* Uzbekistan: As far as Uzbek state media is concerned, Ukraine does not exist
Official state media in Uzbekistan did not report on the mass popular protests in Kiev ...
* Malaysia: Curry powder robbers escape with RM300,000 [$90,000]
A group of robbers threw curry powder at a security guard and a cashier of a moneychanger’s outlet here ...
* Germany: Neo-Nazi Mole: Could the NSU Murders Have Been Prevented?
For years, Michael von Dolsperg provided German intelligence with information from the neo-Nazi scene.
* Canada: The 50 greatest Canadian albums of the ’90s
… There was a lot going on in Canadian music during that decade: homegrown bands were getting more airplay than ever before...
* Japan: Engineers create ‘Muscle Suit’ for lifting heavy items
Engineers at the Tokyo University of Science and a private sector company have developed a “Muscle Suit” ...
* South Africa: Post office returns letter after 12 years
A woman received an undelivered letter she posted 12 years ago …
* Bangladesh: The power of a song, the life of a maestro
The month of February is marked with the heroic tales of patriots laying down lives for our mother tongue in 1952.
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" Do I dare
Disturb the universe?"
-- T. S. Elliot, Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
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“We are as ignorant of the meaning of the dragon as we are of the meaning of the universe.”
-- Jorge Luis Borges
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"Pompey made his preparations for the war at the end of the winter, entered upon it at the commencement of spring,
and finished it in the middle of the summer."
-- Cicero, De Imperio Cn. Pompei