The brothers, who have given us, Chak De! India and Aajaa Nachle among others, still cannot get over their experience of working with the Chopras

MOSCOW. (Nikita Petrov for RIA Novosti) - The headquarters of the Leningrad naval base is being transferred from the famous Admiralty building in St. Petersburg to Kronshtadt outside the city. Many assume the Russian military is preparing to transfer the

At least for a while, it looks like Michigan Republican Peter Hoekstra, just elected to his ninth term in the U.S. House of Representatives, is about ready to call it a day. Less than a week after being reappointed as

Oh brother... KING: Much like the star report in the impeachment saga Dana just mentioned. In this criminal complaint there are some non-family friendly language that we won't repeat on a Sunday morning, but that is Barack Obama's best defense

Tonight's Rescue Rangers are Louisiana 1976, ybruti, yatpundit, grog, Got A Grip, and joyful with dadanation as editor. The rescued diaries Got a Grip evokes the sights and sounds of Cairo during Ramadan while describing in Shoes a heated confrontation

No airborne footwear for Mister Bush in Kabul. They know how to treat war criminals there. President Hamid Karzai awards Bush the Ghazi Amanullah Khan Medal for service to Afghanistan. + + + The Overnight News Digest is posted and

The Tories seize on a minister's comments that Britain is facing a recession "deeper than any that we have known".

A Department for Transport cost-cutting scheme to save £57m has left taxpayers with an £81m bill, an MPs' report claims.

Hit Me Baby One More Time T here's an ambiguous undercurrent to the catchy pop smash that introduced a pigtailed Britney Spears to the world in 1999 so much so that Jive Records changed the song's title to " Baby

O nce upon a time, Detroit was known as "the arsenal of Democracy" because the city's big three automakers converted so quickly from turning out civilian vehicles to producing the tanks and trucks that " helped win World War II

T he incoming Obama administration is scrambling to distance itself from the scandal emanating from the president-elect's home state. It is still too early to tell how much Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich's alleged attempt to sell the president-elect's Senate seat

T he powerful Israel Lobby, with its support of the Iraq war and its insistence that Iran be denuclearized, by force if necessary, is a major constituent of the War Party in the United States. Some Americans who wish to

TEHRAN - Would a negotiated agreement between Iran and the Barack Obama administration be feasible if Obama sent the right signals? The answer one gets from Iranian officials and think-tank analysts is, "Yes, but " The Iranian national security establishment

BAQUBA - A nurse at Baquba General Hospital asked Ahmed Ali, who co-authored this report, for a bribe to look after his sick baby. It was hardly an exceptional demand. Patients around Iraq have begun commonly to speak of the

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A McKinsey study on the last slowdown of 2001-2002 showed the companies that emerged successfully from the downturn were those that used their cash, did lots of mergers and acquisitions, and stepped on the accelerator.

YesLEWIS MACDONALD, tourism spokesman, Scottish Labour Party

HERE is a conundrum. How is it possible for the Lisbon Treaty to be modified substantially - so it can be accepted by the Irish - without the rest of the European Union's

BOB TAYLOR, from Glenrothes, makes a plea for borrowing powers

WHY should we have a separate internet top-level domain (TLD) for Scotland? Why .sco or .scot, instead of the present .uk?