Given the fondness that the president-elect and so many of his appointees seem to have for Russian President Vladimir Putin, life may be about to imitate — if not exceed — art, says Nina L Khrushcheva.

THE release of some 91,000 secret US military documents on the Afghanistan war is just the beginning, WikiLeaks’ founder Julian Assange promised yesterday, adding that he still has thousands more Afghan files to post online.

A suicide bomber in a pick-up truck attacked the north-western regional headquarters of the Pakistani spy agency overseeing a campaign against militancy today, killing 10 people.