WITH a fresh charter and a string of business deals covering vast landholdings, the University of the Philippines (UP) may yet break free from the yoke of financial straits that has prevented it from becoming a true people’s university.

Just over one year after President Vladimir Putin handed him the Chechen leadership, Ramzan Kadyrov has taken innumerable steps to tighten his grip over the war-battered republic.

CEDAR FALLS --- As editorial meetings go, this one was unusually relaxed.

New Delhi, May 1 : President Pratibha Patil, Congress chief Sonia Gandhi and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Thursday condoled the death of veteran Gandhian Nirmala Deshpande. The prime minister called her a leader of the people who led by example.

In universities across the United States, young leaders are emerging to represent the new face of Islam. In "Mecca and Main Street," Geneive Abdo examines the raging — and sometimes violent — debate between moderate and conservative young Muslims.