ARMY popularity and ARMY trends

For the Indian Army, May 31 will be more than a day when its chief will retire. It will mark a generational shift in the 1.3-million-strong force. There will be no serving personnel in the Indian Army now, who has fought in 1971.

U.S. Army medic Keith "Doc" Benson in Afghanistan couldn't save the life of Staff Sgt. Daniel Quintana, a popular soldier known as Sgt. Q. The sergeant's death haunted him. A few months later, the 27-year-old Doc Benson took his own life.

Call-outs for Army bomb disposal teams last year were the highest in more than 30 years, new figures show.

The Army's mad for smartphones. It's testing Android devices it bought from the local electronics store to see how they operate on its experimental, homebrewed data network. And one thing it seems to have forgotten to buy for the dismounted soldiers who'll have to furiously tap the screens to send data during firefights: texting gloves.

RAWALPINDI - Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani has thanked the UAE Ambassador for the generous assistance and efforts to cement the abiding friendship between the people of the two countries. He expressed these views during his visit to Barrikot, Swat on Friday to inaugurate Sheikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan Bridge.  The bridge which connects 15 towns and 45 ...

Gen V K Singh also denied that there was any "infighting" in the Army or there was anything wrong with the organisation.

By ALLEN G. BREED, ASSOCIATED PRESSMost people run marathons to challenge themselves. Maj. George Kraehe runs them to challenge others.As a member of the Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors' "run & remember team," the New Mexico Army National Guard officer has participated in 20 races. Most times, as he sweats his way along each 26.2-mile course, flapping against Kraehe's back...

• Latest results suggest error in early exit polls• Morsi first, but Leftist Sabahy pushes Shafiq into third• Free Syrian Army shuns al-Qaida in Syria1.11pm: Hamdeen Sabahy jumped into second place after Ahram's election tally added results from the port city of Alexandria where he enjoys big support, explains Jack Shenker in audio update from Cairo.There is a lot of confusion. We are not yet s...

A Boy Scout field trip turned into the surprise of a lifetime for two Wisconsin kids who were reunited with their Army soldier parents as they unexpectedly returned from Afghanistan.

South Sudan's army denies killing and torturing members of the minority Murle community during a disarmament campaign to stop deadly cattle raids.

….seriously? Yes! Apparently Pauly Shore is absolutely serious and believes that there is a chance Hollywood will make a sequel to his 1994 hit comedy In The Army Now. The movie only made $28 million at the box office, but Pauly isn't giving up hope. He recently discussed the idea with his co-star Andy [...]

The Tartan Army visit Florida to help Jurgen Klinnsman's charges kick off preparations for the 2014 qualifying campaign.

A federal jury in Texas convicted a U.S. soldier of planning to detonate a bomb last year near the army base of Fort Hood.

The defence ministry is seething with anger at the way Army chief General V K Singh has acted in “a motivated and arbitrary’’ manner to slap a show-cause censure notice on Lt Gen Dalbir Singh Suhag, in an all too obvious bid to scuttle the succession line in the 1.13-million strong force.

PHOENIX (Reuters) - A small explosive devices detonated at a Salvation Army facility in downtown Phoenix on Thursday, slighting injuring two employees, authorities said.

ARMY of firemen, engineers and medics demolish part of a HOUSE to save UK’s biggest teenager after she has seizure

A U.S. soldier charged with plotting to blow up troops from the nation's largest Army post has been found guilty of federal charges, prosecutors say.

A former Syrian army general calls for foreign intervention in his country to end the "barbaric genocide" being committed by the regime.

HAGERSTOWN, Md. (AP) -- An Army private charged in the biggest leak of government secrets in U.S. history is seeking dismissal of 10 of the 22 counts he faces, contending they are either unconstitutionally vague or fail to state a prosecutable offense....

