In order to restore peace in the country, the Pakistan government should immediately hold a dialogue with the 'Pakistan' Taliban on the pattern of the measures being taken by the Afghan government, an editorial in a Pakistani paper said...

An editorial in a leading Pakistani newspaper reckons that authorities handling the 'spot-fixing' scandal in England are favouring a lot of 'misguided...

Last Thursday’s fire on a shallow-water oil production platform in the Gulf of Mexico claimed no lives and has caused no environmental damage. It was, however, a nerve-racking reminder that...

Japan’s frequent leadership changes are dizzying and increasingly counterproductive. The country has had 14 prime ministers in the last two decades and could soon have another. That would make...

People bought bulbous vehicles like Hummers and Suburbans. The rule was, The Smaller the Woman, the Bigger the Car — so you would see a 90-pound lady in tennis whites driving a 4-ton truck with...

After nine years, my husband, Dodd, and I will end what we consider to be our life's work. Our thriving San Francisco felt rug business, Peace Industry, is a casualty of recent U.S. sanctions that...

In November 2008, 61 percent of San Francisco voters approved Proposition T to provide treatment on demand for residents suffering from alcohol and drug dependency. Despite this voter mandate, Mayor...

Save your house by not paying your mortgage. Sounds crazy, doesn't it? But for more than a million homeowners, this might be the right answer. Those homeowners, for whatever reason, have defaulted on...

Recent news about the second-round awards of Race to the Top federal education funds brought a difficult reminder. More than 13 million students and 1 million educators in nine states will share $3.4...

The failure of Keynesian pump-priming seems to be lost on recent White House occupants. George W. Bush twice tried to stimulate the economy, once after 9/11 and again in the early days of the recent...

As it stands, the American dream is undermining our economy. Our society rightly values homeownership, high rates of which are tied to better educational performance among children, lower crime...

How dramatically the pendulum of fear has swung in the past year--from worries about the fragile recovery to panic about the national debt and back to anxiety about growth. Swinging along with it has...

• • • Having spent nearly two years of my life in an Arab Muslim nation and having extensively studied the principles of the Qur'an, I feel that I am somewhat qualified to address...

Tom Meersman's Aug. 31 article "North Woods landscape is under attack" made clear the grave threats to our favorite places in a warming world. Ironically, our state's rich forests are on...

he would hold a hearing to consider a posthumous pardon for the state’s most notorious resident — William Bonney, a k a Henry McCarty, a k a Billy the Kid — a lot of us wondered if...

In addition, Israel showed that in exchange for peace with Egypt it could evacuate settlements. Those who favor a Greater Israel also understand that another outpost and another neighborhood will not...

The 600 jobs that Barclays is creating in Glasgow offer some relief to Scotland's battered financial services sector which, along with other indications of jobs growth in the sector, gives us hope of...

Finance secretary John Swinney tonight begins a series of meetings around Scotland in which he will ask members of the public for their ideas on how to deal with the Scottish Government's budget...

Napoleon always took advice from his generals individually as he didn't want their views to be infected by "group-think". This is still a model for decision making to this day. One wonders, however,...

Defeat, at least when it is applied to himself or the SNP, is a word which simply does not exist in Alex Salmond's mind. Of all the politicians I have seen over the years, the SNP leader is by far...

I'm using the word "we", but not all post-thirties women are freaked out at the thought of revealing all. This week, the world was treated to yet another fearless, frontal flash of Demi Moore, who...

Recently, I was on a road in the Southern Choma District of Zambia to meet with Rosemary Pisani, a smallholder farmer and mother of eight who struggled to feed her children prior to joining a...

Such has been the deluge of job loss announcements by financial services companies in recent weeks that news of 600 jobs being created by Barclays in Glasgow almost provokes a...

THOMAS Docherty, the recently-elected Labour MP for Dunfermline and West Fife, yesterday became the first of the new Scottish intake to put down a serious marker in...

WHEN Glasgow North West MP John Robertson suggested in the Commons yesterday that MPs were largely talking to themselves about voting reform and the general public did not care much, he was probably...

