So by using a Frankenstein-like combination of Media Center, AudioScrobbler and Magpie RSS, I managed to rig up a “Now Playing” list for the page.

“U.S. soldiers began to open fire on the houses, so I decided that it was very dangerous to stay in my house” … Hussein said he panicked, seizing on a plan to escape across...

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“If there are not good elections, we won’t have a constitution, and there will be chaos, and we will have a civil war,” the minister, Falah Hassan al-Naqib, said at a news conference in...

According to the [CIA’s] NIC report, Iraq has joined the list of conflicts — including the Israeli-Palestinian stalemate, and independence movements in Chechnya, Kashmir, Mindanao in the Philippines, and southern Thailand — that have...

Two US defence contractors being sued over allegations of abuse at Abu Ghraib prison have been awarded valuable new contracts by the Pentagon … Three employees of CACI International and Titan – working at...

for the first time is many years, Yahoo now has a new search tool that beats Google: Yahoo Video Search It’s a good idea to edit your preferences to turn off the safesearch nanny...

Armstrong Williams, a conservative commentator, talk-show host and newspaper columnist [has] just been unmasked as the frontman for a scheme in which $240,000 of taxpayers’ money was quietly siphoned to him through the Department...

I just noticed a weird, trainspotterish connection. In the 1974 series that was the major inspiration for the X-Files, Kolchak the Night Stalker, the episode “Mr RING” concerns a genetic-mechanical hybrid android that rebels...

Here’s a status report on the election “irregularities” in Ohio. It’s pretty ugly stuff, kind of a mini-Ukraine. Given the closeness of the result, the reasonable course of action would be to hold another...