Aug 5 2008
France played an active role in the 1994 Rwanda genocide, the Rwandan Government said in a report unveiled overnight, naming French political and military officials it says should be prosecuted.
Jul 27 2008
A wave of bombings left 29 people dead and 88 injured in the Indian city of Ahmedabad yesterday, prompting fears of renewed communal unrest. Up to 16 separate small bombs went off in several parts of the city, which has a history of violent clashes...
Jul 26 2008
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - A 73-year-old Dutch man was astonished to learn from police that the begonias he had lovingly tended on his doorstep concealed a secret marijuana plantation.
Jul 25 2008
The Swiss Federal Commission for HIV/AIDS raised eyebrows earlier this year when it effectively said that HIV-infected people could safely not use condoms. But now a computer analysis of rates of HIV transmission from individuals with different levels...
Jul 25 2008
This is a great collection of video and photography in a flash multimedia montage. Profiles, journalistic views on covering the story in Iraq, an interactive timeline, maps and more resources related to the Iraq war. All these images are the...
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Jul 24 2008
Sean Hay, who was looking forward to becoming a father for the second time, was knifed repeatedly by a gang of three men who fled the scene, leaving him dying in front of his family.
Jul 24 2008
Zimbabwe’s inflation rate is currently said to be running at somewhere between 2.2 million and 3 million per cent. The country has just printed a 100 billion dollar note with which (at the time of writing) one can hope to buy two loaves of...
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Jul 24 2008
The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) has released a social trends report that shows there was little improvement in housing conditions in remote Indigenous communities between 2001 and 2006.
Jul 23 2008
I once met a woman with an unearthly beautiful smile. She did not understand this poem when I gave it to her. Perhaps you will. Poetry is so personal, so intimate, that expecting other people to see or feel the rationale and emotive momentum of...
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Jul 20 2008
Australian television reporter Peter Lloyd, charged with drug trafficking in Singapore, has been moved from a local hospital to a prison medical facility, staff at the institutions said.