Tuesday, 06 January 2009
 
By Sultan Al-Qassemi Commentary by Tuesday, January 06, 2009...
This year will be Darwin's year if it is anyone's year. The bicentenary of his birth, and the...
On New Year's Day Atif Irfan boarded an AirTran flight at Reagan National Airport in Washington...
 
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Vice President-elect Joe Biden will visit Southwest Asia later this week as part of a congressional fact-finding tour, his office announced on Monday. Biden spokeswoman Elizabeth Alexander would not...
photo: AP / Tom Gannam

 
WASHINGTON, D. C.: US President-elect Barack Obama will meet Monday with key congressional leaders to discuss a multibillion-dollar economic stimulus plan Democrats hope to pass shortly after Obama takes office. The meeting will be Obama's first with...
photo: AP / Stephan Savoia

 
TOKYO: Asian stocks rose on Monday, with Tokyo hitting the highest level for almost two months as investors hoped that the US economy would start to recover this year after a dire 2008. Investors took their cue from Wall Street, where shares soared...
photo: AP / Shizuo Kambayashi

 
NEW YORK: Arab states plan to introduce a new draft resolution in the UN Security Council aimed at securing an immediate end to the "Israeli aggression" in the Gaza Strip, Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad Al Malki said...
photo: WN / Ahmed Deeb

 
              Text: MOSCOW: Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Monday ordered gas giant Gazprom to start cutting supplies to Ukraine bound for European consumers in response to Kiev's alleged siphoning...
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Eva Schloss will never forget her 15th birthday. On May 11, 1944, she and her mother had just moved to a new hiding place in the Netherlands - their seventh. But the Dutch nurse who had led them there then betrayed them. She was a Nazi double agent;...
photo: AP / Jockel Finck

 
 
 
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