The photograph that went round the world. The Guardian tracked down the child with the bottle, two-year-old Reza Khan, and spoke with his mother about her family’s struggles. Photograph: Mohammad Sajjad/APIt was an image that conveyed the human cost of the Pakistani floods – and the failure [...]
The onset of puberty is continuing to drop among American girls, with many girls as young as 7 and 8 now showing the beginnings of breast development, new research shows.
Rising rates of childhood obesity — long linked to earlier sexual development — may be to blame, experts say.
In the study, more than 1,200 [...]
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Attorney General Jerry Brown joined gay rights advocates Friday in asking a federal judge to allow gays and lesbians in California to marry immediately while opponents appeal the ruling that overturned Proposition 8.
Allowing same-sex couples to wed “is consistent with California’s long history of treating all people and [...]
AUSTRALIA’S bid to install John Howard as world cricket chief has ended in humiliation for the former prime minister and bitterly split the game along national lines.
Opposition to Mr Howard was so strong among the nations from Africa and the subcontinent that the move to make him president of the International [...]
When the UN Human Rights Council convened a special session on Sri Lanka last May, many were hoping for meaningful discussion about possible war crimes committed during the final phase of the country’s civil war.
Thousands of civilians, who had been trapped between the Sri Lankan military and increasingly desperate Tamil rebels, [...]
That Jesus survived crucifixion, travelled to Kashmir, eventually died there and is buried in Srinagar is an urban legend which has found many takers over the years. Every season hundreds of tourists visit the Rozabal shrine of Sufi saint Yuz Asaf in downtown Srinagar, believed by many to be the final resting [...]
Body of a person with the name of slain LTTE leader Velupillai Prabhakaran tatooed on his chest, created some anxiety for the police, who are verifying whether the deceased belonged to the outlawed militant outfit.The person, about 40 years in apprearance, was found lying at the nearby Dharmapuram bus [...]
The Presidents of the United States, Barack Obama, China, Hu Jintao, and the Prime Minister of Russia, Vladimir Putin, are in this order, the three most powerful people in the world as ranked by Forbes magazine.
Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who governs the world’s largest food producer, is the [...]
India and Pakistan’s leaders were due to meet Wednesday at a regional summit in Bhutan, but a spy scandal dented already slim hopes that they might find a way back to substantive peace talks.
On Tuesday on the eve of Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s departure for the summit, officials in New [...]
In a recent interview with the newspaper The New York Times, the U.S. president, Barack Obama revealed that his administration gave the green light for the study and development of a new kind of concept of a military attack without the use of nuclear weapons, but with the same destructive power. [...]
An enormous ash cloud from a remote Icelandic volcano caused the biggest flight disruption since the 2001 terrorist attacks as it drifted over northern Europe and stranded travelers on six continents. Officials said it could take days for the skies to become safe again in one of aviation’s most congested areas.
The [...]
Investigators continue looking for the bodies of those killed in the air crash on the outskirts of Smolensk in western Russia. Sources from the law-enforcement structures of the Smolensk region said that specialists would most likely have to conduct excavation works to find the remains of the victims.
Many Western publications wrote [...]
Politicians, diplomats and thousands of supporters lined up for hours at a public stadium Sunday in Nepal’s capital to pay respect to Girija Prasad Koirala, the former prime minister remembered for leading efforts to bring democracy to the Himalayan nation.
Koirala died Saturday at age 86. His body was taken to the Nepali Congress [...]
Cocaine is cheaper than a cup of coffee in a London restaurant, authors of the parliamentary report made to estimate the government’s struggle against the import of heavy drugs in the country said. The price of one done reaches 2 pounds sterling, which means that the price of one gram of cocaine has lost 50 [...]
