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Biden refuses to back down despite Atlanta fiasco

Following a disastrous performance at the debate stage in Atlanta, there is a growing clamour within the ruling Democratic party and the mainstream American media for President Joe Biden to step......

US opens new embassy in Jerusalem amid 41 deaths in Gaza

The United States on Monday opened its embassy in Jerusalem under a controversial move by President Donald Trump that has infuriated the Palestinians, who clashed with Israeli soldiers who shot......

Trump: Qatar crisis will be solved 'fairly easily'

United States President Donald Trump has offered to mediate the crisis between Qatar and its Arab neighbours, saying their dispute could be solved 'fairly easily'. Saudi Arabia,......

Be prepared for China's Electronic Warfare

'In India, China's capacities to conduct new types of warfare is critically underestimated,' says Claude Arpi. General Bipin Rawat, the chief of the army staff, recently mentioned the future of......

Donald Trump to send David to Israel

US President-elect Donald Trump has nominated David Friedman, a fervent opponent to "two-state solution" to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, as his ambassador to Israel to maintain the special......

What good are economists, anyway?

Economists mostly failed to predict the worst economic crisis since the 1930s. Now they can't agree how to solve it. People are starting to wonder: What good are economists anyway? A commenter on a......

Why the women of Wall Street are disappearing

Nadine Mentor, 29, had just landed in New York--and found out, she says, that she'd bagged one of the biggest gets of her career at Citigroup: a role for the bank leading a bond offering, valued at......

Fixing those castles in the air

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost," said Henry David Thoreau, an outstanding American author, poet and philosopher of the 19th century. "That is where they should be,......

Towards an 'idea' economy

Consider the idea of the evolution of the universe. Aristotle first said that there was some connection between the two heavenly bodies - the sun and the earth. Ptolemy postulated that the sun......

Nilekani: Scaling the heights of a flat world

Nandan Nilekani of Infosys has had a great year. So great that he faces a daunting problem: He has to hire 28,500 workers--in a single year. Oh, and while he's at it, he has to reshape his......

Oscar buzz for Anil Kapoor-starrer

As he was dropping me at the Varsity Theatre in Toronto, the cab driver asked me what film I was going to see at 8 am. I said it was Slumdog Millionaire. "And it starts at 8 in the morning?" he......

Brother Bear, an idealistic quest

Though not as entertaining, inventive or colourful as some of the recent Disney animated films like Lilo & Stitch, Brother Bear has ample attraction for children between four and ten years, as seen......

The tragedy of the Friedmans

Andrew Jarecki is the very young, very rich founder of Moviefone.When he set out to make his first film, he chose as his subject New York's number one birthday clown, Silly Billy. Also known as......

Aus Open PHOTOS: Djokovic wins marathon battle; Serena, Sharapova to face-off in last eight

Photos from matches played Day 7 of the Australian Open at Melbourne Park on Sunday IMAGE: Serbia's Novak Djokovic celebrates a point in his fourth round match against France's Gilles Simon at the......

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