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India's Defence Exports: Quiet Revolution in Global Arms Market This article examines india's defence exports: quiet revolution in global arms market in contemporary India and its global implications. Context and Overvie...
India-China Border: Five Years After Galwan, Normalisation Remains Elusive Five years after the June 2020 Galwan Valley clash that killed 20 Indian soldiers, the India-China border remains tense. Recent meetings between...
BRICS Expansion: India's Multipolar World Strategy This article examines brics expansion: india's multipolar world strategy in contemporary India and its global implications. Context and Overview BRICS Expansion: India's...
Chaos, in geopolitics, is not evenly distributed. Someone always benefits from the disruption. The question is whether they're positioned to catch it when it arrives. Trump's second-term tariff regime has created genuine...
Oil crossed $110 a barrel this week on fears of an expanded Iran conflict. The headlines in India's financial press have been predictably breathless. What they haven't done is run the math. Here it is. India imports appr...
Criticism of India's democratic institutions is legitimate. India is not above criticism. No democracy is. But there is a pattern in how that criticism is deployed — particularly in Western media and certain internationa...
Nobody planned this. There was no government committee that sat down in 2015 and said: let's make the world practice yoga, start cooking with turmeric, watch Indian films, and download Ayurveda apps. There was no ministr...
India produces approximately 1.5 million engineering graduates a year. The United States — the country leading the global AI race — cannot find enough people who can build AI systems. These two facts sit in the same worl...
Most of the noise in India's public conversation is about things that happened last week. Here are five things that are reshaping India's position in the world over the next decade — and that aren't getting nearly enough...
There is a peculiar psychological tic in Indian strategic thinking — and, to be fair, in Western strategic thinking too — that treats China as an ever-ascending, essentially invincible force against which everyone else i...
Tyronne a 9-year-old boy has been living in Australia with his mother for eight years. He is an autistic kid. Maria Sevilla his mother has been working in Australia as a skilled worker. After they moved from Philippines,...
US Attorney Preet Bahara has successfully alleged Assemly Speaker Sheldon Silver with charges of corruption since 2000. Silver Sheldon is charged with corruption, extortion , fraud and could face a 20 year jail term. The...
The conservative Christian Social Union (CSU), in Germany is under a lot of fire and fury when it suggested that the immigrants should be speaking German in public and at home. The policy paper stated: “People who want t...
A delegation of 22 Brahmins has been flown from India to Muscat for the well being of the current Sultan Of Oman. He is suffering from colon cancer and has been receiving medical care for a while. 72-year-old Sultan Qabo...
The White Widow Samantha Louise Lewthwaite, born and raised as a Christian, converted to become a Muslim at the age of 17 is one of the deadliest terrorist alive today. Media has called her the “The White Widow” after he...
NSA employees were spying on their significant others by using the NSA’s “eavesdropping programme” “Eavesdropping unit” of NSA has used the program to spy on their wives and husbands who have been living abroad. They cal...
While speaking at wives of African leaders in Dar es Salaam on Tuesday, Michelle Obama said living in the White House is confining, prison like. She was in a conversation with Laura Bush and was reflecting on how difficu...
Jihadists have beheaded Franciscan Father Francois Murad a catholic priest in Syria. The Vatican City has ( of the priest. The 49-year-old priest was mercilessly killed in Gassanieh, in northern Syria. It is being said t...
ventilator," Verka, who was instrumental in securing visas for four members of Sarabjit's family from the Pakistan High Commission in New Delhi on Saturday, told media. Sarabjit's lawyer Awais Sheikh told a news channel...
WELLINGTON, New Zealand: Hundreds of jubilant gay-rights advocates celebrated at New Zealand's parliament on Wednesday night as the country become the 13th in the world and the first in the Asia-Pacific region to legaliz...
At 8:30 on a cloudy, frigid morning late last month in this folksy Ozark town, the superintendent of an area school strolled through the glass doors of the local newspaper office to deliver a news release. Hours later, t...
The Lamborghini Aventador, in local police colours, was shown off in the forecourt of Dubai Mall, the city’s most upmarket shopping plaza. A picture was shown off on the service’s Twitter feed, with the caption: “Latest...
I froze in front of the television. I couldn’t believe that Jorge was the Pope!” confessed the 77-year-old lady with white hair and spectacles outside her home at 555 Membranilla Street in the Flores district of Buenos A...
Days after ( (WIEF) dropped Gujaratchief minister Narendra Modi as its keynote speaker, ( chairman, Manipal Global, turned down the invitation to speak at the annual event, saying that he is upset at the way India is tre...
