The protest began after the Italian prime minister said during a talk show on national television that a matronly, bespectacled opposition MP, Rosy Bindi, 58, was “prettier than she is intelligent” – implying that she was neither. Miss...

A plan by Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) that had been in the pipelines for several months - even though official policy was to ditch it - saw what was to be a low-profile attack in Kashmir turn into the massive attacks on Mumbai...