| Fri, 30 Jul 2010 Chequered diplomacy
| Go east, young man! When David Cameron uttered this stirring slogan in Bangalore on Wednesday, he was following his own advice. And yet his eastern journey has not met with wholly happy results. Visiting India, Britain's prime minister seems to have been ignored by So... | A Persian message for Obama
| Jul 31, 2010 A Persian message for Obama | By M K Bhadrakumar | The season of diplomacy on the Iran nuclear issue is once again approaching. Another harsh winter has passed. Rhetoric has touched a point of diminishing returns. | The logical co... | British girl, 9, killed in rafting tragedy in Turkey
| A nine-year-old girl was killed and a boy seriously injured after a family white water rafting trip turned to tragedy in Turkey. | Cerys and Markus Potter were thrown from their inflatable raft after it hit rocks on a river near the Turkish resort of Dalaman. | The ch... | Girl, 9, from Wales, dies in rafting accident in Turkey
A nine-year-old girl from Wales has died in a rafting accident while on holiday in Turkey. | The tragedy happened on Wednesday in Lake Koygeyiz, close to the region of Dalyan in southern Turkey. | British consular staff are in touch with the family of the victim and are... | Istanbul landmark seeks return to glory era
| Mata Hari, accused of spying and executed in France in 1917, stayed at the Pera Palace Hotel. So did Greta Garbo, who played the shadowy dancer in a 1931 movie. Ernest Hemingway checked in to report on war between Turks and Greeks. Agatha Christie is said to have craf... | Istanbul landmark seeks return to glory era
| ISTANBUL - It was the last stop on the Orient Express, a grand hotel with Istanbul's first electric elevator where artists and aristocrats sipped champagne beneath chandeliers as the Ottoman Empire dissolved and the world drifted toward war. | Mata Hari, accused of sp... | Report: 29 al-Qaida suspects detained in Turkey
| ANKARA, Turkey — Turkey's state-run news agency says police have detained 29 people suspected of links to the al-Qaida terror network. | The Anatolia news agency says the suspects were rounded up for questioning in simultaneous raids in the cities of Adana, Ista... | |
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