Roadside bombings in Sri Lanka killed more than a dozen people today as the country’s president marked the island’s 60th anniversary of its independence, claiming terrorism was "facing a defeat it has never faced before". The capital, Colombo, was effectively sealed off, with roads blocked and mobile phone operators cutting off services in the morning […]
Tens of thousands flee Kenya violence as toll tops 300
Tens of thousands of people have been forced to flee their homes amid brutal post-election violence in Kenya that has claimed at least 300 lives and threatens to descend into full-scale tribal conflict. US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and British Foreign Secretary David Miliband issued a joint statement urging Kenya’s political leaders to call […]
Uncertainties as Pakistan ends bloodiest year in history
Although the outgoing year, in its usual mixed bag way, threw up a number of good times and bad sides, for the Asian nation of Pakistan, 2007 was an exceptionally terrible year. Founded on August 14, 1947, the receding year marked Pakistan’s Diamond Jubilee, but instead of celebrations and projections of this nation’s strong sides […]
The Public Art of San Francisco
So which city in the USA has 600 murals on its streets, all available for public perusal? Well, it’s the same city that has a Cartoon Museum, a Spanish Mission dating from 1791 and a Museum of Modern Art, built on a reclaimed former industrial zone. The fact is that since the 1930’s, murals have […]
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