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• India Awaits as Cricket Superstar Sachin Tendulkar Edges Closer to His 100th...

  

  Indian cricket superstar Sachin Tendulkar needs just 33 more runs to reach 100 international centuries, a mark no cricketer has ever reached. Will he seal the... Read more

  Posted on 24 November 2011 CURRENT, SOCIETY

• Sleep-texting on the Rise?

  

  Look closely at the screen. Has this guy been sleep texting? Photocredit: clurr http://www.flickr.com/photos/clurr/3129333360/sizes/m/in/photostream/ Sleep... Read more

  Posted on 24 November 2011 CURRENT, SOCIETY

• Egypt Protests Continue: What Does This Mean for the Arab Spring?

  

  Protests continue in Tahrir Square. Photocredit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4DUVD-erpA At least 38 people have been killed in Cairo. Hundreds have been... Read more

  Posted on 24 November 2011 CURRENT, SOCIETY

• Thanksgiving: Not Just About Turkeys

  

  A turkey. Feeling a bit worried perhaps? Photocredit: http://christmasstockimages.com/free/food-dining/slides/living_turkey.htm It’s Thanksgiving. Read more

  Posted on 24 November 2011 CURRENT, SOCIETY

• US Presidential Elections 2012: Will the Economic Crisis Scupper Obama’s Chances?

  

  Barack Obama: hopes for election? Photo credit: U.S Embassy Kabul Afghanistan... Read more

  Posted on 24 November 2011 CURRENT, SOCIETY

• Elections 2012: Obama’s Future, and Solutions to the Crisis in America?

  

  Barack Obama: hopes for election? Photocredit: U.S Embassy Kabul Afghanistan http://www.flickr.com/photos/kabulpublicdiplomacy/3600664286/sizes/m/in/photostream... Read more

  Posted on 24 November 2011 CURRENT, SOCIETY

• Martin Scorsese’s 3D Children’s Spectacular Hugo is Perfect Thanksgiving Fare,...

  

  Martin Scorsese’s latest film hits US cinemas for Thanksgiving weekend. But instead of violent gangsters, corrupt cops or gang warfare, the Goodfellas director’... Read more

  Posted on 23 November 2011 CURRENT, SOCIETY

• Martin Scorsese’s 3D Children’s Spectacular is Perfect Thanksgiving Fare, Say...

  

  Martin Scorsese: Children's auteur? Photo credit: D@LY3D via Flickr Martin Scorsese’s latest film hits US cinemas for Thanksgiving weekend. Read more

  Posted on 23 November 2011 CURRENT, SOCIETY

• Adana, Turkey: Off the Beaten Track but Well Worth the Trip (if Only for the...

  

  Adana, Turkey. Photo credit: Gabrielle Jackson Adana: wow. It’s the only word that does it justice. This is a bustling, vibrant, lurid, busy city. Read more

  Posted on 23 November 2011 CURRENT, SOCIETY

• Five Stars to Turkey’s Adana and Also to Its Famous Kebab

  

  Photo credit: Gabrielle Jackson In Turkey, I traveled five hours in one direction to travel 19 hours in the other less than a day later for this kebab. The Adan... Read more

  Posted on 23 November 2011 CURRENT, SOCIETY

• Literary Review Bad Sex in Fiction Awards: The Hotlist is Announced

  

  Who's going to walk off with the most coveted prize of the year, the Literary Review's Bad Sex in Fiction Award? Read more

  Posted on 23 November 2011 BOOKS, CURRENT, EROTICA, LOVE & SEX

• Love Your Company? Why Don’t You and Your Work Colleagues Pay It a Rap Homage?

  

  Rap is no longer an underground form of music. Photo credit: Elly Jonez Rap music started out as a gritty urban underground sound. But it’s no secret that rap i... Read more

  Posted on 23 November 2011 CURRENT, SOCIETY

• Echoes of History: The German Fear of Inflation Rears Its Ugly Head Again

  

  The deutschmark. Photo credit: Markusram, http://www.flickr.com/photos/markusram/ On November 17, 2011 a man named Richard Medley passed away after a brief... Read more

  Posted on 23 November 2011 CURRENT, SOCIETY

• Winners and Losers of the GOP Debate on Foreign Policy

  

  Newt Gingrich: Immigration issues? Photocredit: Gage Skidmore, http://www.flickr.com/photos/gageskidmore/4393323094/sizes/m/in/photostream/ The US presidential... Read more

  Posted on 23 November 2011 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Are Celebrity Witnesses Such as Hugh Grant Overshadowing the Leveson Inquiry int...

  

  Hugh Grant: Giving evidence. Photo credit: SpreePix High-profile witnesses such as Hugh Grant and Steve Coogan have dominated press coverage of the Leveson... Read more

  Posted on 23 November 2011 CELEB, CURRENT, ENTERTAINMENT, MEDIA, SOCIETY

• Yawn – Another Dr Who Movie

  

  A new Dr Who movie? Think of the merchandising! Photo credit: Cait Hurley, http://www.flickr.com/photos/zoonie/ The man who brought us the fresh Harry Potter... Read more

  Posted on 22 November 2011 CURRENT, SOCIETY

• Michelle Williams Shines in My Week With Marilyn

  

  In 1956, 23-year-old Colin Clark, fresh from Oxford and harbouring a passion for films, landed a job as an assistant on the set of The Prince and the Showgirl,... Read more

  Posted on 22 November 2011 CURRENT, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, SOCIETY

• First Lady Michelle Obama Booed at NASCAR Race in Florida

  

  First Lady Michelle Obama. Photo credit: Lawrence Jackson, official White House photo NASCAR fans at the Homestead-Miami Speedway in south Florida turned into... Read more

  Posted on 22 November 2011 CURRENT, SOCIETY

• Arab Spring: Tahrir Square Reoccupied, Egypt’s Young Revolution in the Balance

  

  Just nine months after Hosni Mubarak was ousted, there's blood on the pavement of Cairo's Tahrir Square again as protesters and the military battle over the... Read more

  Posted on 22 November 2011 CURRENT, SOCIETY

• Is Russian PM Putin Losing Voters Or Were Jeers at Stadium an Opposition Protest?

  

  Putin: Would you boo this man? Photo credit: World Economic Forum More accustomed to adulation, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has apparently been booed... Read more

  Posted on 22 November 2011 CURRENT, SOCIETY