Italy and India seemed headed for a standoff on Monday after the former declared that two of its naval guards who are being prosecuted for killing two Indian fishermen in Indian waters while on anti-piracy duty, will not...
Ashley Judd has yet to officially announce her political aspirations, but a source with intimate knowledge of the situation tells FOX411's Pop Tarts column the actress is preparing herself to challenge Senate Minority Le...
Asia's most prominent Roman Catholic leader knows how to reach the masses: He sings on stage, preaches on TV, brings churchgoers to laughter and tears with his homilies. And he's on Facebook. But Philippine Cardinal Luis...
THE Duchess of Cambridge yesterday dropped a big hint that she is having a daughter. As a woman gave her a teddy bear, Kate, 31, said: “Thank you, I will take that for my d... for my baby.” After the slip on a visit to G...
China could be considering relaxing its harsh one-child policy because of women like Hu Yanqin, who lives in a village at the edge of the Gobi desert. Hu lives in the Jiuquan region in Gansu province, one of the rare pla...
A meteor streaked through the skies above Russia's Urals region Friday morning, before exploding with a flash and boom that shattered glass in buildings and left hundreds of people hurt. The number of injured continues t...
Schools Superintendent Jennifer Gray said she expects school board members to meet within the next two weeks to determine if disciplinary action is warranted for a teacher who made slurs about first lady Michelle Obama a...
David Coleman Headley was sentenced to 35 years in federal prison Thursday primarily for his role in planning the 2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks that killed more than 160 people, including six Americans. Mr. Headley, a Pa...
Islamist groups with ties to al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb pledged retaliatory attacks on French soil following France's military intervention in Mali, where French forces had deployed in January 2013 to halt the advan...
Two gunmen shot a 14-year-old boy several times Friday night as he stood on his porch, leaving him to die in the front hallway of his Humboldt Park home, authorities said. The shooting came just hours after a 15-year-old...
The president is going to act," said Biden, giving some comments to the press before a meeting with victims of gun violence. "There are executives orders, there's executive action that can be taken. We haven't decided wh...
The group that equated Muslim radicals with savages in advertisements last year has put up another set of provocative ads in dozens of New York City subway stations. The American Freedom Defense Initiative purchased spac...
Georgia supervisor, coworker and four others cashed 1,300 U.S. Treasury checks before authorities caught them. More than 171 Postal workers arrested in 2012 Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night could stop th...
Piers Morgan Calls Pro-Gun Advocate 'Unbelievably Stupid,' 'Dangerous': 'You Shame Your Country' CNN's Piers Morgan has been on a rabid anti-gun rant since July's Aurora, Colorado, shootings that has gotten even more ven...
Understanding Indian Politics India's politics is complex—federal system, multiple languages, religions, castes, and classes create extraordinary diversity. Understanding Indian politics requires understanding this diver...
In the city of Seattle pro-cannabis campaigners celebrated in a haze at the foot of the Space Needle tower at one minute past midnight, the moment the state's new law came into effect. Vivian McPeak, director of Seattle'...
George Zimmerman, the Florida man who was acquitted of murder in the 2012 shooting death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, filed a defamation lawsuit against NBC News alleging that the network's editing of a 911 call record...
Entertainment and Culture in India Entertainment and culture reflect and shape societies. Understanding popular culture provides insight into values, anxieties, and aspirations. The Role of Entertainment Entertainment pr...
After Savita Halappanavar's death, the brutal irony of 'pro-life' is exposed Anti-abortion groups' response to a young woman's tragic death in Ireland exposes their scant regard for women's lives Anti-abortion campaigner...
Rumors about Barack and Michelle Obama's marriage — specifically, claims that divorce papers had been filed at some point, or that the marriage had experienced serious crises that nearly ended it — circulated periodicall...
Workers at a Philadelphia polling place, after being ordered by a judge to cover up a mural of President Obama, slapped up a few pieces of paper that only partially covered his image -- while leaving the Obama campaign l...
During a surprise campaign stop at a field office in Chicago, President Obama congratulated Mitt Romney on a hard-fought campaign. The president's congratulatory comment was not meant to be a premature concession. He sai...
Joe Biden's performance against Paul Ryan in the 2012 vice-presidential debate was the most discussed and debated political event of that week—praised by Democrats as the assertive, aggressive rebuttal they had desperate...
