Jordanians Find Rocket Launcher Used in Attack on U.S. ShipsJordanian authorities found the launcher that fired three Katyusha rockets from a hilltop warehouse, including one that narrowly missed a U.S. naval ship docked at this Red Sea resort, Jordan's Interior Minister Awni Yirfas said Saturday.
The most serious strike against the U.S. Navy since the USS Cole bombing in Yemen nearly five years ago killed a Jordanian soldier Friday, wounded another and sparked a nationwide manhunt for the culprits involved.
Two other rocket... (more)
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No one can tell us what to do: IranIranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Friday rejected international demands for suspension of nuclear activities.
"No country has the right to tell Iran what to do. We will not make any concessions over our legitimate right. We are not afraid of anybody and we have the power to defend our rights," Khamenei said at Friday prayers in Tehran.
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) called last week on Iran to close down its reopened uranium conversion ... (more)
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Techno-generation Cash, card or microchipAt a bar in Barcelona, select clientele can pay for drinks and access the VIP lounge at the scan of a tiny implanted digital tag. Julius Purcell goes where the chip crowd go
On a warm summer night in Barcelona, the dance floor of the Baja Beach Club is a writhing mass of locals and tourists. The normal punters here still have to go through the tiresome rituals of queuing for entry, waiting at the bar, fumbling for change, and fretting about the safety of their wallets. But for the... (more)
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CIA Report on 9/11 Is CompleteThe CIA inspector general's report on the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks has finally been completed -- nearly two years after its congressionally set deadline -- but has yet to be sent to Capitol Hill because CIA Director Porter J. Goss is still deciding how to respond to its findings, according to administration and congressional sources.
Inspector General John L. Helgerson's voluminous report, triggered in December 2002 by a recommendation of the House-Senate inquiry into the... (more)
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Family of slain Brazilian refuses compensation offer: Police attempting to buy their silenceThe parents of the Brazilian man killed mistakenly by British anti-terror police in south London have reportedly turned down a compensation offer of 1 million pounds (1.8 million US dollars).
Matozinho and Maria de Menezes, parents of 27-year-old Jean Charles de Menezes, have reportedly rejected the offer as an insult, Sky news reported on Saturday.
"We will not be bought off. We will not be silenced. This is not about money, this is about justice," they told the Da... (more)
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Menezes reports 'needed clarity'Police should have clarified misleading reports about the shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes, a member of the Metropolitan Police Authority has said.
Leaked investigation papers seemed to contradict initial police statements and witness accounts of the shooting.
Green authority member Jenny Jones said it should have been "an immediate priority" for police to clarify the information after the 22 July shooting.
Meanwhile, police say there has been no compensat... (more)
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Troops undergo extreme torture trainingElite Australian soldiers are being blindfolded, stripped naked and threatened by savage dogs during extreme torture training exercises.
The regime has been approved at the highest level of government and is about to be upgraded in response to the threat from enemies who do not abide by the Geneva Conventions, the Weekend Australian newspaper reports.
Defence Minister Robert Hill confirmed that soldiers were threatened with physical and sexual abuse during simulated... (more)
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Police rethink shoot to kill policyBritain's top police officers are reviewing the controversial shoot to kill policy after its first use ended in the gunning down of an innocent man, the Guardian has learned.
The review by the Association of Chief Police Officers comes amid a continuing dispute around the Metropolitan police commissioner, Sir Ian Blair, over his handling of the killing of Brazilian Jean Charles de Menezes.
A senior police source and member of Acpo said: "The review is not theoretica... (more)
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China creates crack unit to crush poverty protestsCHINA has established elite police squads equipped with armoured vehicles and helicopters under orders to quell riots in a country where a protest erupts every seven minutes.
The squads are to be stationed in 36 cities, but the largest deployments are in Beijing and Shanghai as the Communist Party asserts its hold on power and gears up for the 2008 Olympic Games.
The latest team was inaugurated this week in the city of Zhengzhou, in central Henan province, China&aci... (more)
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Police in 5 states sue Taser in past 2 weeksPolice officers in five states filed lawsuits against Scottsdale-based Taser International over the past two weeks claiming they were seriously injured after being shocked with the electronic stun gun during training classes.
