The world was on edge... Superpowers were locked in a standoff of monumental proportions, causing a crisis so large it threatened nuclear destruction. It was a tense time - and it was about to get worse.

Montreal: Canadian thriller author, Russell Brooks, has found an innovative way to promote his upcoming spy/thriller, The Demeter Code. He'll perform serialized dramatic readings of the first three chapters with a music score composed by Jeremy Vajko. Brooks's other works in the same series include, Pandora's Succession and Unsavory Delicacies. His previous thriller, Chill Run, is a standalone.

We may think of timeAdvancing in a straight lineFrom the beginning to end of timeInterpreting death as end of life!

New Delhi: Journalist, Writer Khushwant Singh, 99, passed away on Thursday in New Delhi.

Lytham: Seventy percent of parents in the UK who read to their children, still prefer to use books than electronic devices such as Kindles and iPads, according to a survey by Talking Tots, the UK’s toddler activity group.

  Aligarh: Modern writings by women writers in Iran reflected the imbalances, injustices and depicted the hardships of war and revolution.