Understanding Indian Politics India's politics is complex—federal system, multiple languages, religions, castes, and classes create extraordinary diversity. Understanding Indian politics requires understanding this diver...
Outraged Tunisians took to the streets by the hundreds Tuesday, angrily protesting the treatment of a woman who was allegedly raped by police officers -- and then charged with public indecency when she filed a complaint....
In the weeks following the mass shooting at a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado on July 20, 2012 — in which twelve people were killed and seventy injured during a midnight screening of The Dark Knight Rises — survivors a...
Former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has come out with an autobiography called "Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story.". He is promoting his book and will be on 60 minutes this Sunday. He talks about his wife and sa...
The Southern California man who wrote and produced the controversial anti-Islam film "Innocence of Muslims" was ordered detained without bail by a federal judge for allegedly violating the terms of his probation. Citing...
Understanding Indian Politics India's politics is complex—federal system, multiple languages, religions, castes, and classes create extraordinary diversity. Understanding Indian politics requires understanding this diver...
Former President Bill Clinton addressed the recent unrest in the Muslim world over a U.S.-made film insulting the prophet Muhammad, saying that while the underlying message is offensive, "you can't react every time you'r...
France announced Wednesday it will close 20 embassies across the Muslim world on Friday after French weekly Charlie Hebdo published cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed naked, amid growing unrest over an anti-Islamic film th...
The father of Hannah Truelove, 16, who was found dead behind her mother's apartment complex on August 24, has spoken out for the first time about the horrific ordeal.Gainesveille, Georgia, officials have refused to go in...
Technology and Modern Life Technology has transformed how we communicate, work, and live. Understanding technology's role in society is essential for the modern world. The Speed of Change Technological change accelerates...
Obama is more likeable, but trust Romney more to handle the economy It's official: With President Barack Obama's( both the Republicans and Democrats have chosen their nominees for the 2012 presidential election. Let the...
Indian-Americans vote Democratic at rates that would seem puzzling on the surface. Here is a community that is, by most measures, economically successful — among the highest-earning ethnic groups in the United States, wi...
Paul Ryan's false claim about his marathon finishing time — stated during a radio interview in August 2012, shortly after he became Mitt Romney's vice presidential running mate — became a surprisingly revealing episode i...
Taliban militants beheaded 17 people in southern Afghanistan's Helmand province after discovering them at a mixed-gender party where music was being played and people were dancing — a gathering that violated the Taliban'...
Understanding Indian Politics India's politics is complex—federal system, multiple languages, religions, castes, and classes create extraordinary diversity. Understanding Indian politics requires understanding this diver...
With its massive size and ponderous movement, Tropical Storm Isaac was gaining strength Monday as it headed toward the Gulf Coast. The next 24 hours would determine whether it brought the usual punishing rains and winds...
Ann Romney has recalled how her husband would "curl up in bed with me" as she battled depression and the onset of multiple sclerosis, revealing a tender side to the man who will formally accept the Republican presidentia...
Barack Obama cancelled three operations to kill Osama bin Laden before finally going ahead with the mission at the insistence of Hillary Clinton, according to a new book. The explosive allegation is contained in an expos...
Understanding Indian Politics India's politics is complex—federal system, multiple languages, religions, castes, and classes create extraordinary diversity. Understanding Indian politics requires understanding this diver...
Authorities are investigating whether the massacre at a Sikh temple near Milwaukee could be linked to last year's unsolved murders of two elderly Sikh men in Elk Grove, Calif. Elk Grove detectives have been in contact wi...
Kehar Singh Gill went to El Paso to look for a bride. A Mexican woman who worked in the cotton fields that he farmed in California's Imperial Valley had told him that she had eligible nieces there. Gill got the address w...
For the first time since he began running for president, Republican Mitt Romney has the support of over 40 percent of America's youth vote, a troubling sign for President Obama who built his 2008 victory with the overwhe...
Paul Ryan's emergence as Mitt Romney's vice-presidential pick in August 2012 triggered an unusual media phenomenon: intense public fascination with the Wisconsin congressman's physique, fueled by his well-publicized dedi...
Mitt Romney's selection of Paul Ryan, the Wisconsin congressman and House Budget Committee chairman, as his vice-presidential running mate in August 2012 was unusual in that it generated something rarely seen in politica...
Amid increasing cases of violence and lack of security against their community, 60 Hindu families from Balochistan and Sindh have decided to migrate to India,...
Seventy members of an Islamist sect who have been living in an underground bunker without heat or sunlight for nearly a decade have been discovered living on the outskirts of the city of Kazan in Russia....
