With No More Parents to Conquer, He Wept
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There comes the moment in the career of many directors when they are compelled to tell the story of a great man in whose life they seem to see a glimmer of their own image.
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METSIAMANONG, Botswana -- When Dahame Belese left the land of his ancestors, his parents felt as though he had fallen off the edge of the universe. They had no idea of the world outside, had never traveled by car or bicycle. They had not even climbed on a donkey's back.
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Southeast Asia&#39;s wiliest political survivor yesterday completed his own intricately scripted exit from the stage. King Norodom Sihanouk, who first took Cambodia&#39;s throne when
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Athens: The result wasnât totally unexpected, but Hicham el Guerrouj just wouldnât stop crying. It was probably one of the most momentous day of his life.
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IN his father&#39;s arms at last, the little boy still looks bewildered and somehow alone. At just 18 months old, Hannes Bergstrom, who was separated from his family by the tsunami in Khao Lak, Thailand, cannot
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In an emotionally charged burial ceremony which verged on chaos, the Palestinian people bid farewell to their leader as Yasser Arafat was buried in the Mukata compound in Ramallah.
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Acuil Bangol was separated from his son for years by southern Sudan&#39;s civil war. On Friday, he finally got a chance to tell Sudanese government and rebel leaders
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He lamented, in his own way, that he is unloved these days and reflected on the "war fatigue" that has gripped his country. He looked forward to the day, not so long from now, when he will retire to his Texas ranch and tell himself that he did the right thing.
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At 11:33 am yesterday, in a mist of rain and confetti, a boy and his father watched history being made. The boy was 45 years old, his dad 77.
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His two wives and three children cried when he left Baghdad the night before. Now he was kneeling on a flattened piece of cardboard to pray outside the dirt
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In the story of Baby No. 81 lies a hint of the raw and peculiar distress of Sri Lanka's bereaved parents.
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Russel Timoshenko, who had been on the police force only a year and a half, died with his parents at his bedside.
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PHNOM PENH - King Norodom Sihanouk, a quixotic ruler who freed Cambodia from its colonial shackles but failed to keep it out of the Vietnam War or the clutches of the brutal Khmer Rouge, abdicated last night, his son said.
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He shook the world by demanding justice for the Palestinians. But Arafat's defiance ruined his chances to win them independence
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As economic forces push them toward a former ruler, they struggle to redefine their identity.
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Palestinians at home and abroad wept, waved flags and burned tires Thursday in an eruption of grief at the death of Yasser Arafat, the man they consider the father of their nation. The quick appointment of successors did little to dispel the huge question marks now hanging over Mideast peace efforts.
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AS THE grim images of parents weeping inconsolably over their children&#39;s graves were beamed into drawing-rooms the world over, few eyes would have been dry or hearts un-enraged at the fiends who target children.