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A lawyer for India’s home ministry told the country’s supreme court on Thursday that gay sex was “immoral” and urged the court to keep it illegal, even as the government denied it opposed decriminalising homosexuality. Television...
For the first time, there was a mood of real fear on the streets of Athens. In Syntagma Square, as the eurozone’s finance ministers gathered in Brussels to decide whether Greece would be granted the €130bn bailout needed to avoid bankruptcy...
Greece is being battered by a perfect economic storm of recession and debt – and now an unseasonal snowstorm has arrived to add to the country’s problems. As Standard & Poor downgraded Greece’s credit rating to “selective...
Name: Benigno_Aquino_III Motto: Elect me into your heart Age: 52 Country: Manila, the Philippines Height: 5ft 10ins (Definitely not 5ft 6ins) Hair: Black Eyes: Brown Body type: Slim Relationship status: Single Relationship sought: A fling;...
It is not often that the Milan catwalks show more interest in the intellect and ideas of mature women than they do in youth and beauty. But it is the designers Jil Sander (68), Miuccia Prada (62) and their freethinking forerunner, the late...
Lloyds Banking Group and Royal Bank of Scotland have taken a combined hit of almost ?20bn from bad lending in Ireland since they were they were bailed out by the taxpayer in October 2008. Both banks raced headlong into Ireland in the run up...
It was an ice age squirrel’s treasure chamber, a burrow containing fruit and seeds that had been stuck in the Siberian permafrost for over 30,000 years. From the fruit tissues, a team of Russian scientists managed to resurrect an entire...
Bahaa al-Farra will rise early on Thursday morning, pull on his running shoes and Lycra, and join hundreds of others taking part in the second Gaza marathon, spanning the length of the tiny Palestinian enclave. For many, including around 2,000...
The war on Libya produced a strange effect in British politics. The majority of the public opposed the war, but very little of this opposition was expressed on the streets. Nor is the possibility of intervention in Syria producing sizeable...
