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A report issued by NASA this week concludes the rate of ice loss in the cryosphere is continuing to accelerate: Between 1.5 trillion and 2 trillion tons of ice in Greenland, Antarctica and Alaska have melted at an accelerating rate

Friday, and not a moment too soon! Today we look at the transition, and fill the power vacuum we'll have for another month with speculation. Paul Krugman: Bernie Madoff is no more a gonif than the other shysters on the

T he idea that the United States is the global hegemon , that we have first dibs on the title of world policemen indeed, our entire post-WWII foreign policy is nothing but a delusion. That is one of the chief

J ust two months after the twin towers fell, the armies of the Northern Alliance marched into Kabul. The Taliban fled. The triumph was total in the "splendid little war" that had cost one U.S. casualty. Or so it seemed.

E ighteen months after Hamas evicted Fatah forces from Gaza, the prospects for restoring Palestinian unity are more elusive than ever, with both factions believing that time is on their side, according to a new report by the Brussels-based International

U S military leaders and Pentagon officials have made it clear through public statements and deliberately leaked stories in recent weeks that they plan to violate a central provision of the US-Iraq withdrawal agreement requiring the complete withdrawal of all

P resident-elect Barack Obama took only a few days after his election victory before tossing his most liberal supporters overboard. While loading up his administration with war-hawks of various stripes, including Vice President-elect Joe Biden and Secretary of State-designate Hillary

T he improved security in Iraq has had benefits for everyone there. This has included fewer Iraqi civilian deaths, US casualties, and, says a new report, journalists. The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) release said that 41 journalists worldwide were

RAMALLAH - Israel released over 200 Palestinians from Israeli jails in a "goodwill gesture" Monday. This followed the Muslim feast of Eid Al-Adha and was an attempt to boost the waning popularity of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. Several prisoners spoke

Australia is a land of great scale. It is the largest island in the world, it can take days to drive from one major city to the next and the world's largest coral reef lie

Tonight's Rescue Rangers are Louisiana 1976, taylormattd, ItsJessMe, grog, and srkp23 with vcmvo2 editing. ~ The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything ~ Theodore Roosevelt ~ The diaries up for rescue tonight

As part of the agreement for Hillary Clinton to be nominated for Secretary of State, Bill Clinton has at-long-last released 2,922 pages of donor information on more than 205,000 donors. As suspected, many foreign governments donated to both the Clinton

DAILY LIFE IN IRAQ

JAMES CHRISTIE, from Perth, on creation and evolution

ARTHUR GRIFFITH, Irish foreign minister, addressing the Dáil, 19 December, 1921

FIRST, it was an acidic smell, then a slight itching of the throat, a burning sensation as I sucked in the southern Indian air. This was Bhopal, and history had come to visit.

THIS week's revelation of a rescue package for the Edinburgh Festival Fringe has brought great relief for the arts and festival communities as a whole.

SCOTLAND is being run by a bunch of softies. If you don't believe us, ask the Tories.

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