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GCC countries have the unique distinction of registering the lowest infant mortality rate in the Arab world and the highest life expectancy rate averaging 74.38 years, with women outliving men by a mean average ratio of 4.5 years, according to a recent United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) report.

The proposed talks between the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and the Sri Lankan government, to be held in Thailand next month, could help end the bloody civil war that has been going on for a long time in the teardrop Indian Ocean island of Sri Lanka.

The uprising in Nepal launched by the Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist (CPN-Maoist) has come like a bolt from the blue and is a bit of an anachronism at a time when the world at large has rejected the Marxist philosophy of dialectical materialism in favour of laissez-faire capitalism.

In these words, Xanana Gusmao, the first president of the world's newest country East Timor, encapsulated the tumultuous history of the 192nd nation and the excitement and happiness of his country men and women being free and independent after years of servitude, sorrow and sufferings.

In a post-Saddam era, the operative words "reconstruction, revival and resuscitation of the oil sector" will be of greater significance in the rebuilding of a new Iraq.

U.S. oil majors set to call shots

The rapid modernisation of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries in the past three decades has put a heavy strain on water resources in this arid region of the Arabian peninsula.

Profile: Khalilzad tipped to play a big role

In the absence of a proper legal status for the 16 high-ranking officials of the ousted Saddam Hussain regime in custody of the Anglo-American alliance in Iraq, there is a lot of speculation on the nature of a system that can be established to bring them to trial on charges that are yet to be defined.