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Two Quran translations hit German bookstores - Tehran Times
Two Quran translations hit German bookstores Tehran Times Anaconda Publications republished the translation of the Holy Quran...
Chrome for Mac to get extensions by "week's end" - ZDNet (blog)
Latest Gadgets (blog) Chrome for Mac to get extensions by "week's end" ZDNet (blog) These little bits of code (Web pages, act...
Breaking 2010 International CES News Recap
LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--As the official news release distribution services for the 2010 International ...
Sarkozy is half right: all Europeans must understand the Swiss mistake | Timothy Garton Ash
What really matters is not minarets, but that we all, Muslims included, commit to the essentials of a free society So Nicolas Sarkozy, responding to the minaret ban in Switzerland , admon...
Hugh Muir's diary
Time for another assault on Gately. No point having boots if you can\'t stick them in • Like a high-street brawler, dragged from the ...
U-turn over sex-crime vetting of school helpers
Government bows to public pressure and drops laws that would have forced parents to prove they are not paedophiles Laws forcing the 11 million people who help out in schools and nurseries to undergo ...
'My interrogators were British agents'
Mohammed Ezzouek, a victim of rendition from Kenya to Somalia, says UK agents were complicit in his torture Mohammed Ezzouek began to pray. He believed his death was imminent and that it would be bloody and brutal. The 23-year-old from west Lo...
Why UK faces future of food shortages
Britain faces a \'perfect storm\' of water shortage and lack of food, says the government\'s chief scientist, and climate change and crop and animal diseases will add to future woes. Science i...
X Factor finale gives ITV a bonanza
As the singers prepare to battle for the crown, the real winners will be Simon Cowell and an ailing broadcaster that could have its most lucrative weekend ever The days when watching TV was a shared national experience, with aud...
Bible tales retold for the secular age
Authors reimagine the nativity story for children to read and enjoy Ask any four-year-old why the shepherds followed that star and the answer is likely to be entertaining. "They brought J...
Pre-budget report: Labour and Tories compete in the politics of pain
The fallout from the pre-budget report has made the dividing lines in British politics clear – how deep, where, and how fast should cuts be made to reduce Britain\'s deficit The lights were still glowing and the a...
Obituaries 2009: Jack Jones
The trade unionist, who died peacefully at 96 on 21 April, is remembered for his passion and good humour by the veteran Labour politician I first ...
Anti-gay bigots plunge Africa into new era of hate crimes
Uganda is likely to pass a law within months that will make homosexuality a capital offence, joining 37 other countries in the continent where American evangelical Christian groups are increasingly spreading bigotry "Learned behaviour c...
Having invoked the taxman, the axeman waits for Labour | Andrew Rawnslet
Alistair Darling\'s pre-budget report has won the government no friends and quite a few new enemies, particularly in the media The silliest thing said about it was that it was political. Well...
Shorn of dissent, Britain's high culture is little different from The X Factor
Great writers used to pit themselves against the world. Today their successors fight for a glut of awards, fellowships and festival appearances and the result is creative bankruptcy You might want to disown the shallow vulga...
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