Memorial Day weekend, the unofficial start to summer. Hope you enjoy the free time at the beach, pool, RFK Stadium for D.C. United, Gillette Stadium for lacrosse’s final four, or be among the expected 35,000 to 40,000 or so in Jacksonville for the U.S. national team friendly vs. Scotland. Welcome to the Tartan Army. I recommend SPF 100. Read full article >>

Suck on THIS a one-time ... Pauly Shore tells TMZ he's in talks with Andy Dick about doing a sequel to their 1994 flick "In the Army Now."Dick and Shore discussed the idea on Andy's radio show yesterday ... with Dick saying, "I've always said we…

The Syrian army is to blame for most rights abuses in the latest violence to sweep the country, a UN panel has found.

More than 65 years after it was suppressed by the Army, a powerful and controversial John Huston documentary about soldiers suffering from the psychological wounds of war has been restored by the National Archives and debuts Thursday on the Web. Read full article >>

Hey now, Yahoo commits an act of innovation!

A Turkish prosecutor has prepared an indictment seeking life sentences for four former Israeli military commanders over their alleged involvement in the 2010 killing of nine Turks on a Gaza-bound aid ship, Turkish newspaper Sabah reported yesterday.

What does Royal Dutch Shell have in common with General Ratko Mladic, former commander of the Bosnian Serb army? More than you'd think...

The footage of Israeli settlers appearing to open fire on Palestinians drew international attention and raised questions over the effectiveness of Israeli military forces in calming such tense situations.

Councillor Trudy Offer insisted she had chosen the distinctive high heels for the military event in Warwick to show her patriotism.

The transitional authorities in Guinea-Bissau formed a new government that includes an army officer who participated in the country's latest coup on April 12.

Jumping gamely into the steel cage clad only in army fatigues the young girl was happy to kiss, cuddle and feed the two-year-old predatory beasts like they were domestic puppy dogs.

At the end of World War Two, German Army generals denied any knowledge of the Holocaust and the massive atrocities committed on the Eastern front. They were lying. American politicians and their enablers in the mainstream media are presently complicit in a cover-up of the greatest fraud in the history of the United States

ABC News will later today announce that it has signed General James Cartwright (USMC ret.) and General Peter Chiarelli (USA ret.) as consultants. Cartwright, the retired vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and a former commander of the United States’ nuclear forces, is a staunch advocate for the reduction of nuclear weapons. In a recent paper, he calls on the United States and Russia to ...

Canada will not have any troops in Afghanistan after 2014 and won’t extend the Canadian Forces mission to train that country’s army, Stephen Harper has announced.

SANAA - A Yemeni soldier packing powerful explosives under his uniform blew himself up in the middle of an army battalion in Sanaa Monday, killing 96 troops and wounding around 300, a military official and medics said.The suicide attack was the deadliest in the country's capital since newly-elected President Abdrabuh Mansur Hadi pledged to oust Al-Qaeda militants from Yemen's mostly lawless and...

SANAA - A Yemeni soldier packing powerful explosives under his uniform blew himself up in the middle of an army battalion in Sanaa Monday, killing 96 troops and wounding around 300, a military official and medics said.The suicide attack was the deadliest in the country's capital since newly-elected President Abdrabuh Mansur Hadi pledged to oust Al-Qaeda militants from Yemen's mostly lawless and...

The second John Doe in the harassment case against actor John Travolta has been identified as a 250lb Atlanta masseur, who is also a certified black belt and a former U.S. Army medic, according to the New York Daily News.

The former Sri Lankan army chief, Sarath Fonseka, has been freed after two years in prison.

SANAA (Reuters) - A man with explosives strapped under his army uniform killed more than 90 people in the Yemeni capital Sanaa on Monday when he blew himself up in the midst of a military parade rehearsal, the defense ministry said.

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) -- Sri Lanka's former army chief, who was imprisoned after losing an election to President Mahinda Rajapaksa, was released from prison Monday to thousands of cheering supporters....

In late March, Stephen Colbert expanded his super PAC experiment, admonishing his late-night viewers to start organizations of their own on college campuses across America.

Haitian authorities arrest dozens of former soldiers who staged protests calling for the return of the disbanded army after 17 years.

