Twenty West Texas A & M University students who recently traveled to Poland will share their travel experiences at a public forum on Monday.
The event is scheduled for 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. in the Branding Iron Theatre in WT’s Sybil B. Harringon Fine Arts Complex. It is free and open to the public.
The students, all [...]
Defense Minister Ehud Barak postponed a trip to Washington scheduled to begin Sunday in the wake of Thursday’s CIA briefing to Congress over Israel’s September 2007 airstrike on a Syrian nuclear installation.
Barak was slated to meet with senior U.S. officials including Vice President Dick Cheney and Secretary of Defense Robert Gates during the two-day visit.
Barak [...]
WHAT, if anything, did former American president Jimmy Carter achieve in his recent, controversial talks with leaders of Hamas and Syria?
Mr. Carter’s backers argue, as the former president does, that no peace deal in the Middle East can be achieved without talking to all parties, including Hamas, which has been frozen out by the other [...]
Try this once in your life: Stand on a boat as it moves slowly down the narrow waterway of a foreign country. The world passes by, close and observable, and you watch it with a sense of elevated station. The clarity, the buoyancy, the cushiness make you feel privileged in a way even the sportiest [...]
We departed from New York City aboard Air China, flying non-stop for 13 hours over the North Pole and Siberia. Huge cracks could be seen in the polar ice cap, breaking up due to global warming.
The plane arrived in Beijing’s large new ultra modern airport, which opened just three days prior for the upcoming Olympics. [...]
NBK Automobiles recently organised for its employees and members a dream dhow trip from the Doha Corniche towards Al Safliyya Island, away from the city turmoil. From morning till dawn NBK Automobiles Mercedes-Benz business family members had fun through competing on jet skis, singing and dancing, and swimming and playing with fireworks.
Was a banquet including [...]
President Bush and King Abdullah of Jordan met privately for breakfast on Wednesday morning, as the White House tries to resuscitate the ailing Middle East peace talks before Mr. Bush leaves for Israel next month.
But the Jordanian Embassy said afterward that the king told Mr. Bush that negotiations between Palestinians and Israelis “should be based [...]
The ‘Barclays Triple Win’ draw launched on February 18 finally came to an end yesterday when Barclays Bank picked five lucky winners from a draw held at the parking yard of the Lugogo Mall.
“This was part of our new promise - grow with us and we are happy that many customers participated. Many other winners [...]
Before a crowd of nearly 60,000 people at Yankee Stadium, Pope Benedict XVI on Sunday ended his first visit to the United States as leader of the Roman Catholic Church with a reminder to the flock that “obedience” to the authority of the Trip Rewards church is the foundation of their religious faith.
During a six-day [...]
Civil unrest in Tibet. Toxic toy production. Unyielding pollution. Support of the Sudanese government and its policies in Darfur.
Such contentious issues contribute to China’s international image at a time when the world’s most populous nation – and host of the 2008 Summer Olympics – bills itself as evermore open, modern and progressive.
And they come as [...]
