MOSUL, Iraq (AFX) - Thirty people were killed today when a suicide bomber blew himself up in a large crowd of people outside an army recruitment centre in the northwestern Iraqi town of Tal Afar, police said.
BARRANCO YOPAL, Venezuela - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez ordered a U.S.-based Christian missionary group working with indigenous tribes to leave the country Wednesday, accusing the organization of "imperialist infiltration" and links to
George W. Bush is a natural born liar. He lied us into a war, and now he is lying to keep us there. In his Oct. 6 self-congratulatory speech at that neoconservative shrine the National Endowment for Democracy, the president of the United States said:
The tab for the long-term promises the US Government has made to creditors, retirees, veterans and the poor amounts to US$43,000 billion, US$145,000 per US citizen, or US$350,000 for every full-time worker.
THE commanding heights of the information technology industry, inhabited by the likes of Microsoft, IBM, Intel and now Google, have always been a place of constantly shifting alliances and blurred lines between competition and co-operation.
ShowTime's series, Weeds had a pretty funny clip on the other night. Jason from Right on News sent the video : "..there was a great exchange with Kevin Neelen and Justin Kirk about the Iraq War.. Neelen plays the Ignorant Bush Supporter in
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Two car bombs killed dozens of Iraqis on Tuesday, four days before a referendum on a constitution that has divided the nation along sectarian lines.
A rocket carrying the Shenzhou 6 capsule and two astronauts was to blast off sometime Wednesday from the remote base in China's northwest, the official Xinhua News Agency said. In a break with the space agency's typical secrecy, Xinhua said a
The US and Kyrgyzstan have reached an agreement to allow US-led coalition forces to continue using a military base near the Kyrgyz capital, Bishkek. (part of old Soviet Union - NE of Afganistan - Right in the middle of Central Asia)
John F. Kennedy said that "Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both."
Germany must be the great exception. Germany has experienced no war in the last years and the corruption rat
The tool, which is currently in beta lets users search among the thousands of podcasts currently available online and choose the one best suited to them. The site would also have reviews of various podcasts in order to help users to find what they wa
That toll remained at around 20,000 people, but a senior army official close to the rescue operations said government officials were estimating that between 35,000 and 40,000 died. The official asked not to be identified because he wasn't authori
"We are here to deliver on the multi-core promise. Today is just the beginning," said Kirk Skaugen, general manager of Intel’s server platforms group, at a news conference on Monday. "The world’s proven technology leader is now deliver
DETROIT (Reuters) - General Motors Corp. (GM.N: Quote, Profile, Research) shares fell sharply on Monday after the automaker warned that a bankruptcy filing over the weekend by auto parts giant Delphi Corp. (DPH.N: Quote, Profile, Research) could cost
The latest Star Wars film has been downloaded more than three million times in the last few months and the film-makers are delighted.
But this is not Revenge of the Sith being pirated - it is a so-called fan film called Star Wars: Revelations.
President Bush's principal adviser Karl Rove is to be questioned again over the improper naming of a CIA official. Mohamed ElBaradei, accused by the American right of being insufficiently aggressive, wins the Nobel Peace Prize for his stalwart wo
For as of today, there is no evidence Harriet Miers possesses the judicial philosophy, strength of intellect, firmness of conviction or deep understanding of the gravity of the matters on which her vote would be decisive to be confirmed as associate
The United States recently debated launching military strikes inside Syria against camps used by insurgents operating in neighboring Iraq, Newsweek reports.
Randy gets into it with Janet Parshall the right winger over NYC. JP uses the talking point of "we're fighting them over there rather than over here" nonsense. Randi quickly points her to the NYC subway scare.
Now, with Saturday's constitutional referendum appearing more likely to divide than unify the country, some within the administration have concluded that the quest for democracy in Iraq, at least in its current form, could actually strengthen the
Two New Orleans police officers repeatedly punched a 64-year-old man accused of public intoxication, and another city officer assaulted an Associated Press Television News producer as a cameraman taped the confrontations...
As part of the expanding counterterrorism role being taken on by the Pentagon, Defense Intelligence Agency covert operatives need to be able to approach potential sources in the United States without identifying themselves as government agents, Georg
(True story? Another story to hide the truth? Total Bullshit? - Well, at least it's in the "Conspiracy" section of the site)
Among the most telling anomalies pointing to something terribly afoot is the gun battle, killing 5, that occur
There are still dozens of unanswered questions but all the answers are pointing the same way: international governments deciding the internet's future. The internet will never be the same again.
MUZAFFARABAD, Pakistan (Reuters) - Rescuers searched frantically in the rubble of flattened towns and villages on Sunday for survivors of a devastating earthquake that killed more than 20,000 in northern Pakistan and India.