It’s something I’m going to be proud of for the rest of my life – As their convoy reached the barbed wire at the border crossing out of Iraq on Wednesday, the soldiers whooped and cheered. Then they scrambled out of their stifling hot armored vehicles, unfurled an American flag and posed for group photos….
Archaeologists to unlock the secrets and enduring mysteries ancient Egyptians Archaeologists attempting to unlock the secrets of the Great Pyramid of Giza have a new helper: a drill- and camera-toting robot designed to peer into the magnificent structure’s unexplored nooks and crannies. It’s hoped that this high-tech explorer — built by researchers at England’s Leeds…
The Pentagon has contacted a lawyer purporting to represent WikiLeaks but said it would not negotiate a “sanitised” release of a huge cache of classified documents held by the whistleblower’s website, a letter released on Wednesday shows. The Pentagon released the letter from its general counsel after WikiLeaks said the US military was willing to…
Erik Prince, whose company, Blackwater Worldwide, is for sale and whose former top managers are facing criminal charges, has left the United States and moved to Abu Dhabi, according to court documents. Mr. Prince, a former member of the Navy Seals and an heir to a Michigan auto parts fortune, left the country after a…
VOA’s Nico Colombant presents a mini-documentary about Ethiopian-American artist Seleshi Feseha. Feseha has struggled to navigate the art world in the United States, forcing him to drive a taxi to survive, while continuing to paint at night. Given his circumstances, though, his current art thematic may be surprising
Gen. David Petraeus, in an interview with The New York Times, says he didn’t go to Afghanistan to preside over a “graceful exit” from the war there. Petreaus is campaigning to win over Americans who are quickly growing skeptical of the U.S.’s ability to win in Afghanistan. The general said the war plan had been…
If President Obama wants to convince Americans to support the ‘Ground Zero mosque’ he needs to tie it to our personal tolerance for other faiths.
Traveler to the undiscovere’d country By Roger Ebert on August 13, 2010 12:45 AM | Permalink | Comments (207) I watched Christopher Hitchens’ CNN interview with Anderson Cooper with gathering sympathy. He had cancer. He was going to die. Apart from that, the treatment seemed about to kill him, and he was feeling very unwell….