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Afghanistan Sun

• Taliban blow up two girls' schools in Pakistan - 8 hours agoSuspected Taliban militants blew up two girls' schools in Pakistan's tribal region near the Afghan border, an official said Friday.
• Gunmen kill eight, kidnap 45 bus passengers in Pakistan - 8 hours agoUnknown gunmen killed eight people and kidnapped 45 in raids Friday on two minibuses in Pakistan's tribal region along the Afghan border, officials said.
• US, Pak working on resumption of bilateral strategic dialogue, high-level contacts - 9 hours agoThe United States and Pakistan are working together to resume their strategic dialogue and other high-level contacts that were delayed by recent strains in their bilateral relationship, US Special Rep...
• Gurkha gets Britain's second highest bravery medal for fighting Taliban in Afghanistan - 11 hours ago

BBC - Home

• Protests spread in Syrian cities - 49 minutes agoProtests are reported in the Syrian capital, Damascus, and other cities, with fresh reports of gunfire in the protest hub of Deraa.
• Japan inquiry into nuclear leak - 8 hours agoAn investigation is under way in Japan to establish the source of the radiation leak at the quake-hit nuclear plant, which left two workers in hospital.
• Libyan foes stalemate in key town - 2 hours agoLibya rebels are in a tense standoff with government forces in Ajdabiya, after a night of bombing by French and British jets in the eastern town.
• Ivory Coast: 'A million' refugees - 1 hour agoUp to one million people may have fled their homes because of violence following Ivory Coast's disputed elections, the UN refugee agency says.
• Zimbabwe MDC minister 'in hiding' - 5 hours ago
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 BBC - England

• 'Second victim' missing for years - 3 hours agoDetectives investigating the murder of Sian O'Callaghan are searching for the body of another person who went missing "several years ago".
• Gun rampage medic delays criticised - 57 minutes agoThe coroner in the Derrick Bird gun rampage inquest criticises a policy which delayed ambulance crews, as verdicts are returned on Bird's 12 victims.
• Rocker's son in court over attack - 3 hours agoCharlie Gilmour, son of Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour, appears in court over an attack on a convoy of cars containing Prince Charles.
• Night Stalker jailed for 27 years - 3 hours agoNight Stalker rapist Delroy Grant, who carried out a series of sex attacks on elderly people, is jailed for 27 years.
• MP's husband dies while fishing - 2 hours ago

 BPS Research Digest

• More serious brain injuries associated with more life satisfaction - 7 hours agoPsychologists investigating the well-being of patients with an acquired brain injury (ABI) have documented a curious phenomenon, whereby the more serious a person's brain injury, the higher their self...
• Extras - 1 day agoEye-catching studies that didn't make the final cut : Local effects on people's belief in global warming . Can I call this the Daily Express effect? "Respondents who thought that day [they w...
• Is God always on the right? - 2 days agoThis former Republican President claims to read the bible daily  Holding conservative values tends to go hand in hand with being more religious, at least in the United States. Indeed, the idea t...
• An afternoon nap tunes out negative emotions, tunes in positive ones - 4 days agoThe perfect excuse for a siesta! People who stay awake throughout the day become progressively more sensitive to negative emotions. In contrast, those who take an afternoon nap are desensitised to neg...
• New gadget provides fresh insight into goose-bumps - 1 week ago

CagePrisoners

• War court filing comparing Seminoles to al Qaeda stirs protest - 8 hours ago  Seminoles in 1818 similar to al Qaeda in 2001? Some Pentagon prosecutors appeared to make this analogy to support a Guantánamo war crimes conviction, then clarified in a war court filing. ...
• Political prisoners in Syria: An urgent crisis now! - 15 hours agoAndy Worthington on significant political prisoners in Syria, including prominent human rights activists detained in the last two weeks.
• Syria: Amazingly, the next crucible of revolution in the Middle East? - 1 day agoAndy Worthington on the efforts of young people, human rights campaigners and ex-political prisoners to overthrow Syria's torture regime.
• 2Pac got it correct, almost. - 3 days agoWhen Tupac Amaru Shakur wrote these words, he was mostly referring to the plight of the underprivileged and disenfranchised among the African-American community
• Cageprisoners response to Peter Taylor’s ‘The Secret War on Terror’ - 3 days ago

