| Pak must nail Lakhvi to prove to world its resolve to crush terrorism: Editorial Citing the rejection of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) operational head Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi's bail plea, an editorial in a leading Pakistani newspaper has said that it is time for the country to evolve a strong legal system to boost its fight against... | |
| 'Keep India out of Turkmenistan gas project' Pakistan must not let 'sworn enemy' India join the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan gas pipeline project to prevent it benefiting and acquiring more means to 'oppress the Kashmiri people as well as plot against Pakistan', an editorial in a Pakistani newspaper said... |
| The Root: Can Selling O'Keefe's Art Save A University? Fisk University is on the brink. The endowment of the tiny, historic school in Nashville, which opened its doors to newly freed slaves in 1865, is depleted. Every building on the campus where poet... |
| The New Republic: The Environment Paradox Here's a paradox for you. Most ecologists would agree that we're ravaging the Earth's natural resources at an unsustainable rate — and pushing up against some dangerous thresholds in the... |
| David McCann: It's all about the name on the label For the majority of products this is undeniable, but for some "heritage" brands - like Heinz and Coca-Cola - the opposite is true: become too modern and brand loyalty is at risk. According to a... |
| Talk of the Town: No prizes for awards team after blunder However, such advance scheduling appears to have escaped the team behind this year's Young Minority Ethnic Awards, attended each year by dozens of organisations from the Capital.Organisers of the... |
| Gina Davidson: Orange protest is out of order hat other lesser faiths such as Catholicism were a blight on the nation of Scotland. In fact, I don't remember a single lesson in hate towards anyone or anything.Yet 450 years since the Reformation,... |
| Christian Jennings: Serbia may be out in the cold until Mladic is arrested While we are preparaed to punish Serbia for not handing overMladic and offer substantial reward for his capture we ignore the leaders in countries like Sudan who are far worse than Mladic. I know he... |
| Editorial: The Real Say on Pay The Financial Times reported this week that lawyers for corporate America are warning of a “logistical nightmare” from a provision in the new financial reform law that requires companies... |
| Editorial: On Course for a Cleaner Hudson The cleanup of the Hudson River by the General Electric Company — dredging industrial pollutants that have been poisoning the river for 60 years — finally started last year. That is the... |
| Editorial: When Warriors Hurt Themselves “Dwell time” is military shorthand for the precious home-front visits back to family life that soldiers enjoy between the multiple deployments of modern warfare. The need for enough dwell... |
| John McTernan on Tony Blair's memoirs: Shades of The Godfather . . . sexed up with Prescott's pelvic thrust at Prince Charles It's an odd moment when you realise that your life has become history. The publication of Tony Blair's memoirs A Journey brought home to me just how long it is since Blair was in No10, and I was... |
| Mev Brown: City begging for a change in culture The debate in Edinburgh about begging has been dragging on for months, with the council still unable to make any firm decisions, although there is talk of introducing so-called "giving boxes", which... |
| John Gibson: That's the spirit with Lorraine TALK the hind legs off a dozen donkeys, so she would. Lorraine Chase is invariably good for a gab, as I rediscovered at The Dome where she'd been starring in the Fringe in a two-hander much to do... |
| China makes its North Korea move By Peter Lee The Barack Obama administration's policy of "strategic reassurance" vis-a-vis China appears to be yielding its first fruits - the profoundly unreassuring image of President Hu... |
| Al-Qaeda presses a point with Lahore attack By Syed Saleem Shahzad ISLAMABAD - After announcing the formal end to combat operations in Iraq, United States President Barack Obama said the next target was "disrupting, dismantling and... |
| The degree zero of culture was no hint of 9/11, or the invasion of Iraq, or the "war on terror", or the rebranding of the AfPak war. We tried everything, but we couldn't even get a glimpse of Mullah Omar. Osama bin... |
| Clawing back credibility in Kyrgyzstan By Yong Kwon American airmen sometimes call the Manas Transit Center in Kyrgyzstan "the frontier of freedom". While this may be an apt name for the last place soldiers see before flying into... |
| Iraqis uneasy over what happens next By Heather Maher and Charles Recknagel United States President Barack Obama has kept his promise to draw down the number of US troops in Iraq to fewer than 50,000 by September 1. But ... |
| Sheen wearingoff Indian growth By Kunal Kumar Kundu BANGALORE - India's 8.8% economic growth in the three months through June stands out like a beacon in a world clouded by pessimism. Not surprisingly, the government and... |
| Pakistan mulls 'flood taxes' By Syed Fazl-e-Haider KARACHI - The government in Islamabad may impose a 2% tax on all imports to generate about 50 billion rupees (US$584 million) in additional revenue to pay for... |
| Malaysia reaps reform benefits ethnic Malays was repealed. It is perhaps no coincidence that the Kuala Lumpur Composite Index (full name, FTSE Bursa Malaysia KLCI, and based upon the share prices of the 30 largest companies... |
| Why The Tea Party Is Like A Starfish, Not A Spider September 2, 2010 What do Wikipedia and Craigslist have in common with the Tea Party movement? They succeed by being decentralized, says Rod Beckstrom, co-author of the management... |
| Taipan Publishing Group Launches New Editorial Service for Smart Investing Taipan Publishing Group announced today that investors struggling to understand the financial world will now have a guide to simplify investing with the launch of a new free e-letter, Smart Investing... |