This offer is sure to vex all the Obama campaigners who think they alone are on the cutting edge of voter outreach. "While I won't be breaking any news today, I wanted to let you know how to be the first to get the VP sc...
On Monday, James Holmes, the lead suspect in the Colorado shooting that killed 12 people, made his first public appearance in court, where the presiding judge gave prosecutors a week to formally charge him. His hair dyed...
The Syrian regime threatened to use chemical and biological weapons in the case of an external attack yesterday, in what appeared to be a chilling warning to Western and Arab nations pushing for intervention in the count...
As a recent college grad in New York, Barack Obama fell in love with a young white woman named Genevieve Cook. Passages from her diary appear in a new biography of the president. It could be anybody...
Aurora, Colo., shooting spree: A day of tears for victims and of twists in case Two days after a shooting rampage killed 12 people and wounded 58 in a movie theater, President Obama flew in to praise victims and survivor...
A robust and self-sustaining U.S. recovery is not on the cards, and we should now expect below trend growth for many years to come, according to Nouriel Roubini, the economist famed for his bearish views. Roubini, best-k...
Gunman kills 12 in Colorado movie theater A heavily armed gunman attacked an Aurora, Colorado, movie theater early Friday, tossing tear gas before opening fire on the terrified audience and killing 12 and wounding 38, au...
Mitt Romney's tax returns had nothing to do with Sen. John McCain's decision to choose Sarah Palin as his running mate in 2008, according to the Arizona Republican, saying he chose the former Alaska governor because she...
Governance, Corruption, and Institutional Strength Good governance is foundational to societal progress. When governance is weak and corruption is endemic, even well-intentioned policies fail. The Corruption Challenge In...
Jane Pitt, mother of actor Brad Pitt, has been scared into silence by the hate-filled, vulgar and even violent reaction to her public assertion that Barack Obama is...
Gunned down with an AK47 as baying villagers cheer in delight, this is the shocking moment a burqa-clad woman was executed in Afghanistan for her part in a Taliban love triangle. The 22-year-old woman, said to have been...
Mitt Romney, during his 2012 presidential campaign, proposed bringing in McKinsey & Company — the global management consulting giant where he began his business career before co-founding Bain Capital — to conduct a compr...
Understanding Indian Politics India's politics is complex—federal system, multiple languages, religions, castes, and classes create extraordinary diversity. Understanding Indian politics requires understanding this diver...
The Mumbai police crime branch will try to convince a Delhi court once again on to give them the custody of 26/11 handler Zabiuddin Ansari alias Abu Jundal. They had failed to convince the court last week....
An Indian couple received one of the largest personal injury settlements in Illinois history after a 2007 traffic accident left the husband with severe and permanent disabilities, in a verdict that drew attention to both...
No Country on earth is in the same league as the U.S. when it comes to the quantity of immigrants who have come here and the quality of their contributions. But lately, in our generally sour mood, Americans have been que...
North Dakota's 2012 ballot measure to eliminate property taxes entirely—replacing them with unspecified alternative state revenues—was the most radical property tax proposal considered by any American state in recent mem...
It was just six words from a 29-minute news conference, but President Barack Obama's assertion that "the private sector is doing fine" looks primed to play a starring role in this already-fevered campaign season. Preside...
In this June 4, 2012 file photo, President Barack Obama speaks in New York. President Barack Obama and Democrats awoke Wednesday to the cruel reality of June, the political blows from the bitter loss in Wisconsin's guber...
The attackers behind the complex Flame cyberespionage toolkit, believed to be a state-sponsored operation, used an extensive list of fake identities to register at least 86 domains, which they used as part of their comma...
Canadian dismemberment suspect arrested in Germany The international manhunt for the porn actor accused of killing and dismembering a man in Canada ended Monday in a Berlin Internet cafe with the arrest of Luka Rocco Mag...
The conversation about inequality in America has increasingly centered on a distinction that was, until relatively recently, obscured by the broader category of "the rich": the difference between the merely affluent — do...
India's Supreme Court ruled that sex obtained through a false promise of marriage constitutes rape under the Indian Penal Code, a judgment with significant practical implications for how consent is understood in a societ...
Wildfires burning across six Western states in the summer of 2012 destroyed hundreds of homes, forced mass evacuations from small communities, and killed at least eight people in what fire officials described as one of t...
Egypt to pick Islamist or military man as president CAIRO- Egyptians must choose between a Muslim Brotherhood candidate or an ex-military man in a presidential run-off that highlights the stark rifts in a nation united i...
