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Dr Magnanti is reportedly writing a novel under her own name...The error of understanding was that exposure would be more potent than anonymity. Surely Belle de Jour of all people would know that the thrill is in the chase. Every...

One late autumn day each year, the United States takes leave from the business of humanity. Some things, of course, observe no time out: the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, for instance, and the interest payable on Americans' mountain of...

The war in Afghanistan has always been incomprehensible except in terms of a craven subservience to the most belligerent elements in the US government and military ("Not in our name" 15 November). Why do we follow the lead of this...

In previous elections, politicians used public meetings and door-stepping to get their message across. This time around, fatally, they've decided to get down with the trendies and go online, deciding that a general election must be treated like another episode...

The girl was 12 when she was "married" to her 16-year-old cousin. Her "husband" then raped her, with the approval of her father, his brother and sister-in-law. It sounds like a horror story from the past in some remote part...

Cashing in on a catastrophe Divya A, TNN 22 November 2009, 02:57am IST Text Size: Four days ahead of the first anniversary of the Mumbai attacks, a creative storm is building to cash in on the tragedy. Perhaps nothing reflects...

The provincial government has decided to increase the number of police posts in and around the city from 16 to 18 to block entry of terrorists into the city from the suburban areas. Information Minister Mian Iftikhar Hussain said this...

The present ministerial and government office holders intend not to resign or step down in the aftermath of the National Reconciliation Ordinance-beneficiaries list made public on Saturday. �Why should we resign as we have not been convicted by any court...

At least 11 suspected militants, a majority of foreigners among them, were killed and seven others injured when jets bombed militant hideouts and an Afghan refugee camp in Orakzai Agency on Saturday. Strikes were also carried out in Chappri Feroze...

The Presidency on Saturday kept its silence by adopting a wait and see policy regarding the future line of action on the appearance of the list of beneficiaries of the National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO) till the court decision. �The matter...