Tobey Maguire freaked out at the paps outside Madeo. Yeah okay, it must suck having them up in your face all the time. Still, some people deal with it okay, and others?Maguire is a little unhinged anyway. Addiction problems and
Ebony magazine, one of the world's great publications, along with Black Enterprise magazine, is issuing 8 covers for its August issue with 8 different 'coolest brothers.' They include:1) Muhammad Ali, 2) Marvin Gaye, 3) Samuel Jackson, 4) Jay-Z, 5) Senator
In a 2008 United Nations report, Asma Jahangir Jahangir, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief, and Manfred Nowak, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture,...
YIHUANG, China-Dragging on a cigarette between his wrinkled lips, Hou Fengqi fingered a dusty bamboo bow and rusty iron-tipped arrows, before recounting his days as a "tiger hunting hero" in t...
From The Himalayan Times:Tourism industry may face a substantial loss this season as the Chinese Embassy in Kathmandu is not issuing visa for foreign visitors travelling through Nepal. "Nepal will lose more than 20,000 visitors heading to Tibet," according to
From AP, via the International Herald Tribune:With a month to go before the Olympics — a time when most host cities are set to offer the world a warm greeting — Beijing seems wary.Hotels are empty as stricter visa rules
Jonathan Watts reports in the Guardian:Chinese security forces claimed today to have foiled five "terrorist" plots against the Olympics amid an intensifying pre-games crackdown that has seen police kill five Uighur Muslim suspects and deport a British-Tibetan woman in the
The Economist compares the government's reaction to thorny issues relating to the status of both Tibet and Taiwan:The opening of regular charter flights across the Taiwan Strait, allowing thousands of mainland tourists to visit the island, is the most important
Azerbaijan intends to require that the OSCE briefs on the process of replacement of the Minsk Group Co-chairs dealing with the Nagorno Karabakh conflict settlement. "Presently, Azerbaijan is awaiting ...
Turkey-Armenia relations have changed, according to Professor Yusuf Halacoglu, head of Turkish Historical Society. "I receive proposals from Dahsnaks to find out what really happened. If Armenians are ...
The Armenian Patriarchate of Jerusalem has taken steps to computerize and preserve the genealogical records of community members dating back over a century and a half, rescuing them from oblivion and ...
On July 7 the sixth court trial session on Hrant Dink's murder was started in Istanbul. As Ogun Samast had reached the age of 18 by the date, the trial was open and press was admitted. Samast, organizers ...
The chief of the Police of Armenia Alik Sargsyan appointed Lieutenant Colonel Norair Muradkhanyan as head of the passport and visa department of the Police. Before Muradkhanyan was the head of the office ...
Member of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation-Dashnaktsutiun (ARFD) Alvard Petrossian lives on 4/3 Kiyevian. She says the residents of their building are terrorised by the owners and visitors of objects i...
Amid the kind of hype possible only for a new Apple product, the latest Apple iPhone is hitting stores Friday with reviews that say the iconic communications device mostly meets its high expectations, dpa reported. Stores in some 20 countries
The United Nations appealed Thursday for a whopping 482 million dollars to help Myanmar's military regime rebuild the nation devastated by Cyclone Nargis in May, which killed an estimated 140,000 people and left 2.4 million others in dire needs, dpa
Locals from Jumla, Mugu, Dolpa and Dipayal districts trek Saipal and Api mountains in Chautari village every summer to lay hands on Yarchagumba, popularly known as Nepal's Viagra. The herb can fetch up to Rs 6 lakh a kilogram in
The PAEW team, led by Mohammed Bin Abdullah Al Mahrouqi, its Chairman, explained efforts the authority was making to provide people throughout the country with basic services, especially in the wake of increased electricity consumption, power failure and water scarcity
The Assistant General Secretary of Women and Children Affairs at the Bahrain General Federation for Trade Unions, Suad Mubarak, told Khaleej Times yesterday that most recruitment agencies demand one to three months' salaries of domestic helps for obtaining work permits.
