GEORGIA
Russian spies released FOUR RUSSIAN officers arrested on suspicion of being spies in the worst row between the countries have finally been released and arrived in Moscow earlier this week.
PAKISTAN
Daughter of disgraced scientist speak out DINA KHAN, daughter of the shamed Pakistani nuclear scientist AQ Khan has criticised claims made by President Pervez Musharraf in his autobiography. In her
The Mediterranean Cradle of European Culture
The Mediterranean Cradle of European Culture by Michael Streeter The alphabet devised by the Phoenicians, the philosophy and drama of the Greeks, the Roman mastery of civil engineering and the
It’s a mad, bad, world
Skip Bandele reflects on life and his world – as he sees it SHORTLY AFTER I was born, John F Kennedy was felled by an assassin’s bullet in Dallas, and
HUNGARY
Demands for prime minister’s resignation BUDAPEST SAW the largest rally yet by Hungarians demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Ferenc Gyursany for lying to the nation. A crowd of between
SOMALIA
Prime minister asks for international help Interim Prime Minister, Ali Mohamed Ghedi, has appealed for aid against the Al Qaeda and terrorist expansion in the country. He spoke in Kenya
NEPAL
Rebels accused of human rights violations A United Nations human rights agency has accused Nepalese Maoist insurgents of continuing to commit human rights abuse. The Office of the High Commissioner
A point of view – Divine revelations
By MARGARET BROWN I HAVE listened to stories of instant divine revelation at various times in my pilgrimage and marvelled that these things have happened, but never to me. Born
TECHNOLOGY
Toshiba recalls laptop batteries TOSHIBA IS to replace around 340,000 Sony laptop computer batteries worldwide, the third recall of faulty batteries made by Sony since mid August. The batteries, used
Success and suspicion
By MARGARET BROWN BIG BROTHER is watching you! The book by George Orwell entitled 1984 came out in 1949 and, at the time, the very idea of “thought police” monitoring