"He should be treated properly whether inside or outside, but since there is no efficient medical care inside Tora prison hospital, then the interior ministry is responsible for establishing an efficient medical unit for Nour to be treated in"

CAIRO: The administrative court has rejected jailed opposition leader Ayman Nour's health release during the final court session Tuesday, but the defense team plans to appeal the court's decision, lawyers said. via The Daily Star - Egypt

Smoking in enclosed public places was banned in England on 1 July. How has is affected shisha cafes?

Two ethnic Kurdish dissident journalists are sentenced to death in Iran for "armed struggle against the system".

In a hilarious turn of events, a 2003 Hummer H2 was beaten by a 1921 Ford Model T Speedster at a road-going hill-climb event in America.

"Your music is this life you wasted. You could regain it if you wish, if you fasten to this indifferent thing which casts you back there where you set out."

These connections between dreams and the subconscious pathways that link the human drives towards love/sex and violence/cruelty are crucial to the understanding of Seferis' view of the forces dominating human ... via Turkish Daily News