The Australian Actress banned from Hollywood | IRAN has banned an award-winning young actress from leaving the country following her appearance in a Hollywood movie with Russell Crowe and Leonardo DiCaprio. Golshifteh Farahani was banned from le... (photo: AP / Andrew Medichini)
NZ Herald Orlando's career set to bloom with biopic | Orlando Bloom. Photo / Supplied | An intrepid Scot, he has been called a modern-day Lawrence of Arabia, renowned for his work as a high-level diplomat and his enlightening travails across conflict r... (photo: Creative Commons / )
Globe and Mail Is Avril Lavigne too sexy? | Malaysia's Islamic opposition party has urged the government to cancel a concert by Avril Lavigne, saying the Canadian singer's on-stage moves are "too sexy," an official said Monday. | Lavigne, a G... (photo: Creative Commons / Robin Wong) ConcertIslamicMalaysiaMusicPhotos
Canada Dot Com George W. Bush will be missed, if only by gag writers | I never thought I'd say this, but I'm going to miss George W. Bush when he leaves the White House. | It's not because of his politics. Frankly, I think Dubya should be tried as a war criminal for pr... (photo: White House / Eric Draper ) PeacePeoplePhotosPoliticalSocial
Chicago Sun-Times Prime time Tammy time . . . | Sneed hears Iraq war vet Tammy Duckworth, who's being eyed as a replacement for Sen. Barack Obama, is being given a national platform. | • • Transla... (photo: AP / Alex Brandon) DemocracyIraqObamaPhotosUSA
Gulf Daily News Why we need Arab engineers not poets! | I AM surprised to learn that government schools are in session only five hours and 10 minutes every day as per the news story 'Ramadan plea blow' (GDN, August 5). | MP ... (photo: AP Photo / Alexander Zemlianichenko) Arab WorldEducationPhotosPoetsStudents
The Guardian 'He is the son of all of you' Mahmoud Darwish, who died a week ago today, was one of the great Arab poets of modern times, writes Mourid Barghouti. Here he remembers his friend and fellow poet at his ... (photo: AP / Muhammed Muheisen) Arab WorldCultureDeathPhotosPoets
The Australian Blood of their blood | THERE are so many more important issues in the world today than Palestine that I wonder why I am so obsessed with it. Well, of course, what I am obsessed with is Israel... (photo: AP / Peter Dejon) DefenceIsraelPalestinePhotosSociety
Asia Times Is perpetual war our future? | By Andrew Bacevich | To appreciate the full extent of the military crisis into which the United States has been plunged requires understanding what the Iraq War and, to... (photo: AP / Emilio Morenatti) MilitaryPhotosPoliticsUSWar
The Guardian Jimmy Carter: Man From Plains (No cert) | Thoughtful, high-minded and courageous ... Jimmy Carter: Man From Plains | Of all the insults recently flung at the Israeli government, none has stung as much... (photo: AP / John Bazemore, File) ApartheidCarterIsraelPalestinePhotos
BBC News Hollow celebration of Egypt's maestro Egyptian TV has shown endless extracts from his films and special programmes about his life and work. | Film director Hala Galal says it is not an unusual phenomenon for ... (photo: Public Domain. / Daniel Csrfly) CairoEgyptFilmsPeoplePhotos
