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The language wars flare up whenever insecure Americans worry that English is becoming passé.

It's a cultural paranoia that is laughably off the mark. According to research, children of immigrants stand a better chance of losing their native language and speaking only English than never learning English at all. Still, it's a fear that is resistant to facts. I ought to know. I've se...

CARLSBAD, Calif. (AP) - Carlsbad Aquafarm is growing a multimillion-dollar investment in abalone in a row of tanks alongside a tidal lagoon just outside San Diego.

In a process that has taken years to complete, microscopic abalone larvae have finally grown into fist-sized mollusks that can fetch $30 a pound ($66 a kilogram) from top-shelf

The operation is one of a dozen or so aquaf...

J.D. Greear persuaded his church to drop the word "Baptist" from its name, sell its historic building in Durham, N.C., and move into a local high school. Greear preaches in an untucked collared shirt, sportcoat and jeans. He generally avoids politics, but signed a statement urging action on global warming.

Eric Hankins preaches in a suit and tie at First Baptist Church in Oxford, Miss., w...

KOTA BAHARU, July 12 (Bernama) -- A culture of lies spread via blogs and SMSes, if left unchecked, can destroy our civilisation and the country.

Unity, Culture, Arts and Heritage Minister Datuk Seri Mohd Shafie Apdal said the ministry viewed such culture seriously as the people had the tendency to believe blogs and SMSes.

"The government is worried because a culture of lies via blog...

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NEW DELHI - Could LeBron James or Shaquille O'Neal catch on in the Hindi heartland?

Enlarge Photo THE ASSOCIATED PRESS/Gurinder Osan Orlando Magic's Pat Garrity, center, poses along with Indian children at a youth basketball clinic at the Siri Fort Sports Complex in New Delhi, Sunday, July 6, 2008.

The NBA certainly hopes so as it plans a major push to introduce basketball to Ind...

Published on 12/07/2008 tourism: Rome high on tourists' list. The Travel and Leisure Magazine annual survey has rated Rome as the second best city in Europe, placing it behind Florence and ahead of Istanbul, Paris, and Krakow. The results also name Rome as the seventh best city in the world behind Bangkok, Buenos Aires, Cape Town, Sydney, Florence, and Cuzco (Peru), and ahead of New York, Ista...

Inflation is striking most industries, Mamo explains, but foreign products keep costing more as the U.S. dollar sags against the British Advertisement

pound, European euro, Chinese yen and other currencies.

Utah's African food stores - due to the relatively small, but growing, population of African immigrants in the Beehive State - also grapple with another economic fact of life: L...

Khaleej Times Online >> News >> OPINION Another crisis in Kashmir

FACED with a crisis following the withdrawal of the People's Democratic Party from the Congress-led coalition, Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad resigned without going through the vote of confidence.

The Congress-PDP coalition's fall is a major setback to the cause of moderation and political recon...

Officers from almost every force are claiming they have been marginalised or passed over for promotion, with an unprecedented number ready to lodge race discrimination claims, The Sunday Telegraph has learned.

The trend has accelerated since it emerged last month that Mr Ghaffur, Britain's highest ranking Asian officer, was preparing a case against Sir Ian Blair, the Metropolitan Police ...

THE Rev. Jesse Jackson last week made some unguarded comments about Senator Barack Obama that were picked up by a Fox News microphone he apparently thought was turned off. They included a reference to separating Obama from parts of his body he would just as soon keep.

The Times on Thursday devoted a column of type to the ensuing controversy and Jackson's apology for what the newspaper ca...

DIRE DAWA, Ethiopia When drought and food shortages hit, it is the very young who suffer first, and most.

Weighing only 10 pounds, Ayaan is among nearly 100,000 Ethiopian children whose lives are at risk.

Just four days before her first birthday, she is lighter than an average 3-month-old baby.

A clinic at Kersi, about 15 miles outside Ethiopia's second city Dire Dawa, has s...

Macedonia's Prime Minister Nikola Gruevksi submitted a proposal of a new government to the country's parliament on Saturday, news reaching Tirana from Skopje reported.

In Macedonia's June 1 early general polls, Gruevksi's VMRO-DPMNE won a landslide victory with 63 seats in the 120-seat parliament.

Gruevski chose the Democratic Union for Integration, an ethnic Albanian party who...