life and untimely death. Qamar Aden Ali...

A plane seized in Bangkok with a cache of North Korean weapons wasn’t headed to Iran, a senior Thai police official said Wednesday, contradicting a report from...

An American Airlines flight from Miami with more than 150 aboard overshot a runway while landing during a heavy rainstorm in Kingston on Tuesday night, injuring more...

President Hugo Chavez said Sunday that the world’s tallest waterfall has been called Angel Falls too long and should revert to its original indigenous name...