Pianist survived Holocaust by performing for Nazis
Atlanta - Zhanna Arshanskaya Dawson’s name is etched on the wall of a stark underground memorial in Ukraine, next to that of her sister, Frina, their parents and grandparents. She was presumed dead, like the 16,000 other Jews from Kharkov who perished under the Nazis in the winter of 1941. Only, Dawson survived, as did her sister. They lived through More...
The US military and ‘total war’ on Islam?
America’s top military officer has condemned a course taught about Islam at one of America’s top military schools as “totally objectionable”. It is not surprising. The story, first broken More...
How personality led to Sarkozy’s loss
Paris - Two hours before the official results of the French presidential elections, no Paris visitor could ignore that a historical political change was about to happen. Down Paris’ Left Bank boulevards, throngs More...
Was brazen Pakistan jail break an inside job?
An Islamist militant commander who helped plan an assault on a Pakistani jail on Sunday which freed nearly 400 prisoners said his group had inside information. Pakistan’s Taliban movement, which is close to More...
Abused animals in Lebanon face losing safe haven
Beirut, Lebanon - Helena Hesayne used to be an architect, but she gave up her successful career for her passion: looking after mistreated animals. It is not a popular cause in her native Lebanon, a country still More...
U.S. tells North Korea not to carry out nuclear test
The United States urged North Korea on Monday not conduct a nuclear test or launch a satellite and called on China to exert its influence over its neighbor to try to ward off such “provocative actions.” North More...
Saudi princess: What I’d change about my country
Princess Basma Bint Saud Bin Abdulaziz tells the BBC there are many changes she would like to see in Saudi Arabia – but that now is not the time for women to be allowed to drive. I speak as the daughter of More...
Pain and redemption of WWII interned Japanese-Americans
Seventy years ago, in the wake of the Pearl Harbor attacks, the US West Coast was cleared of Japanese-Americans. More than 110,000 people were put into internment camps, in what was the largest official forced relocation More...