It is the sixth year of memorial. A sixth year in which this subject slowly has become dead and exhausted. But then again this date is the origin of two wars, which are still living up again and again, which have for long now proceeded, still not ended. Afghanistan and Iraq were both defeated, but neither were they becalmed nor pacified. ...

Bis zur Fußball-Weltmeisterschaft 2010 sind es zwar noch ein paar Jahre, doch schon jetzt ist klar, dass es ein besonderes Ereignis sein wird. Noch nie fand eine Weltmeisterschaft auf dem afrikanischen Kontinent statt. back view interessierte von daher, wie man in Südafrika über die kommende Weltmeisterschaft denkt. Wir sprachen mit Ashley Africa, einem gebürtigen Südafrikaner, über seine Sicht bezüglich de ...

Australia committed to remain as an part of an international military force in Afghanistan for as long as necessary, Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said in Kabul on Saturday. After Afghan President Karzai had criticised the killing of too many cilvilians during the NATO led anti-Taliban operations- Downer held talks with Karzai and defended the foreign forces. ...

KABUL, Afghanistan - Ajmal Nakshbandi was not the first Afghan journalist to die in this increasingly dangerous and corrupt country since the advent of civilian rule more than five years ago. But the young interpreter's gruesome beheading by Taliban insurgents in April - after the government negotiated a deal to release his Italian employer - struck a well of outrage in an Afghan public that feels whipsawed ...