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China Digital Times

• @StonyWang: Forced to Drink Jasmine Tea - 4 hours agoStony Wang is a blogger based in Shanghai. The following is a collection of his tweets from February 25, detailing his experience “ drinking tea ” after the calls for a Jasmine Revolution circulated i...
• China Sentences Democracy Activist to 10 Years - 14 hours agoChinese activist Liu Xianbin has been sentenced to ten years in prison on subversion charges for his online writings. From AP: Liu Xianbin, who has previously spent a decade in prison, was found gu...
• Photo: Picking tobacco leaves, by shanidov - 15 hours agoPicking tobacco leaves, by shanidov . © Samuel Wade for China Digital Times (CDT) , 2011. | Permalink | No comment | Add to del.icio.us Post tags: Download Tools to Circumvent the Great ...
• Will the Great Film Quota Wall of China Come Down? - 16 hours agoFollowing China’s failure to meet a WTO deadline on relaxing cultural import controls , The Guardian describes the Chinese film industry’s fears of “colonisation” if Hollywood movies flood in : Th...
• Palin’s Passage to India: Talking Libya and China - 17 hours ago

EV Worldwire

• First Electric Car Buyers Feeling Pretty Smug Now - 2 days agoRising gasoline prices not an issue for buyers of Nissan LEAF and Tesla Roadsters electric cars.
• Middle East Unrest Is Warning Smoke for America - 2 days agoEditorial sees need for oil-dependent U.S.A to move quickly to adopt advanced electric vehicles.
• Case Western Researchers Announce Low-Cost Fuel Cell Breakthrough - 2 days agoPolymer saturated nano carbon tubes cost a fraction of current platinum-based membranes.
• Libya and Bolivia's Lithium - 2 days agoAuthor sees connection between events in oil-rich Libya and Bolivia's lithium deposits.
• So Cal AAA Tests Smart Electric Cars - 2 days ago

Florida Oil Spill Law

• Wilma Subra wins Human Rights Award - 1 hour agoLocal Scientist Wilma Subra Wins Human Rights Award, KATC, March 23, 2011: LEAN Technical Advisor, Wilma Subra, has been named the Domestic Honoree at the 9th annual Human Rights Awards Since 2001, th...
• “Gag order” issued in dolphin death investigation — “It throws accountability right out the window” says biologist - 1 hour agoGovernment tightens lid on dolphin death probe, Reuters, March 25, 2011 at 12:16 pm EDT ... Read more
• Thousands dead in Jacksonville fish kill — “Blood cells burst when tainted water is sucked into their gills” - 1 day ago‘Golden algae’ is cause of Hanna Park fish deaths, Florida Times-Union, March 23, 2011: Algae that can rupture blood cells in fish is being blamed for deaths of thousands of fish at a lake in Jacksonv...
• Relax says BP: It’s safe to touch “non-toxic” tar balls — Seafood is most safe in the world… who cares what medical professionals say (VIDEO) - 1 day agoPensacola News Journal: BP: Tests show beaches, seafood safe NW Florida Daily News: Relax. The water is safe, says BP representative (VIDEO) Reporter at :45 seconds in: What do you say to the medical ...
• “Slick is exponentially larger and may cover more than 100 square mile” according to satellite imagery (VIDEO) - 1 day ago

Food World Order

• 3/24 binge & purge: scares, shares, rallies, allergies - 21 hours agocodex alimentarius & food irradiation in US * russia bans food from 6 japanese prefectures * store-brand food eating up market share * junk-food oxymoron: frito-lay tries all-natural chi...
• conagra broadens campaign to feed hungry kids - 2 days agoListenupdate: conagra ceo on customers & rising prices ... from nytimes : ConAgra Foods, whose social cause is ending child hunger , is taking a new approach to raise the issue’s vis...
• mcdonald's launches plan to (soylent) green its menu - 2 days agoListenworld wildlife fund gets into bed with mcdonald's , gives birth to darling 'sustainability program' from grist : McDonald's is going to be less bad for the future of life on Earth, ...
• world health org understatement: japan food safety situation 'serious' - 4 days agofrom reuters : The World Health Organization said on Monday that the detection of radiation in food after an earthquake damaged a Japanese nuclear plant was a more serious problem than it...
• wholesale prices rise due to biggest jump in food costs in over 36 yrs - 1 week ago

