5 September 2008, 10:06 am
When Anya Leybovich arrived in America from Tashkent, Uzbekistan, in 1979, her toughest adjustment was the language, even as a 3-year-old. “I refused to speak Russian or English, so I just made up my own language that was a combination of the two,” she recalls.... read more
3 September 2008, 4:05 am
MOSCOW - Prime Minister Vladimir V. Putin said yesterday Russia will respond calmly to an increase in NATO ships in the Black Sea in the aftermath of the short war with Georgia, but promised that "there will be an answer."... read more
2 September 2008, 1:29 pm
Literary traveler Paul Theroux re-creates the 28,000-mile trans-Asian journey he chronicled three decades ago in "The Great Railway Bazaar."... read more
1 September 2008, 11:09 pm
Dubai: Planet Group, a Dubai-based tourism and ground handling company, is investing Dh1.7 billion in two hotels in Abu Dhabi and one in Beirut, which a top official said is the Gulf's next major tourism destination after Dubai.... read more
1 September 2008, 3:03 pm
BAHRAIN's national soccer team resumed preparations yesterday ahead of their Group 'A' opener against Japan in the 2010 World Cup qualifier scheduled for Saturday at the National Stadium in Riffa.... read more
31 August 2008, 11:30 pm
Vienna, Aug 30 (CTK) - The Czech Republic might boycott the Winter Olympic Games organised in Russian Sochi in 2014, Czech Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg told the Austrian daily Die Presse in an interview for its Saturday's issue, the Austrian APA news agency reported on Friday.... read more
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