May 15 2008
Lebanon’s governing coalition on Wednesday night formally reversed two decisions that had provoked the militant group Hezbollah, bringing the country a step closer to resolving the week-old political crisis that set off the worst factional violence...
May 14 2008
Air Force One will travel back in time this week, banking low near the southern Mediterranean coast and touching down on contested soil where the past is always present. In the Holy Land, the battles over the historical narrative surrounding the...
May 12 2008
The official release of the eagerly-awaited Sex And The City movie is just weeks away. As preparations for tonight’s world premiere in Leicester Square get into full swing, we reveal some lesser-known facts about the popular series and its...
May 9 2008
The news may have come as a surprise to the French, whose leaders are always talking about the influx of Africans, and the threat this “invasion” poses to their economy and culture. However, to Africans it was merely a confirmation of what they...
May 8 2008
A team of Helsingborg, Sweden, high school students has won a national award for its invention — men’s underwear with pockets for condom storage.
May 6 2008
The Consumerist this morning has an item about an outfit called TheCellShop.net apparently trying to buy itself a top-notch reputation on resellerratings.com.
May 2 2008
Destitution and food insecurity among Gaza’s 1.5 million residents has reached an unprecedentedly critical level, according to unpublished UN findings that they now need “urgent assistance” to avert a “serious food crisis”...
May 1 2008
A loophole on social networking site Facebook could allow identity thieves to access the personal data of users, according to an investigation.
May 1 2008
The mother of a British teenager murdered in Goa has been refused permission to retrieve organs that were removed from her daughter’s body without permission.
Apr 29 2008
Like many Britons whose image of Austria was defined by school history lessons and The Sound Of Music, whenever this landlocked Alpine nation is mentioned certain stereotypes spring to my mind. Or at least they did, until this week. One would think of...