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LONDON — This suspected Russian spy is having a whale of a time in Norway. A beluga whale — found in Arctic Norway with a suspicious camera strapped to its head — has been joyously seeking out human contact and is in no hurry to swim back to Mother Russia, or anywhere for that matter. "The...

Ignoring widespread criticism, Erdogan again showed excerpts of a video taken by the attacker who killed 50 people in mosques in New Zealand, to denounce what he called rising hatred and prejudice against Islam. In inflammatory comments on Monday, Erdogan suggested that anyone who comes to...

ISLAMIC State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is at death’s door after being poisoned by a mystery assassin in Iraq, it has been reported. Three other senior jihadis were also afflicted by the toxin in Al-Ba’aj, southwest of Mosul — Islamic State’s biggest city in Iraq, The Sun reports. The four...

(CNN)Malaika, a 29-year-old head nurse, holds Ali, a 2-day-old infant, as he struggles to take his final breaths. Born in eastern Aleppo, one of the hardest-hit cities in Syria's five-year civil war, Ali was born with chest issues that forced him to rely on an oxygen pump and an incubator in the...

Watched an old movie the other day that made me think of a time when the US welcomed imigrants that helped build a great nation. Never had a passport, one of the illegals the donald would ship back

Russia shot down Santa Claus’s sleigh today in international airspace over the Arctic Ocean. According to local reports, the sleigh was beginning its annual Christmas Eve journey around the world when it was struck by a surface-to-air missile fired from the Russian island of Novaya Zemlya, just...

The wisdom of G.K. Chesterton or how to write so people read it rather than just pissing people off.

Canada Beefing Up Border Patrol In Event Romney Wins Presidential Election - The Global Edition

One point that keeps coming up in the Syria issue is Tartus i wanted to get away from the politics to just ask/discuss the military aspect. Ok its a closer fuel point that doesnt require going through Turkey /NATO to the black sea but in the event of a serious conflict any Russian ships in...

Where is Bashar Assad? Silence after bombing fuels rumors In the wake of a bombing attack that killed at least three senior Syrian officials, the silence of President Bashar Assad spurred furious speculation over his whereabouts and whether the embattled Syrian leader had himself been wounded...

As announced today by John Brennan, Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism, later this week the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point will release a number of documents from the compound in Abbottabad where Usama bin Ladin was killed last year. In addition to...

Former Soviet KGB spy chief commits suicide | Reuters

May seem slow to start but well worth the wait.

So it goes from the 20 a day we have seen for almost the last year to wholesale slaughter, how many dead must there be before Russia China and Iran realise assad is a butcher willing to masacre his population to stay in power? Almost 100 killed in Syrian violence Monday: activists

Had to happen as weapons become smarter they become vunerable to the same problems as any other computer scary thought that your fly by wire system might sudenly try and down load **** to you hud rather than keeping the plane in the air ;) ( Computer virus hits U.S. drone fleet - CNN.com

Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) -- A school bus loaded with children came under rocket and small arms fire near Peshawar Tuesday, killing the driver and three children and injuring 16 others, police said. 4 dead, 16 wounded in Pakistan school bus attack - CNN.com The new TTP tatic seems to be...

A 3kg UAV i wonder how small they can get? Textron T-Ram mUAV could be lethal for the Navy | Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) News | Unmanned.co.uk

Does life online give you 'popcorn brain'? - CNN.com Spending to long on line may make you stupid log off get out play with your kids walk with your girlfriend, ( cringe) visit you mother if you have 5000+ posts you may have popcorn brain ;)

I am angry and my apologies to the mods for posting in such a mood. I am sick of the hypocrisy of politicians and the people posting who after an amazingly surgical response in Lybia are crying oh its a crusade invasion, its all for the oil its another Iraq, its all a RAW/MOSAD/CIA/pick your...

We think of the people who impact world events as the politicians or the warriors or the spooks, computer geeks sit at their keyboards and inhabit a strange little world that no one understands and most dont care about. Egypt is showing us how out of date that idea is, Wael Ghonim may be a...