Among them is a Missouri police chief who says he suffered heart damage and two strokes when he volunteered to be shocked while hooked up to a cardiac monitor as a way to demonstrate the safety of the Taser to his officers.
Four of the suits we... (more)
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China sets up squads to combat terrorismChina has set up a new police force in large cities, equipped with helicopters and armoured vehicles, to combat the threat of terrorism and the rising incidence of rioting and social unrest across the country.
The squads, to be stationed in 36 large cities, reflect the need for a more professional police force amid concerns that it is currently ill-equipped to manage such issues, scholars and analysts said on Thursday.
Combating urban and rural rioting has tradition... (more)
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One in four adults say books aren't for them.Victoria Beckham says she has never read a book in her life. It's a common trait - one in four adults say books aren't for them.
"I haven't read a book in my life," the ex-Spice Girl has told a Spanish journalist. "I haven't got enough time. I prefer to listen to music, although I do love fashion magazines."
Posh is not alone in her rejection of books. For every three Britons with their noses in a bestseller, there's one adult in the UK who does not read books at al... (more)
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Bill would let police monitor your e-mailThe federal cabinet will review new legislation this fall that would give police and security agencies vast powers to begin surveillance of the Internet without court authority.
The new measures would allow law-enforcement agents to intercept personal e-mails, text messages and possibly even password-secure websites used for purchasing and financial transactions.
University of Ottawa professor Michael Geist, a law and privacy expert involved in consultations over th... (more)
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Roughly half of all Americans believe extraterrestrial life exists, similar fraction think some of it is visiting EarthThe good news is that the latest polls confirm that roughly half of all Americans believe extraterrestrial life exists. The weird news is that a similar fraction think some of it is visiting Earth.
Several recent TV shows have soberly addressed the possibility that alien craft are violating our airspace, occasionally touching down long enough to allow their crews to conduct bizarre experiments on hapless citizens. While these shows tantalise viewers by suggesting that they are fin... (more)
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Nuclear family setup of two parents and their children no longer the most common living arrangement in U.SLike tear stains on old love letters, reports from the Census Bureau often cause pangs of nostalgia and regret. The bureau's report released Tuesday, "Examining American Household Composition: 1990 and 2000," does that by pointing to the "growing complexity" of our living arrangements. In particular, it says that at the turn of the century the nuclear family setup of two parents and their children was no longer the most common living arrangement in the U.S. In its place at the No. 1 spot are so-... (more)
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Man calls a Mount Dora police search illegal, saying the officer mistook his daughter's remains for cocaine.A father who accused a Mount Dora policeman last year of dumping out his infant daughter's cremated remains sued the city and the officer Monday.
Filed in Lake Circuit Court, the lawsuit accuses the city and Officer Brad Cline of illegally stopping and searching Jason Burnham, 34, as he was walking home after Hurricane Charley.
During the stop, Burnham's suit says, Cline emptied the ashes from a cross-shaped pendant worn by Burnham, suspecting it contained cocaine.<... (more)
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Teen Shot After Being Asked For DirectionsA 16-year-old boy was shot outside a Northwest Side apartment complex Thursday morning.
Police said two men approached Marquest Balboa at the Woodland Ridge Apartments in the 7000 block of Wurzbach Road at 1 a.m. and asked him for directions.
Unable to help the men, Balboa walked away and was shot in the leg.
He was transported to a hospital, where he is listed in fair condition.
No arrests have been made.
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Light that travels… faster than light!A team of researchers from the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) has successfully demonstrated, for the first time, that it is possible to control the speed of light – both slowing it down and speeding it up – in an optical fiber, using off-the-shelf instrumentation in normal environmental conditions. Their results, to be published in the August 22 issue of Applied Physics Letters, could have implications that range from optical computing to the fiber-opti... (more)
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Horowitz: "There are 50,000 professors ... [who] identify with the terrorists"Video here
\Summary: On MSNBC's Scarborough Country, right-wing activist David Horowitz claimed that "[t]here are 50,000 professors" who are "anti-American" and "identify with the terrorists." There are just over 400,000 tenured and tenure-track full-time university professors in the United States. If Horowitz's numbers are accurate, that means approximately one out of every eight tenured or tenure-track college and universi... (more)
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