The speculation about whether Hillary Clinton might be tapped as Barack Obama's running mate for the 2012 election — replacing Joe Biden on the ticket — circulated periodically through 2011 and into 2012, driven partly b...
An auction for a vial allegedly containing President Reagan's blood has been called off, according to officials at his presidential foundation who had fought to halt the sale. Instead, the vial will be donated to the Ron...
In a bid to root out bogus couples, immigration officials have resorted to asking husband and wives where they keep the takeaway menus. The bizarre question is part of a series of simple queries that can stump the cannie...
A French prosecutor on Monday opened a preliminary investigation into allegations of rape in a Washington hotel by former IMF chief and one-time French presidential hopeful Dominique Strauss-Kahn. The move by the prosecu...
Florida election officials discovered approximately 53,000 deceased individuals on the state's voter rolls during a 2012 audit of registration records—a finding that fueled ongoing debate about voter roll maintenance, el...
In a city where women's public presence had been systematically erased under Taliban rule and where the years since 2001 had brought uneven and fragile progress, Shakila Naderi ran a driving school in Kabul — and her stu...
A shift in polling data from April 2012 caught the attention of both campaigns in the presidential race: after weeks of trailing Barack Obama significantly among women voters — a gap that had widened during debates over...
The 'jealous' First Lady: How Michelle orders women close to Barack watched and has shunned Oprah because she 'hates fat people' Michelle Obama orders women close to her husband to be watched in case he cheats on her lik...
A Washington Post investigation published in May 2012 described an incident from Mitt Romney's days at Cranbrook, the elite Michigan prep school he attended in the 1960s: Romney, then a senior, allegedly led a group of b...
Understanding Indian Politics India's politics is complex—federal system, multiple languages, religions, castes, and classes create extraordinary diversity. Understanding Indian politics requires understanding this diver...
When blind Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng sought refuge at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing in April 2012 after escaping from house arrest, he created one of the most delicate diplomatic crises of Hillary Clinton's tenure a...
Understanding Indian Politics India's politics is complex—federal system, multiple languages, religions, castes, and classes create extraordinary diversity. Understanding Indian politics requires understanding this diver...
About 150 Afghan schoolgirls were poisoned on Tuesday after drinking contaminated water at a high school in the country's north, officials said, blaming it on conservative radicals opposed to female education. Since the...
The observation by Democratic strategist Hilary Rosen that Ann Romney "has never worked a day in her life" detonated a controversy that briefly dominated the 2012 presidential campaign and forced both campaigns to naviga...
Barack Obama's comment that the family "didn't have the luxury" of Michelle staying home when she was earning $316,000 a year in her role at the University of Chicago Medical Center sparked a predictable storm — one that...
The indictment of a prominent fundraiser for Barack Obama's presidential campaigns on federal fraud charges created political complications for an administration that had campaigned on ethics and transparency, and renewe...
Ann Romney's emergence as one of Mitt Romney's most effective campaign surrogates in 2012 reflected a recognition within the Republican campaign that she possessed qualities her husband demonstrably lacked—natural warmth...
Understanding Indian Politics India's politics is complex—federal system, multiple languages, religions, castes, and classes create extraordinary diversity. Understanding Indian politics requires understanding this diver...
A Mexican national said he has been barred from entering the United States to bury his 10-year-old son, a U.S. citizen who died Tuesday in a house fire in northeastern Pennsylvania that killed three other people. Attorne...
The Bin Laden family saga—as reconstructed through accounts of his wives, children, and the compound where he was killed in Abbottabad—offered a portrait of a wanted man living a more domestic and settled life than the i...
Former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn was charged in France on Monday with "aggravated pimping" for his alleged participation in a prostitution ring, prosecutors said. He is not allowed to have...
Assad emails: The 'Ming' vase From: Soulieman Marouf Subject: Re: abd Date: 17 June 2011 22:45:00 BST To: ak@alshahba.com He bought it. Got 15% discount. Delivery 10 weeks. Today you should be receiving an Armani light....
A would-be suicide bomber was arrested before he could carry out an attack targeting U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta during a visit to Afghanistan, in an incident that underscored the persistent security challenges f...
Once, when winters were cold and the world seemed large, creatures roamed the earth who were permissive on social issues and at ease with big government, yet remained ever faithful to the gods of business and finance. Th...
