Earlier this year, the Pentagon committed $50 million to a study investigating why the suicide rate in the military is rising: it used to be below the suicide rate in comparable civilian groups, but now it's four times higher.
There must be a better way to rig an election.
The news is bad and it's coming in fast.
People get long jail sentences in Thailand for criticising the royal family, so the Thai media have been silent on the question of what happens after the death of King Bhumibol Adulyadej.
The first great massacre of the 20th century happened in eastern Anatolia 94 years ago.
simply doesn't understand the situation and spreads delusions," Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said recently.
The Iranians have been watching too many James Bond movies. If you want to hide a secret uranium enrichment plant, you should bury it under some existing structure in the heart of the city.
Let us suppose that Manuel Zelaya, the ousted former president of Honduras, is an intelligent man with a good understanding of how politics works. Then the question is: what is his game? Because he started all this.
"Some experts have doubts about the missile shield concept," as the more cautious reporters put it.
Maybe it's the relatively thin air up on those high plateaus that makes them foolish. First Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who would probably have won the second round in the presidential election in Iran anyway, cheated massively in order to win in the first round and avoid a run-off.
Nick Griffin, the leader of the British National Party, is a "soft" fascist who does not rant in the 1930s style.
It's too early to say that there is a general revolt against the "war on drugs" that the United States has been waging for the past 39 years, but something significant is happening.
A quarter-century after a million Ethiopians died in the great hunger of 1984-85, the country is heading into another famine. The spring rains failed entirely, and the summer rains were three weeks late.
At last the tide has turned. After centuries of huge advances by the rightists, those who drive on the left finally have a victory to celebrate.
It's still a nest of terrorists around here, but nobody worries about it much. These days, when you hear a helicopter at night it's only the medevac chopper bringing some urgent case down to the main hospital at Bayonne on the coast.
It is 42 years since homosexual acts were legalised in Britain.
It is generally agreed that North Korea and Burma (Myanmar) have the two most oppressive regimes in Asia. They rule over two of the poorest countries in the continent and that is no coincidence whatever.
A year ago this week, Georgia attacked Russia. It was like Jamaica attacking the United States. It was such a foolish and foredoomed act that at first most people believed the Georgian propaganda blaming it all on the Russians.
It was a triumph of democracy. On July 25, in a free election, Iraq's Kurds finally elected a real opposition party to their regional parliament.
Two years ago this month, there were 24 left. Now they are all gone, and there is nobody alive who fought in World War 1.