After great cost and even greater media speculation, the nation – or the early-rising part of it – tuned in yesterday to see if a dumpy bloke and an angular woman could generate any sexual...

IF PRICE movements are a guide, bungalows are back. They have risen by 8 per cent over the year to end June, more than any other house type. But in truth, did bungalows ever go away? Yes, they have...

Sky Ride , along closed city streets, joining others in Manchester last month, Birmingham next Sunday and other towns and cities too. The draw is not just communal exercise, but a chance to see a...

Their historic image was that of modest polities, skilled at compromise, who arranged their own affairs well and had energy and resources to spare for European and international purposes. But the...

Nick Clegg cannot have enjoyed his first day back in parliament yesterday, bashed about from all sides over his bill to redraw parliamentary boundaries and hold a referendum on the alternative vote....

War and the City ,” by the Iraq war veteran Roy Scranton, chronicling his path from youth to soldier to civilian writer in New York City. To read from the beginning, go to the first...

The Hebrew year just ending, 5770, was a good one from an economic perspective. It was also a surprising year. No one expected the Israeli economy to recover so quickly from the world economic crisis...

And thus the Jewish nation is once again alive and well, active and building itself in its homeland, which is connected to its past with bonds of love; a country committed to the welfare and needs of...

Defense Minister Ehud Barak won a victory this week in the war that he began - the war to determine who the next Israel Defense Forces chief of staff would be and when he would be appointed. The...

Amid all of the talk of modernization, the Russian economy is gradually changing, but it is doing so despite government modernization policies and programs, not because of them. In recent...

Russia can expect plenty of political turbulence this fall. The regional elections in October are only a month away, and the outcome will be crucial for both United Russia and the sanctioned...

Even after the passage of new financial regulations in the United States — the Dodd-Frank Act — and the publication of the Basel Committee’s new capital requirements, the financial...

Neil Walker's two-run home run, a strong emergency start from Brian Burres, and some tightrope bullpen work lifted the Pirates past the first-place Atlanta Braves, 3-1, this afternoon before 15,330...

The Pirates, with their final September recalls, have added outfielder Brandon Moss and Alex Presley, shortstop Pedro Ciriaco, catcher Jason Jaramillo and pitchers Brad Lincoln, Justin Thomas, Brian...

The announcement by the Basque terrorist organization ETA that it will no longer carry out armed attacks is potentially of immense importance for...

Israel is the only country in the region that purportedly has nuclear warheads. Arab countries scored a major victory with May’s NPT Review Conference resolution, which ignored Iran’s ...

The recent visits to New Delhi by Afghan Foreign Minister Zalmay Rasul and National Security Adviser Rangin Dadfar Spanta are of great significance from three perspectives. Primarily, these...

As the national flags are furled up after Independence Day until the next occasion for leaders to fill the air with patriotic speeches listing progress and achievements, a candid assessment of the...

It was an image that conveyed the human cost of the Pakistan floods — and the failure to deliver aid to those affected — more powerfully than any statistic: four young children lying on a...

A Chinese hospital is seeking international medical help to artificially grow skin for two affected survivors of a plane crash in northeast China last month. The Brazilian-made jet of Henan...

Maurice Williamson clearly struck a nerve when he observed that opposition to foreign investment was more about racism than overseas ownership. As much was obvious from the Prime Minister's response....

The Benedum Center will be the site for "A Bob Marley Celebration" on Thursday, Sept. 23 at 7 p.m., featuring members of the reggae legend's family. The Benedum (formerly the Stanley Theater) is the...

Eta has declared a ceasefire . The violent Basque separatist group, which wants an independent homeland, has just released a statement claiming that it had ceased “armed offensive actions”. For...

September 6, 2010 The Drug Enforcement Administration is seeking Ebonics translators to interpret wire-tapped conversations. Critics fear the move by a federal agency could set a precedent. But...

#1 "It's the SNP that are trying to do something about "No they aren't. Their measures are nanny statist mince of the kind that New Labour came out with regularly.They will not tackle Scotland's...