The last word.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] You watch a third of the running time before discovering that the characters of the movie Matrix exist only in a futuristic virtual reality. Humans physically exist, in an induced coma. Their brains feel pain, taste the food, engage in fights, experience all bodily functions,...

Poland comes to Canada's rescue.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] It was the height of the squabbling over the war in Afghanistan. A major NATO summit was looming and Prime Minister Stephen Harper was looking for an ally to get him over the logjam of contributing to Afghanistan. Diplomacy was messy. Insults were being hurled...

Urban culture: Long path to change.
Byline: Dheeraj Tiwari Two centuries ago, Charles Dickens summarised the tale of all cities in one line. Call it modesty that he titled the novel - A Tale of Two Cities - but perhaps the opening line of his novel will always stand true for all existing,...

The challenge for Turkey's true friends: the AK Party closure case and the west.
ABSTRACT The recent closure case brought against the ruling Justice and Development Party is a direct assault on Turkey's democracy. For this reason, America should not lose the opportunity to swiftly and unequivocally repudiate the establishment's attempts to re-assert control over Turkish politics by undemocratic means. The...

Not too far: the Cyprus crises of 1963-74 and lessons for present day Iraq.
ABSTRACT The Cyprus tragedy of the past and the Iraq predicament of our times bear striking similarities. Cyprus of the 1960s and 1970s is not too far from Iraq in 2008. The main thrust of this article is that Cyprus presents a useful case study for contemporary...

Travel Security Update.
Feb 11, 2008 Two undersea cables off Egypt, UAE, repaired. Services on two of three broken undersea cables providing Internet services to parts of the Middle East and Asia have been restored after both cables were repaired, an Indian-owned cable operator said on Sunday. Feb 10, 2008...

Ex-queen mother wins tug-of-war for Nepal palace.
KATHMANDU: In 1952, two years after Indra, then Nepal's crown princess, had died, her younger sister Ratna won a battle of will with the political parties and even the then king, Tribhuvan, and succeeded in marrying the then crown prince Mahendra despite great opposition. The new crown...

Date with 8: Pak's tryst with history.
Byline: Shobhan Saxena LAHORE: The wheel of history never sits idle. In Pakistan, it's constantly turning, reinventing itself and skidding off the rails. There have been so many turning points in the nation's short history that it seems the country is going round and round...

Gandhi was sued for sedition in A'bad.
Byline: Ashish Vashi AHMEDABAD: It is known in the history of the British Raj as 'The Great Trial'. This was a case of sedition heard in a court in Ahmedabad, leading to the Mahatma Gandhi's first imprisonment in India in 1922. It was the British...

Congress may relent to save Goa govt.
NEW DELHI: Congress leadership appeared to be willing to drop its ministers to save the Digambar Kamat government by acquiescing in the pressure from the restive coalition partners. The leadership, which had resisted the pressure from the rebels to accommodate Babush Mosorette and R Dhavlekar in the government, appears...