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Surviving a rebel attack and braving crocodile-infested waters, a group of explorers has completed an 80-day voyage down the world's longest river reaching what they say is the source of the Nile, deep in Rwanda's lush Nyungwe rainforest.
US researchers said they had transformed immature cells from men's testicles into powerful stem cells, which they then coaxed into becoming nerve, heart and bone cells.
Despite the Senate's cool response to Sen. Russell Feingold's calls to censure the president over his unilateral authorization of domestic surveillance, the issue of executive power worries lawmakers on both sides of the aisle, especially for
Mohammed had been trying to persuade Al Qaeda to attempt a dramatic hijacking operation since the early 1990s. Osama bin Laden always rejected him, saying the idea was impractical - until the spring of 1999, when Mohammed was summoned to an audience
General Motors Corp. on Monday said it had agreed to sell a 51 percent stake in its financing arm, General Motors Acceptance Corp., to a consortium led by hedge fund Cerberus Capital Management LP for $14 billion, payable over three years.
Australia and China signed a nuclear safeguards deal that set the stage for huge uranium exports to Beijing for its power industry, but Canberra said the trade was unlikely to start for some years. China is expected to build 40 to 50 nuclear power pl
A Chinese government-backed holding company, has agreed to buy into a major Western Australia iron ore project in a deal potentially worth more than $1.2 billion US dollars. Agreed purchase of over 6 billion tons of magnetite
Every keystroke and website - however innocent - are recorded. Fed into a nationwide surveillance system used to block thousands of websites and track down anyone posting material that offends government authorities.
"Tom Noe saw a golden money pot and he wanted a piece of it. The Republicans in Washington were all too willing to help out their friends if they gave enough to the campaigns." Mr. Noe became a Bush "Pioneer" raising at least $
The calls went out across the nation, as Bush administration officials asked the country's most seasoned disaster response experts to consider the job of a lifetime: FEMA director. But again and again, the response has been "No thanks."
Despite all of the well-meaning and patriotic work of the millions of activists and citizens who comprise the anti-war movement, America still remains very much a nation not only engaged in waging and planning wars of aggression, but has also become
"This is a message to America," one insurgent says. "Look at your might and power, yet you are unable to walk the streets of Ramadi, which belongs to the mujahideen." He turns back to the tank, a few blocks away. "We will des
Tons of Canadian trash is shipped to the US every day but it is not screened for security threats. Customs "does not have an effective method to screen and inspect the 350 truckloads of municipal solid waste that enter daily through Detroit and
This is the other front of Pakistan's widening civil unrest, not the tribal areas along the Afghan border where the US would like the government to press a campaign against Islamic militants, but the restive province of Baluchistan, home to an in
President Viktor Yushchenko's poison-scarred face and leadership during Ukraine's Orange Revolution won him standing ovations in the West. At home, the applause and adoration ended long ago. Yushchenko's dismal showing in Ukraine's pa
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Kudos have to be given to Alecia Moore, the lady otherwise known as Pink. Her new video "Stupid Girls" is exactly what art is for: taking the political, which is also often personal, and turning it on its head so that we can all see the t
An Arizona police supervisor Tuesday said the federal agency charged with regulating the nation's firearms industry "absolutely devastated" his career and his personal life, all because he gave a gun to a friend as a gift.
"If the militias or the commandos set foot here, we will fight them — either they die or we die," Abdul Wahab declared. "If we let them in, they will kill us anyway, so we might as well defend ourselves."
Two years after U.S. authorities ceremoniously declared Iraq to be sovereign again, top religious leaders say Iraqis still don't govern themselves, remain under military occupation and have a right to fight foreign troops.
This is the Alaskan bush at its most remote. People choose to live in outposts like Dillingham (pop. 2,400) to be left alone. So eyebrows were raised when the first surveillance cameras went up on Main Street. More than 60 cameras watched over the to
Anyone could see that Bernice Bogart, 83, was a fragile woman. So when Bogart, who was in a wheelchair, was required by airport security to stand against doctor's orders and undergo a rigorous screening by a testy female screener, [her daughter]
The jurors obtained the definition [of WMDs] as deliberations neared 4 hours. US District Judge Brinkema told them the term includes airplanes used as missiles. 1 of the convictions on which Moussaoui could receive the death penalty is conspiracy to
The White House is planning additional staff changes that could come as early as next week as part of a broader effort to repair relations with Congress and revive the Bush presidency. "They need bigger changes than the ones so far," said o
The United Nations Security Council should consider hitting Iran with sanctions if Tehran refuses cooperation over its suspect nuclear programme, George Schulte, US ambassador to the UN nuclear watchdog agency, said.
Lebanon sank deeper into political crisis after anti-Syrian ministers walked out of a cabinet meeting in protest at the presence of pro-Damascus President Emile Lahoud, who is under mounting pressure to resign. An economic crisis has pushed public de
Islamist group Hamas offered Israel a 30-year truce in 1997 but it was overtaken by a botched assassination attempt against its now leader, Khaled Meshaal, a former spy chief reveals. Efraim Halevy, who headed Israel's Mossad foreign intelligence
An important new documentary film Why We Fight, tells the stories of a number of everyday people working for America's defense. The film is a scrapbook of the American family at a time of war, trapped in a tragedy of history repeating.
An American-led attack, designed to destroy Iran's ability to develop a nuclear bomb, is "inevitable" if Teheran's leaders fail to comply with UN demands to freeze their uranium enrichment program. Senior defence chiefs and governme
Efforts by U.S. and British intelligence officials to turn two Arab residents of Britain into informers, which also involved the West African government of Gambia. [Standard BATF tactics.]
Imagine a world where wars are fought over the internet; where TV broadcasts and newspaper reports are designed by the military to confuse the population; and where a foreign armed power can shut down your computer, phone, radio or TV at will. In
