Apr 30 2008
The twilight war in Lebanon since 2005 has transformed the geopolitical calculus of the Middle East. As when the PLO established a Palestinian enclave in West Beirut in the 1970’s, Lebanon’s sectarian fault lines risk civil war, no successor to...
Apr 29 2008
The heroin flooding Britain’s streets is threatening the lives of UK troops in Afghanistan, an Independent investigation can reveal. Russian gangsters who smuggle drugs into Britain are buying cheap heroin from Afghanistan and paying for it with...
Apr 29 2008
Breaking the dollar barrier “scares me,” said the Bronx-born owner of Bethesda Bagels. But with 100-pound bags of North Dakota flour now above $50 — more than double what they were a few months ago — he sees no alternative to a...
Apr 26 2008
Not so long ago I got an email from one of the readers asking if there is a way to be notified about site updates when the site doesn’t offer RSS feeds. And since there are plenty of popular sites that don’t provide any feeds I thought it may be a...
Apr 26 2008
For generations, Carney’s, the only pub in this tiny village in western Ireland, had been the place to strike up a romance, celebrate a birth or mourn a death — or just sip a pint of Guinness among friends near a warm fire on a damp day. So...
Apr 25 2008
The real estate downturn has been spreading like a virus since the credit crunch began eight months ago, dragging down prices in small towns, suburbs, and previously resilient cities such as Seattle and San Francisco. New York, it seems, is the last...
Apr 25 2008
Gas thieves targeting Central Florida rental trucks and even hacking station pumps are the latest examples of a growing problem sparked by record fuel prices, according to officers. Wednesday, Orlando police said thieves are targeting a U-Haul...
Apr 24 2008
When Taliban showed up last year in this province just south of Kabul, the capital, and started kidnapping aid workers, it caused real alarm. The main highway from the Taliban strongholds in the south runs through here, and Wardak Province is considered...
Apr 23 2008
In 24 states throughout the country, beekeepers have gone through similar shocks as their bees have been disappearing inexplicably at an alarming rate, threatening not only their livelihoods but also the production of numerous crops, including...
Apr 22 2008
A SERIES of sickening videos have been posted on the internet showing a man who claims to have deliberately “infected” thousands of women with AIDS.