Ed Pilkington
NEW YORK: The National Security Agency secretly tapped into the overseas phone calls of prominent critics of the...
Published 28 Sep, 2013 07:00am
NEW YORK: International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde has warned the US it has the potential to be its “own worst enemy” over the fragile economic recovery and that failure to reach a comprehensive settlement over the fiscal cliff could see growth
Published 11 Dec, 2012 12:02am
NEW YORK, Oct 9: The storm clouds gathering over President Obama’s bid for re-election have thickened with the release of a new poll from the respected Pew Research Centre that gives Mitt Romney a four-point lead among likely voters
Published 10 Oct, 2012 02:50am
NEW YORK Judging by the criticism thrown at the Muslim centre planned for downtown Manhattan, you would think...
Published 05 Oct, 2010 12:00am
HARRISBURG (Pennsylvania) It is perhaps inevitable given the rise of social networking sites such as Facebook and...
Published 19 Sep, 2010 12:00am
NEW YORK The controversy around the proposal to build an Islamic centre close to Ground Zero has caused a deep rift...
Published 05 Sep, 2010 12:00am
“The spirit forms personality, enlightens and transfigures the biological individual and makes it the concrete...
Published 11 Jun, 2010 12:00am
NEW YORK Debrahlee Lorenzana likes to dress sharp when she goes to work - she is a fan of Burberry and Hermes and ...
Published 07 Jun, 2010 12:00am
A MONTH-LONG conference in New York to shore up the nuclear non-proliferation treaty and prevent the global spread ...
Published 21 May, 2010 12:00am
Residents of the New York City can have anything delivered to their door at any time. But there is one thing that is...
Published 18 May, 2010 12:00am
SANTA CLARA (California) Silicon Valley, the undisputed leader of the technology revolution, is seeking to add a new...
Published 30 Apr, 2010 12:00am
NEW YORK Founder of a nation, trouncer of the English, God-fearing family man all in all, George Washington has...
Published 20 Apr, 2010 12:00am
NEW YORK City and its teacher unions have reached a deal to put an end to a bizarre and Kafkaesque system in which...
Published 18 Apr, 2010 12:00am
JOHN Holmes, the British diplomat who heads the UN`s disaster relief programme, has called for a massive increase in...
Published 08 Mar, 2010 12:00am
IT`S lunchtime in the canteen at Lincoln University, the oldest African-American college in America. A small number...
Published 06 Dec, 2009 12:00am
THE couple who gatecrashed Barack Obama`s first state dinner last week have begun touting their story to TV networks...
Published 01 Dec, 2009 12:00am
CONSERVATION groups based in Alaska have accused the Obama administration of repeating the mistakes of George Bush...
Published 22 Oct, 2009 12:00am
NEW YORK By the standards of any age, it was a miserable way to go. Edgar Allan Poe, dark romantic writer and poet...
Published 11 Oct, 2009 12:00am
THE organisers of anti-Obama coalition insist most of their money comes from small individual donations. But a few...
Published 20 Sep, 2009 12:00am
A HEALTH CARE package in the balance; unfinished business on climate change; a precarious economy and deficit;...
Published 28 Jul, 2009 12:00am
