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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It could have been a dark day for the Maldives, a nation of over a thousand islands, but it didnât work out that way.
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Kenyaâs countryside seems to be settling into a state of lawlessness that is more reminiscent of the checkpoint culture in Somalia or Darfur, Sudan.
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A lot has happened in the other world since Friday. That would be the world outside of Florida. Maybe by sometime today, this area and this state will get back to feeling more like part of that world.
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The recent death of poet Czeslaw Milosz robs the world of one of its most prophetic and powerful voices.
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Moldova is one of Europe's poorest states, despite its rich farmland and renowned vineyards that during communism earned the country the status of the breadbasket of the former Soviet Union.
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Swiss doctors may not yet know what makes us dream, but they&#39;re closer to understanding where they unfold in the brain by studying an elderly patient who lost her ability to dream following a stroke.
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Can 'unsettle a country's foundations'
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For his poetic fourth feature, âHalf Moon,â Bahman Ghobadi returns to the desolation of the Kurdish borderlands and the enduring optimism of his people.
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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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âPakistan is inherently unstable. Dealing with them is like playing with matches in a forest.â - Larry Pressler. That statement from Larry Pressler, made during his recent visit to India, coincided with
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The stuff that dreams are made of is a chunk of grey matter deep down at the back of the human brain, reveals a study of a rare form of brain damage.
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Gardening in our area is difficult sometimes. Clay soil, too much heat, too much cold, poison ivy ... whew. That said, last week I took a break from my little plot of land in the Kanawha Valley and landed in dreamland.   Hubby asked me to join him as he ventured west for a conference.
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In the gloomy shade deep in Africa's rain forest, the noontime silence was pierced by the whine of a far-off chain saw. It was the sound of destruction, echoed from wood to wood, continent to continent, in the tropical belt that circles the globe.
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WASHINGTON -- The part of the American dream that says a man's children will be better off than he was, has become a dream, not reality, according to an analysis of Census data released yesterday.
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They are not wealthy. Their home states are politically symbolic. Their occupations or their circumstances suggest salt of the earth.
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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.