In Pakistan, floods started in June and peaked in mid-August leaving almost 1500 people dead even according to official figures, which are likely to be an underestimation. Read more...

What more could a woman want?
Freedom to dress the way I want
Freedom to believe what I want
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Hour after hour of obsequious commentary, constant updating on the progress of the coffin towards London, an uninterrupted procession of has-beens and would-be's boosting their own importance by recal Read more...

The election campaign is now entering its feverish final stages. Read more...

At the age of 91, Mikhail Gorbachev, the last president of the Soviet Union and party leader of the CPSU, died on August 30 in Moscow. –

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In July 2012, Kurdish armed forces took political control in the regions of Kobanê, Afrin and al-Hasakah in northern Syria. Read more...

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According to official estimates, the floods hitting Pakistan have already led to over 1000 deaths, the final figure is likely to be very much higher. Read more...