Spats, brawls, scuffles, tiffs and quibbles: call them what you want but 2011 was full of confrontations and Newsline recaps the biggest face-offs of 2011.
From Indian protests over US-owned Dow Chemical’s sponsorship of the London Olympics to the Tamil song “Kolaveri” that went viral, Sujoy Dhar updates us with news from India.
The late Gaddafi’s eccentricities and brutalities are universally acknowledged. But how did the once idealistic reformer evolve into an iron-fisted megalomaniac?
Statehood for Palestine would have transformed the occupied territories into an occupied state that could have sought international assistance to liberate itself.
Anna Hazare is no Amitabh Bachchan, but in real life the slight 74-year-old man has proved more powerful than any celluloid crusader as the most credible face of a growing anti-corruption uprising.
If Britain does not pay heed to the lessons of its periodic paroxysms of violence, the unrest that is deeply embedded in its political economy will reignite at some point.