Turkey’s state-run agency says 71 Syrian soldiers, including two generals and 11 colonels, have fled to Turkey.
Aging former Chinese leaders retain huge influence
When China's ranking communists file into the Great Hall of the People, you can spot the invited guests, the retired but still-influential men in their 70s, 80s and even 90s. Most of them no longer dye their hair the requisite jet black of Beijing's working leaders. Authorities detain official in Ghana disaster
Authorities in Ghana have detained a municipal works official accused of allowing a building that collapsed to be built without a construction permit. Cricket-Sri Lanka name rookie spinner for NZ test series
COLOMBO, Nov 9 (Reuters) – Sri Lanka have named uncapped teenage off-spinner Tharindu Kaushal in their squad for the two-test series against New Zealand starting at Galle on November 17. Kaushal represented Sri Lanka at the under-19 World Cup in Australia earlier this year and is a member of the Sri Lanka one-day squad currently playing New Zealand in a five-match series. “Kaushal has a lot of potential and we have included him in the squad to (help him) get the feel of being in the presence of senior players and train with them,” chief selector Ashantha de Mel said on Friday. …
A year after lavish funeral, Savile myth in ruins
At Jimmy Savile’s funeral, a year ago Friday, the priest delivering the homily was emphatic: the DJ and television host “can face eternal life with confidence.”
Balkan asylum seekers come under suspicion
Azra Ajeti’s fellow Gypsies have been buffeted by accusations of filing bogus asylum claims in the rich EU, but she says there’s nothing phony about her family’s life of misery. “We are starving,” said the woman from this impoverished southern Serbian town. “Life here is a disgrace.”
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