Frontier Post

• Zardari stresses plans to check decline of sanity - 16 hours agoF.P. Islamabad Office ISLAMABAD: President Asif Ali Zardari has once again condemned the desecration of the Holy Quran by what he described as a mentally ...
• Cop among 8 killed in suicide attack - 16 hours agoF.P. Report HANGU: A suicide bomber rammed an explosive-packed van into Doaba Police Station on Thursday; killing eight persons, including one policeman, ...
• Quran desecration threatens religious harmony Tahir Khan - 16 hours agoISLAMABAD: Condemning the desecration of Holy Quran by an American pastor, Pakistan Thursday said the fanatic act has posed a serious threat to religious ...
• Pakistan, Uzbekistan to cooperate in trade, energy - 16 hours agoTASHKENT (APP): Pakistan and Uzbekistan on Thursday pledged to move forward in all spheres, with a particular focus on cooperation in energy sector, bilateral ...
• French jets destroy Libyan plane, target arms flow - 16 hours ago

Gawker

• Lots of Staffers Leaving The Daily Already [Media] - 37 minutes agoIn your finally Friday media column: The Daily 's culture desk evaporates, the grim outlook for journalism jobs, WaPo staffers mildly obj...
• Is 'Neuromarketing' Real? Who Knows? [Advertising] - 42 minutes ago"Neuromarketing" is a term coined by the advertising industry because it sounds nice and not at all scary or ominous. Then again, it might be tot...
• What Is Prince William Doing for His Bachelor Party? [Royals] - 49 minutes agoAccording to Us Weekly , Prince William is having his bachelor party (or as those saucy Brits like to call them, "stag celebration") this...
• Jersey Shore: The End of the Affair [Video] - 1 hour agoEverything must eventually end and—like sucking the lemon, disposing the condom, or unclogging the toilet—the final transmission of Jersey S...
• Tim Pawlenty and the Curse of the Muslim Mortgages [2012] - 1 hour ago

Global Post

• Protests and violence sweep through Syria - 11 minutes agoDAMASCUS — The Syrian government is following the playbook of Libya, Bahrain and Yemen as protests sweep the nation. read more
• Israel warns of major ground invasion of Gaza amid attacks - 1 hour agoAn Israeli minister, meantime, warned that the country could be poised for a major ground invasion of Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip. read more
• Africa's weather data should be free - 1 hour agoScientists want data on Africa's climate patterns to be freely available. Andrew Meldrum ...
• Brazil: Video shows police shooting teen at point blank range (VIDEO) - 1 hour agoPolice in Brazil are frequently accused of using excessive force against criminal suspects, including extrajudicial execution. read more
• American woman Nancy Kissel found guilty in HK "milkshake murder" retrial - 1 hour ago

Green Life

• Movie Review Friday: Dive! - 6 hours agoEscape to the movies with one of our Movie Review Friday selections. Each week we review a film with an environmental theme that's currently in theaters or available on DVD . Seen a good eco-flick lat...
• Daily Roundup: March 24, 2011 - 18 hours agoStill Shaking: A magnitude 6.8 earthquake hit Myanmar today, and could be felt as far as Bangkok, Thailand. Los Angeles Times In Nuke's Way: Fifty workers are trying to prevent a nuclear m...
• Sneak Peek: Strange, Beautiful Birds' Nests - 20 hours agoConstructed from mud, grass, or spiderwebs, perched on high branches, tunneled into sand banks, or even nestled into old hats, birds' expertly crafted nests prove that architectural marvels aren't lim...
• Five Maasai Grandmothers Light the Way to Solar-Powered Huts - 1 day agoFive Maasai grandmothers have proved that you’re never too old to learn. After spending six months in India studying solar energy , the women brought their knowledge back to their villages for everyda...
• Green Your Water Use: Shorter Showers - 1 day ago

Jurist - U.S. Legal News

• Colorado Senate approves same-sex civil unions bill - 1 hour ago[JURIST] The Colorado Senate [official website] on Thursday approved a bill [SB 172 text, PDF] that would grant same-sex couples the legal right to civil unions [JURIST news archive]. The Colorado Civ...
• Federal judge dismisses suit by ex-prosecutor against DOJ - 1 hour ago[JURIST] A federal judge on Thursday dismissed [opinion, PDF] a suit by former assistant US Attorney Richard Convertino in which the former prosecutor accused the Department of Justice (DOJ) [official...
• Wisconsin appeals court passes union bargaining case to state supreme court - 1 hour ago[JURIST] The Wisconsin Court of Appeals [official website] on Thursday declined to rule [certification, PDF] on an order [text; JURIST report] enjoining Wisconsin Secretary of State Douglas La Follett...
• UN rights council launches Iran probe - 1 hour ago[JURIST] The UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) [official website] adopted a resolution [text, pdf] on Thursday, appointing a Special Rapporteur to investigate human rights violations in Iran. The resolu...
• Idaho, Kansas lawmakers approve bans on late-term abortions - 1 hour ago

