 |  | | Preventing the Next 9/11 |
 AS we approach the 10th anniversary
of the murder of thousands
of citizens from more than 90
countries, I keep asking myself
whether we are finally safe from
the global terror threat.
Since those shocking attacks of 9/11,
the death of Osama bin Laden, the elimination
of terrorist training camps in
Afghanistan and the concentrated international
pressure on Al Qaeda have
reshaped the nature of the threat confronting
us.
We´ve seen terror attempts foiled by a
combination of heightened security and
awareness, improved intelligence gathering,
robust enforcement by police and
prosecutors, quick actions by an observant
public and sheer luck: the... |
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SELF-ISOLATION ! |
| HERE´S what the United
Nations report on Israel´s
raid last year on the
Turkish-flagged Mavi
Marmara had to say about
the killing of a 19-year-old US citizen
on board:
"At least one of those killed,
Furkan Dogan, was shot at
extremely close range. Mr Dogan
sustained wounds to the face, back
of the skull, back and left leg. That
suggests he may already have been
lying wounded when the fatal shot
was delivered, as suggested by witness
accounts to that effect."
The four-member panel, led by
Sir Geoffrey Palmer, a former
prime minister of New Zealand,
appears with these words to raise
the possibility of an execution or
something close.
Dogan, born in upstate New
York, was an aspiring doctor. Little
interested in politics, he´d won a
lottery to travel... |
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 | ...Miracle Day is a ´miracle´ for Eve Myles EVE Myles has been with Torchwood since
the very beginning, back in 2006, when the
British sci-fi series and Doctor Who spin-off
was BBC Three´s awkward stepchild. She´s
been there as it has ventured from BBC
Three to BBC Two to BBC One.
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| | Parker wants to pack up and tour the world |  ACTRESS Sarah Jessica Parker wants to travel around the world and says she will
happily quit her career if she could go on an adventure tour with her family. "I often
have a fantasy about packing up the family and travelling. If it was an adventure,
sure, I´d leave all this behind. But I´d never do it without them," Parker told Style
magazine. She has three children — eight-year-old son James, and two-year-old
twins - Tabitha and Marion. "Having children makes it harder now. When you
involve other people who are reliant on you, the stakes are monumentally higher. I
don´t mean to be dramatic, it´s also beautiful and filled with meaning," she said... | | | I´m pretty frugal: Justin Timberlake |  SINGER-ACTOR Justin Timberlake says he is thrifty and only
shops for clothes once a year. "I will say that I´m pretty frugal. I´ll
probably shop for clothes for myself once a year, and that will last
me for the rest of the year. What was it that Prince said, ´Money
can´t buy you happiness, but it can help pay for the pursuit,? contactmusic.
com quoted the 30-year-old as saying. "It´s nice to have
places in Los Angeles and New York. I spend enough time in both
that it´s nice to have a home. But I don´t need them," he added... | | | Onam reminds one of Kerala´s
natural and cultural beauty: Expats |  Onam is the biggest and
most important ten-day
harvest festival in the
Indian state of Kerala.
According to the Society
for the Confluence of Festivals in
India, Onam became the state
festival of Kerala in 1961.
Thousands of national and international
tourists visit the state
every year to join in the celebrations,
which mirror the cultural
heritage of Kerala. Keralites living
in any part of the world celebrate
this special occasion.
Special food items, decoration of
houses with different floral
designs, exchange of gifts and the
typical Thiruvathira (a dance
form) and Vallomkali (snake
boat race) make the occasion different.
Some of the expatriates
from Kerala shared their memories. |
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