A refugee doctor has spoken of his six-year struggle to begin life again as a doctor in the sanctuary of the UK. In this week's issue of BMA News, Sarkell Radha tells how he has battled with the courts to gain asylum status, passed difficult but vital En

Valmiki knew Ram to be a human, a noble man, the best of his era and in his time wrote the Ramayana as both were contemporary. He has also shown Ram to possess human traits and emotions, just like any ordinary person. We, in our blind faith, have accentua

Britain has failed in its duty to stop the US from committing "shameful acts" in the treatment of suspects detained during the war on terror, one of America's most respected intellectuals warns today.

When Mia Tabib was in high school, some of her classmates referred to her as "the wacky Persian," and one teacher even called her a terrorist.But Tabib, a freshman at Franklin & Marshall College who is half Iranian, is confident that remarks like these

Worldwide, there are 7,000 some languages, and one fades out of existence every two weeks, according to a project conducted by National Geographic Society and the Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages, which tracks and helps revitalize at-risk