HOW MUCH did the boycott of South Africa actually contribute to the fall of the racist regime? This week I talked with Desmond Tutu about this question, which has been on my mind for a long time.
Got to give the President a big bowl of props for interrupting Obama Rama on Martha’s Vineyard with his valiant effort to paint a big old smiling happy face on the side of the economy. Although in the future, he might want to come up with something a bit more reassuring than “we’re losing jobs at a much slower pace.” Hey everybody, did you catch that? The economy is doing less badly.
The United Arab Emirates has seized a cargo of North Korean weapons being shipped to Iran, which would have violated a UN embargo on arms exports from the communist state, Western diplomats say.
Michael Jackson's death has been ruled a homicide from an overdose of the anesthetic propofol and other drugs, the Los Angeles country coroner has said.
The space shuttle Discovery has lifted off from the Kennedy Space Centre at Cape Canaveral in the US state of Florida on a mission to the International Space Station.
Iran has slowed its expansion of uranium enrichment and met some demands for transparency but allegations it researched how to build atom bombs look credible and Tehran must address them, the UN atomic watchdog has said.
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