| Leader: Blair's journey ended in a false dawn for Britain His attitude to devolution was certainly practical and pragmatic, given that he had no option in the matter. Scottish and Welsh devolution was a foreign policy commitment that had to be implemented,... |
| Evening News Caption Competition - Thursday September 2, 2010 This competition is open to readers aged 18 years and over. The weekly winner will be chosen by our judging panel. The editor's decision is final.Usual Evening News rules apply. Weekly winners must... |
| A heavy price to ending birthright citizenship The U.S. risks a slow economy, fraud and a disenfranchised underclass, among other problems, if it renounces birthright citizenship. Countries that have done so have had to... |
| Housing market still hairy We knew the housing market news was grim when the National Assn. of Realtors released numbers last week showing that existing home sales dropped 27.2% from June to July, a 15-year low. We knew things... |
| Doyle McManus: The economics of war President Obama's speech on the end of formal combat in Iraq made a case for subjecting future decisions — about war, or troop strength in Afghanistan, or the size of the Defense budget —... |
| Blowback: A gay judge's sexuality isn't news Proposition 8 case Walker adjudicated. Lauter states that judges "bring the totality of their life experience to the cases on which they rule. As a result, certain aspects of their humanity are... |
| Another blast for Walker, if not for Pirates CHICAGO -- The Pirates' 5-3 loss Wednesday afternoon to the Chicago Cubs can be condensed to two essential elements: 1. Neil Walker, visibly approaching each at-bat with a gloriously carefree... |
| U.S. Open: Belarusian collapses after injury NEW YORK -- The scene was simply scary: Victoria Azarenka, 21, on the rise in the WTA rankings, paused about a half-hour into her second-round match Wednesday at the U.S. Open, then staggered,... |
| Editorial: More troubles at CU dental school The problems just keep coming at the University of Colorado's dental school. This week's revelations, contained in a Denver Post story by reporters Kevin Vaughan and Jennifer Brown, were... |
| A response to Pfc. Benn Pfc. Aluf Benn spent his years in the army in the Military Police in Lebanon. Yesterday, with commendable courage, he revealed his military routines in these pages... |
| Values learned at home Recent violence in West Valley, involving the stabbing of a young man attending the school where I teach, has drawn my thoughts to a previous institution where I taught. Students there were enrolled... |
| Method in bad taste I don't begrudge the Salt Lake Boys & Girls Club for raising money for a good cause, but I was concerned about the method in Thursday's story about raising funds by paying money to be the one to... |
| Bolster high school rigor I was sorry to see Gov. Gary Herbert inject religion into the campaign in response to Peter Corroon's thoughtful idea of improving the skills of graduating high school students. I hope my family's... |
| Sins of the fathers Since when has it been right to punish children for the sins of their fathers? Don't we believe that human beings should be punished for their own sins? Yet that is what Rep. Paul Ray, R-Clearfield,... |
| Sen. Hatch gets it right One wing of the Republican Party has taken the question of building a Muslim community center two blocks from the World Trade Center site and crudely tried to make it into a divisive political issue.... |
| Terror threats ever present A cell phone taped to a bottle of Pepto-Bismol isn't inherently dangerous. That odd combination, along with three knives, a box cutter and watches in an air traveler's checked luggage triggered... |
| Colorado races could be key in tea party power DENVER — Put away the pitchfork metaphors that are prevalent in this season of populist ferment: Colorado's Senate contest is a duel of distinguished diplomas. Tea partiers toiled mightily to... |
| Let's hope Glenn Beck gets well soon NEW YORK — Despite all the words spilled in evaluating Glenn Beck's tent-less revival last weekend, the real meaning may have been hiding in plain sight. Beck's "Restoring Honor" gathering on... |
| 'Last of the Luddites' marking the passing of the age of film Most people have no idea what "E-6" is. To avid baseball fans, E-6 is the way to record an error by a shortstop on your scorecard. But there is another E-6, in photography. This E-6 is the developer... |
| Do voters still matter? WTKK , the governor refused to commit to implementing a cut in the sales tax should voters approve one in November. It’s one thing to argue - as the governor did - that a cut in the sales tax... |
| Two arrested in Lawrenceville drug bust Two people were arrested last night after Pittsburgh police said they discovered $9,000 worth of heroin in their Lawrenceville home. Police said Freddrick Gravely, 31, and Malika Roebuck, 35, will... |
| Batch forgotten man in QB race Under normal circumstances, tonight's final preseason game for the Steelers against the Carolina Panthers would mean little more than keeping the starters healthy and allowing one last chance for a... |
| The Armadillos roll rootsy sounds up into tight ball How does an indie rocker gain entry to the world of old-time roots music? The answer for guitarist Austin Vanasdale was simple -- start a band with a banjo player. With Butler High school chums Matt... |
| Iraq bookend: Obama's speech closes an unsettling chapter President Barack Obama delivered an important speech Tuesday night, from the Oval Office as befitting the occasion. His address to the nation closed the door on the Iraq war, praised the U.S. forces... |
| The Miles case: Eight months later, answers go begging On. Jan. 12, Homewood resident Jordan Miles, 18, was confronted by three undercover police officers on Tioga Street as he made his way from his mother's home to his grandmother's nearby. The... |
| Shift in season: The heat is still on, but change is under way It's premature to call it summer's last gasp. But there is a definite change in the rhythm. Morning traffic is heavier. The Oakland bars and pizza joints are busy again. There's only a handful of... |
