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...eradicated by conquest or washed away by floods, or did its people just blend into other migrations settling the Indian subcontinent? Although Harappan cities were vast - Mohenjo-daro could have been populated by as many as 50,000 people, a staggering figure for such deep antiquity - they have left behind few towering monuments or epic ruins. Instead, we have clues in miniature, a copper figurine of a mercurial dancing girl, for example, and a treasure trove of delicately carved seals, most no larger than a postage stamp. "They are a window into how these people were thinking," says Vahia...
...candidates during his election wrap-up. On the far right of the podium was a neo-Nazi, joined by a Communist and Social Democrat in the middle, then a probusiness liberal, an environmentalist Green and, not lacking in irony, a conservative Christian Democrat all the way to the left. It was a political free-for-all. With so many smaller parties entering state governments and Germany's federal election just weeks away, the country's main political players now face the possibility that the stable two-party coalition they were hoping for will no longer be an option. (See pictures...
...allegations of secret burials have joined accusations of confessions coerced by torture, male and female rape, and prison beatings - allegations that have left the conservative ruling bloc fractured and on the defensive. Over the weekend, many hard liners, ostensibly supporters of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, were aghast at reports that 25-year-old Mohsen Ruholamini, son of a senior aide to conservative presidential candidate Mohsen Rezai, was allegedly beaten to death at Kahrizak prison in South Tehran, a few kilometers away from Behesht...
...Parties that used to be typical West German parties, such as the Greens and the liberal Free Democratic Party (FDP), now have significant support in the former East. And Die Linke, an amalgam of the former East German ruling Communist Party and disgruntled Social Democrats, is gaining ground among left-leaning voters in the former West. Voters who were once loyal to a single party have become swing voters, with the main parties taking the hit. The ruling Christian Democratic Union (CDU) is losing support to the FDP because voters feel the CDU has lost its probusiness edge. Meanwhile...
...According to opinion polls, Chancellor Angela Merkel seemed to be coasting to victory in September - but now the race seems more uncertain than ever. Her CDU party lost its absolute majority in Thuringia and Saar and may lose power altogether to three-party left-leaning coalitions in those states. In Saxony, the CDU and FDP govern together and were re-elected - but for the first time in a German state parliament, a neo-Nazi party, the NPD, kept its seats...