Big City Informer

This week, David Cameron flies to a newly assertive country. But a booming tech industry cannot conceal enduring poverty

I have been following the travels and the online conversation between two Bangladeshi Nazmul Huda Pappu and Hasaan Mahmudul Guru for several months now.  I have been impressed with the photography journal chronicling the monthly, weekly and sometimes daily adventures of this’ dynamic duo’.  I am mostly impressed with the ‘art of compassion and kindness’ [...]

When I was brought in to this world, I was delivered to a farm with ten cows, seven horses (eventually), one dog, twelve cats, twenty pigs and a host of wildlife coming and going.  I shared this farm with my two loving parents & three brothers.  My best friend, so it seemed, was a dog. [...]

Egyptian president appears gaunt and pale on national day after postponing several scheduled meetings

Special envoy in London as part of UK-US talks about building on ‘complicated but indispensable’ relationship with Pakistan

Oil from Dalian pipeline explosion threatens marine animals, sea birds and water quality as slick spreads to 430km sq

The people of Metro Manila are experiencing another water crisis as the Angat Dam cannot supply the water requirement of the metropolis. People are now lining up to get water from delivery trucks of Maynilad and Manila Waters. Fire trucks were also commissioned to help in the delivery of water to the people. Tensions ran [...]

A plane went down near Cairo on Sunday, but no one was seriously injured. Jerry Ondrak, 52, of Shelton had to make an emergency landing about 7 p.m. Sunday in a pasture southwest of Cairo, Hall County Sheriff Jerry Watson said. Ondrak was flying his crop-dusting plane on his way to a job, when the [...]

  Egypt wonderful fascinating oasises  located less than 200 km from fuyoum city in the west desert where u can enjoy the clear weather of the desert surrounding by palm trees and enjoy  a journey with rural people each oasis has it is own characteristics  you cant pass on oasis without passing on fuyoum city [...]

Metro Manila will have not enough water supply by September if rains do not start to fill up the metropolis’ main reservoir, west zone concessionaire Maynilad Water Services Inc. yesterday warned. But since current supply cuts have severely affected nearly 20% of its clients, the firm said authorities would have to give it a greater [...]

Humanitarian worker’s book Three Cups of Tea has become required reading for US high command

Kinshasa is the capital and largest city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, known as Zaire from 1971 to 1997. The city is located on the Congo River. Once a site of fishing villages, Kinshasa is now an urban area with a population of 10,076,099 inhabitants in 2009. The city of Brazzaville (about 1.5 [...]

China’s massive Three Gorges dam faces the biggest test so far of its flood control as torrential rains swell the rivers that feed it

• Interactive: Three Gorges dam

Public tension continues to tighten over the July 10 shooting death of Eric Scott in a Costco parking lot, and now the sheriff is asking for patience. Meanwhile Las Vegas Metropolitan Police are feeling more heat over their killing of another man in connection with a drug bust on June 11. And Friday night police [...]

Revolutionary Guards among at least 20 killed and more than 100 wounded in suicide bombings in south-eastern Iran

Rulda Singh seen as face of Hindu supremacist paramilitary organisation Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh

Pakistan’s interior minister Rehman Malik has stated that the terrorists have  infiltrated into Pakistan through Afghanistan. Pakistan has asked Afghanistan’s government to take appropriate action against them. While speaking to the media, he said, that the extremists belonging to Lashkar-e-Jhangvi and Sipah-e-Sahaba are not working for the cause of the religion but they only act [...]

The shooting death of a man in a crowded parking lot July 10 by three Las Vegas Metropolitan Police officers has sparked controversy and intense media coverage.  Police shot Erik Scott in a Costco parking lot after a report of a man acting strange and carrying a concealed weapon in the store.  Original media reports [...]

Colton Harris-Moore, 19, captured in Caribbean after allegedly crash-landing plane stolen in US

Witnesses say Colton Harris-Moore, 19, was talked out of killing himself when captured after allegedly crash-landing stolen plane