Huge Egyptian Protests Force Morsi To Flee Presidential Palace
Thousands of Egyptian protesters marched on the presidential palace on Tuesday to protest President Mohamed Morsi's recent decree that gives him near-absolute power as well as a controversial draft of...
View ArticleTiny Robot Can Turn Itself Into Almost Anything
Imagine if you had one device that could naturally crumple and contort itself into anything from a coffee mug to a pair of scissors.The milli-motien, a Caterpillar-sized robot that, in theory, is...
View ArticleA Closer Look At The Surveillance Drone Iran Claims To Have Captured
Iran today claimed to have captured another U.S. drone. Whether or not that's accurate remains to be seen, but what is true is that the ScanEagle drone was originally designed to help fisherman look...
View ArticleTHE WORLD IN 2100: Ten Billion People, No Oil And Not Enough Food
With the global population at more than 7 billion people and growing by the second, we thought we'd take another look at what the world could look like in the coming years.Though most of us won't be...
View ArticleIran Tells America To Recount Its Drones
Iran's Revolutionary Guards are telling the United States to "recount" the drones in its fleet as they insist that -- despite US denials -- they captured a small US unmanned spy plane over Gulf waters,...
View ArticleSyria's Al-Assad May Be Looking To Warm Sandy Beaches To Make His Final Escape
Russia and Patriot missilesRussia has urged Turkey not exaggerate the threat from Syria after Nato approved the deployment of Patriot missiles to Turkish-Syrian border.Foreign minister Sergei Lavrov...
View ArticleSerbia's Envoy To NATO Leaps To Death From Multi-Story Parking Garage
Serbia's ambassador to NATO committed suicide by jumping from a multi-storey car park at Brussels airport on Tuesday, local media reported.Serbia's foreign ministry said in a statement Wednesday that...
View ArticleFour Afghan Youth Were 'Shot By The British While Drinking Tea'
British forces have been accused of killing four boys at close range in an operation in Afghanistan.A 12-year-old boy and three teenagers are alleged to have been shot dead as they were drinking tea...
View ArticleNorth Korea Has Blown $100 Million On Kim Jong-Il Memorials In The Past Year
North Korea faces serious financial difficulties after reportedly spending $100 million (£62m) in the past year building a personality cult around late leader Kim Jong-il.North Korean authorities spent...
View ArticleBashar Al-Assad Bombs Own Capital As Rebels Close In On His Position
Warplanes on Wednesday pounded suburbs of Damascus as regime forces fought to reclaim rebel-held areas of the capital, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.The Britain-based watchdog, which...
View ArticleThe 2013 Defense Bill Was Unanimously Approved For $17 Million More Than...
The US Senate unanimously passed the Pentagon's 2013 budget, despite a political impasse over debt reduction that could see huge cuts to military spending next year.After months of negotiations,...
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Just in time for the holidays we're giving you have a chance to win an iPad mini. Become a newsletter subscriber now and you'll have a chance to win Apple's latest tablet. If you're the lucky winner...
View ArticleThe Fort Hood Shooting Case Has Become Even More Of A Travesty
The second thing Army Maj. Nidal Hasan did was grow a beard.The first thing he did was allegedly stalk around Ft. Hood, Texas, shouting "Allahu Akbar" and shooting 42 people, 13 of whom died, until...
View ArticleHere's What Life Is Really Like In Post-Apocalyptic Afghanistan
People told me I was crazy for doing it.I hadn't even opened the package containing my shiny new NYU Master's in Journalism and I was already heading to Afghanistan. It had been a couple of years since...
View ArticleBashar Al-Asad May Stick Around A Bit Longer Than Expected
The United States Senate has issued an order to the Pentagon to come up with a "military options" for the Syrian Civil War.The options must come within 90 days of the enactment of the National Defense...
View ArticleTom Ricks Takes A Swipe At Today's Crop Of Army Generals
Fresh off his Fox News jabfest, Veteran Defense Reporter and author of the book "The Generals," Tom Ricks, appeared on PBS Newshour and said American generals are "well-trained, but ill-prepared" for...
View ArticleMuslim Brotherhood Offices Torched As Violence Erupts Across Egypt
Egypt saw intense violence today between secular and liberal Egyptians who oppose recent actions by President Mohamed Morsi and the Islamists who support him.At least two have reportedly died and at...
View ArticleThe Military Is Finally Providing A Permanent Special Ops Team For AFRICOM
Ever since the Benghazi debacle, a chorus of voices has been howling about use of Special Forces, among other options, to stem the attack.The nearest group of operators though was in Croatia and had...
View ArticleFrench Magazine Reports That Western Militaries Have Begun Preparing For...
France is preparing its special forces for a mission in war-torn Syria, French weekly magazine Le Point reports.The mission would only involve a relatively small amount of special forces, and a number...
View ArticleThe New York Times Gets Slammed For Blowing Off A Huge WikiLeaks Hearing
The New York York Times "missed the boat" by not covering the first public testimony of Bradley Manning on Friday, according to the Times' public editor Margaret Sullivan.Over the past few days, a...
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