A massive study of zoo animals proves our supposedly peaceful ape cousins are hiding a dark side.

President Asif Ali Zardari on Wednesday appreciated efforts for easing tensions and promoting regional peace, warning that any military escalation involving Iran could destabilise the Gulf region, South and Western Asia.

He said this while addressing a ceremony hosted by the Iranian embassy in Islamabad on the 47th anniversary of the 1979 Islamic Revolution.

“Any instability involving Iran, or…

An obscure 19th-century Russian novel about love and class and a 21st-century gay hockey romance might seem worlds apart. But both Heated Rivalry and Molotov offer the same thing: small parables of tenderness and bravery in overwhelming times.

At their most modest, happy-ending romance stories like Heated Rivalry soothe troubled minds amid social turmoil. At their most radical, they…