The Queen's lunch for monarchs attracts controversy BBC News The King of Bahrain and Swaziland's King Mswati III are among controversial monarchs expected at a Windsor Castle lunch being hosted by the Queen later. | Critics accuse Bahrain of human rights abuses and say King Mswati lives in luxury while his people starve. | Campaigner Peter Tatchell criti...
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Peter Berg takes command of 'Battleship' action The Charlotte Observer | ABOARD THE USS SPRUANCE - On a clear, windless morning in January, director Peter Berg climbed from a U.S. Navy helicopter onto the deck of this 9,200-ton destroyer steaming north off the coast of San Diego and hurried to the bridge to meet the ship's commanding officer, Tate Westbrook. | "I was t...
Director Peter Berg brings out the big guns in 'Battleship' Detroit news By Rebecca Keegan Los Angeles Times Comments Director Peter Berg arrives for the premiere of "Battleship." (AFP/Getty Images) | Aboard the USS Spruance -On a clear, windless morning in January, director Peter Berg climbed from a U.S. Navy helicopter ...
Agents fear cancellation of Lebanon travel plans Gulf News | Dubai: Following Saturday’s Lebanon travel warning issued by the UAE, Qatar and Bahrain owing to political clashes, travel agents in the UAE are anticipating a drop in tourist demand for Lebanon this summer. | “The current situati...
President Gül holds bilateral talks in Chicago Turkish Press | President Gül first met with Afghan President Hamid Karzai. At the talks Karzai said that cooperation and coordination between the two countries should continue. | President Gül said that Turkey would always stand by Afghanistan. Talks between Pr...
Egypt’s Islamist politicians move to the Right ahead of presidential election The Daily Telegraph In the year since its revolution, Egypt’s Islamist politicians have presented themselves as moderates who can be friends with the West and tolerate non-Muslims at home. | Muslim Brotherhood's presidential candidate Mohammed Morsi Photo: AP...
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Kerala Tourism to hold first-ever road show in Saudi Arabia Newstrack India | Thiruvananthapuram, May 4 (IANS) Kerala Tourism is holding its first-ever road show in Saudi Arabia from Sunday in a bid to attract more tourists from the Gulf kingdom to the sta...
Danielle Birrer, Erik Syvertsen The New York Times | Danielle Emily Birrer and Erik David Syvertsen were married Saturday at St. Hyacinth’s Church in Glen Head, N.Y. The Rev. Thomas Tuite, a Roman Catholic priest, performed the ceremony. Enlarge This Image Wolfgang Freithof | Mrs. Syvertsen, 29...
Gulf states ask citizens to avoid Lebanon travel Gulf News | Abu Dhabi: The UAE, Qatar and Bahrain, citing security concerns, yesterday urged their citizens to avoid travel to Lebanon, where clashes linked to the conflict in neighbouring Syria have left several people dead. | An official from the UAE Ministr...
Venezuela's indigenous university Al Jazeera | Maracas Pemon has abundant space on his university campus - it is located across 5,000 acres of forestland in Venezuela's southern Bolivar State. | He is one of 67 students who have classes in a thatched roundhouse, water sports in a river and, alo...
President Gül’s May 19 message Turkish Press | President Abdullah Gül said in a message that May 19 has become the symbol of national progress. | President Gül’s message reads as follows: "Never having conceded on the will to live free and independent, our nation has never accepted the conditions forced upon us; and we have proved this once again with our unique struggle in the War of...
A history of the world, BRIC by BRIC Al Jazeera | Goldman Sachs - via economist Jim O'Neill in 2001 - invented the concept of a rising new bloc: BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and, later, South Africa). Some cynics couldn't help calling it the "Bloody Ridiculous Investment Concept". | Now that doesn't really apply. Goldman now the BRICS countries to account for almost 40 per cent of gl...