U.S. Army Col. Greg Gadson, a double amputee, takes on aliens and his emotions in 'Battleship.'While promoting the movie"Battleship"in Tokyo last month,U.S. ArmyCol. Greg Gadson found himself face-to-face with a stunned reporter.

Plans to announce the most controversial reorganisation of the Army of the last 50 years have been delayed amid growing fears of a public backlash over defence cuts.

Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa has signed the papers for the release of the former Army chief Sarath Fonseka from jail prior to his departure to Qatar, presidential spokesman Bandula Jayasekera told reporters.

State TV: 9 dead, about 100 wounded; opposition group says blast occurred near military and air force intelligence offices, army hospital, and is followed by heavy gunfire.

An Army sergeant finishing his third Iraq tour faces murder charges for the May 2009 killings of five comrades at a combat stress clinic.

After a gain of more than 10 percent at the start, the stock drifted back, then rose again. Facebook’s army of bankers could keep the stock from falling even further.

Zack sez, "If you've ever seen the sociopathically-detailed artwork of James Stokoe, you'll want to support his new graphic novel written by Mark Andrew Smith, SULLIVAN'S SLUGGERS, which pits a baseball team against an army of flesh-eating monsters. A trailer and information on the book is available on the Kickstarter page -- which has already [...]

Yemen's army, air force and tribal militias renew effort to retake cities from al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.

A leaked Army document on mass detentions has extremists boiling over on both the right and the left.

Congress put pressure on the military after hearing complaints about reversed diagnoses of post-traumatic stress disorder.

One hundred homes in Killeen, near Fort Hood, Texas, were evacuated last Tuesday's night after a missile accidentally fell from an AH-64 Apache helicopter. The residents were able to return one hour later, after the US Army found the projectile on the ground. More »

Ex-deputy defense minister who helped President Felipe Calderón in war on cartels arrested

COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa will order the release of his ailing former army chief this week, sources close to the president said on Thursday, in a bid to quell criticism of the government and its human rights record.

A 6-foot-long inactive training missile accidentally fell from a military helicopter into a field near a Texas military post.

The troubled ‘Teen Mom’ cast member is thinking of joining the army to get back on the right track! Now that Amber Portwood is back in jail for missing her drug court appointment, a new report says that the reality star is trying to get her life back in order by joining the army. The [...]

Back in in 1999, just as Ebay was coming into bloom, William Gibson wrote a piece on his experiences buying expensive watches online. He called the article My Obsession and it details his youth as a picker in the 1970s. He writes: When I was a young man, traversing the '70s in whatever post-hippie, pre-slacker mode I could manage, I made a substantial part of my living, such as it was, in a ...

AGAINST THE ODDS: In their favourite local hostelry, Vinny and his middle-aged buddies were fine-tuning plans for their longest excursion away from home since Italia ’90

On Tuesday, May 15, 2012, the President signed into law: H.R. 298, which designates the facility of the United States Postal Service in Cedar Park, Texas, as the Army Specialist Matthew Troy Morris Post Office Building; H.R. 1423, which designates the facility of the United States Postal Service in Ardmore, Oklahoma, as the Specialist Micheal E. Phillips Post Office; H.R. 2079, w...

If your workload is on the heavy side, how about help from your very own army of robots? We’ve found 15 fabulous office accessories that feature…

Activists say 23 soldiers were killed in fighting that followed heavy army shelling of the town in which at least nine people died

A former militant of the German far-left Red Army Faction ends 18 months of silence to deny any role in the 1977 murder of a prosecutor.

Mehr als zwei Drittel aller US-Militär-Konvois in Afghanistan dienen der Treibstoffversorgung der Truppe. Das soll sich in Zukunft drastisch ändern, denn die Army hat das Thema Spritsparen im Visier. Jetzt wurde eine Panzerwagen-Studie mit Hybridantrieb vorgestellt.

A senior commander of the Lord's Resistance Army has urged fellow rebel fighters to give themselves up and end the war in Uganda after his capture on Saturday.

