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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 [...]

By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Editor
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A 24-year-old Chinese man who died of bird flu in December passed the virus directly to his father in a rare case of human-to-human transmission of the virus, doctors reported on Monday.
Chinese officials had already said they believed the younger man infected [...]

By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Editor WASHINGTON, April 7 (Reuters) - A 24-year-old Chinese man who died of bird flu in December passed the virus directly to his father in a rare case of human-to-human transmission of the virus, doctors reported on Monday. Chinese officials had already said they [...]

Over the past 50 years, the London literary world has been split along similar lines. For a reclusive literary ascetic with patrician attitudes and a Miltonic sense of destiny, Naipaul has maintained a consistently high gossip quotient, trading public provocation and personal insults, pursuing and pursued to this day by private vendettas vigorously conducted in [...]

Slow. Dumb. Retard. Weird. Handicapped.Many people have used these words to describe me. I, however, would like to introduce myself. My name is Autism Spectrum Disorder, but most people call me Autism.You may have heard of me, but not my relatives: Pervasive Developmental Disorder Not Otherwise Specified (P.D.D., N.O.S.), Asperger’s Syndrome, Childhood Disintegrative Disorder and [...]

History will record June 2, 2006 as the day when police arrested members of what they claimed was Canada’s first homegrown Islamic terrorist conspiracy. But in a modest middle-class section of Oakville, Rukhsana Gaya – then a department store cosmetics manager – remembers that day as the moment her family’s life was shattered.%26quot;The phone rang [...]

ISLAMABAD, March 18 (Reuters) - The family of an Indian man sentenced to death in Pakistan for spying appealed on Tuesday to President Pervez Musharraf to spare him, a spokesman for the Indian High Commission said. Musharraf rejected a plea for mercy from the Indian, Sarabjit Singh, on March 4 [...]

The Qur’an was revealed over a period of more than 20 years, with the prophet Muhammad receiving the first revelation in AD610 in the Cave of Hira, near Mecca. He was told: “Read in the name of your Lord who created, created man from a clot. Read, for your Lord is most generous, Who teaches [...]

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 [...]

White working-class teenagers perform worse than their black and Asian classmates at GCSEs, a government-backed study has found.Poor white 16-year-olds make the slowest progress at school of any ethnic or national group, according to the research published yesterday by Warwick University. Living in poverty, in rented homes and deprived neighbourhoods has a worse affect on [...]