Vladimir Putin's emotional public display following his victory in Russia's March 2012 presidential election—tears reportedly visible as he addressed supporters in Moscow's Manezhnaya Square—became one of the most analyz...
Two British tourists were barred from entering America after joking on Twitter that they were going to 'destroy America' and 'dig up Marilyn Monroe'. Leigh Van Bryan, 26, was handcuffed and kept under armed guard in a ce...
An Indian couple have had their children taken away by Norwegian social workers because they were feeding them with their hands and sleeping in the same bed as them. Anurup and Sagarika Bhattacharya lost custody of their...
When Stephen Colbert announced he was exploring a run for president of the United States — or rather, president of "the United States of South Carolina" — the announcement was simultaneously a joke, a media event, a camp...
It was not a chant that many had ever expected to hear, as up to 50,000 Russians from all walks of life stood, the snow falling steadily upon them, a few hundred yards across the Moskva river from the Kremlin. "Russia wi...
The case against Barack Obama's re-election in 2012 rested on economics—specifically, the stubbornly slow pace of recovery from the 2008 financial crisis and the perception among significant portions of the electorate th...
At the quayside in the centre of Dubai, mountains of goods are left unguarded for days as they wait to be loaded onto boats bound for Iran. The goods - including boxes of Panasonic flat-screen televisions and Whirlpool r...
A candid — and deeply troubling — survey of attitudes toward Pakistan's civil services revealed what many Pakistanis have long said privately: that a significant portion of the population views government employment not...
In what became a symbol of aggressive municipal code enforcement, a Detroit-area homeowner found herself facing fines of $600 to $1,200 per day after city officials cited her for allowing weeds in her yard to exceed the...
Former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi died of wounds suffered on Thursday as fighters battling to complete an eight-month-old uprising against his rule overran his hometown Sirte, Libya's interim rulers said. His killing,...
By the time Occupy Wall Street's encampment at Zuccotti Park was cleared by New York City police in November 2011, the media narrative about the movement had calcified into a set of impressions that were, at best, incomp...
Israel has published a list of 477 Palestinian prisoners to be released in the first stage of a swap deal for the captive Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit. ( released on Sunday by Israel's justice ministry, includes the name...
LONDON - Protesters inspired by the growing 'Occupy Wall Street' movement in the U.S have today taken over the City of London. Thousands have descended on the area known as the Square Mile - under the banner 'Occupy the...
When the Commonwealth heads of government meet in Australia later this month, one prominent leader is almost certain to be conspicuously absent: India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. India is a strong backer of the asso...
Across four of the world's most consequential societies — China, India, the United States, and Europe — the first years of the second decade of the 21st century brought wave after wave of social unrest. The forms varied:...
The protests against corporate America, which began in New York City two weeks ago, have spread across the country, with demonstrations occurring in Los Angeles, Boston, Chicago, Denver and Seattle. Sparked by the Occupy...
Thousands of people stripped to their underwear and ran through downtown Salt Lake City in a demonstration organized to protest what participants described as an overreaching Utah legislative agenda on social issues — a...
Lady Gaga attended a fundraiser with the president on Sunday night, according to a White House pool report, and she raised the issue of suicide and bullying of gay teens. The report describes her as wearing enormous heel...
A report in Newsmax claiming that Bill Clinton had expressed private reservations about supporting President Obama's reelection bid generated immediate attention and denial — a combination that illustrates the particular...
After years of debate and months of final preparations, the military can no longer prevent gays from serving openly in its ranks. Repeal of a 1993 law that allowed gays to serve only so long as they kept their sexual ori...
New York Magazine's cover story describing Barack Obama as "the first Jewish president" generated significant debate in 2012, illuminating tensions within American Jewish political identity and the gap between foreign po...
Indonesian women staged what is believed to be the first SlutWalk demonstration in Southeast Asia, taking to the streets of Jakarta in short skirts and leggings to protest the persistent cultural and legal tendency to ho...
Seven women were admitted to hospital burn units across Pakistan within a two-day period after separate acid attacks — a grim cluster of violence that human rights organizations said was consistent with patterns they had...
Shoshana Hebshi will never forget where she was on the 10th anniversary of Sept. 11. She and two other airline passengers were handcuffed and strip-searched after flying into Detroit on Sunday. No charges were filed agai...
Democratic congressional candidates in vulnerable districts faced an uncomfortable calculation in 2014 and 2010: how far to distance themselves from a president whose approval ratings had declined among the independent v...
Rick Perry entered the race for the Republican presidential nomination with timing that could not have been better calibrated if it had been engineered — arriving precisely as the party's establishment wing was growing a...
