Isabella Kirkland, a painter based in California, usa, has created a series of 3-by-4-feet canvases, called Taxa, on a variety of species. The six paintings, each of which took about a year to

In what appears to be another blow to Iranian intellectual life, police in Tehran have shut down six bookshop-cafes, and others may be in line for closure. The head of the Tehran police information

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The .asia regional Internet domain has officially opened for business. The domain comes after the launch of the European-based .eu name last year and aims to join .com and .net as a widely used

A throng gasped as a blue crate containing a 2.5-tonne slab of marble regarded as one of the most important works of antiquity, was hoisted by a giant crane from the Acropolis in Greece. This was

Nobel Prize-winning scientist James Dewey Watson has attracted a lot of flak for claiming that black people are inherently less intelligent than whites. In an interview to the Sunday Times,

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>> Newspapers in Manipur stopped publication indefinitely from October 12. Cable networks have also stopped telecast. The media reaction is a response to threats by a rebel faction of the

www.worldbankcampaigneurope.org There has been lot of pressure on the World Bank of late. A recent tribunal in New Delhi recently came down heavily on the institution. Now it is been challenged by