May 9 2008

Josef Fritzl, the Austrian man who fathered seven children with his daughter while keeping her imprisoned in a windowless dungeon in his cellar, has complained about poor media coverage of the case.

May 9 2008

Google has long said that its best hope for future growth comes from mobile devices. Today, Google moved to bring that future a bit closer.

May 9 2008

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert admitted on Thursday taking cash from a U.S. businessman but resisted calls to resign over a police investigation into alleged hefty bribes over almost a decade.

As Israelis enjoyed festivities marking Independence...

May 9 2008

Japan cleared the way for a law allowing non-aggressive military use of space on Friday, overturning a decades-old policy of limiting space development to peaceful uses.

The move comes during a visit by Chinese President Hu Jintao aimed at warming...

May 8 2008

Lets face it, lies in sports are nothing new to us. In fact, they’re everywhere in our sports today. And in most cases, fans and the media understand that they are being lied to. A coach, lets say, sometimes tells a big fib about a trade that’s in...

May 8 2008

he most powerful man in Adhamiyah suddenly appeared out of the darkness, sweeping into the alley behind a wall of bodyguards.

“The sheik,” the American soldiers called out.

Sheik Amir al-Azawi had arrived to weigh in on a dispute that had...

May 8 2008

The credit crunch’s all-reaching scythe is gradually clipping away at its latest victim … our holidays. According to a survey by price comparison site savebuckets.com, with monthly budgets tightening and economic heebie jeebies rattling consumer...

May 8 2008

Demonised in the West as goons guarding the Olympic torch along its chaotic world tour, these pictures show how China’s paramilitary police learn their unwavering discipline.

Officers of the People Paramilitary Police preparing for the Olympics are...

May 8 2008

Gordon Brown, reeling from a drubbing in local polls, sought to allay voters’ concerns over the economy on Wednesday in the face of taunts from an opposition that can smell victory at the next general election.

Brown, appearing in parliament for the...

May 7 2008

The Times of India has accused Chinese hackers, allegedly backed by the Chinese government, of systematically attacking Indian online assets over the past 18 months. The goal of these assaults, at least according to the paper, is to map and discover weak...