Tony Blair to use his religious charity to launch 'faith offensive' across America The Daily Mail | 'Faith Offensive': Tony Blair, pictured speaking in his capacity as Middle East envoy last week, is to establish a U.S. arm for his charity | Tony Blair is to use his extensive network of religious leaders to launch a 'faith offensive' across America within the next 12 months. | The former Prime M...
Cynthia Nixon, NBC Honored at GLAAD Media Awards NBC Washington "Sex and the City" star Cynthia Nixon was one of a bevy of socially conscious celebrities and media outlets praised by the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation Saturday night, winning one of the organization's top honors annual GLAAD Media Awards ceremony. | Nixon, TV networks ...
Panic in Georgia After a Mock News Broadcast The New York Times | MOSCOW — Some people placed emergency calls reporting heart attacks, others rushed in a panic to buy bread and residents of one border village staggered from their homes and dashed for safety — all after a television station in Georgia ...
Health and happiness fest returns The Star | metro@thestar.com,my | THE second Malaysian Health and Happiness Festival, which will be held at the JW Marriott Kuala Lumpur on March 20 and 21, will bring together international and local alternative healers and medical practitioners to promote n...
Bakery to train deaf youth will become a reality, thanks to RM60,000 donation The Star | metro@thestar.com.my | A DREAM project is set to come true for the Community Service Centre for the Deaf (CSCD), thanks to 'A Gift of Love' donation of RM60,000 from the Latin American Ladies Association of Malaysia. | The CSCD is a non-profit and ...
Raptors return to Tanjung Tuan The Star | metro@thestar.com.my | The raptors are back! As if on cue and true to the Malaysian Nature Society's (MNS) event tagline, hundreds of raptors took to the skies above Tanjung Tuan near Port Dickson during the weekend, stunning visitors with their am...
Saving the classics The Star | Today's audiences can enjoy the beauty of old masterpieces, thanks to technology. | allan@thestar.com.my | THE Criterion Collection label recently released AK100, a huge box-set celebrating the 100th anniversary of Japanese master director Akira Ku...
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World Diabetes Day Nation | Diabetic kidney disease – act now or pay later | To mark World Kidney Day on Thursday, visiting consultant nephrologist Dr Claude J Renaud from the Kidney Association of Seychell...
Loneliness creeps up on Delhi's elders The Times Of India NEW DELHI: On the face of it they're busy and happening at 60: exercise regime, social work, satsang, paying bills, housework and the works. Yet, in a disturbing way, loneliness is...
Avery Bounces Back in Rangers' Victory The New York Times | One game after being a healthy scratch for the first time in his Rangers career, Sean Avery sparked a key victory that kept the club’s precarious playoff hopes alive. | If it happens on ice and it involves hitting and scoring, The Times's Sla...
Super govt? Sonia Gandhi to lead advisory body The Times Of India NEW DELHI: The Sonia-Gandhi led National Advisory Council which set an ambitious social sector agenda for UPA 1 is going to be back in action. The Congress president who quit it because of the Office-of Profit controversy has finally agreed to head t...
MS, Google slug it out in local languages The Times Of India It’s difficult to say how many in India understand English. But it might be fair to say, as a Microsoft release recently did, that about 95% of the countrys population prefers working in their regional language. That means computing and the web, wh...
Facebook Helps Social Start-Ups Gain Users The New York Times | AUSTIN, Tex. — The only thing more challenging than deciphering the names of all the social-minded Web sites battling for attention at the South by Southwest technology conference here — Brizzly, Vicarious.ly, Stalqer, Quora and so forth — would be the chore of signing up for each one individually. Frank Curry for The New York T...
Democracy alone is not the answer Gulf News | There is no doubt that the people of Iraq were remarkable in participating by the millions in the second national election since the US occupied the oil-rich country in 2003, but whether this momentous event marks a new beginning in the strife-torn country remains to be seen. | The turnout, another testament to the Iraqis' determination to challe...
