Food Memory: Soup in the CaucasusOn a bitterly cold Moscow afternoon, I hurried home for lunch from the university where I was studying Russian as an exchange student in 2005. My host mother, Masha Kulidzhanova, had prepared lobio, a Georgian kidney bean stew thickened with walnuts and spiked with garlic and cilantro. Read full article >>
Travel BloggingMANILA, Philippines — Young 20-something Micaela Rodriguez lives to blog and her site "Missing Carlo" (about her brother) was cited one of the Philippines Top 10 Emerging Influential Blogs in 2008. She's also the person behind micamyx.com and these days, she chooses to focus on senyorita.net. This is a domain she first envisioned as a beauty blog but since she doesn't want to fuss about make-up ...
Politics live blog: Monday 6 February 2012• Lunchtime summary • Network Rail bosses forgo their bonuses • Afternoon summary 8.45am: David Miliband doesn't want to return to the shadow cabinet. He chaired a Commission on Youth Unemployment for ACEVO (the Association of Chief Executives of Voluntary Organisations) and, in an interview about it with BBC Breakfast earlier, he said that suggestions that he might return to the Labour front ...
A new man for IndiaAs India grapples with its growing pains, Hamish McDonald meets the polarising leader tipped as its next prime minister.