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A 360-degree war, some call it, an asymmetrical battle space that threatens to injure troops’ minds as well as their bodies. But just how deep those mental wounds are, and how many will be...

PRESIDENT Bush planned to bomb Arab TV station al-Jazeera in friendly Qatar, a “Top Secret” No 10 memo reveals. But he was talked out of it at a White House summit by Tony Blair....

Gary Glitter could face a firing squad or decades in a squalid jail if he is found guilty of raping a 12-year-old girl in Vietnam. The girl is said to have admitted having sex...

People don’t spend as much time with Google as they do using other sites. Yahoo had 43 billion page views last month, Time Warner had 30 billion, and MSN had 21 billion. Google just...

Just for laughs I often flip through my (free subscription!) Stereophile magazine. You know, the one with the ads for the $12000 speaker wire and $5000 CD players. Imagine my surprise when I saw...

[Iraqi] Interior Minister Bayan Jabr, who has had ties to a Shiite militia, argued that prisoners found in a bunker-like Baghdad facility that U.S. troops entered Sunday night had been legally arrested based on...

It’s Election Day in the Islas Malvinas Falkland Islands. What a great day for democracy. Of course, I can’t really see the UK granting the weak pseduo-Crown Dependency Falklands government any real local power...

Kermit the Frog as a multiplicity of necromancers. Incredible!

The position in which Jamadi died [is] a form of torture known as Palestinian hanging, in which a prisoner whose hands are secured behind his back is suspended by his arms. (The technique has...

Guantnamo is becoming like a little American town. A Starbucks had recently opened, and a McDonalds and several other restaurants did a brisk business. The area was unpleasantly wet and hot when I was...