With No More Parents to Conquer, He Wept
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Puerile writing, confused plotting and shockingly off-note performances make Oliver Stone's epic film a disappointment.
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Palestinians in the Triangle mourned the death of the man they viewed as a father figure, even as they paused to consider a future without Yasser Arafat.
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Thushari, 15, has good reason to be crying. She saw both her parents swept to their deaths by the ferocious Indian Ocean tsunami, which also pulverised her family home and tore her from her siblings.
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From the destruction that swept over south Asia claiming more than 115,000 lives, hope is emerging in one stricken country that relief efforts are diverting a path to civil war.
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FOXBOROUGH -- When Daniel Graham first heard the sad news, he was prepared to walk away from it all.
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The reign of one of Afghanistan&#39;s most powerful and most colourful warlords appeared to have ended in chaos yesterday after a mob of his supporters clashed with American troops and set
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LAWRENCE, Kansas  - They gathered to send Aaron Emerson off to war. His father cursed, his grandmother cried, his mother was just numb.
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The unbearable heartache of witnessing her sonâs torment at the hands of his Iraqi captors proved too much for Lil Bigley. Just hours after making a desperate plea for mercy, the 86-year
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The unsung passing away of, Harnam Singh Rawail, a once-distinguished filmmaker left some of the more sensitive souls in the film industry stung with dismay.
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The collapse of Sungnye Gate, a 600-year-old landmark designated a top national treasure, shocked the country.
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Chicago Tribune - Gabriel Boul, a Sudanese refugee who was torn from his family at the age of 7, clung to life for more than a month, fueled by the hope that he would see his mother again. He died last week surrounded by friends, but the person he most wanted there never came.
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The mother of one of three County Armagh boys who have ended their lives describes her heartbreak.
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BEIT HANOUN, Gaza Strip -- Mohammed Wahdan, a 20-year-old Palestinian farmer, waited until his mother's four-day funeral had ended, until the last mourner had left his family's crumbling farmhouse on the edge of the Gaza Strip.
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Not when he is reminded of the fire that killed his three adopted siblings and nearly took his own life. Not when he thinks of the years of horrific neglect, physical and sexual abuse and constant shuffling from place to place.
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HUAMBO, Angola -- Manuel Faustino Gomes, 15, lost both his parents during Angola's long civil war and spent years as a child of the streets, scrambling to survive in this battered city.
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His release, when it came, stopped a nation. The stock market soared, pigtails left untended in protest for six years were cut, websites crashed and long queues formed on highways as ecstatic
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A 3 1/2-year-old boy at the center of a three-way custody battle was handed over to his biological mother, leaving the couple who had been raising him since his birth in tears.