Caesar Achellam, a major general in Joseph Kony’s band of fighters, was found armed with just an AK-47 and eight rounds of ammunition

COLUMBIA, South Carolina (Reuters) - Mack McDowell likes to spend time at the local knife and gun show "drooling over firearms," as he puts it. Retired after 30 years in the U.S. Army, he has lined his study with books on war, framed battalion patches from his tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, a John Wayne poster, and an 1861 Springfield rifle from an ancestor who fought in the Civil War.

Colonel Neil Hutton (pictured) – a veteran of the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan – was suspended after the alleged shooting of a suspected bandit near a live firing range close to the town of Nanyuki last year.

For a long time, they were like the Pandavas of Team India: individually, each had a special skill and unique fighting ability; together, they were as mighty and compelling as a fearless army. Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid, Sourav Ganguly, VVS Laxman and Anil Kumble had their own little battles as Ranji warriors; but it was only with the advent of the IPL that their allegiances became starke...

On May 12, 2012, Ian Douglas Wilson, the Editor of The Lancet from 1964–76, will be 100. Ian was one of the first Allied doctors to enter Bergen-Belsen, leaving the Royal Army Medical Corps in 1946 to join The Lancet as an assistant editor. The journal's offices were then in far grander buildings than now—Adam Street, off the Strand. Ian's son, David, reports that the entrance held the aroma of...

Chief executive Ian Livingston cheered his army of long-suffering shareholders by hiking the full-year dividend by 12 per cent and posting a solid set of results.

The army in Democratic Republic of Congo has engaged in heavy fighting in Nord-Kivu province with mutineers.

Six years after Harper government declares patrolling the North a priority, army struggles to find enough parks, tents, lanterns and heaters

Frustrated by stalled negotiations, the parents of an Army sergeant abruptly disclosed that he was the subject of secret negotiations.

An ambitious plan has been formulated by the Chinese government to build an army of 1.45 million social workers by 2020.

But the U.S. military not only wants more robots - it wants more 'autonomous' robots, robots free to make their own decisions on the battlefield.

Since May 8, 1945, the head of state has presided over this event, organized by the army.

Army bomb disposal teams were deployed in Dublin, Limerick and Kildare today following the discovery of a number of improvised explosive devices.

They play in blue and white so it was only fitting that League One side Hartlepool were backed by an army of smurfs for their final game of the season.

THE public relations arm of the image-conscious Department of Defence has grown so large it now rivals the size of eight Australian army platoons.

Even with an army of Little Monsters, Lady Gaga feels alone sometimes. But on an episode of Lifetime's The Conversation with Amanda de Cadenet Thursday, the 26-year-old pop star said she's...

Being cut off from work email significantly reduces stress and allows employees to focus far better, according to a new study by UC Irvine and U.S. Army researchers.

by green zhen yue The committee reprimanded the three players and withheld transportation expenses and per-diem money from them. The players don’t have any college eligibility left. If they had eligibility left, they would face a suspension for their next tournament game. Bill Behrns, Loyola’s assistant athletic director for communications, said the players never had any disciplinary issues i...

Army is concerned that information shared with Foreign Ministry will be leaked, State Comptroller writes in his report.

Violence has erupted in two Syrian provinces with reports of 10 civilians dead in an army mortar attack and 12 soldiers killed in clashes with rebels.

A U.S. Army soldier from Anaheim has been killed in Afghanistan, the Department of Defense announced Monday. Pfc. Christian Sannicolas, 20, died Saturday in Kandahar province of injuries sustained when his vehicle was struck by a roadside bomb. Sannicolas was...

DISSIDENT REPUBLICANS at the weekend again proved that they pose a potent threat to life, limb and property. They showed a potentially murderous recklessness in assembling a 250 kg fully-primed bomb that was discovered in an abandoned van close to the Border near Newry on Thursday. Had the bomb, defused by the British army on Friday, exploded the effects could have been devastating.

