Criminalizing The Defamation of Islam
Column by Amil Imani Nothing prompts the hundreds of ordinarily feuding and fighting sects of Islam to come together like the slightest disrespect shown to the founder of their religion or their religious sanctity. More...
Modi and the Mahatma, who was more guilty?
Narendra Modi after Godhra and Mahatma Gandhi after the Khilafat were forced to deal with the violent aftermath. But there are striking differences between the way the two dealt with them. Also, Modi had nothing More...
Analysis: False records issue is key to Standard Chartered case
A New York state case against Standard Chartered Plc is more about whether the British bank carried out an old-fashioned cover-up using allegedly false records and less about the role the bank played in the alleged More...
Lady Gaga reveals new album name, “ARTPOP”
Pop star Lady Gaga has revealed her new album title, “ARTPOP” along with a photograph of a matching new tattoo, announcing the highly anticipated follow-up to her 2011 album, “Born This Way.” U.S. More...
Standard Chartered may lose NY license over Iran ties
In a rare move, New York’s top bank regulator threatened to strip the state banking license of Standard Chartered Plc, saying it was a “rogue institution” that hid $250 billion in transactions More...
Roberts redux? U.S. top judge may surprise again
Over his 30 years in Washington, Chief Justice John Roberts has been difficult to pigeonhole and defied expectations. More than once, he has remade his image. Chief Justice of the United States John Roberts is pictured More...
“Savages” star Kitsch hopes third film’s a charm
Report by Zorianna Kit, LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – He is the face of Hollywood’s two costliest U.S. box office flops in 2012, so far, “John Carter” and “Battleship,” but actor Taylor More...
Manchester United picks NYSE for U.S. public offering
Report by Sharanya Hrishikesh and Ashutosh Pandey (Reuters) – Manchester United has picked the New York Stock Exchange to make its stock market debut, ending months of speculation over where the world’s More...
Rupert Murdoch labels Scientology “very weird cult”
News Corp Chief Executive and Chairman Murdoch enters his vehicle as he leaves his home in New York News Corp chairman Rupert Murdoch took a swipe at Tom Cruise on Sunday in a series of tweets that labeled the Hollywood More...
Actor Alec Baldwin weds Hilaria Thomas in NY
Actor Alec Baldwin and his fiance Hilaria Thomas arrive before The Friars Club and Friars Foundation honored Tom Cruise with the Entertainment Icon Award in New York Actor Alec Baldwin, star of TV show “30 More...
