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Jun 23 2009
Given the current economic crisis, designers are not experimenting with avant-garde clothing, but sticking to easy to understand, familiar styles from the classic suit to sporty shorts. The bright summer palette makes the difference. Gucci designer...
Jun 20 2009
Secularism is the religion of contemporary France. And the enforcers of that faith have a new target. “Today ... we are confronted by certain Muslim women wearing the burqa, which covers and fully envelops the body and the head like a moving...
Jun 16 2009
Scintillating knocks by seasoned duo Ramnaresh Sarwan (19 n.o.) and Shivnarine Chanderpaul (17 n.o.) propelled West Indies to the semi-finals of the Twenty20 World knocking England by five wickets via Duckworth-Lewis method in a rain-affected Twenty20...
Jun 9 2009
Fears of a Labour meltdown, as it turned out, were not exaggerated. When the UK results of the European elections were all finally in, the party had recorded some of its poorest results not for 20 years, not for 50 years, but ever. And there was worse:...
Jun 9 2009
We should be wary about the rise of the far right but not panicky. Even though I write commentary pieces for the Daily Mail, I am not given to hysteria. I don’t like all these stupid historical analogies - this is not a re-run of the 1930s. In...
May 30 2009
The BBC has offered to apologise to the Muslim Council of Britain after airing claims the organisation encouraged the killing of British troops. The comments were made by the former Daily Telegraph editor Charles Moore on Thursday’s edition of...
May 29 2009
The first five will return this weekend after the British embassy in Harare arranged for them to be flown home. The group, which includes former colonial administrators, wives and civil servants, have seen their assets destroyed by...
May 28 2009
The global economic downturn has aggravated human rights violations and distracted attention from abuses, Amnesty International said on Thursday. The world faced a grave danger that “rising poverty and desperate economic and social conditions...
May 26 2009
VIENNA/LONDON: Sant Rama Nand, associate head of the Jalandhar-based Dera Sacha Khand, who died in Sunday’s assault by members of a rival fundamentalist group, was killed in a “planned attack,” the Vienna police said on Monday. A full...
May 23 2009
The murders of two courageous Sicilian judges in 1992 shocked Italy to the core, scandalised Europe, and forced the Italian state to take the Mafia threat seriously for the first time. But this week Giovanni Brusca, the man who killed the first of...