Tragedy in Afghanistan overshadows Army retaining the Inter-Services Championship before a record 65,000 crowd at Twickenham on Saturday.

Délocalisée à Bordeaux, la demi-finale de Coupe d'Europe entre...

General purpose players like running backs and linebackers inevitably fall in the N.F.L. draft as teams seek higher-upside specialists who can make a bigger impact on third down.

Even as the Bofors gun scandal continues to haunt India years after it was unearthed during the 1980s, the good news is that these guns may soon be produced at home.

US fake democracy

Las Vegas' CinemaCon may be for theater owners but there's plenty of news for film freaks According to the Associated Press director Christopher Nolan revealed new footage of his upcoming Batman film The Dark Knight Rises The clip showed plenty of violence with imploding bridges army tanks and the menacing villain...

Newcastle boss Alan Pardew has asked Wigan to release more tickets to the Toon Army for Saturday's clash at the DW Stadium. Newcastle are challenging for Champions League football.

ALAN PARDEW has urged Wigan to release more tickets for the Toon Army

ALAN PARDEW has urged Wigan to release more tickets for the Toon Army

Tweet Widget Facebook Like The criminal case filed on April 24, 2012, against a retired army colonel and a civil police precinct chief for grave abuses committed in the 1970s in São Paulo state is an important step for accountability in Brazil. (Washington, DC) – The criminal case filed on April 24, 2012, against a retired army colonel a...

And the backlash just keeps on coming. Top Army brass at Fort Knox have canceled an upcoming performance by outspoken rocker Ted Nugent following controversial comments he made about...

The best-equipped army in the world can still lose a war if it doesn't understand the people it's fighting.President Obama has called a halt to the decade-long rise in defense spending that began after Sept. 11, and has proposed shrinking the Army and Marine Corps by about 14%.

Can’t live with women, but can’t make albums without them either

BAMAKO  - The military behind the Mali coup last month on Wednesday arrested two more politicians, even as a newly-appointed interim prime minister weighed the make-up of a new government. As the junta leaders carried out their show of force, there was more bad news from the country’s desert north, where the political chaos has allowed rebel forces to make huge gains in recent weeks. ...

IN the two months since his daughter's death, Peter Frazer has mobilised more than 15,000 people to demand safer roads in NSW.

Viral video of a senior Israeli Army officer striking a Danish man in the face with a rifle n the West Bank has drawn attention to an increasingly acrimonious struggle between the government of Israel and European rights activists who travel to the region.

Abandoned army bunkers along a 60 mile stretch of land in the north of Israel have new tenants, according to a Tel Aviv University researcher -- 12 indigenous bat species, including three already designated as endangered, have moved into the shelters and are flourishing.

Bankers must now surrender more information on their activities. Scientists should use it to build better system-wide financial models, says John Liechty.

Lab will explore hybrid military vehicle technology

PROFILE:Cdr Patrick Burke, legal adviser to the Army

The 24-year-old star recently spent time at an army medical hospital to try and prepare for her role in and admits that it opened her eyes.

Mehr als 100 Millionen Mal wurde "Kony 2012" im Internet angesehen. Die Kampagne gegen den Anführer der "Lord's Resistance Army" (LRA), Joseph Kony, brachte aber nicht nur die gewünschte weltweite Aufmerksamkeit, sondern die NGO "Invisible Children" auch ins Kreuzfeuer der Kritik. Jetzt hat die Organisation eine Fortsetzung veröffentlicht. "Kony 2012 Part II" soll die Kritiker überzeugen. Regi...

ISRAELI gunfire killed a 20-year-old man and 318 people were injured as violence erupted on the West Bank and Gaza to mark Land Day.

Three of the U.S. military's newest recruits reported for duty this week at the Army Test and Evaluation Command . These troops are different from normal soldiers in several ways--for starters, each has six feet. And they are robots designed to look and move like cockroaches. Aside from those details, the Army is hoping its new Boston Robotics RHex bots will soon join grunts in Afghanistan. ...

