The half-brother of the ruler of the United Arab Emirates, Sheikh Issa bin Zayed al-Nahyan, has been acquitted on charges of torturing and raping an Afghan trader in a high-profile case sparked by harrowing video images of the alleged abuse. The case caused intense embarrassment to the US-backed Gulf state, one of the world's biggest oil exporters, and cast unwelcome light on its political system
David Peace Pete Bondurant appears as a minor character in White Jazz and then becomes one of the principal characters in American Tabloid and The Cold Six Thousand – is that where the spark for the whole Underworld USA trilogy came from? With you wanting to run with this character, to see where Pete took you? James Ellroy There was an overlap that began with my reading of Don Delillo's novel Libr
A few weeks ago the English historian Tony Judt delivered a speech at his home in New York University (NYU). More than 1,000 people turned up, and few left disappointed. What they heard was classic Tony Judt: the lecture, a plea for the positive virtues of social democracy, was as erudite as might be expected from the author of Postwar, his epic portrait of Europe since 1945, and as politically po
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Early in the morning of Aug. 29, 1949, a mushroom cloud soared up over the Kazakh deserts. The Soviets had detonated their first atomic bomb, a thrilling feat of engineering and physics. The man who had supervised the effort, the pitiless chief of the secret police, Lavrenti Beria, raced to telephone Stalin. But when the leader came on the line he declared that he already knew and hung up. It was
The Baltic ultranationalists rewriting east European history as an equal Nazi-Soviet 'double genocide' must be stopped Britons who are proud of a parent or grandparent who fought in the second world war, proud of the Allies' defeat of Hitler, of Britain's valiant defence of freedom when Europe buckled and crumbled, have ample reason to be wary now. Wary, and disappointed, that one of this country'
In yet another sign of escalating tensions in Iran, pro-government demonstrators shot at the armored car of the country’s most outspoken opposition leader, Mehdi Karroubi, his Web site Saham News reported Friday. No one was injured Thursday night in the attack, which appeared to reflect growing frustration that the brutal government crackdown on dissent in recent months had failed to stop the oppo
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