Leading defense officials from the United States and Israel, meeting in Israel this week, raised the controversial attack on the U.S. ship USS Liberty, by Israel, in June...

6 July 2008 If bilateral talks with nuclear North Korea were acceptable to Bush, then why is it still anathema to talk with Iran, asked the Los Angeles Times in an editorial yesterday....

and liturgy, is ultimately as unreliable as speculation on the turf or the dog track. In any case, the extravagantly conflicting views of forecasters guarantee that, whatever the eventual outcome,...

stones, and has biceps the approximate size and density of Jimmy Krankie's head.When I arrive at the house, Gregor is standing outside the garage, sanding down a telegraph pole. "I picked this up...

THE other day a surgeon offered me half a knee. Imagine that. Not enough to make me Robocop, but a snazzy super-strong titanium spare part that will last forever, unlike my creaky old bones.Once...

JEDDAH: Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah, who left yesterday for Morocco on a private visit, will open the international interfaith conference in the Spanish capital Madrid on July 16,...

M.J. Akbar | letters@covert.co.in In the second last week of June, after nearly fifty months of office, Congress Prime Minister Manmohan Singh offered Congress President Sonia Gandhi one of two...

ecipient is Michelle Wilder, who left Dr Emil W Chynn, of Park Avenue Laser, armed with the usual post-operative fare: eyedrops, sunglasses and a pair of prescription-free contact lenses. And, oh...

Yet Adrian Chiles has discovered a truth that so many celebrities endure: public success cannot buy you private happiness. Indeed, the former may well destroy the latter.His beloved West Bromwich...

Shahid Burney | Arab News MUMBAI: Keeping its eyes on the forthcoming general elections to the Lok Sabha and state Assembly, the Congress-led Democratic Front government has started wooing the Muslim...

BAD WEEK Jeremy ClarksonA BBC watchdog has rapped Jeremy Clarkson for glamorising drink driving by imbibing a gin and tonic while sitting behind the wheel. Clarkson and fellow presenter James May...

As if it was not obvious before, the credit crunch has made leaders of the world's most powerful nations acutely aware of how joined up their economic fortunes are. So when heads of government from...

AMID the hullabaloo over political shenanigans, the release of the inaugural National Integrity Perception Index Report 2007 on July 2 went almost unnoticed. Published by the Institute of Integrity...

Posted on: Saturday, 5 July 2008, 06:00 CDT By The Valdosta Daily Times, Ga. Jul. 5--July 04, 2008 09:26 pm THUMBS DOWN: To the settlement reached between the Department of Transportation and two...

Posted on: Saturday, 5 July 2008, 06:00 CDT By Victoria Advocate, Texas Jul. 5--Anytime a city has to do something to make things better for the community, the "something" falls under heavy...

London, the city of 300 peoples and 200 languages (the 2012 Olympics slogan), is too multi-cultural to be bothered about a few chippy Scots like Andy Murray and Joyce McMillan with her fatuous...

The rescue came off without a shot being fired, and in addition to the hostages netted the two guerrillas who had accompanied them onto the helicopter. The mission took daring, patience and an...

This page takes a back seat to few when it comes to the protection of free speech. We welcome protest and dissent, and appreciate the speech even of those with whom we most fervently disagree. But it...

Little League Baseball, especially during the state championship games, is the bomb! With all the available land in Provo, someone chose to build the ballpark on Geneva Road, the state truck route,...

In their rush to get home for their Fourth of July vacations, the members of the Senate left some important work on their desks -- the FISA Amendments Act of 2008. The bill is a rare bit of common...

The United States' so-called war on drugs brings to mind the old saying that if you find yourself trapped in a deep hole, stop digging. Yet, last week, the Senate approved an aid package to combat...

The Colombian military's spectacular rescue of 15 hostages Wednesday, including Franco-Colombian Ingrid Betancourt and three American military contractors, will go down in history as a marvel of...

The disappearance and subsequent slaying of Brooke Bennett has shocked observers in the state and beyond.It's a horrific crime and promises to get more so as details come out.The unusual arc of the...

France inherited the presidency of the European Union on Tuesday for the next six months with a packet of problems on the table. In some ways, France, and its relatively new president, Nicolas...

Last weekend, a young man was assaulted on the South Side. Hit on the head with a pistol and shot in the hand, the 20-year-old wasn't the victim of a mugger or a street gang. He was terrorized by...