Microsoft-Mitgründer Paul Allen - mit einem geschätzten Vermögen von gut 14 Milliarden Dollar einer der reichsten Menschen der Welt - ist Opfer eines Kreditkarten-Betrugs geworden. US-Ermittler werfen einem 28 Jahre alten Deserteur der Army vor, sich ein Duplikat der Kreditkarte von Allen erschlichen zu haben.

Charity has raised more than $250,000 to support children who were abducted by the Lord’s Resistance Army or lost their parents to AIDS

Travelling English supporters hugely outnumbered local Sri Lankan fans at the start of the first Test in Galle on Monday, making it look like a home match for the tourists.

Sgt. Jeffrey Beltran pulled a heavily creased Post-it note from the pocket of his fatigues, unfolded it and looked over a list he jotted down earlier that day: pick up an order of beef lo mein, take his dress uniform to work (jacket, pants and boots), do schoolwork. Beltran's Army-issue organizer is also filled with these reminders, and he checks them every so often to jog his memory--folding a...

With new Web-based software called SETILive, an army of independent citizen-scientists are being recruited to detect unusual signals in space.

SINGER dresses up in army gear for Part Of Me video

Anshu Jain, der neue Chef der Deutschen Bank, muss vor der Bestätigung des neuen Bankvorstands im Aufsichtsrat eine deftige Niederlage hinnehmen: Sein Wunschkandidat für den Risikovorstand, William Broeksmit, hat von der Finanzaufsicht  Bafin offenbar keine Freigabe erhalten. Ein Rückschlag für Jain, der viel dafür tut, gut dazustehen.

FORT MEADE, Md. (AP) -- A U.S. Army private accused of leaking classified material to the anti-secrecy website Wikileaks could soon learn when his trial will start....

LONDON (Reuters) - A YouTube video gone viral has propelled Joseph Kony, leader of Uganda's rebel Lord's Resistance Army, back onto the agenda, entrenching his position at the top of the list of the world's most wanted men.

In the 1970s, soldiers avoided Vietnam by forming bands; now their long-lost music has been released.

There's a peaceful feeling in the air at ICANN's meeting this week, and I think it has something to do with being here in Costa Rica. Speaking at today's opening ceremony, Costa Rican President Laura Chinchilla described how, back in 1948, her country became the first to willingly go without any kind of armed forces for national defense. In that respect, Costa Rica is a lot like ICANN: alone ...

NAME of new sneakers shared by notorious army that attacked Irish men and women during War of Independence.

Corporal Romina Marenda of the Italian army never expects to go into combat, apart from meeting another woman in the ring.

The entire 310 million Americans will be forcefully deported (Thank you) into two narrow but roughly rectangular territories - walled, fenced, blockaded and road-blocked! Let’s do a thought experiment! Why? Come to think of it: The majority of U.S. congressional ass-lickers of Israel pressure Obama towards military action confronting Iran. Netanyahu’s pro-Israel lobbying group AIPAC staged a co...

LONDON (AP) -- The 805 medal ceremonies at this year's London Olympics will have flag bearers drawn from Britain's Army, Navy and Air Force....

In Uganda kennt jeder Joseph Kony. Seit 1987 ist Kony der Gründer und Anführer der Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), der Rebellengruppe, die seit mehr als zwanzig Jahren Krieg gegen die ugandische Armee ...

A soldier will face a court-martial on charges connected to the suicide of Pvt. Danny Chen of the Lower East Side, the Army said Sunday. Chen, 19, was repeatedly hazed while serving in Afghanistan, his family said. In one incident in October, they said he was forced to crawl across gravel for more than 100 yards as fellow soldiers pelted him with rocks. He was found with a self-inflicted gunsho...

'Dungeon Hunter,' 'Army Corps of Hell' are fun but flawed fantasy action games.

“We need to change the mentality with which we approach the army, and a modern serviceman, officer and even an ordinary soldier should be much more than simply cogs in the system. Each person should be an individual in his own place, one who understands his role, and whose creative potential must be activated.”

