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The family of Pakistan’s ambassador to Kabul kidnapped by the Taliban in a tribal region three months ago expressed concern over the government’s failure to recover him and urged authorities to expedite their efforts.
Ambassador Tariq Azizuddin went missing in the Khyber tribal region on the Afghan border along with his driver and guard while traveling [...]

The same cheerful restlessness seems to pervade all areas of his life. In the last six years, since becoming quadriplegic, he has started a skin care line, Clark%26#8217;s Botanicals; written a memoir (%26#8220;it%26#8217;s 95 percent finished,%26#8221; he said); learned Spanish, to communicate better with some of his caretakers; and researched and managed his recovery. [...]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Kosovo will never be part of Serbia again, the U.S. State Department said on Monday, but said Washington would keep working on the issue with Belgrade and its ally Russia, which both oppose independence.
State Department spokesman Tom Casey spoke after Russia’s likely next president, Dmitry Medvedev, visited Belgrade [...]

By Phil Stewart
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Benedict, ahead of his first trip to the United States, praised Americans on Friday who oppose gay marriage and abortion and called for global nuclear disarmament.
In an address to new U.S. ambassador Mary Ann Glendon, Benedict touched on issues he will likely raise on [...]

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Roland Arnall, founder of subprime pioneer Ameriquest Mortgage Co, died of cancer on Monday morning in Los Angeles, his family said in a statement.
Arnall, 68, left his post as U.S. ambassador to the Netherlands 10 days ago to tend to his ailing son, who had been diagnosed [...]

Professor David Dabydeen writes fiction and poetry between midnight and four in the morning, sustained by cigarettes and occasional slurps of red wine. Teaching is for the afternoon and early evening. “Going to his lair in the Warwick humanities building is not unlike visiting a rum shop, but without the rum,” says his friend John [...]

At Greenwich, we have just been through the process of selecting a new chancellor: Lord Hart, the distinguished planning lawyer and former special adviser to two lord chancellors. This set me thinking: Why do universities retain the medieval position of chancellor? Why are so many distinguished figures attracted to the role? And what is the [...]

For almost five months, friends smuggled what the family needed over the back wall: mobile phones and phone chips, two birthday cakes, a remote-controlled toy car, extra groceries and homework.
Inside, the two teenage girls and their younger brother rarely opened the curtains to view the hills behind their home. If they did, men from the [...]

Easter egg hunts and much more will keep your children hopping this week. Find something to do that will appeal to all members of your brood. Be sure to check back every week for updates.SATURDAY, MARCH 22 Children ages 8 and up can learn non-traditional methods of Easter egg decoration including decoupage, glittering with beads [...]

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Roland Arnall, founder of subprime
pioneer Ameriquest Mortgage Co, died of cancer on Monday
morning in Los Angeles, his family said in a statement.
Arnall, 68, left his post as U.S. ambassador to the
Netherlands 10 days ago to tend to his ailing son, who had been
diagnosed with Hodgkins [...]