Increased oversight designed to bring killing programme out of legal shadows as president defends use of strikes in the pastSpecial courts would be asked to decide on targeted assassinations of terrorism suspects under a clutch of new legal checks proposed by Barack Obama to bring an end to the notion of an "boundless war on terror". The president, […]
Report re-ignites war of words over death of 12-year-old al-Dura in Gaza in 2000 by claiming the incident was stagedIn a scrubby cemetery in central Gaza, where crumbling tombstones nestle in the sand amid wind-blown rubbish, Jamal al-Dura crouched at the grave of his son Muhammad to recite the Muslim prayer for the dead. With the youngest of his 11 children […]
Free Tibet-led campaign calls on Holiday Inn owner to withdraw from vast Lhasa project criticised as 'PR coup' for BeijingTibetan campaign groups are launching a boycott of the InterContinental Hotels Group – the owner of Holiday Inn, Crowne Plaza and others – because of plans to open a vast 2000-room resort in Lhasa.The campaign, led by Free Tibet […]
Move by Koreans forced to work as 'comfort women' comes as row erupts over column asserting atomic bombs as 'divine punishment'Two South Korean women who were forced to work in Japanese military brothels before and during the second world war have abruptly cancelled a meeting with the mayor of Osaka, Toru Hashimoto, whose controversial co […]
Justin McCurry
"No dress rehearsal,
This is our life." The Tragically Hip
"It's trauma surgery,
not rocket science." Dr. P. Fata
"This is a critical event." -Dr. Daniels, on just about everything in embryology
Hockey Night In Radio host Gord Stellick predicts Steven Stamkos merits the Hart Trophy as NHL MVP for a 60-goal season and Erik Karlsson will win Norris Trophy as top defenceman.
French forward Sacha Treille has been suspended five games at the IIHF World Hockey Championship for a vicious head shot on Roman Starchenko of Kazakhstan.
This week Jordan recommends a pair of Sabres - their mainstay in net and a young forward - and stays in the Northeast Division by selecting Boston's big defender as someone to consider.
Rabbit philosophy
The only possible reason to turn 30 is so that you can do the things you weren't allowed to do when you were 8 (like eat pie and ice-cream for breakfast on a Sunday morning)
"When you hear hoofbeats,
you really will need to think zebras."
-Sari, on international medicine