The Sunday Times International | Sunday November 11, 2007

International

From emergency to image building
Pakistan announced plans to lift its state of emergency within one month and allowed opposition leader Benazir Bhutto to leave her villa following a day under house arrest, as the country sought today to restore its battered image at home and abroad.

Building a safe nanotechnology future
We are living - according to some - on the brink of a nanotechnology revolution, where matter is engineered at a scale thousands of times smaller than the eye can see, and familiar materials behave in unexpected ways. This revolution, if successful, will turn our world upside down.

Leonardo painting has coded 'soundtrack'
It's a new Da Vinci code, but this time it could be for real. An Italian musician and computer technician claims to have uncovered musical notes encoded in Leonardo Da Vinci's "Last Supper," raising the possibility that the Renaissance genius might have left behind a somber composition to accompany the scene depicted in the 15th-century wall painting.


	Belatedly, Asia's literary scene comes of age

	Yangon residents see flicker of hope in Myanmar

	Indian girl born with eight limbs stable

	UN Chief says global warming an emergency

	Iran's quest for nuclear energy

	Democratic politics manipulates truth: But there’s a way out

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Pakistan announced plans to lift its state of emergency within one month and allowed opposition leader Benazir Bhutto to leave her villa following a day under house arrest, as the country sought today to restore its battered image at home and abroad.