Last weekend an army of leading writers, producers and actors took on the challenge of writing and staging plays in only 24 hours. Was it a good day?

Soccer:Manchester United winger Nani is determined not to give the club’s army of critics the satisfaction of seeing a dramatic fall from grace. When United crashed out of the Champions League in December, there were plenty who felt Sir Alex Ferguson would be forced to take the Europa League seriously because by the time his side played in it, that trophy would be the only one they could win.

A Dutch antique trader is selling his collection of over 5 000 unopened bottles of Cognac and other liquors, which he claims is the biggest of its kind.  

The New Republic has assembled a symposium on what the United States should do about Syria.  Among others, contributors will include Larry Diamond, Anne-Marie Slaughter, and... er... me: The New Republic wouldn’t be soliciting my take if there was an easy solution to this policy conundrum. Indeed, Syria is such a tough nut to crack that I fear the best approach to the p...

The military has removed dietary supplements containing the ingredient dimethylamylamine from stores on its bases, though the products are widely available elsewhere in the country.

Nabil Elaraby, the secretary general of the Arab League, boiled down the case against military intervention in Syria to three obstacles: elections, money (or the lack of it), and a Syrian army with 300,000 troops. In an interview with CNN on Thursday, the former Egyptian foreign minister sought to reassure Russia that the Arab League quest to seek Security Council support for i...

PORT SAID, Egypt (Reuters) - Seventy-four people were killed when supporters clashed at an Egyptian soccer match, prompting fans and politicians on Thursday to turn on the ruling army for failing to prevent the deadliest incident since Hosni Mubarak was ousted.

As he stood on the turf of the Alamodome in San Antonio in early January after being named co-MVP of the U.S. Army All-American Bowl, Dorial Green-Beckham was peppered with the same recruiting questions that he never felt comfortable answering.

BOSTON (AP) -- U.S. Sen. Scott Brown released his military service record Saturday documenting the more than three decades he has served in the Army National Guard....

Jane MacDougall: Here’s the single easiest thing you can do to keep with your program of a Better You in 2012: This week, donate a bag of clothes to the Salvation Army

Pontefract Hospital's casualty department has been shut from 10pm to 8am since November due to shortages in middle management doctors.

TWO days of fierce clashes between the Malian army and Tuareg rebels have killed 47 people - 45 rebels and two soldiers.

The controversy over the date of birth of chief of army staff Gen V K Singh should be settled in an honourable fashion.

Hurricane Katrina battered New Orleans in 2005 and little has been done since then to improve long-term storm protection for the city and surrounding delta. The wait may finally be over. After years of fighting over competing plans between state and federal agencies, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, cities and parishes (counties), a grand [...]

Gee was speaking abou the difficulty of coordinating several university divisions and compared it to "the Polish army."

The United States Army will introduce its own brand of video gaming peripherals as part of promotion efforts targeting young men, it's been announced.

Saltpetre, potassium nitrate, is added to food to give meat products a nicer colour. One winter in the 70s when we were living in Connecticut, my dad went to a New York drug store to buy saltpetre for our traditional Christmas ham. And the elderly druggist winked at him and said this odd thing. "Hehe, it's an old army trick!" As my dad told us later that night, he had to ask what on Earth the...

Parmi les anciens membres de l'Armée républicaine irlandaise (Irish Republican Army, IRA), certains ont mieux « réussi » que d'autres. M. Martin McGuinness, par exemple, chef d'état-major de l'organisation entre 1979 et 1982, a été promu au rang de vice-premier ministre d'institutions issues de celles (...) / République d'Irlande, Irlande du Nord, Royaume-Uni, Armée, Guérilla, Mouvement de con...

Iran sentenced the daughter of a prominent politician to six months in prison and a five-year ban on political and media activity on charges of propagating against the Islamic regime, while its army chief warned the U.S. to keep an aircraft carrier out of the Persian Gulf.