MercoPress

• Uruguay celebrates 40 years of the ruling coalition with Lula da Silva - 2 hours agoUruguay’s ruling coalition is celebrating its fortieth anniversary with a massive political rally in downtown Montevideo where the main speaker will be the former Brazilian pres...
• Nato agrees to take command from the US in enforcing no-fly zone over Libya - 10 hours agoNato has agreed to take command of enforcing the no-fly zone over Libya from the US. But Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen made clear that other aspects of the operation w...
• Syria pledges to introduce reforms to meet protestor’s demands - 10 hours agoSyrian leaders have pledged to introduce reforms to meet the demands of protesters, after days of violence in the southern city of Deraa. Officials promised to study the need fo...
• Argentina recalls 35 years of one of its darkest periods in recent history - 15 hours agoThousands of Argentines took to the streets of Buenos Aires and other cities Thursday evening under the slogan “Memory, truth and justice” to evoke 35 years of the last military...
• Academic seminar in Paraguay to celebrate 20 years of Mercosur - 17 hours ago

 News - UK

• Bird unlawfully killed 12 victims
• Sian's body recovered by police
• Nato to take over Libyan operation
• Giffords may well attend Shuttle launch
• Elizabeth Taylor laid to rest
• Fans and celebs turn out for 3DS launch
• 'Night Stalker' branded evil by ex-wife
• Filthy London exhibition digs up the dirt
• Rebecca Black looks to move beyond "Friday" 
• Just call me Lindsay. Not Lohan 

No Quarter

• Women’s History Month – Women and War - 4 hours agoThe summer after I graduated from the police academy I was asked to give a speech for our city’s July 4th celebration about women in service to our country. I was honored. Through my research I was am...
• Hillary Clinton Statement on Libya / NATO - 18 hours agoSecretary of State Hillary Clinton’s statement included this elegantly-stated “dig” at the endless punditry on cable and network news programming. (No Quarter has published numerous commentaries on th...
• Unled [& Open Thread * Update] - 19 hours agoBronwyn’s UPDATE: Check our Twitter account (@noquarterusa) for Larry’s frequent comments as well as announcements of NoQuarter’s major posts. Check out our Twitter “channel” in the right column, just...
• George Lopez Makes the Wall of Shame for Comparing Kirstie Alley to a Pig - 22 hours agoActress Kirstie Alley has famously struggled with her weight for years. As a current contestant on ABC’s Dancing with the Stars, exercising her way back to better shape, she received quite a receptio...
• Goodbye Elizabeth (and Open Thread) - 1 day ago

 PRESS Core

• Car that runs on nothing but water unveiled in Japan. No battery recharging and no emissions. - 2 hours agoJapanese company Genepax presents its eco-friendly car that runs on nothing but water. The car has an energy generator that extracts hydrogen from water that is poured into the car’s tank. The gener...
• International Criminal Court serves and protects US aggression. - 3 hours agoThe majority of the World’s population want the leaders of the United States to be tried for genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes for launching unprovoked wars of aggression aga...
• US / Israeli governments behind Libyan crisis. - 1 day agoUS Special forces DPVs with 25mm automatic grenade machine guns The United States government has been working since February 2011 to create so much strife in Libya that the UN would be forced into s...
• International and domestic laws unanimously declares UN/US airstrikes against Libya are illegal. - 1 day agoOn March 18, 2011 the United States controlled UN Security Council approved Resolution 1973 – unlawfully authorizing unprovoked armed attacks against the territorial integrity and political indepen...
• Sign petition to indict the leaders of the US, French, UK and Canadian governments for crimes against humanity and war crimes. - 1 day ago

