31 Jul 2012 - 5:22pm
LONDON: Teenage Chinese swimmer Ye Shiwen's explosive Olympics is set to dominate gold medal pool action on Tuesday while Michael Phelps could become the greatest Olympian in history.
Ye, just 16, goes for a second gold of the Games in the 200m individual medley, just days after her lightning freestyle leg in the 400m individual medley propelled...
31 Jul 2012 - 11:42am
LONDON: A javelin thrower stands poised to make his throw -- but in place of a spear, he holds a missile.The striking image, stencilled in black onto a dirty wall, is one of two new works recently unveiled on the website of British satirical street artist Banksy to coincide with the London Olympics. The other shows a pole-vaulter, springing...
30 Jul 2012 - 11:53am
JHANG (Pakistan): The two-room bungalow, the birth place of Pakistan's only Nobel laureate, today stands empty, testament to the indifference, bigotry and prejudice surrounding the country's greatest scientist.Professor Abdus Salam, the child prodigy born to a humble family on the sun-blasted plains of Punjab who won accolades all over the world...
26 Jul 2012 - 1:57pm
PARIS: Barack Obama can't stand beetroot, artichokes are off the menu at France's presidential palace and Vladimir Putin does not take any chances with dishes that emerge from the Kremlin kitchens.
Those were just a few of the culinary tidbits to emerge from the latest reunion of the select club of chefs who ply their trade on behalf of some of...
26 Jul 2012 - 12:36pm
KUALA LUMPUR: Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad updated his blog from a picturesque Italian island today, describing the beauty of his surroundings – but rather than spend his holiday sitting on a beach, the former Prime Minister looked for ideas that could benefit Malaysia.
Dr Mahathir said he had been sailing along the Italian coast and was staying...
26 Jul 2012 - 12:21pm
MANILA: Gay sex in a conservative Catholic society where the influential church forbids the use of condoms is fuelling an alarming rise of HIV infections in the Philippines, experts warn.The Southeast Asian country is facing a HIV epidemic, with sex between men making up nearly 90 per cent of all new cases, according to the health department and...
25 Jul 2012 - 4:30pm
ARGENTEUIL (France): Bent over strips of blotting paper, senses primed and notebooks in hand: this is how generations of "noses" have honed their art at the world-famous Givaudan perfumery school near Paris.
Fully one third of all fine fragrances created worldwide owe their existence to alumni of the school, which has been training young men and...
25 Jul 2012 - 10:56am
LONDON: The eight tons of gold, silver and copper unearthed from mines in Mongolia and Utah and now under guard at the Tower of London is the largest ever haul used to make Olympic medals.
"The medals arrived at the tower on July 2, and we will keep them under tight security" Tracey Sands, spokeswoman for Historic Royal Palaces, told AFP....
24 Jul 2012 - 1:19pm
BLANTYRE: Poverty drove single teenage mother Kate Mzungu to seek out a rich older man, who buys her food and pays for her housing in exchange for the pleasures of her young company.
But that includes having unprotected sex in a country where 14 per cent of the population has HIV.
"I am scared of contracting HIV through my sugar daddy,...
23 Jul 2012 - 2:32pm
LONDON: The London Olympics are not big business for everyone -- sex workers say they are being cleared from the streets around the stadium to make the area more presentable for the Games.
While Britain's limp economy hopes for an Olympic boost, police in Newham, the deprived east London borough that is home to the stadium, have closed some 80...
