INDO-EUROPEANS 3: NOAH’S ANIMALS MARCH
Favorable climate and abundant water made India and Southeast Asia a hothouse for the domestication of plants and animals. The second wave of Indo-Europeans carried these into Eurasia and Europe. The controversy More...
Putin backs tit-for-tat response to U.S. rights law
Report by Alexei Anishchuk and Timothy Heritage MOSCOW | Thu Dec 20, 2012 6:15pm EST (Reuters) – President Vladimir Putin backed a ban on Americans adopting Russian children on Thursday in a feud over a More...
INDO-EUROPEANS 2: NATURAL HISTORY OF LANGUAGES
All non-African humans and their languages can be traced to about a thousand individuals in South Asia 60,000 years ago. Two events during the Ice Age, a gene mutation and a major natural catastrophe played a pivotal More...
Rock legends take to New York stage for storm Sandy victims
Report by Christine Kearney and Edith Honan, NEW YORK | Wed Dec 12, 2012 11:39pm EST (Reuters) – Bruce Springsteen, the Rolling Stones and Alicia Keys were among the musical stars headlining an all-star More...
Egypt opposition urges “no” vote on divisive constitution
Report by Tamim Elyan and Marwa Awad, CAIRO | Wed Dec 12, 2012 5:17pm EST (Reuters) – Egypt’s liberal and secular opposition has urged its supporters to vote down a divisive constitution put forward More...
Sydney Wignall and the Chinese built Aksai Chin road
The story of how Jawaharlal Nehru and Krishna Menon kept the country in the dark about the Chinese incursion in Aksai Chin even though they had been fully informed. Later reports were kept sealed to protect Nehru’s More...
Obama, Dobama, And the Price of Ignorance
Column by Stephen Suleyman Schwartz India has hanged Mohammed Ajmal Kasab, a Pakistani citizen, for his involvement in the infamous terror assault on Mumbai in 2008. The Islamabad government, which subsidizes More...
Scope of Sandy’s devastation widens, death toll spirals
From New York City’s Staten Island to the popular beach towns of the Jersey Shore, rescuers and officials on Friday faced growing evidence of widespread destruction wrought by superstorm Sandy, mounting anger More...
On Staten Island, cries for help replaced by a loss for words
On Hamden Ave, a storm-wrecked street on New York City’s Staten Island, everyone was talking about the surge – a wall of water that came tearing down the street on Monday night. As families picked through More...
Obama mocks Romney for “newfound outrage” on China trade
(Reuters) – President Barack Obama on Wednesday mocked rival Mitt Romney’s claim that the White House has been weak on trade policies with China, casting the Republican’s complaints as “newfound More...
