A ferry service from Tamil Nadu to Sri Lanka, which was suspended 28 years ago, resumed on Monday. The sea route was thrown open as a private cruise-liner left Thoothukudi in south Tamil Nadu on its maiden voyage to Colombo. The decision to resume the service was taken during the visit of Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa to India in …

Russia and NATO have an open channel for talks, but there are still fundamental points in which they have trouble seeing eye-to-eye. From how to handle Libya and Syria through to missile defence, the hurdles are clear. To see if that might change any time soon, we can talk to NATO's Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen.

When Britain lost control of Egypt in 1956, Prime Minister Anthony Eden said he wanted the nationalist president Gamal Abdel Nasser “destroyed … murdered … I don’t give a damn if there’s anarchy and chaos in Egypt”. Those insolent Arabs, Winston Churchill had urged in 1951, should be driven “into the gutter from which they should never have emerged”.  The language …

How is it that the world's fortunes hang on the life or death of a murderous thug that the US has been supporting for 30 years? And why, in fact, if Yemen's President Ali Abdullah Saleh is so important, isn't it common knowledge? Saleh was wounded yesterday when opposition forces blew up his palace. But as I'll discuss, below, there's more …

    Position Qty Skills Qualification Experience 1) Systems Architect   اخصائى تحليل اعمال نظم تطبيقية   1 Strategically design and implement in house information sys and network software architectures. –       Experience in Government agencies –       Experience in Global 500 companies. –       Experience in ERP system/Implementation –       Experience in CRM –       Experience in ECM University Degree in  Computer Science or …

  Football is the great global game: the closest thing we have to a connective cultural tissue that binds our species across national and cultural borders. But only in a world so upside down could "the Beautiful Game" be run by an organisation as corrupt as FIFA and by a man as rotten to the core as FIFA President Sepp Blatter. …