I woke up terrorized by the powerful explosion, with my heart beating fast, fearing that someone might have died or been wounded.

Protecting free speech is not only a matter of principle, it is also pragmatic.

once,a boy told a girl : i will stay with you forever, little did she know that his forever is only three months because..he died of cancer!

Locking up dissenters does not reduce dissent - it fosters it.

A horseman's head is in Athens, and his body is in London: Poseidon's torso is separated between Greece and the U.K. This means that they cannot be celebrated and appreciated as a whole in the country they came from.

If you're a woman lying on the beach in the Maldives, you might want to know that a kilometer away, another woman is being flogged. And you might want to find your own way to protest that.