Since my last adventure with asparagus and different recipes to use it, I had been itching to try the creamy Asparagus Soup that is considered to be a favorite way to devour the goodness of these stems. Its really easy
This is what gossip-mavens live for: Madonna and Guy Ritchie's marriage is breaking up. Baseball player Alex Rodriguez is seen sneaking into Madonna's apartment in the middle of the night. Rodriguez and his wife split after five years. Lenny Kravitz
KABUL (PAN): Three coalition soldiers died when their vehicle plunged into a river in the Arghandab district of the southern Kandahar province on Monday, the US military said on Tuesday.
Mr Bush said June had been a "tough month" - it was the deadliest month for foreign troops in Afghanistan since the 2001 fall of the Taleban. Records show at least 45 foreign soldiers died in fighting or accidents.
From Wall Street Journal:Five weeks before the Olympic Games kick off in Beijing, China already has a new sports hero: tennis star Zheng Jie.Ms. Zheng, dubbed the "golden flower" by China's media, is set to make sports history as the
From CNNThe increasing global focus on renewable energy could not have come at a better time for Dr. Shi Zhengrong, an Australian citizen and Chinese-trained scientist who says he got into solar power by chance.Shi, 44, is the chief executive
As reported in The New York Times:After the May earthquake in southwestern Sichuan Province, China sent about 130,000 troops from the army, navy, air force and the Second Artillery Corps scrambling into the mountains in China's broadest deployment of its
Stephanie Clifford writes on the New York Times blog: More than 130 athletes have signed an open letter asking the international community to pressure Sudan for a truce during the Olympics, the activist organization Team Darfur announced at a news
Scott Shane at The New York Times reports:The military trainers who came to Guantánamo Bay in December 2002 based an entire interrogation class on a chart showing the effects of "coercive management techniques" for possible use on prisoners, including "sleep
From Emmanuel Akyeampong, Professor of History at Harvard University, in The Zeleza Post:[...] Since the relationship between China and Africa is evolving, any analysis would be a snapshot in a point of time of a very complex and changing relationship.
Mark Magnier at the Los Angeles Times reports on an infestation of locusts that is threatening the Olympics, set to open in just over a month:Locusts? What is going on here? The litany of near-biblical woes would seem to lack
From Howard W. French in the International Herald Tribune: [...] Western governments led by London and Washington look at Mugabe's rule and see such a clear-cut case of evil that they are at a loss to understand why the rest
The PACE Resolution on the "Fight against Anti-Semitism and Especially its Manifestations in the Mass Media and the Academic Circles" again draws our attention to the commitments undertaken by the OSCE ...
President Serzh Sargsyan of Armenia and Abdullah Gul of Turkey have been invited to festivities dedicated to 10th birthday of Astana, the capital of Kazakhstan. Presidents of Russia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, ...
