delivered a speech entitled “The Government by the Governed” where I said that our government was being run not by the public officials themselves but by the people they were governing. I said it was we ourselves, the sovereign people as the Constitution described us, who were the real rulers of our country through the [...]

Chinas official Xinhua news agency reported overnight that police shot and wounded four protesters this week in a heavily ethnic Tibetan part of the province, where protests broke out after anti-Chinese riots in neighbouring Tibet a week ago.
The unrest has alarmed China, keen to look its best in the run-up to the August 8-24 Olympic [...]

The Times newspaper said in a leader column that Mosley must stand down while Ferraris 1979 world champion Jody Scheckter called for a concerted media campaign to force the Britons hand.
There is absolutely no question in my mind that Mosley should resign, South African Scheckter told The Guardian newspaper.
From a purely motor racing point of [...]

%26quot;Gone are the days when two countries, England and Australia, had the veto power in international cricket, even though the dinosaurs, still trying to voice their prejudiced opinions in the media, may not open their eyes and see the reality,%26quot; Gavaskar wrote in a syndicated newspaper column.
%26quot;The cricketing world has found that India has no [...]

Sitting down to dinner was a little disappointing.”I expected Francois Mitterand and Frida Kahlo,” joked retired languages teacher Mary, who together with her ex-GP husband was backpacking through south-east Mexico.
Na Bolom dining room. Mitterand, Kahlo, her husband, Diego Rivera, and even Henry Kissenger have dined here. Photograph: Ed Ewing
We were four at a table for [...]

It may be the most contagious virus ever known. It sweeps suddenly through whole populations. It severely debilitates the rational mind. And yet it has undergone little study.
The few medical researchers in the field know it as cardiosanguiniensis cunctatus optatus, or selective, delayed-onset, bleeding of the heart.
The most remarkable characteristic of this disease is that [...]

It may be the most contagious virus ever known. It sweeps suddenly through whole populations. It severely debilitates the rational mind. And yet it has undergone little study.
The few medical researchers in the field know it as cardiosanguiniensis cunctatus optatus, or selective, delayed-onset, bleeding of the heart.
The most remarkable characteristic of this disease is that [...]

DAMASCUS (Reuters) - A rare exhibition of Arab and Italian art in an old caravanserai in the heart of Damascus is challenging taboos about European influences behind a late 20th-century renaissance in Arab art.
The exhibition, in the domed 18th-century Khan Asaad Basha, shows the work of Arab artists hanging alongside ones by Italian artists who [...]