The country's beloved African National Congress has changed, and probably for the worse. In the past 12 months the ruling party that was once safeguarded by Nelson Mandela has been plagued by scandal and rioting.
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Exhausted by life under military occupation, Palestinians generally seem more interested in putting food on the table than in political revolution, reports Joseph Dana.
Read Article The apathy that hangs over Palestine
The United States and the Afghan government announce they will hold talks with the Taliban in Doha this week aimed at achieving peace in Afghanistan. US to hold peace talks with Taliban
A culinary map of the variety of Indian food organised by Indian states in just the two-kilometre radius of Karama in Dubai - often billed Little India. With map. A guide to Karama's Indian restaurants state by state
The days of taking one picture at a time on real film, rather than a disk, have never lost their romance. Neither have the images, a website is proving. Rym Ghazal reports Snapshots tell of the way we were
