Jul 20 2008
Some sketches of people living their lives late at night and under the self-inflicted weary eye of some indefinable inner alienation. Hollow people in a hollow world. I wrote this a few years ago a little while after a friend had died. An...
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Jul 19 2008
Scotsman journalist Emma Cowing almost lost her life in the searing heat of Afghanistan. Her ordeal exposed an unwritten danger facing our troops. Here she tells her story
Jul 18 2008
Mexican troops seized a small submarine smuggling drugs in the Pacific Ocean on Wednesday, the military said. The green-colored submarine, carrying what was believed to be cocaine, was about 32 feet long and appeared to be a makeshift or modified...
Jul 18 2008
Nearly two-thirds of Egyptian men admit to having sexually harassed women in the most populous Arab country, and a majority say women themselves are to blame for their maltreatment, a survey showed Thursday.
Jul 16 2008
It was 63 years ago today that the United States detonated the very first atomic bomb. Three weeks later, the only two A-bombs dropped in warfare destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan. Many nuclear — and thermonuclear — bombs have been...
Jul 16 2008
ENCOURAGING women to systematically examine themselves for signs of breast cancer does not reduce deaths from the disease, a major review of the evidence showed yesterday. Many women practise a rigid routine of checking their breasts on a regular basis...
Jul 16 2008
CAPTURED as a 15-year-old on an Afghan battlefield, footage was released yesterday of Canadian Guantanamo prisoner Omar Khadr being interrogated by agents from his home country.
Jul 16 2008
The Scottish Government has launched a campaign that tackles negative perceptions of older people.
Jul 16 2008
ENVIRONMENT groups have hit out after a firm was fined just £3,000 for an oil slick that spread nine miles across the Firth of Forth.
Jul 15 2008
MAX Mosley’s sadomasochistic session with five prostitutes was no “Carry On Spanking”-style caper, the High Court heard yesterday.