Month: April 2011

Even as the Swiss-registered private jet carrying Moussa Koussa and members of his family made its final approach to Farnborough Airport on Wednesday evening, the Gaddafi regime insisted it was business-as-usual. While Mr Koussa was […] […]

BENGHAZI, LIBYA—Some bellowed cheers from behind the full face covering of a niqab, their bodies entirely swathed in voluminous black fabric. Most wore only the modest hijab in gay colours. A few were even bare-headed. […] […]

What happens when a diplomat goes rogue? The answer is a gigantic headache for Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, as his top envoys defect to the opposition, and other members of the normally tight-lipped profession talk […] […]

FOUR decades of public awareness campaigns and a raft of laws have failed to prevent a chronic and worsening gender imbalance in India, Delhi has admitted. The first data from a census carried out this […] […]

TWO New Orleans police officers convicted of shooting and burning a man in the 2005 post-Hurricane Katrina chaos have been sentenced to 25 and 17 years in jail. They were two of three police officers […] […]