Karen Williams has been a Buddhist for 36 years and a comic for 25. She's a mother, a grandmother and queer. And if you don't want to impress her as rude, don't ask her age.

The banking crisis, which continues to unfold around us, comes drenched in figurative significance. On the one hand, it marks a return to the state-interventionist, quasi-command economy, of which those of us who grew up in the 1970s have such bizarre mem

Former Tanzanian prime minister Joseph Warioba warned here today that corruption was rife in East Africa and that it poses a serious governance problem.

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Within a few minutes of Noman Benotman's arrival at the Kandahar guest house, Osama bin Laden came to welcome him. The journey from Kabul had been hard – 17 hours in a Toyota pick-up truck, bumping along what passed as the main highway to southern Afgh