Palash Ghosh

If Helmut Kohl’s plan had ever come to fruition, it would have enjoyed widespread support among the German populace.

Robert Mugabe, now 89, is virtually assured of winning a seventh straight term.

Homophobia and intolerance of non-traditional sexual practices run deep in Jamaican culture.

British government officials speculated what would happen if the Russians attacked Western Europe and/or the UK with nuclear weapons.

Brar has apparently survived eight assassination attempts by Sikh militants since the calamitous days of 1984.

Virunga National Park is home to about 200 mountain gorillas, roughly one-fourth of the global total for the endangered specie

Japan Deputy Prime Minister Taro Aso has a long history of making bizarre and inflammatory public statements.

O’Leary has a long history of bizarre behavior and statements.

Visitors do not realize that the seemingly benign and docile cows they see are actually dangerous creatures.

The murder case uncovered entrenched institutional racialism in the London police force.

Mohammad Sarwar is reportedly close to Pakistan’s new Prime Minister, Nawaz Sharif, of the ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz party.

No more than 3,000 tigers remain in India, Bangladesh and Nepal – a 95 percent plunge over the past 100 years.

The majority of these applicants have been resident in the U.K. for several years.

The presidential office is now largely ceremonial after Zardari agreed to amendments in the constitution in 2010.

To make matters worse, both have repeatedly denied their accusers, lied, then got caught, made phony apologies, then lied again.

Francis’ comments were far more conciliatory than the stridently anti-gay stance taken by his predecessor, Pope Benedict XVI.

The Darjeeling area is renowned for its beauty, tea plantations and tourism.

Kyenge, in her brief tenure as minister, has already suffered a number of painful incidents.

From the time I was a young boy, I enjoyed reading ancient myths and legends. I devoured the tales of ancient Greece, ancient Rome, ancient India, as well as the Celtic and Norse legends of antiquity. These stories were not only wildly entertaining, and exciting, they also inspired me to learn more about the real-life histories of these magical, faraway lands.One of my favorite myths is about the “Giant's Causeway,” one of the world's most spectacular natural geologic formations, in County Antrim in Northern Ireland, and how it came to exist. The Causeway comprises some 40,000 columns (some of which are nearly forty feet high) made of basalt and are linked to each other and disappear like steps into the sea -- the beautiful product of a volcanic eruption unknown eons ago.

Under New Zealand immigration policies, an applicant for permanent residency must have a BMI below 35.

Nolte became one of the greatest movie stars of the late 20th century.

Johanna Mazibuko has outlived five of her seven children, as well as the apartheid regime.

Communism has a long and winding history in Italy, the very center of Western Christendom.

In her brief life, Chiwoniso Maraire was highly accomplished.

Pakistani television shows are surprisingly raunchy and raucous affairs.

Of the nine people (some of them off-duty military police officers) believed to have perpetrated the murders, only three were ever convicted and imprisoned.

The Windsor family enjoys not only immense wealth, splendor and glamour – but also longevity.

Leo Varadkar is the son of an Indian doctor from Mumbai and an Irish nurse.

Mercury was an Indian Parsee, that is, a descendant of immigrants from Iran who fled persecution in their homeland.