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  The next James Bond movie, "Skyfall," promises the usual action, exotic locations, scheming villains and beautiful women. For fans of the original novels by Ian Fleming, there's more: a journey into the troubled psyche of the iconic spy. After all, the director of the 23rd film in the franchise, which spans half a century, is Sam Mendes, whose cinematic studies of personalities in emotional turmoil and even meltdown include " American Beauty " and " Revolutionary Road ." "You always go back to the Fleming because the character Fleming created over a number of novels was incredibly complex," Mendes said Sunday at a news conference in Istanbul, where the crew of "Skyfall" has filmed. "Some people sometimes forget in the cliche of Bond, which is the international playboy, and someone who's always untroubled, and almost never breaks a sweat, that actually what (Fleming) created was a very conflicted character,"...

Russian scientists released video footage of an extremely rare male adult albino orca, dubbed Iceburg. Although the video was recorded in 2010, scientists have hopes of relocating the 16-year-old by launching a new search for him and his family. Living in a group of 13, Iceburg was spotted as his dorsal fin broke the surface while swimming with his pod. Thought to be the only living white orca in the entire ocean, Iceburg has ignited excitement throughout the marine mammal world. Erich Hoyt, co-director of FEROP and researcher with the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society writes, “In many ways, Iceberg is a symbol of all that is pure, wild and extraordinarily exciting about what is out there in the ocean waiting to be discovered.” Spotting such a anomaly in nature is near-impossible, Hoyt describes, noting, “with Iceberg being the only male and the whitest.” Despite his striking appearance the killer whale might not be completely albino because his eyes were never observ...

Russia's foreign minister sharply criticized NATO's plan to withdraw its forces from Afghanistan by 2014, saying Thursday that coalition troops should remain in the country until Afghan government forces are capable of ensuring security. "As long as Afghanistan is not able to ensure by itself the security in the country, the artificial timelines of withdrawal are not correct and they should not be set," Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said. NATO plans to hand over lead responsibility for the war against the Taliban to the Afghan army and police by the middle of next year, and to withdraw its troops by the end of 2014. It has already started drawing down its forces, which reached a peak of about 140,000 last year. NATO leaders say that Afghan forces are improving rapidly and will be able to counter Taliban guerrillas after 2014. But critics have pointed to widespread drug use and the high desertion rate among government forces as signs that it remains unprepa...

  India announced the successful test launch Thursday of a new nuclear-capable missile that would give it the ability to strike the major Chinese cities of Beijing and Shanghai for the first time, a significant step forward in its aspirations to become a regional and world power. The Agni-V missile, with a range of 5,000 kilometers (3,100 miles), still requires a battery of tests and must clear other bureaucratic hurdles before it can be inducted into India's arsenal in a few years. But officials hailed the launch as proof the country has taken its place among the world's most powerful and scientifically advanced nations. "The nation stands tall today," Defense Minister A.K. Antony said, according to the Press Trust of India. The test came just days after North Korea's failed rocket launch, but sparked none of the same global condemnation aimed at Pyongyang, an internationally isolated regime that has been banned by the U.N. from testing m...

Vladimir Putin branded his election victory an insult to the Russian people on Wednesday, trying to inject life into protests which risk fading after his return to the Kremlin. The statement by the protest organisers signalled their determination to press on with demonstrations against the former KGB spy despite his triumph in Sunday's election and the detention of hundreds of people at rallies on Monday.   But the message from the League of Voters, which unites nationalists, liberals and leftists as well as independent groups, offered little new for demonstrators increasingly demoralised by their inability to change a political system dominated by Putin despite three months of protest. "Against the backdrop of widespread violations, the League finds it impossible to recognise the results of the 2012 presidential elections in Russia," the League said in a statement issued at a news conference. "The elections were not fair because the vote-counting and the way th...

 BBC health news Indian town battles against encephalitis Sanjoy Majumder                                                    World health organization      Sanjoy visit the Indian Gorakhpur in Uttar Pradesh to find out why the people oppressed there, Most of people 460 are children, have died after a fresh outbreak of encephalitis in northern India. Many people deprived from the better treatment . Most of the people are poor and uneducated. They can't find any suitable way for save their life.Many people are went hospital. Ward number 12 at Gorakhpur's main hospital is overflowing with sick children, two or three squeezed into a single bed. Many of them are visibly sick and are having to be administered oxygen or being put on an intravenous drip. Every day, 30 to 40 children a...