RAWA

• Women suffer with no female doctors in Daikundi - 1 day agoPAN: Many women in central Daikundi province are dying unnecessarily because there are no female doctors in any of the districts. The provincial council has accused the nongovernmental organisation co...
• Their empty talk of liberating Afghan women - 2 days agoSocialistWorker.org: IT SEEMS like a ludicrous claim now, but when the U.S. invaded Afghanistan nearly 10 years ago in the “war on terror,” one of the most potent justifications was to liberate Afghan...
• Most Britons unsure of Afghan mission aims - poll - 2 days agoReuters UK: Most Britons are unclear about what the government’s goals are in Afghanistan and only one in four believe the current strategy is working well, a poll published on Wednesday on behalf of ...
• Baghlan residents still suffering three years after 2007 suicide attack - 2 days agoPAN: Ahmad Waleed has trouble remembering things. Waleed blames his forgetfulness on a suicide attack which he survived three years ago. The boy was among dozens of students escorting a parliamentary ...
• US Army “kill team” in Afghanistan posed for photos of murdered civilians - 4 days ago

 RAW Story

• Deaths reported as demos held in Syrian cities - 2 hours agoDARAA, Syria — Protesters took the streets in a number of Syrian cities Friday to demand major change, dismissing promises of reforms by the authorities as rights activists reported deaths in police...
• Exclusive: U.S. expansion of biometric tech poses ‘grave danger,’ ACLU tells Raw Story - 2 hours agoA recent announcement by the Federal Bureau of Investigations detailing plans to embark on a $1 billion biometrics project and construct an advanced biometrics facility to be shared with the Pentago...
• Alaska governor’s pick for key post wants to criminalize adultery, premarital sex - 2 hours agoRepublican Alaska Gov. Sean Parnell's nominee for the Alaska Judiciary Council would like to see Alaskans prosecuted for having sex outside marriage. In telephone testimony, Don Haase of Valdez told...
• Grassley knocks GOP 2012 field: ‘Only two or three of them are qualified to be president’ - 2 hours agoWASHINGTON – Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley (IA) doesn't seem to have much faith in his party's 2012 field. Grassley, a 20-year senator and the top Republican on the powerful finance committee, told...
• Exclusive: Progressive groups launch campaign to fight GOP’s ‘War on Women’ - 4 hours ago

Riki Ott

• Will the Government Let BP Reduce Its Fines and Penalties for Deepwater? - 2 days agoGretna, LA -- As the one-year memorial of British Petroleum's tragic deepwater well blowout in the Gulf of Mexico approaches, federal investigators are gathering evidence to support criminal charges f...
• BP's Promise Versus What BP Really Means: Some Insights on Making People Hole (Whole) and Just Us (Justice) in the Gulf - 2 days agoSanta Rosa Beach, Florida. When Louisiana fisherman Michelle Chauncy called the BP claim office (Kenneth Fineberg's Gulf Coast Claims Facility) last Friday to check on the status of her claim for Mic...
• Bio-Remediation or Bio-Hazard? Dispersants, Bacteria and Illness in the Gulf - 2 days agoOcean Springs, MS -- A grandmother made me rethink all the bio-remediation hype. The "naturally-occurring oil-eating bacteria " have been newsworthy of late as they are supposedly going to come to th...
• An Open Letter to US EPA, Region 6 - 2 days agoSam Coleman U.S. EPA, Region 6 1445 Ross Ave. Dallas, TX 75202-2733 Via email: coleman.sam@epa.gov August 27, 2010 Re: Documentation of continued dispersant spraying in near shore and inlan...
• Seafood Safety and Politics Don't Mix: Opening of Gulf Fisheries at Odds With Evidence of Harm - 2 days agoEight days after returning home from his Gulf oil-spill response job, Jason Brashears has flashbacks of a scene that he witnessed one day in Lake Ponchartrain, Louisiana: Thousands of fish gasping at ...

