British Prime Minister Gordon Brown handed President Bush good news on two fronts Monday: a modest increase in Britain’s troops for the tough Afghanistan fight and a fresh European effort to squeeze Iran’s nuclear ambitions.
The deeply unpopular prime minister seemed to calculate he had more to gain politically by being hawkish than he risked losing [...]
Croatia face a perfect test away to in-form Hungary in their final Euro 2008 warm-up on Saturday, assistant manager Aljosa Asanovic said on Friday.
“The match is the final assessment of our abilities before the European championship and it will show how much progress we have made in training,” Asanovic told reporters in Croatia’s training base [...]
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Thursday expressed hope that Russia would increase its annual contributions to the global body and threw his weight behind Moscow’s ambitions to host a Middle East peace conference.
Ban expressed hope that Russia would increase its UN contributions in line with its growing economic might, while appearing with Foreign Minister [...]
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Thursday expressed hope that Russia would increase its annual contributions to the global body and threw his weight behind Moscow’s ambitions to host a Middle East peace conference.
Ban expressed hope that Russia would increase its UN contributions in line with its growing economic might, while appearing with Foreign Minister [...]
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Thursday expressed hope that Russia would increase its annual contributions to the global body and threw his weight behind Moscow’s ambitions to host a Middle East peace conference.
Ban expressed hope that Russia would increase its UN contributions in line with its growing economic might, while appearing with Foreign Minister [...]
IS THERE anything amazing about a bunch of Crows and Magpies fighting it out in the desert? Not usually. But in this case, it’s the Adelaide Crows and the Collingwood Magpies, it’s a game of Australian rules football and the desert is not in Australia but in Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates, in the [...]
In town for one day on Thursday to lobby the government for a change in its tack on Iran’s nuclear policy, Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, left with only general assurances.
“We are fulfilling the wishes of our Israeli partners and are taking a firm stance,” Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told his counterpart at a news [...]
IS THERE anything amazing about a bunch of Crows and Magpies fighting it out in the desert? Not usually. But in this case, it’s the Adelaide Crows and the Collingwood Magpies, it’s a game of Australian rules football and the desert is not in Australia but in Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates, in the [...]
IS THERE anything amazing about a bunch of Crows and Magpies fighting it out in the desert? Not usually. But in this case, it’s the Adelaide Crows and the Collingwood Magpies, it’s a game of Australian rules football and the desert is not in Australia but in Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates, in the [...]
THERE is a particular moment each morning when my husband,
having ironed his shirt and scanned the paper, leaves for work.
“I’m late,” he’ll say, looking at his watch and pushing his chair
from the table, “I must go”.
I’m standing at the kitchen counter in my running clothes,
putting jam on toast, or cutting the pith from an orange, [...]
