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Journalist Jamal Khashoggi has not been seen since he entered the Saudi consulate in Istanbul more than two weeks ago, amid persistent reports he was killed inside. (Photo: AFP)

Saudi Arabia needs drastic restructuring

The UAE is complicit, after all, in the misguided aggression against Yemen. Reports suggest it has even employed...

29 Nov 2018 12:05 AM IST

Paul McCartney, John Lennon, Ringo Starr, and George Harrison in February 1968, the year of the White Albums release. (Photo: AP)

Beatles' 1968 White Album is in tune with today's world

Revolution 9 would almost certainly have been discarded had producer George Martin's favoured option of a single disc...

22 Nov 2018 6:35 AM IST

The poems title, Anthem for Doomed Youth, offers us another resonant expression. (Representational image)

Poetry & war: The monstrous anger of guns

The Latin quotation from Horace translates as: It is a sweet and honourable thing to die for one's country.

1 Nov 2018 6:46 AM IST

Electing Bolsonaro is a self-goal for Brazil

Brazil, by far the biggest country in South America, is the world's fourth largest democracy.

25 Oct 2018 12:31 AM IST

The total cost for this years Rio de Janeiro Olympics also went over budget, with a final price tag of around $12 billion. (Photo: AFP)

An American tragedy, with potent acts of defiance

The international record holder, John Carlos, came third as fellow team member Tommie Smith set a new world record.

18 Oct 2018 2:20 AM IST

Jamal Khashoggi is a familiar face on political talk shows on Arab satellite television networks and used to advise Prince Turki al-Faisal, ex-Saudi intelligence chief and ambassador to US and Britain. (Photo: AP)

The price of a journalist's criticism in Saudi Arabia

Sadly, there is every reason to suspect that the allegations are not unfounded, notwithstanding Saudi Arabia's...

11 Oct 2018 12:44 AM IST

In this June 1, 2018, photo, President Donald Trump walks to Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, as he heads to Camp David for the weekend. Lawyers for President Donald Trump and Summer Zervos, a former Apprentice contestant who sued the president for saying her sexual misconduct claims were lies, are scheduled to be in court Tuesday, June 5, 2018, in New York. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Hysteria over Kavanaugh: US Prez firm on SC rightward shift

It's hardly a state secret, of course, that the US SC features a bench broadly divided between conservatives and...

4 Oct 2018 12:06 AM IST

Jeremy Corbyn, Labour leader

What will the question be if there is a 2nd vote on Brexit?

The electorate could be asked whether or not it accepts the deal negotiated by its government with the EU.

27 Sept 2018 12:12 AM IST

China, under President Xi Jinping, is making a major push to use artificial intelligence, facial recognition and big data technology to track and control behaviour that goes against the interests of the ruling Communist Party online and in the wider world. (Photo: File)

'Re-educating' Xinjiang: How the Chinese rule Uighurs

The Uighurs are Turkic Muslims, and official Chinese fears of fundamentalist radicalisation are not exactly unfounded.

20 Sept 2018 1:45 AM IST

German Chancellor Angela Merkel. (Photo: AP)

Europe shift: Swedes flirt with politics of far-right

The obvious alternative is a centrist coalition transcending the ideological divide.

13 Sept 2018 2:06 AM IST

Yemen tragedy is escalating amid growing Mideast mess

The scale of the humanitarian tragedy in Yemen, however, extends far beyond the direct carnage of conflict.

7 Sept 2018 6:53 AM IST

Scott Morrison will be Australias new Prime Minister. (Photo: AP)

Power games in Oz: After Morrison, what's next?

Both Dutton and Morrison detested the very idea, with the latter's aversion apparently rooted in his evangelical...

30 Aug 2018 12:13 AM IST