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By SCHEHEREZADE FARAMARZI, Associated Press Writer Sat Jun 24, 11:56 AM ET Europe's Muslims have remained largely silent in the face of terrorist attacks that have killed 254 people in Madrid, London and Amsterdam. Europeans want to know why. Why have so few of them publicly condemned the...

in survey of world cities Ten bucks says they bumped into Blackleaf. :lol: --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ENGLISH good manners, did you say? No, they don’t exist. In fact, we’re as rude as the French, and that’s saying something. They’re more...

of sex assault on Manitoba girl A former soldier who admitted to sexually assaulting a 13-year-old girl in Manitoba has been found not guilty, because he convinced the judge that he suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder. Justice Nathan Nurgitz, who handed down the verdict in a Winnipeg...

Geneva, 20 June (AKI) - Saiid Mortazavi, a judge who has ordered in the past six years the closure of over 200 papers and jailed about 100 journalists will attend the first session of the newly formed United Nations Human Rights Council, running until 30 June in Geneva, as the number two of the...

How many nations could genuinely say that they had the potential to conquer the world or destroy it? How many nations ever had an arsenal capable of obliterating any other nation without risking retaliation? How many nations, with an army and navy superior to any others, and an economy capable...

The relationship between the United States and Canada is probably the closest and most extensive in the world. It is reflected in the staggering volume of bilateral trade--the equivalent of $1.2 billion a day in goods, services, and investment income--and people, more than 200 million crossings...

Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's older brother says the family had anticipated the death of the al-Qaeda in Iraq leader for some time. "We anticipated that he would be killed for a very long time," Sayil al-Khalayla told The Associated Press on Thursday in a telephone interview from al-Zarqa, the poor...

June 4 (Bloomberg) -- Alan Garcia defeated Ollanta Humala in a presidential run-off vote in Peru, returning to power two decades after he led the Andean country to a debt default and annual inflation of 8,000 percent, according to an early count of the vote. Garcia took 52.7 percent of the...

Self-Loathing and the Denial of Terrorism BY JAMES LILEKS You're an enlightened world citizen. Your T-shirt says "9/11 was an inside job." You're pretty sure we're living in a fascist state, that President Bush taps the Dixie Chicks' phones, Christian abortion clinic bombers outnumber...

Iran eyes badges for Jews Law would require non-Muslim insignia Chris Wattie National Post Friday, May 19, 2006 Human rights groups are raising alarms over a new law passed by the Iranian parliament that would require the country's Jews and Christians to wear coloured badges to...

WASHINGTON - Scientists, inventors and entrepreneurs will be able to vie for a grand prize of $10 million, and smaller prizes reaching millions of dollars, under House-passed legislation to encourage research into hydrogen as an alternative fuel. Legislation creating the "H-Prize," modeled...

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Mowing violation? Police arrest Ohio man making a run to the store on a lawn mower :lol: This is too funny. ------------------------------- VERMILION, Ohio - Police have arrested a man accused of operating lawn mower while drunk. Dondi Bowles, 50, of Vermilion, was arrested about 9:45 p.m...

One time only! Berlin brothel launches special deals for virgins, first-time bordello visitors BERLIN - A brothel has become the first in Berlin to offer special deals for virgins with prostitutes trained in the delicate art of catering to customers who have never had sex, a German newspaper...

Last U.S. survivor of Titanic sinking, 99, dies Lillian Gertrud Asplund was 5 when liner sank in North Atlantic in 1912 BOSTON - Lillian Gertrud Asplund, the last American survivor of the sinking of the Titanic in 1912, has died, a funeral home said Sunday. She was 99. Asplund, who was just...

George Koch and John Weissenberger, For The Calgary Herald Published: Friday, April 28, 2006 Scientist Chris de Freitas doesn't seem very scary. The associate professor from the University of Auckland, N.Z.'s, School of Geography and Environmental Science came to Calgary with a defensible...

It is generally agreed that worldwide petroleum supply will eventually reach its productive limit, peak, and begin a long term decline. What should the United States do to prepare for this event? An objective look at the alternatives points to the Nation's untapped oil shale as a strategically...

Scientists from Cornell University have discovered a massive amount of Oil off the coast of Louisiana.The find is some 60 billion barrels or 3 Times more than current US recoverable Oil of 20 Billion barrels, and would bring US total reserves to 80 billion barrels which is on par with Venezuela...

Fidel Castro net worth rises, according to 'Forbes' NEW YORK (Reuters) — Cuban President Fidel Castro was furious when Forbes magazine estimated his fortune at $550 million last year. This year, the magazine upped its estimate of the communist leader's wealth to a cool $900 million. Castro...