2012-03-23 07:00
Since a one-line statement was published in state media on 15 March announcing Bo Xilai's dismissal as party chief of one of China’s biggest cities, Chongqing, there has been no offici… Read More
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2012-03-03 07:00
Russia's Vladimir Putin, currently prime minister, is widely expected to become president in the elections on 4 March, making it his third term in office.His first two terms were from 2000 t… Read More
2012-02-24 07:00
Unlike ousted Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Salih, Yemen’s new president-elect Abd-Rabbuh Mansur Hadi has “no tribal, familial, regional, or partisan base and has no real expe… Read More
2012-02-07 17:42
Media/Technology article. The internet has given birth to digital citizen journalism and user-generated content that propagates information around the world even before any traditional news… Read More
2012-01-26 15:46
Comment by Fayyaz Ahmad.The murder of prominent Pakistani politician and governor of the Punjab Province Salman Taseer in January 2011 over his support for a Christian woman sentenced to dea… Read More
2012-01-17 07:00
Discourses on the consequences of China’s social and economic policies are emerging in the Chinese media, as the latest indicators show the country’s economic growth has slowe… Read More
2012-01-16 07:00
Middle Eastern internet hacker groups have launched a battle in cyberspace that reflects political tensions between Israel and the Arab countries.Palestinian Islamist group Hamas has des… Read More
2012-01-10 07:00
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has blamed a foreign conspiracy for trying to destabilize Syria amid renewed calls by the Arab League for the Syrian government to stop its violence again… Read More
2011-08-10 16:23
Politics/Science article by Shuvra Mahmud.
Some four days after the initial riots in London in early August 2011, around 10,000 additional police officers have been deployed across the city… Read More
2010-03-27 15:46
Sitting in a Tree is a successful, bespoke matchmaking service.Founder Roya Dabir-Alaϊ realised early in 2007 she had a talent for spotting a good match, after setting up many of her fr… Read More
2009-12-28 10:59
Robert F. Worth reported from Beirut, and Nazila Fathi from Toronto, for Reuters news agency on 28 December 2009.Police officers in Iran opened fire into crowds of protesters on Sunday [27 D… Read More
2009-12-24 02:44
Nobel Lecture "A Just and Lasting Peace" by Barack H. Obama delivered on 10 December 2009 at the Oslo City Hall, Norway. He was introduced by Thorbjørn Jagland, Chairman of the Norweg… Read More
2009-12-16 13:18
In December 2009, the Director of the Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto, Dr. Ron Deibert, gave to the Googleplex in Mountain View a presentation on the Open Internet Initiative's rece… Read More
2009-12-07 16:47
Around 100 world leaders are set to attend the UN climate-change summit in Copenhagen to discuss a global deal to replace the Kyoto protocol. This will be tough.Scientists estimate that gree… Read More
2009-12-07 16:35
Politics/Technology article by Shuvra Mahmud.By adapting established methods of control, authoritarian and semi-authoritarian states have been able to counter the political impact of the int… Read More
2009-07-20 08:59
Last month Greenland celebrated the devolution of more powers from Denmark but translating nominal political power for the mostly Inuit population into real independence will take a long tim… Read More
2009-06-18 15:26
Politics/Technology article by Shuvra Mahmud.Online supporters of the defeated presidential Iranian candidate Mir-Hoseyn Musavi have been engaging in a carefully orchestrated "netwar" agains… Read More
2009-06-18 10:21
Countries with most refugees, and the burden on their populations.At the end of 2008 10.5m refugees were in the direct care of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, down slightly from 11.4m… Read More
2009-06-18 09:51
Politics/Technology article by Shuvra Mahmud.Online supporters of the defeated presidential Iranian candidate Mir-Hoseyn Musavi have been engaging in a carefully orchestrated "netwar" agains… Read More
2009-06-04 13:27
Remarks of President Barack Obama: "A New Beginning"THE WHITE HOUSEOffice of the Press Secretary(Cairo, Egypt - June 4, 2009)I am honored to be in the timeless city of Cairo, and to be hoste… Read More
2009-06-04 13:24
Remarks of President Barack Obama: "A New Beginning"THE WHITE HOUSEOffice of the Press Secretary(Cairo, Egypt - June 4, 2009)I am honored to be in the timeless city of Cairo, and to be hoste… Read More
2009-01-21 10:12
Barack Obama has been sworn in as the 44th US president. Here is his inauguration speech in full.My fellow citizens:I stand here today humbled by the task before us, grateful for the trust y… Read More
2009-01-15 15:03
AT LEAST 292 children and 75 women have died as a result of Israel's bombardment of the Gaza Strip, according to a paper published in the Lancet, a medical journal, which uses data from Gaza… Read More
2008-12-23 03:46
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2008-11-05 07:18
View Obama's victory speech on the BBC website, here.Americans emphatically elected Democrat Barack Obama as their first black president, in a transformational election which will reshape US… Read More
2008-10-13 13:44
The final 7-minute video prepared for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) in Summer 2008 describing the 3-dimensional Virtual Reality problem, challenges, and opportuni… Read More
2008-09-30 11:08
Video of a panel discussion at Technology in Wartime at Stanford University Law School, entitled "Cyberterrorism: Myths and Facts" on 26 January 2008.Herbert Lin, a software specialist at th… Read More
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