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Clashes in Basra have killed 40 and injured 200. Months after Coalition forces handed back the city, Iraqi forces face embarrassment if they are unable to control militants, Sky Foreign Affairs correspondent Lisa Holland says.
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Rex Features
Britney Spears has been given a ‘Skinnies’ award for her poor complexion.
Dermatologist Dr. Vail Reese named the singer as the recipient of his Lifetime Achievement gong, saying: “Her persistent acne is the stuff of legend.”
He awarded actor Will Smith, who has suffered from skin problems in the past, with the Action-Packed Acne prize for […]
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Colombia will seek to re-establish diplomatic relations with Ecuador despite a warning from the latter that tension could rise again if it turns out that Colombia’s cross-border attack inside Ecuador on March 1 …
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March 26, 2008 — French President Nicolas Sarkozy said yesterday his country may boycott the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympic Games because of China’s lethal crackdown in Tibet.
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McCain Begins His Golden State Charge
Arizona Senator John McCain is making good on his promise to play in big blue California. He’s heading this month to the Bay Area for some high-end fundraising.
McCain will star at a high ticket fundraising lunch on Wednesday, March 26 at the famed Inn at Spanish Bay in Pebble Beach, […]
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Perhaps the greatest potential danger to the United States and its allies around the world isn’t any big boogeyman out there - after all, George W. Bush himself has said he is “not that concerned” about Osama bin Laden - but rather the reckless, can’t-shoot-straight antics of the U.S. government itself.
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A friend of Lindsay Hawker, the young British teacher murdered in Chiba in March, has posted a comment on one of my posts on the subject. She is enraged by some of the observations by earlier commenters. Her remarks speak for themselves and I think that they are worth drawing attention to in a new […]
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WASHINGTON — The United States and Mexico reached a historic milestone this week in their ongoing journey toward trade integration. As established 15 years ago by NAFTA negotiators, this New Year’s Day was the deadline to eliminate the final export-import barriers between the two nations — specifically those that protected the most contentious products such […]
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There has been much disc ussion recently about how to “manage the rise of China.” The phrase itself is soothing, implying gradualism, predictability and time. Time enough to think and prepare, to take measurements of China’s trajectory and adjust as necessary. If China eventually emerges as a clear threat, there will be time to react. […]
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NEW YORK — Hopes for an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal that will isolate the Hamas radicals who control the Gaza Strip have brightened measurably in recent days, according to European officials visiting here. The real news is that the Europeans report this possible outcome without a frown.
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It is an instinctive transition for Oscar Kashala . The Congolese-born doctor has had a long, lucrative career healing people through the precision of scientific research, and now through government he hopes to heal his countrymen.
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TARUSA, Russia — When a new cardiac unit opened at the municipal hospital here last month, Russian Health Minister Tatyana Golikova sent a letter of congratulations, calling the new facility a “vivid example” of the medical community and private donors working together to improve the lives of ordinary Russians.
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The Defense Department mistakenly shipped secret nuclear missile fuses to Taiwan more than 18 months ago and did not learn that the items were missing until late last week, Pentagon officials acknowledged yesterday, deepening concerns about the security of the U.S. nuclear arsenal.
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GUATEMALA CITY, Sept. 4 — Hurricanes swept ashore in Nicaragua and Mexico within hours of each other Tuesday, the first time Atlantic and Pacific hurricanes have made landfall on the same day since 1998, according to the U.S. National Hurricane Center.
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BOGOTA, Colombia, Jan. 1 — A 3 1/2 -year-old boy whom Marxist rebels pledged to include in a hostage release that collapsed Monday is not in their hands, and has almost certainly been living in a foster care program in Bogota, Colombian officials said in interviews on Tuesday. They believe they have located the boy […]
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Canada’s government yesterday set aside 25 million acres of wilderness — 11 times the size of Yellowstone National Park — for conservation, a move that environmentalists called one of North America’s most important acts of nature preservation.
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FREETOWN, Sierra Leone — Behind concrete barriers topped with coils of razor wire sits an experiment in international justice, the Special Court for Sierra Leone. Built to accommodate a public accounting of atrocities committed during the latter years of the West African nation’s civil war, the well-appointed courtrooms and walls of bulletproof glass form an […]
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After five years of conflict in Iraq, Hollywood seems to have learned a sobering lesson: The only things less popular than the war itself are dramatic films and television shows about the conflict.
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BAGHDAD, March 25 — Gun battles erupted between Iraqi security forces and Shiite armed groups in the southern oil city of Basra on Tuesday as the government launched a security offensive against the feuding militias that have turned the city into one of Iraq’s most dangerous zones.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - At least two people have died in fresh protests in a Tibetan part of western China, reports said on Tuesday, as authorities made arrests in Tibet’s capital Lhasa in an effort to reassert control over the restive region.
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