The smirk of a free man: Dominique Strauss-Kahn freed from sexual assault charges as protesters chant for a 'fair trial' DSK freed today at Manhattan court more than three months after he was accused of rape Describes fa...
The operation that killed Osama bin Laden on the night of May 1-2, 2011 lasted roughly forty minutes from the moment the first helicopter crossed into Pakistani airspace until the last SEAL team member departed the compo...
Understanding Health and Wellness Health is multidimensional—physical, mental, emotional, and social. True health requires attention to all dimensions. The Interconnection of Health Factors Physical health influences men...
Anders Behring Breivik, the Norwegian far-right extremist who killed 77 people in twin attacks on July 22, 2011 — a bombing in Oslo and a shooting massacre at a youth camp on the island of Utøya — left behind a 1,500-pag...
Yukari Mihamae, a 61-year-old woman from Colorado, was arrested at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport after she allegedly grabbed and twisted the breast of a female Transportation Security Administration agent duri...
Ten days before he was assassinated in January, my father, Salman Taseer, sent out a tweet about an Indian rocket that had come down over the Bay of Bengal: "Why does India make fools of themselves messing in space techn...
Pakistan could "pull troops Afghan from border" if U.S. cuts aid ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan could pull back troops fighting Islamist militants near the Afghan border if the United States cuts off aid, the defense min...
The political rehabilitation of Dominique Strauss-Kahn began in France even before the criminal charges against him in New York were fully resolved — a reflection of both the particular character of French political cult...
Understanding Indian Politics India's politics is complex—federal system, multiple languages, religions, castes, and classes create extraordinary diversity. Understanding Indian politics requires understanding this diver...
Mexican teenage girls train as drug cartel killers MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Dwarfed by surrounding reporters and with her head bowed to avoid the television cameras, the slender 16-year-old hesitated slightly before she a...
Anwar al-Awlaki, the American-born al-Qaeda cleric operating from Yemen who had become one of the organization's most effective English-language propagandists, released a new video calling explicitly for attacks on Ameri...
Anthony Weiner, the New York congressman whose career seemed constructed for satirical purposes even before the scandal that destroyed it, has checked into a treatment facility following his resignation from the House of...
Technology and Modern Life Technology has transformed how we communicate, work, and live. Understanding technology's role in society is essential for the modern world. The Speed of Change Technological change accelerates...
The occasion of Pakistan Prime Minister Yusuf Gilani's official visit to China was an opportunity for both parties to stake a claim to a post-United States future as the closest of allies, with a shared commitment to a s...
The question of whether Sarah Palin would enter the 2012 Republican presidential primary occupied political media through most of 2011 before she announced in October that she would not seek the nomination—a decision tha...
A scheme that sounds more like a heist film plot than an actual crime was uncovered after a routine cash audit revealed that an ATM serviced by a contracted technician had been systematically drained and refilled with co...
Technology and Modern Life Technology has transformed how we communicate, work, and live. Understanding technology's role in society is essential for the modern world. The Speed of Change Technological change accelerates...
Donald Trump announced in May 2011 that he would not seek the Republican presidential nomination in 2012, ending months of speculation and a brief period during which polls had placed him among the leading potential cand...
A New York City judge says the head of the International Monetary Fund must remain jailed at least until his next court hearing for attempted rape and other charges. A tired and grim-looking Dominique Strauss-Kahn appear...
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It seemed an innocuous, catch-up phone call. Last year Abu Ahmed al-Kuwaiti, the pseudonym for a Pakistani known to U.S. intelligence as the main courier for Osama bin Laden, took a call from an old friend. Where have yo...
Understanding Indian Politics India's politics is complex—federal system, multiple languages, religions, castes, and classes create extraordinary diversity. Understanding Indian politics requires understanding this diver...
Understanding Indian Politics India's politics is complex—federal system, multiple languages, religions, castes, and classes create extraordinary diversity. Understanding Indian politics requires understanding this diver...
The killing of Osama bin Laden in a compound in Abbottabad — a city known as a haven for retired Pakistani military officers and home to the prestigious Pakistan Military Academy — has placed Pakistan's government and in...
The compound is a few hundred metres from the the Pakistan Military Academy, an elite military training centre, which is Pakistan's equivalent to Britain's Sandhurst, according to the BBC's M Ilyas Khan who visited the a...
