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Recent Postings When the US shrank in the 19th century Motorbike from Japan travels across the Pacific Ocean A Few Good Lines by Samuel Beckett Breakfast at Tiffany's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Middlesex Gotye: The original Barak Obama is funnier than Jimmy Kimmel Tokyo & Kyoto, Japan News from Yahoo Pakistan restores Twitter after block over Prophet cartoons Pakistan restored access to Twitter Sunday after briefly blocking the microblog over posts that Islamabad said promoted a Facebook contest involving caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed. Lockerbie bombing convict dies in Libya Abdelbaset Ali Mohmet al-Megrahi, the only person convicted over the 1988 Lockerbie bombing which killed 270 people, died on Sunday, almost three years after being freed from jail on compassionate grounds. Sharapova beats Li Na to retain Italian Open title Maria Sharapova successfully defended her Italian Open title Sunday, beating Li Na 4-6, 6-4, 7-6 (5) in a wild match in which play was twice interrupted by rain and the red clay turned to mud. Serb nationalist Nikolic wins presidential vote Serb nationalist Tomislav Nikolic upset the odds to defeat incumbent Boris Tadic in a presidential run-off Sunday but vowed to pursue his predecessor's drive for the Balkans nation to join the EU. |
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