The land of broken dreams
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Jasmila Zbanic's stripped-down style carries cumulative force in 'Grbavica,' a tale of Sarajevo reeling from war's devastation.
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Cape Verde Is. The disaster in Southeast Asia touches us all. Areas, which were already very poor has been affected by incomprehensible destruction.
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After years of helping readers lose  themselves in remote and far-flung parts of the world, travel  publisher Lonely Planet is now trying to find them amid the  tens of thousands dead or missing in tsunami-hit countries.
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Mikhail Saakashvili's populist ride has hit bumps on the central question of reunification with two breakaway regions.
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Ever since the Republic of Somalia forcefully gained its independence from European colonialists in 1960, the country is plagued by a number of serious problems including clan based governments, bad governance, chronic corruption, nepotism, favouritism
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The nightmares won't stop. In one, fighters chase him with a gun. In another, he watches a person get mutilated. In a third, someone is hacking his neck with a machete. Yet, years after he left the life of a child soldier in Sierra Leone, Ishmael Beah has found a reason for hope in his vivid nocturnal visions: He never dies.
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You probably heard of "The Land that Time Forgot," the classic science fiction story by Edgar Rice Burroughs, which was later adapted into a feature length film.
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Scientists believe they have located the part of the brain where dreams are created.
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In 'The Science of Sleep,' a dreamer retreats into a fantasyland. Things go swimmingly until he wakes up.
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Sometimes it helps just to open an atlas and stare for a few moments. I did so this morning, checking out the Southwestern Asia map (#98) of the National Geographic Atlas of the World (a handsome volume, by the way).
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ÂHeroesÂ acts out the fantasy that supernatural forces can improve life. ÂRunawayÂ has a bleaker message: One little mistake can really mess it up.
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CARMEN DE URIA, Venezuela  - In a derelict ghost  town on the Venezuelan coast, 12-year-old Elvis Palacios  salvages rusty steel bars from ruined buildings flattened by  1999 landslides.
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MALISEVO, Serbia-Montenegro In the words of one Albanian official, &quot;we&#39;re parting with 15 unfulfilled dreams.&quot;. Senior leaders from Kosovo and Albania, along with top UN and NATO officials, were among tens
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Earth sits between two worlds that have been devastated by climate catastrophes.
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The New York Times has recently run a piece pondering the renowned nation of Canada, and whether it has fallen from its once lofty heights of international greatness.    "A country is not just a health system."  This is the sentiment of one of a few Canadian authors recently lamenting the decline of Canadian engagement around the world.  The question then becomes: what makes a nation great?  Why would Canadians resent the place of  their placid and peaceful country?  And, what does this say about the roles taken on by other influential nations around the world?
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In the world&#39;s gambling capital, a city built on the back of so many broken dreams, Danny Williams&#39;s mission to win the world heavyweight title ended in a painful, humiliating and bloody defeat at the Mandalay Bay Hotel where he was utterly outclassed by
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KAKOME BAY, Albania  - On a midsummer night 20  years ago, a tall Frenchman beached his small sailing boat near  Kakome Bay on the forbidding coast of communist Albania, then  the world's most isolated country.