Rory Carroll
THE people who made a hippie dream come true do not look the part. Instead of tie-dye T-shirts, the campaigners who...
Updated 07 Jan, 2014 08:29am
The cover of Michael Deibert’s examination of Congo bears a striking image of a young woman in flip-flops playing...
Updated 04 Jan, 2014 08:19am
LOS ANGELES: It was the Michael Jackson his fans love to remember: a creative genius, a lean, muscular athlete and a...
Published 12 May, 2013 10:02am
LAS VEGAS: The world’s biggest gadget show ended in Las Vegas on Friday and, like a prophet in the desert, revealed the future — bigger televisions, smarter watches, thinner humans and bendy phones.
Published 13 Jan, 2013 04:12am
A FLEXIBLE, paper-thin tablet which looks and feels like a sheet of paper is being touted as a revolutionary advance in computing.
Published 09 Jan, 2013 03:00am
LOS ANGELES, Oct 25: A film about the killing of Osama bin Laden which will air two nights before the US presidential election has been re-edited to feature more footage of President Barack Obama, prompting accusations Hollywood is trying to swing the vot
Published 25 Oct, 2012 09:08pm
LOS ANGELES: It smelled like rotten eggs, but the source of what California officials called a “very large and unusual odour event” has been traced to rotten fish.
Published 13 Sep, 2012 02:19am
IT was just as well Josh Blue had a sense of humour because every time he returned to the US after touring abroad with the US Paralympic football team he would be greeted with blank stares. The parawhat
Published 28 Aug, 2012 11:26pm
SAN JOSE It is the race within the race while rescuers inch towards the trapped miners, rival churches tussle over...
Published 13 Oct, 2010 12:00am
LA PAZ A knee to the groin may not be quite Machiavelli, but it was no less effective for Evo Morales in asserting...
Published 07 Oct, 2010 12:00am
CIUDAD JUAREZ (Mexico) A respected Mexican newspaper has asked drug cartels for guidance on how not to offend them...
Published 22 Sep, 2010 12:00am
HAVANA It was supposed to be the start of a brave new world in which the customer was king. But the teenage boy in...
Published 16 Sep, 2010 12:00am
THE title, like the man, does not brook argument The Strategic Victory. When it comes to memoirs some leaders tend ...
Published 30 Jul, 2010 12:00am
URUGUAY has promised to water down anti-smoking laws after pressure from the tobacco giant Philip Morris, prompting...
Published 29 Jul, 2010 12:00am
HEAVY rain has caused flooding in Haiti, killing at least 13 people as swollen rivers forced people on to roofs and...
Published 03 Mar, 2010 12:00am
CHILE`S earthquake was many times more powerful than the one that devastated Haiti earlier this year but caused only...
Published 02 Mar, 2010 12:00am
TORRENTIAL rain has battered makeshift camps in Haiti, swamping earthquake survivors in mud and giving a menacing...
Published 21 Feb, 2010 12:00am
COSTA RICA has elected its first female president in a landslide victory, marking another political milestone for...
Published 10 Feb, 2010 12:00am
REBUILDING Haiti will take generations because the earthquake-shattered country was starting from “below zero” and...
Published 31 Jan, 2010 12:00am
DAY four of Haiti`s disaster brought further harrowing scenes of devastation, but there were also flashes of joy as...
Published 18 Jan, 2010 12:00am