Red Tape Chronicles

• Another nail in the coffin of price tags - 9 hours agoEsther Shapiro While price tags are showing their age, Esther Shapiro sure isn't. The 93-year-old consumer advocate still visits grocery stores in Detroit to make sure they are pricing item...
• Would you ‘friend’ a total stranger? - 3 days agoWhat's the best way for a hacker to attack Facebook users?  A new survey shows an old-fashioned method works pretty well.  One out of every five male social network users admits they'll accept any fri...
• Why 'Plan B' often works out badly - 3 days agoEngineers used to talk about guarding against the “single point of failure” when designing critical systems like aircraft control systems or nuclear power plants. But rarely does one mistake or event ...
• Whiskey sales boom lifts Irish spirits - 1 week ago(Cooleywhiskey.com) The news out of Ireland these days is nearly all bad.  A decade ago, its so-called Celtic Tiger expansion was considered one of the economic miracles of our time, and fo...
• New concern: The social media divide - 1 week ago

Reuters

• Portuguese parties want early election in May  - 50 minutes agoLISBON (Reuters) - Portugal's political leaders urged the president on Friday to call a snap election in late May or early June after the Socialist prime minister's resignation, rejecting the option o...
• Radiation fears mount again, Japan plant workers hurt  - 1 hour agoTOKYO (Reuters) - Radiation fears escalated in Japan on Friday after workers suffered burns as they tried to cool an earthquake-crippled nuclear power station, while the government sowed confusion ove...
• Yemen's Saleh says wants to put power in safe hands  - 3 hours agoSANAA (Reuters) - President Ali Abdullah Saleh said on Friday he was ready to cede power to stop more bloodshed in Yemen but only to what he called "safe hands" as tens of thousands rallied against hi...
• West strikes Libya forces, NATO sees 90-day campaign  - 3 hours agoTRIPOLI (Reuters) - Western warplanes bombed Muammar Gaddafi's armour in eastern Libya on Friday to try to break a battlefield stalemate and help rebels take the strategic town of Ajdabiyah.
• EU to subject nuclear reactors to "stress tests"  - 3 hours ago

San Jose Mercury

• Santa Cruz digs out from Thursday storm - 16 minutes agoMore than 15 county roads remain closed from a battering by a powerful storm Thursday which dropped 1 to 4 inches of rain in different parts of the county.
• Two killed in crash on Highway 152 - 31 minutes agoTwo people died in a crash Friday morning on westbound state Highway 152 in unincorporated Santa Clara County near Pacheco State Park, a California Highway Patrol dispatcher said.
• San Jose police identify 20-year-old shooting victim - 1 hour agoPolice on Friday identified a 20-year-old man fatally shot near a strip mall as Jeffery Melanio of San Jose.
• TEDx conference coming to San Jose this weekend - 1 hour agoSaturday's inaugural TEDxSanJose conference is sold out, but you can still catch it online.
• Silicon Valley unemployment falls as employers add jobs in February - 3 hours ago

Transcend

• Two Human Made Disasters: Japan and Libya - 4 days ago(Japan) We pray, we hope: no Chernobyl 1986. Stop! this is enough. We know enough to end all nuclear plants. There are alternatives. (Libya) BRIC + Germany are now called upon. Abstention is not go...
• Breaking Australia’s Silence: WikiLeaks and Freedom - 4 days agoPublic forum held on 16 March 2011 at the Sydney Town Hall. The event was staged by the Sydney Peace Foundation, Amnesty International, Stop the War Coalition, and supported by the City of Sydney.
• Julian Assange on 60 Minutes (Part 1) - 4 days agoJulian Assange appeared on 60 Minutes on 30 Jan 2011 in his longest televised interview while in house arrest in England. One of the most interesting aspects of the interview: behind-the-scenes shots ...
• Julian Assange on 60 Minutes (Part 2) - 4 days agoJulian Assange appeared on 60 Minutes on 30 Jan 2011 in his longest televised interview while in house arrest in England. One of the most interesting aspects of the interview: behind-the-scenes shots ...
• Former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide Returns Home (VIDEO OF THE WEEK) - 4 days ago

Voltaire

• French plans to topple Gaddafi on track since last November - 12 hours agoAccording to right-wing Italian journalist Franco Bechis, plans to spark the Benghazi rebellion were initiated by French intelligence services in November 2010. As Miguel Martinez from the progressive...
• The Pentagon and murder in Bahrain - 1 day agoU.S. Defense Departments documents, scrutinized by TomDispatch , reveal that as far back as the 1990s the United States has been supplying vast quantities of military equipment to Bahraini secur...
• Statement by Anders Fogh Rasmussen on Libya no-fly zone - 1 day agoNATO Allies have now decided to enforce the no-fly zone over Libya. We are taking action as part of the broad international effort to protect civilians against the attacks by the Gaddafi regime. We wi...
• Statement by Anders Fogh Rasmussen on Libya arms embargo - 3 days agoNATO has now decided to launch an operation to enforce the arms embargo against Libya. All Allies are committed to meet their responsibilities under the United Nations resolution to stop the intolerab...
• Russia: Medvedev rebuts Putin over Libya - 3 days ago

