France’s defending president, Nicolas Sarkozy, has promised supporters a "surprise" as Socialist rival Franois Hollande says he’s certain of nothing.
Hard-bitten news editors were last week discomfited to discover that their teenage kids knew something they didn’t know.
Website claims Khamenei’s key adviser led raid on the home of one of the Green movement’s two main leaders.
Nobel laureate Nadine Gordimer has mounted a passionate defence of the printed book against the onslaught of technology.
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/ 3 December 2007
Australians do not know whether they have just committed a very bold act or a very small one. By throwing out their conservative prime minister, John Howard, in Saturday’s election they may have dramatically tipped their nation away from the insularity, fear and materialism that he had encouraged.
Over the past decade, the concept of corporate social responsibility (CSR) has been pummelled and massaged to suit countless agendas. Both campaigners and corporates thumb their noses at a term whose meaning zigzags from ethical supply chains to carbon trading to human rights.
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/ 3 November 2006
As thieves grabbed author Nadine Gordimer and her 66-year-old domestic worker she was overcome more by sympathy than fear.
South African author Nadine Gordimer has been accused of censorship and hypocrisy by killing what would be the first biography about her.
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/ 24 January 2003
Andre Agassi beat South Africa’s Wayne Ferreira on Thursday for the 11th straight time to reach his fourth Australian Open final. The 6-2 6-2 6-3 scoreline leaves Ferreira with just a single set in all those meetings between the veterans.
This is a tale of babies and butchers. One baby is, or was, Dina Matar, aged two months, killed by Israel’s air strike in Gaza. Her tiny corpse, paraded obscenely through the streets on Tuesday, is offered up as a symbol of Palestinian suffering. It provides a harrowing image.