While no easy solutions avail themselves in this situation, there is no reason to despair or to believe the worst. To be sure, there has been a change in shopping habits and commuting behaviour as...

What counts as a socially acceptable standard of living that no one should fall below? Tough question. In bars, blogs or radio phone-ins, people have strong views. Since the beginning of time fear of...

For months all the US presidential hopefuls have been accusing their rivals of flip-flopping. Politicians want to be like Margaret Thatcher, whose insistence that "the lady's not for turning" was a...

Whatever happened to Keith Vaz, you are unlikely to have asked yourself since the member for Leicester East last made the headlines. Mr Vaz is the political equivalent of one of those minor British...

Rafael Nadal has made a habit of frustrating fairytales. A few days ago he stymied British hopes of one by defeating golden boy, the gallant Andy Murray. Yet Nadal's semi-final win yesterday in the...

— Photo: K. Gajendran Chakra … an experience that gave India tactical and technical expertise essential for a national nuclear submarine...

Arab News DAMMAM: Saudi Border Guards did not receive any communication from Iran concerning the detention of Saudi fishing vessels, said Col. Muhammad Al-Ghamdi, spokesman for the Border Guards in...

Azhar Masood | Arab News ISLAMABAD: Guns were silent yesterday on 7th day of semi-military operation launched by security forces backed by Pakistan Army in Khyber Agency, which is considered to be...

PHOTO: V.V. KRISHNAN AMITAV GHOSH AND THE "SEA OF POPPIES" : A man who knows he has a truly ripping yarn. A novel that is deeply and persuasively grounded in the great tradition of...

Receiver Christian Kuntz became the 15th player to verbally commit to Penn State's football class of 2009 today. Kuntz, 6 feet 4 and 195 pounds, is from Trinity High School in Camp Hill, Pa. He...

Munir Ahmad | AP ISLAMABAD: North Korea received centrifuges from Pakistan in a 2000 shipment supervised by the army during the rule of President Pervez Musharraf, disgraced nuclear scientist Abdul...

Hisham Abu Taha | Arab News GAZA CITY: Hamas yesterday suspended talks over a prisoner swap deal involving Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit.Fawzi Barhoum, a Hamas spokesman, told reporters that Hamas had...

Mohammed Ashraf | Arab News THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Doctors have traditionally learned anatomy by studying photographs and illustrations and by memorizing thousands of bits of information as they cut...

Arab News THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Superstar Mammootty will lead the celebrity delegates at the World Malayali Council (WMC) conference that begins in Singapore next month, the organizers said.The sixth...

Al Jacinto | Arab News ZAMBOANGA CITY: The Moro Islamic Liberation Front ordered its forces to stay out of elections as campaign began for Aug. 11 polls in the Autonomous Region in Muslim...

An investigative report in The New York Times tracing the resurgence of terror groups in North-West Africa, or the Maghreb in Arabic, brings out the resourcefulness and resilience of the jihadi...

5 July 2008 Ask any Arab whether he or she thinks the US will attack Iran and the answer invariably comes that it will. The consensus of opinion that Washington has Iran in its sights as the next...

IT IS not often that the chairman of a £45 million, stock market-listed company ends up back at school. But last month, that is exactly what happened to Ian Ritchie, head of Glasgow-based web...

IF THERE is one iconic picture of Ice Age humans, it must surely be that of half a dozen muscled prehistoric cavemen surrounding an angry mammoth that they are trying to spear to death. Sadly, of...

THIS month is the latest G8 summit, which meets on Monday to Wednesday on the Japanese island of Hokkaido. The main agenda includes climate change and the world food...

A potent dichotomy is at play here. The reforms process which began in the 1990s along with the process of globalisation has gradually influenced attitudes of the youth and the nation's global...

The fact that some people are waking up to the suffering and torture inflicted on our closest genetic cousins, the great apes, is a sign of emerging maturity. Spain is about to take the...

Officer John Stafford was the worst person the Los Angeles Police Department could have given me. He's so insanely nice and polite that he gets in trouble for averaging only 1.3 tickets a day,...

There are weeks that are harder than others to bear. For certain, the last seven days have been a test. They were back-to-back moments filled with questions and wild speculation. They were long hours...

There is no possible dispute that it is very possible to get as much power as we want at 1.3p a unit.Anybody claiming that it is inevitable, rather than merely a political decision, that power prices...