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By John V. Fleming Princetonian Columnist Earlier this month, following widespread reporting of crowds howling in the street as embassies burned and corpses littered the ground, two guest columnists published an essay here complaining of a media-perpetrated anti-Muslim "stereotype" of unreason...

How to combat "global warming" without destroying the economy. BY PETE DU PONT Tuesday, March 28, 2006 12:01 a.m. EST Did the 1970s mark the beginning of an ice age? Scientists and the press thought so. In 1971 Global Ecology forecast the "continued rapid cooling of the earth." The New York...

Exec admits stealing from charity for S&M bill Accountant embezzled $237,000 to pay dominatrix to beat him up NEW YORK - A charity foundation’s former accountant, accused of embezzling heart disease research funds to pay a dominatrix to beat him, pleaded guilty Tuesday to grand larceny and...

ACCRA, Ghana - Tourists and scientists were gathering at spots around the world for the first total eclipse in years, a solar show that will sweep northeast from Brazil to Mongolia and blot out the sun across swathes of the world's poorest lands. The last such eclipse in November 2003 was...

Whopper of an error! $4,334 for burgers Burger King cashier’s mistake overcharges California man PALMDALE, Calif. - A quick meal at George Beane’s neighborhood Burger King ended up costing a lot more than he expected when he got the $4,334.33 bill. Beane ordered two Whopper Jr.s and two Rodeo...

NEW YORK - Construction workers cleaning toxic waste from a vacant skyscraper near the World Trade Center site have found more bone fragments and human remains, officials said Tuesday. The city medical examiner's office plans to extract DNA from the latest remains to be recovered from the...

Moussaoui: White House was my 9/11 target He admits lying to protect attacks, possibly bolstering death penalty case ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Al-Qaida conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui testified Monday that he and would-be shoe bomber Richard Reid were supposed to hijack a fifth airplane on Sept. 11...

Could terrorists actually detonate a weapon of mass destruction on United States soil? According to the CIA, at least 20 countries - nearly half of them in the Middle East and South Asia - already have or may be developing weapons of mass destruction. Moreover, it is a matter of public record...

This was written before the Iraq War. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Patriots are those who love America enough to wish to see her as a model to mankind," said Adlai Stevenson, who ran for and lost the presidency twice, and served as our...

Activists aren’t convinced energy benefits outweigh risks CHALON-SUR-SAONE, France - At a factory nestled among Burgundy vineyards, workers shape, bore, polish and test pieces needed to put together a nuclear reactor. At each work station, technical charts are pasted next to a map of the...

Dutch Muslim wins right to refuse handshake Commission says woman was wrongly barred from school over religious rule AMSTERDAM - A Dutch school was wrong to bar a Muslim woman from its classes for refusing to shake hands with men, the Commission for Equal Treatment found on Monday. The adult...

Indian man ‘divorces’ wife in his sleep Local Islamic leaders tell couple to separate after sleep-talking incident NEW DELHI - A Muslim couple in India has been told by local Islamic leaders to separate after the husband “divorced” his wife in his sleep, the Press Trust of India reported...

Heated argument ends with man on fire Indian husband sets self ablaze after wife refuses to cook meat for dinner AHMEDABAD, India - A jobless man burned himself to death after his wife refused to serve him meat for dinner, Indian police said Sunday. Sixty-year-old Mithailal Ram Sanjivan doused...

The family of a World War I soldier shot for cowardice are to ask the High Court to overturn a government decision refusing to pardon him posthumously. In February, Defence Secretary John Reid upheld earlier decisions turning down the request to pardon Private Harry Farr, of Kensington...

AMONTH AGO President Bush called for doubling the peacekeeping force in the Sudanese region of Darfur and expanding the role of NATO countries in bolstering it. Since then, the case for intervention has only grown stronger: There have been fresh reports of death-squad attacks on civilians in...

Saturday, March 25, 2006; Page A18 SIXTY-ONE YEARS ago this spring, the Allies liberated the German concentration camps. Sixty-one years is a long time -- so long that few European leaders have personal experience of the war. Why, then, are the German government and the International Red Cross...

By Jim Hoagland Sunday, March 26, 2006; Page B07 Hoping to lower tensions between the Muslim world and the West, British Prime Minister Tony Blair maintained the other day that the world confronts "a clash about civilization," not "a clash between civilizations." But the overriding lesson of...

By Frances Yoon SEOUL (Reuters) - It's not every day that a jazz-inspired pianist has to make a life or death decision about his art, and it is not every day a gifted musician flees North Korea. Kim Cheol-woong, 31, was a North Korean prodigy who was trained in classical music and destined to...

Forget the spirit of 1789 — France has lost the ability to adapt to a changing world By JACQUES MARSEILLE It's all going to blow up." this prophecy, which often comes up in French conversations, suggests that we understand our own history. Indeed, in France — where the word consensus is not...

Polar Ice Caps Are Melting Faster Than Ever... More And More Land Is Being Devastated By Drought... Rising Waters Are Drowning Low-Lying Communities... By Any Measure, Earth Is At ... The Tipping Point The climate is crashing, and global warming is to blame. Why the crisis hit so soon--and what...