Experts in Indonesia are preparing to build a huge wall to stop the ocean from swamping parts of Jakarta.Some suburbs in the capital already go underwater when there is a big tide but the problem is expected to get even worse.Jakarta is sinking by up to 10 centimetres a year and Indonesia's national...
ST. LOUIS: The Mississippi River level is dropping again and barge industry trade groups warned Thursday that river commerce could essentially come to a halt as early as next week in an area south of St. Louis.Mike Petersen of the Army Corps of Engineers said ice on the northern Mississippi River is...
Heavy downpours over the Christmas period coupled with an unseasonably wet summer meant an average of 1,095.8mm of rain has already fallen in England during 2012 – the highest since records began in 1910.The previous high was an average of 1,093.3mm of rain in 2000.The UK as a whole will also mark i...
All the talk of natural gas as a cheap alternative fuel has some who make or use diesel products rolling their eyes.Not so fast, say backers of diesel, the fuel of choice for the largest, most powerful and thirstiest engines on the planet. They say talk of natural gas replacing diesel is nonsense be...
In many ways, 2012 will be remembered for what didn’t happen on energy.President Barack Obama rejected the Keystone XL pipeline, but that merely set up yet another decision on the project in 2013. In Congress, lawmakers bickered over a slew of energy issues — but despite dozens of message votes in t...
KABUL: The year 2012 has seen frantic efforts by the government of President Hamid Karzai in putting in place an effective security apparatus and a viable economic plan in preparation for the pullout of all foreign forces from the country in 2014. The government has also bent over backwards in try...
KABUL: The Afghan policewoman suspected of killing a U.S. contractor at police headquarters in Kabul suffered from mental illness and was driven to suicidal despair by poverty, her children told Reuters on Wednesday. The woman was identified by authorities as Narges Rezaeimomenabad, a 40-year-old ...
On the evening of December 27, 2012, our house phone rang with bad news. I was informed that Professor Dr. Manzooruddin Ahmed, Former Vice Chancellor of the University of Karachi, had died of pneumonia. The next day, my wife and I attended his funeral and offered our condolences to the grieving fami...
There are always certain films that leave a mark upon us. Majid Majidi’s The Color of Paradise is one of those films; even if it doesn’t make you cry, its innocence and beauty profoundly affects you.The Color of Paradise is a simple, yet powerful story of a blind young boy, Mohamed who is a student ...
It was a sad Christmas for me this year. I was offended and deeply hurt. I wanted to cry, in fact, weep. That may well be because of my Shia training that helps men break the boys-never-cry jinx and allows them to shed tears when they feel hapless. I was powerless, dejected and frustrated.The first ...
A year ends, another begins. But memories remain. This happened so many years ago but I still remember this event vividly.It was my turn to tell a story at the tavern tonight and I chose this one. Why? Because I fear that we may forget what we went through and forced to relive the past.Soon after he...
An increasing number of ordinary people feel the need to live their lives in public. Not entertainers or people in the public eye, but everyday people like neighbors, friends and people I work with.They tweet their every thought, their every action, write on Facebook their deepest fears and darkest ...
KARACHI: As the city descends into fear amid a renewed wave of killings, the police authorities see one or more organized groups behind what was earlier being called ‘tit-for-tat sectarian attacks’ as forensic investigations into nearly 90 cases found that same weapons had been used in targeting peo...
Asha has three children, aged 10, 12, and 15. Until recently, they were constantly ill. “They had bad stomach and fever all the time,” she says. “I had to take them to the hospital with dysentery. I thought my youngest child was going to die.”Similar to millions of other Pakistanis, Asha and her fam...
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan is set to miss the target of granting India the Most Favored Nation (MFN) status by December 31, 2012 due to vested interests, officials alleged.The next possible cabinet meeting will be held on January 2, 2013 and the issue of granting MFN status to India is not on the agenda, t...
It was a sunny Sunday morning here in Perth, Western Australia and a part of my heart was insisting on me to go out with friends, but, a pending university assignment was a hurdle in fulfillment of my outing plans. I was supposed to write a blog about origin and evolution of authorship in literature...
I was there this August. The city reflects about what it would have been like when the Taliban had taken over. People of Swat were threatened, Islam was different, life was not normal, and nothing could possibly be related to the essence of what the city was known for. The clashes of natural beauty...
One might disagree with her political ideology, but she was a visionary and seasoned politician. Following the legacy of her charismatic father, Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, she audaciously faced all perils. The father entered the gallows and the daughter intercepted the bullet. Historians will quote her as...
In the kingdom of the blind men, those who are blessed with one eye are kings. Bilawal launched his political career on Benazir’s fifth death anniversary. Hundreds of thousands of people, including Pakistan Peoples’ Party’s (PPP) workers, supporters and the party’s top leadership had congregated at ...
THE language dilemma in education remains unresolved in Pakistan because educationists fail to understand how basic language is to the child’s learning process, as also to the psyche of the speakers.Those who ignore this fundamental truth can undermine national integrity. If they are running schools...
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US, Germany, Italy vow key Afghan roles post-2014
BRUSSELS: Germany and Italy will join the United States as "lead nati...
Soldier pleads guilty in massacre of 16 Afghans
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Coalition Deliberates Afghan Presence
Brussels: The top commander of the U.S.-led military coalition in Afg...
In Afghanistan, grief for a husband who shouldn't have died
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