Source: CNN I am sure that many marriage equality opponents reading this are shouting “I told you so!” as their predictions that plural marriage would follow same-sex marriage come nightmarishly true. Many grew up as I did, in a time and place where the single-wage-earner nuclear family was the unquestioned […]
Source: TOI: SYDNEY: Australians sweltering through an extreme heatwave were warned that the worst was yet to come Thursday, with hundreds of fires raging in several states and temperatures nearing record highs. Most of southeast Australia has been in the grips of a scorching heatwave that triggered a devastating wildfire on the west […]
WEF: Economic, societal and environmental risks dominate list of global risks LONDON: The growing gulf between the rich and the poor represents the biggest global risk this year, the World Economic Forum has declared ahead of this month’s Davos summit. The institution issued the gloomy warning in its annual Global […]
NEW DELHI: Less than 13 months after Nirbhaya’s brutal gang-rape had city authorities promising a safer Delhi for women, precious little seems to have changed. Horror and shame revisited the capital on Tuesday, when a 51-year-old Danish tourist was repeatedly raped by eight-nine men in a garden just a stone’s throw away […]
Source: Asia Times: Russia faces serious threats to its stability from Islamic insurgencies. Recent suicide blasts in Volgograd were a painful reminder of this. Historically, Russia has tried to suppress Islamic movements (also religious activities in general) not only in Russia but also in Central Asian states (especially in the […]