Living beyond a Century In Britain, Queen Elizabeth sends letters to each new British centenarian. She totalled 255 letters when she became queen in 1952; last year her staff wrote 4,623 for her to sign..
Adding Palestinian perspective to textbook Israel for the first time has approved a school textbook acknowledging to the countrys minority Palestinian citizens what they have been learning at home for generations..
Uniform loses its charm Successive pay commissions have made service in the armed forces so unattractive that there continues to be a deficiency of over 35,000 officers and men in the military..
Cycling
Let them ride bikes About a dozen sweaty people pedalled bicycles up the Champs-Elyses toward the Arc de Triomphe in Paris on a recent Sunday, as onlookers cheered..
Ground realities... A polio affected man scrolls on a street of New Delhi on Monday.
