News Source: The independent
| 9 days ago
Annie Kevans has an eye for what makes an eye-catching portrait. Her oil-on-paper likenesses look simple, almost childlike, but they come with a sting in the tail. The 36-year-old artist began painting in her final year at St Martin's with Boys, a
News Source: Chowk
| 13 days ago
The degeneracy of a poltical system is manifest in the exigent way this most mind boggling anti- democratic feat was surmounted with the explicit blessing of America. If this is the color of the democracy America wants the occupied lands to paint
News Source: The Guardian
| 14 days ago
This weekly blog is for those who are watching The Thick of It series three. Don't read on if you haven't seen episode five The Thick of It seems to be broadening its range of targets specifically so it can start insulting as many BBC colleagues as
News Source: Inter Press Service
| 23 days ago
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen is known for his brash and earthy vocabulary even when, as he did in early April, he talks about himself. "I am neither a gangster nor a gentleman, but a real man," the politician who has led his country for 25 years
News Source: Canadian Free Press
| 24 days ago
One, slightly more politic than the others wrote this: “Gallup Poll’s show that a substantial majority of the American public favors the expansion of federal hate crime legislation to include crimes against people based on their gender, sexual
News Source: Canada.com
| 25 days ago
Linden MacIntyre, a veteran broadcast journalist best known for his investigative reporting, has won the 2009 Scotiabank Giller Prize for his novel The Bishop's Man. In the book, MacIntyre revisits his Cape Breton roots for the story of a middle-
News Source: BBC
| 25 days ago
Even though it was not a school day, dozens of them made their way in to Sisowath High School in the centre of Phnom Penh for a presentation ceremony. School and government officials were formally handing out the new Khmer Rouge history book, a scene
News Source: Leader Post Online
| 25 days ago
And on Tuesday, just one will remain: The winner of the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the annual award recognizing excellence in Canadian fiction, will be announced at a gala presentation in Toronto. The jury is made up of American novelist and short-