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...This, not Transformers 2, is the action movie series about giant robots that tens of millions of people should have been paying to see this summer. The NYAFF showed the first two parts in a trilogy; the final installment opens in Japan next month. Taking its title from a T. Rex song and based on a manga by Naoki Urasawa that has sold some 20 million copies, this fantasy of an alternative Japanese history imagines that the lines and pictures scrawled by a club of kids in the '70s has become the Book of Prophesies by a cult whose leader...
...Zardari, hopes that the United Nations to settle the matter of who orchestrated the assassination. On Wednesday, a U.N. fact-finding commission launched its inquiry into Bhutto's assassination. A three-person team, headed by Chile's ambassador to the U.N., is due to arrive in Islamabad later this month, and report to Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon within six months. Its report will then be shared with the Pakistan government. Opposition politicians and a broad range of critics in Pakistan, however, have questioned the purpose and timing of the U.N. probe. (See a TIME video with Ban Ki-Moon...
...Immediately after Bhutto's assassination, many Pakistanis accused elements within Musharraf's government or the military establishment of involvement - a charge angrily denied by Musharraf and his aides. Still, just last month, Bhutto's son and political heir, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, suggested that the dictatorship had been responsible for creating the conditions that led to his mother's killing. At a rare public speech in the British town of Bradford, the 20-year-old Oxford University student - who plans to return to Pakistan and enter politics after completing his degree - told an emotionally-charged crowd of supporters: "The extremists pulled...
...systematically swapped for an aging A310 for the final leg to Comoros' capital Moroni. Meanwhile, Transport Minister Dominique Bussereau pointed out that the A310 that crashed Tuesday had been banned in France since 2007 after failing security checks. And with the E.U. set to review its blacklist this month, Bussereau suggested, Yemenia's operational days in Europe may be numbered. (See pictures of the hunt for the Air France plane...
...night landing on a poorly-lit strip, and high winds that reportedly caused an aborted landing prior to the accident. Despite that, Bussereau again warned on Friday that "Yemenia has to make big efforts" on safety if it wants to avoid being placed on the E.U.'s blacklist this month. (See pictures of the miracle on the Hudson...