Blog posts tagged "Obama"

May 2, 2011 11:24 am 35 Comments

Osama's death raises questions for Pakistan - and for the rest of the world still faced with the threat of fundamentalism fuelled by inequality, poverty and hypocrisy.

August 23, 2010 8:39 am 39 Comments

The gaping sore that is 9/11 in the American psyche remains unhealed. We who covered the co-ordinated attacks on the Twin Towers in New York, and the Pentagon in Washington underestimated how deep, how searing, and how long lasting this event would prove to be. Today this secular nation, whose refusal to either favour or [...]

July 13, 2010 8:25 am 7 Comments

What might otherwise be regarded as an incredible feat of engineering has been achieved a mile under the ocean in the Gulf of Mexico.