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Within days of Osama bin Laden's death in a U.S. Navy SEAL raid in Abbottabad, Pakistan, hundreds of supporters gathered for what was described as the first public rally in the country held in his honor — a demonstration...
It started with a courier's name. Senior White House officials said early Monday that the trail that led to Osama bin Laden began before 9/11, before the terror attacks that brought bin Laden to prominence. The trail war...
Osama bin Laden, the founder and leader of al-Qaeda and the man behind the September 11, 2001 attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people, is dead. He was killed in a nighttime raid by a team of U.S. Navy SEALs at a compound...
Reports in 2011 that Pakistani Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani had privately encouraged Afghan President Hamid Karzai to consider China as an alternative strategic patron to the United States — to, in effect, pivot his...
Understanding Indian Politics India's politics is complex—federal system, multiple languages, religions, castes, and classes create extraordinary diversity. Understanding Indian politics requires understanding this diver...
Jittery Chinese authorities wary of any domestic dissent staged a concerted show of force Sunday to squelch a mysterious online call for a "Jasmine Revolution" apparently modeled after pro-democracy demonstrations sweepi...
A day of protest in Tehran, the the Iranian capital, have been marked by clashes between demonstrators and security forces. Thousands protesters marched on Monday on Enghelab and Azadi streets , with a heavy presence in...
Understanding Indian Politics India's politics is complex—federal system, multiple languages, religions, castes, and classes create extraordinary diversity. Understanding Indian politics requires understanding this diver...
The Tunisian revolution — the first of what would come to be called the Arab Spring — had a proximate cause that became one of the defining images of 2011: a twenty-six-year-old street vendor named Mohamed Bouazizi, unab...
The story of Indian diplomat in UK, Anil Verma- IAS, and his wife Paromita Verma is getting more ugly by each passing day. The daily mail reports that Anil used to boast to his wife about his diplomatic status and how no...
Understanding Indian Politics India's politics is complex—federal system, multiple languages, religions, castes, and classes create extraordinary diversity. Understanding Indian politics requires understanding this diver...
WikiLeaks has demanded that Google and Facebook reveal the contents of any US subpoenas they may have received after it emerged that a court in Virginia had ordered Twitter to secretly hand over details of accounts on th...
As 2011 began, Pakistan's political landscape was shifting in ways that made Asif Ali Zardari's continuation as president look increasingly precarious. The coalition that had brought the Pakistan Peoples Party to power a...
Carla Bruni-Sarkozy arrived at the Élysée Palace in 2008 as the most unconventional first lady in the recent history of Western democracies — a former supermodel and successful pop singer who had been photographed by som...
He grew up constantly on the move, the son of parents who were in the theater business in Australia. Now, Julian Assange, 39, finds himself on the move again, wanted in Sweden for alleged sex crimes and wanted by officia...
The calls for Hillary Clinton to resign as Secretary of State following the WikiLeaks release of State Department cables placed her in an unusual political position: defending her department from unauthorized disclosures...
The woman who stood up at a televised town hall meeting and told Barack Obama that she was "exhausted" of defending him — that the change he had promised had not arrived for her family, that her husband had been unemploy...
The question of how Bradley Manning — a 22-year-old Army intelligence analyst with documented psychological problems and a history of concerning behavior observed by supervisors — was able to download hundreds of thousan...
Bradley Manning, 23, enlisted in the US Army in 2007 and became an intelligence analyst in Iraq, sifting through classified information at Forward Operating Base Hammer, 40 miles east of Baghdad. Manning was arrested in...
King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia repeatedly exhorted the United States to "cut off the head of the snake" by launching military strikes to destroy Iran's nuclear program, according to leaked U.S. diplomatic cables. A copy o...
Understanding Indian Politics India's politics is complex—federal system, multiple languages, religions, castes, and classes create extraordinary diversity. Understanding Indian politics requires understanding this diver...
Minoru Yanagida said the only two phrases he had to remember in parliament were: "I won't comment on individual cases," and "I'm acting in accordance with the law and the evidence." Opposition conservatives said he deser...
Bobby Jindal's announcement that he would not seek the Republican presidential nomination in 2012 was received in political circles as a pragmatic recognition of the electoral calendar rather than a retreat. The Louisian...
When the Chinese conglomerate made its offer for the mid-sized British engineering firm, the British employees gathered in the canteen to hear a reassuring presentation from the new owners' representatives and came away...
The sovereign debt crisis that rolled through the eurozone between 2010 and 2012 followed a pattern that economists found easier to identify in retrospect than to arrest in real time. Each country's crisis was presented...