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Naked Harry pics: Are UK papers finally growing up?

When British papers won't run the naked pictures of Prince Harry, you know something's changed.

Shocker: Al Jazeera’s ignorant anti-India narrative

It is open season on India. And everyone is hunting. Whoever had a grudge while India was the flavour of the season is now in the game, busy getting their two minutes of fame.

Julian Assange is not the tragic hero he thinks he is

Assange is no longer Wikileaks, and for the sake of Wikileaks, he should walk away. If he truly believes in the work it does, then it can and should survive without him. But he doesn't. He believes in himself.

Zia ul-Haq was the leader that Pakistan wanted

This past week marked two anniversaries in Pakistan, that of the nation’s birth and that of president Zia ul-Haq's death. Zia may be disliked by Pakistan’s English editorial writers but he was the leader that Pakistan wanted.

London 2012: Do the Olympics herald a 'new Britain'?

If Britain wants to use the Olympics and Paralympics to inspire creation of a "new Britain", by all means. But every Briton will have to work at it to make it a reality. It doesn't come from simply watching sport, or the Spice Girls.

US gurdwara shooting: Why racism, ignorance are to blame

For the Sikh community in the United States, solving one hate crime may not be enough. They have been at the receiving end since 9/11 — repeatedly mistaken for who they are not. Ignorance about the turban, long hair and kirpan is rampant.

On foreign policy, Romney sounds like Obama's confused version

So far the presumptive Republican nominee’s foreign policy musings have been short on details and heavy on rhetoric.

Happy Birthday Zardari: You need a good year

Zardari may not have academic skills, or interests, but he is first rate at understanding problems. Like all Indian prime ministers since 1991, he has been in power without a parliamentary majority for his party.

Are the London Olympics a mess already?

Are the worries over issues like security and transport overdone or will it help ensure that the London Olympics go smoothly?

Batman shooting: Why can't media learn power of silence?

For major public tragedies of senseless deaths and injuries, words fail to explain why. But unfortunately it doesn't stop the media from trying anyway.

Indo-Pak cricket: Why does India keep giving when Pak just takes

Just when Washington and other capitals are finally tightening the screws on Islamabad, New Delhi is finding excess generosity in its heart. India will resume cricketing ties and may lift the ban on Pakistani television channels. Why?

Nasheed wants India to be vocal, will India listen?

To abandon a president who during his tenure definitely tried to align his country with India on national security issues and shunned overtures from a certain large “frenemy” is just bad policy. And to add not too fine a point, Nasheed was the first democratically elected president of the Maldives.

Are London Olympics the most paranoid ever?

Will a paranoid Britain overreact for the next two months at every twitch and ill-timed joke because of the Olympics?

Clinton’s Pak ‘apology’ does not mean much

A careful reading of Hillary Clinton’s statement should clarify that “mistakes” were made by both sides. The apology fits in the daily management, not in the big picture.

No answers, only moralising: one year after UK's phone hacking scandal

The Leveson Inquiry into the phone hacking scandal will only perhaps reveal the journalistic practices of the last 20 -30 years. What will matter is what journalists do so that people have faith in them again.

Will Obama's healthcare law victory secure him a second term?

Obama is in a stronger position than he has been for a while but will that hold till November and ensure he gets a second term in office?

Obama wins, America loses in big week for Supreme Court decisions

The future of the Affordable Care Act will be decided today but the future of the US will be decided by the spending on the presidential campaign in November.

European voters could still pull the EU apart

Greece may have appeased the rest of Europe by voting in a pro-austerity party but the link between the nations remains tenuous at best even now.

#neverseconds: How a school lost to a nine-year-old on Twitter

Friday's Twitter meltdown in the UK was a perfect example of how to not only fail to adhere to your own strategy, but also to aggravate and make the situation worse.

India, US are talking ten to the dozen

India wants to be close to the US, buy American weapons, and even send signals to China but not in too overt a manner.

Will Julian Assange ever consider the consequences of his actions?

The 40-year-old is accused of raping one woman and "sexually molesting and coercing" another in Stockholm almost two years ago.

The slow and inevitable isolation of Pakistan

When the game has changed, it is pointless to play by old rules. Pakistan’s impossible demands and exaggerated expectations, which may have been met once upon a time, have a strange dissonance today.

God (Don't) Save the Queen?

With the BBC being accused of acting like the royal PR machinery, it perhaps needs to take more diverse views into account while covering the jubilee celebrations.

Pak trades pride for dollars; returns to the 'business' of war

Pakistan comes to the sobering realisation that it can always extract more money from the Americans, but it cannot command, or even demand, respect.

Does Obama's support for same-sex marriages really matter?

Obama's support for same sex marriages is being hailed by some quarters but until they have the same legality and rights as heterosexual marriages, mere support has little value.

Why the hate on France after Hollande's victory?

Why are opinions in the US and UK so vitriolic against the French after they elected Francois Hollande as their President?

India-US: A relationship 'oversold'?

Critics say India will never be what the US wants in a partner and disappointments will continue to darken the future. So why invest so much?

Osama letters: Getting into the dark mind of 'the Sheikh'

For the hundreds of journalists poring over the letters of Osama Bin Laden released by the US there may be little information that reveals anything of any consequence. However, his musings on US Vice President Joe Biden make for an interesting read.

It's not about journalism or Murdoch, it's partisan politics

The Labour MPs and all those columnists who are wetting themselves in excitement at having a pop at Murdoch have actually lowered themselves to partisanship and muddied "truths" they so despise in Murdoch.

Rupert Murdoch: Your doting granddad or evil mad genius?

Murdoch Sr, in two days, was a gatling gun of headlines that sent the media in so many directions they lost focus on the witness himself.