While Detroit's Big Three wrangle with the US Congress for a bailout, we could be witnessing another extinction story.

Will Killinocchi prove a turning point in the battle being fought between the Sri Lankan army and the LTTE? If the LTTE loses the battle, it could mark the beginning of its end as an insurgent force, but not as

By publicly denying a burial to the killed terrorists, with enough publicity worldwide, we can hopefully make a dent in the brainwashing of the would-be suicide bombers that since they are not assured of an Islamic burial they will not

In an economic downturn such as this, when the markets have crashed, there are many more Satyams which are vulnerable to hostile takeovers because the promoters do not have a controlling stake. Such promoters will be tempted to take cash

We should be less doctrinaire about monetary and exchange rate policies and stimulation packages.

It is unfortunate that Corporate India's image should be dented in this fashion; but it would be even more unfortunate if the Satyam case did not lead to a more careful scrutiny of what exactly goes on in Corporate India.

Pakistan represents 'strategic depth' in Mullah Omar's war with the US, then a staging camp for the conquest of India.

From being a low-fare, low frills airline, GoAir has out of the blue announced the launch of something called 'GoComfort'.

Vanilla is the pod of a climbing orchid and widely grown in the tropics, especially Madagascar, the West Indies and Fiji. The bean pods are cured and turn black. The extract and essence are both made by soaking vanilla pods

South Korea withdraws the last of its troops from Iraq, ending what was once the third-largest mission there.

Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari is to visit Afghanistan for talks with President Hamid Karzai on ways to combat militants.

A minister of Indira Gandhi's cabinet betrayed India's "war objectives" to the Central Intelligence Agency in December 1971, causing an abrupt end to the Bangladesh war under vicious US arm twisting.This is the highlight of the book CIA's Eye on

The Iraqi journalist who threw shoes at US President George W Bush apologises to the Iraqi prime minister, a spokesman says.

Baghdad swirls with rumours about detained officials

Palestinian factions in Gaza say a six-month ceasefire with Israel is unlikely to be renewed after it expires on Friday.

ArmInfo. One more reason why the Armenian society is disintegrated is that the Armenian opposition is led by the first president of Armenia Levon Ter-Petrossyan, the leader of the Democratic Party of Armenia Aram Sargsyan said during a press-conference today.Sargsyan

ArmInfo. Armenian apology campaign launched by a group of scientists, writers, artists, journalists and representatives of nongovernmental organizations was discussed at the meeting of Foreign Relations Commission of Turkish parliament on December 17. APA reports quoting Turkish media that parliamentarians

ArmInfo. Winter Festival Armenia 2008 will get underway in Yerevan on 21 December and continue till January 5 2009, Raffi Niziblyan, Director of Deem Communication Company, the event organizer, said at a press conference Thursday. He said the festival will

ArmInfo. Today, the maximum buying rates at commercial banks of Yerevan were 308,5 drams for 1 dollar, 438 drams for 1 EUR and 10,9 drams for 1 Russian ruble. The minimum selling rates stood at 309 drams for 1 dollar,

ArmInfo. Yesterday's decision by PACE Monitoring Committee is extremely worrying for Armenia, especially given the growing influence of economic crisis on Armenia that will undoubtedly crease serious problems with democratization and make Armenia's positions in the international arena even weaker.