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It’s not just the Pentagon that’s testing out new weapons in Iraq… An M1A1 Abrams tank on routine patrol in Baghdad was hit by something that crippled the 69-ton behemoth. Army officials still are...

In the main street a crowd of a thousand was holding up pictures of Saddam Hussein and chanting: ‘With our blood and with our spirit we shall die for you Saddam.’ The previous morning,...

University professor Sally Baldwin, 62, screamed as the cogs of the metal walkway sucked her in to a gaping hole … An Italian train driver may lose both his legs after he was dragged...

Fox “News” threatened to sue Fox TV over Simpsons parody. Pointless news crawls up 37 per cent… Do Democrats cause cancer? Find out at foxnews.com… Rupert Murdoch: Terrific dancer… Dow down 5,000 points… Study:...

I see the UK Commons voted to downgrade Cannabis from class B to class C (316 for/160 against). Possession of cannabis is now generally not an arrestable offence and ranked alongside non-prescribed bodybuilding steroids...

I was with Lisa in Manhattan for the past few days visiting my Dad. On the way back I had a window seat. I noted on the LCD panel that the plane was cruising...

Fred Kaplan over at Slate also realized the weirdness of comparing Iraq to the Philippines.

So I read that Bush is comparing Iraq to the Philippines, saying that if the US could “bring about” democracy there, it could do the same for Iraq. Hmmm, given that the US occupation...

The world’s largest study into the effects of prayer on patients undergoing heart surgery has found it appears to make no difference. The MANTRA study, run from Duke University Medical Center in North Carolina,...

When the results of his DNA test came back, he found himself staggered … Joseph was 57 percent Indo-European, 39 percent Native American, 4 percent East Asian and zero percent African. After a lifetime...