La XX Assemblea Generale dell’ONU (1965) dichiara "la legittimità della lotta da parte dei popoli sotto oppressione coloniale, per esercitare il loro diritto all' autodeter- minazione e all'indipendenza". Inoltre, l'Assemblea invita "tutti gli ...

1 Dec 2008

Hollywood » Much as "24" has its roots in 9/11, 7/7 -- the day in 2005 that Islamic extremist suicide bombers hit the London transit system -- provides the deep background to "Britz," a two-part film by Peter Kosminsky ("White Oleander") about ...

1 Dec 2008

A university student walked up and down Lincoln's aptly-named Steep Hill 50 times in a day. Super-fit University of Lincoln student Mark Smith (20) tramped the equivalent of 40 miles to raise cash for cancer care. He undertook the challenge in aid of ...

1 Dec 2008

It is a basic ideal of justice -- no person should be locked away in prison and not allowed to seek help to challenge his or her imprisonment. The right to challenge an unjust imprisonment is so fundamental that it dates back over 800 years. At that ...

1 Dec 2008

FORGET fine china. These days, cardboard containers are in. The ups and downs of a volatile stock market are causing some New Yorkers to lose their appetite for fancy restaurants - or at least the 20 percent tips and 300 percent mark-ups on wine ...

29 Nov 2008

While listening to the news and reading all today's newspapers I was amazed at the statements being made that compared the present move by the Stephen Harper Conservative government to do away as of April 1, 2009 with the public subsidies for ...

28 Nov 2008