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Relaunch will see a Star born againSaturday, July 9, 2011 @ 9:00AMSTAR City will relaunch in September with a new look, new attitude and a new name - The Star.

The China syndromeFriday, July 8, 2011 @ 9:21AMFor anyone interested in international affairs and geopolitical stability, there is no more compelling and, indeed, important issue than the relationship between the US and China.

Have a hideously good time in Tono's past and presentSaturday, July 2, 2011 @ 1:38PMThe professor's snoring had kept me up until the wee hours of the morning. When I awoke, the reading light in the hostel's upper bunk was still on and a copy of "The Legends of Tono" lay open at the page where I had dozed off. With that book being full of hobgoblins, ravaging wolf packs and rural satyrs, it was surprisingthat I'd got a wink of sleep. A place of mystery, saturated in superstition ...

The F word in the 21st centurySunday, June 26, 2011 @ 6:31AMCaitlin Moran writes about her body, Rachel Cusk dissects the aftermath of her divorce and Sylvia Walby addresses 'raunch culture'. What do their books reveal about feminism today? What is feminism? "Simply the belief that women should be as free as men . . . Are you a feminist? Hahaha. Of course you are." Caitlin Moran's How to be a Woman is firm, delightfully firm, on many things – heels ...

48 Heroes Of PhilanthropyWednesday, June 22, 2011 @ 5:00PMWe pick 48 givers, 4 from each of 12 countries. Some are big tycoons, even billionaires, who have a large vision of how best to help society and have donated millions of dollars to back up that vision. Others are little-known citizens who are extremely generous with their limited funds. Our goal is not to rank the biggest givers by dollar amounts or percentage of assets--those figures would be ...