World News

• Churches in Japan recovering after the 'quake - 20 hours agoAs recovery efforts in Japan proceed, the full impact of the earthquake and tsunami two weeks ago continues to be felt by the churches there. ...
• No timetable to end Libya conflict, says US defence secretary - 1 day agoThe US defence secretary has said that there is no timetable to end of the Western military campaign in Libya, as international concern grows. ...
• Egyptian women protesters forced to take ‘virginity tests’ - 1 day agoAfter army officers violently cleared Tahrir square of protesters recently, at least 18 women were held and abused in military detention. ...
• Orthodox churches are struggling to overcome differences - 1 day agoDifferences over arcane church issues are preventing Orthodox churches getting together to discuss common issues and speak with one voice on major topics. ...
• Libya military campaign hit by division, wrangling and uncertainty - 2 days ago

Headlines

• The Jasmine Revolution"It may have taken only four weeks to change the government in Tunisia, but its citizens have been preparing for this day for decades. Over the years on visits to Tunisia, discussion often turned to t...
• Libya and the silver lining in the Western intervention"The story is reminiscent of the lives of several other brutal dictators that the colonial powers brought to power, armed to the teeth, watched as their protégés oppressed the ummah and when the time ...
• Turkey and the Middle East: Carpe diem"The Turkish prime minister’s vision is to dismantle borders, so that people can pass from Europe to the Middle East and vice versa, pointing to Turkey’s abolition of visa requirements to dozens of co...
• The Race for Space Solar Energy"Rather than a competition, however, the United States, China, Japan, and perhaps Russia, should organize a public service consortium to cooperatively produce energy from outer space....Such a consort...
• What can Afghanistan and Pakistan teach us about Nonviolence?

Top Documentary Films

• American Meth - 13 hours agoFilmmaker Justin Hunt leads viewers on a cross-country journey straight into the heart of the American methamphetamine epidemic in this illuminating documentary narrated by actor Val Kilmer. Troubl...
• The Vice Guide to Travel: North Korea - 1 day agoGetting into North Korea was one of the hardest and weirdest processes VBS has ever dealt with. From the authors : After we went back and forth with their representatives for months, they finally s...
• Into Eternity - 1 day agoEvery day, the world over, large amounts of high-level radioactive waste created by nuclear power plants is placed in interim storages, which are vulnerable to natural disasters, man-made disasters...
• Changing Lanes - 2 days agoZustandswechsel (Change of State or Changing Lanes) is feature length documentary about the status of hemp in Styria - a region that is deeply rooted in Austria's rather conservative culture. Yet, ...
• Stephen Hawking’s Universe - 2 days ago

 Yahoo! Business

• Tech results lift Wall Street, but volume still weak (Reuters) - 2 hours agoReuters - Wall Street advanced for a third straight day on Friday as the tech sector rose on upbeat outlooks, though weak trading volume hinted the rally lacks enthusiasm.
• U.S. bumps up GDP growth, seen slowing in early 2011 (Reuters) - 2 hours agoReuters - The U.S. economy grew more quickly than previously thought in the fourth quarter, the government said on Friday, but signs of softer consumer and business spending may slow its momentum in e...
• Fed unlikely to extend QE2: officials (Reuters) - 1 hour ago

Yahoo! News Search

• Yahoo Experiments With Commentary - 2 hours agoI've been lamenting for a while about the incivility found in the commentary on Yahoo's news pages,
• Yahoo! Searches for Better Results - 19 hours agoYahoo!'s new search tool could enhance its core sites.
• Yahoo Search Direct Takes On Google Instant By Providing Answers In The Search Box - 2 days agoBlake Irving introduced “ Search Direct ” at a press event today at the offices of Yahoo’s PR agency. Irving first reviewed Yahoo’s strategy (presented as a periodic table).
• Yahoo Microsoft Search Alliance Good or Bad for Search Marketing? - 1 day agoEarlier this week, Microsoft shared some numbers from the Microsoft-Yahoo Search Alliance (search and advertising deal), which saw Bing powering the back-end of Yahoo Search, and the merger of Yahoo S...
• Yahoo Reveals Secrets Of “Search Direct” Alogrithm - 1 day ago

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