Aliya and army service come first for young hi-tech entrepreneur from New York.

THE US military declared it will respond with force if Iran moved to close the Strait of Hormuz, the oil artery of the world.

OUR STAFF REPORTERGUJRANWALA - The Pakistan Muslim League (Awami) president has said that the prime minister intentionally provoked armed forces in the most critical consequences of the history but the Chief of Army Staff reasonably responded and showed positive approach. Sheikh Rashid Ahmad was addressing an inaugural ceremony of the district office of his party in Gujranwala. Sheikh alleged t...

WASHINGTON - The United States has reaffirmed its support to the democratic process in Pakistan amid escalating civil-military tensions coupled with a foreign agency report that the Army is fed up with President Asif Ali Zardari and wants him out of the office.“As we’ve always said, that we support the democratic process in Pakistan,” State Department spokesman Mark Toner said while responding ...

KARACHI - All-Pakistan Muslim League (APML) Central Senior Vice-President Dr Ghulam Mujtaba on Friday refuted Prime Minister Gilani’s claim that the army wanted to establish a “state within the state”, saying the was loyal to the country.Addressing a public meeting, the APML leader regretted the premier’s remarks against the army, and demanded early election to bring the country out of the pres...

ISLAMABAD – A panicked prime minister Thursday said plots were being drawn to send his government packing as he delivered an unprecedented tirade against the army, vowing not to bow to forces at work behind the scenes and denying the government was subservient to the military command.Confirmation form beleaguered Yousuf Raza Gilani of fears about his government stood in stark contrast to his re...

TOKYO (Reuters) - On Benjamin Buchholz's second day in Iraq as a U.S. army officer, a young Iraqi girl was struck and killed by a military convoy while trying to catch a bottle of water thrown to...

MANILA (Reuters) - The death toll from a typhoon in the southern Philippines rose to more than 130, government and army officials said on Saturday, with some domestic flights grounded and wide areas left without power.

In the two years before the government in Kabul takes responsibility for its own security, the Canadian officer responsible for training the Afghan National Army must stem an attrition rate that sees one-third of the troops deciding not to re-enlist - or simply abandoning their posts

Le Premier ministre irakien Nouri al Maliki, en visite aux Etats-Unis, a appelé mardi les sociétés américaines à participer à la reconstruction de son pays que l'US Army doit quitter d'ici la fin de l'année. "Tout comme nous nous sommes engagés dans la lutte pour vaincre le terrorisme, nous prenons...

KANSAS CITY, Mo (Reuters) - Tossing a stone into a Salvation Army kettle at Christmas wouldn't be a nice thing to do. Unless it's a diamond, of course.

The Army veteran completed an inspirational mirrorball run on Tuesday night.

An undercover team of computer scientists reveals the practices of people who are paid to post on websites

As army overplays its hand, country’s economy is facing the risk of a dangerous downward spiral

HONOLULU (AP) -- The Army on Thursday conducted its first flight test of a new weapon capable of traveling five times the speed of sound....

Nov 16 (Reuters) - As winter draws in across Canada's northern Yukon territory, big mining companies are prospecting for bargains among the army of junior explorers staking claims in what's shaping...

Army Spc. Justin Rollins's memory lives on through the dog he saved in Iraq

What do these three have to do with one another? Frank Rich finds a thread Steve Jobs shrine in New York City. Photo: PED "Nothing has revealed how much the class warriors of the right and left of our time have in common," writes Frank Rich in the Oct. 23 issue of New York Magazine, "than the national outpouring after Steve Jobs's death." Rich, who left his high-profile perch on the Op...

A research project to train astronauts and study their ability to endure space missions has been launched as the country gears up for the launching of two unmanned space modules later this year, aimed at future space dockings. The research looks into the impact of prolonged stays of astronauts in conditions of zero gravity, rapid day and night shifts, and limited living quarters, so as to gu...

Steve Morales has resumed his geodomain duties at SimplyGeo.com LLC after a U.S. Army mission abruptly took him away for seven months. While his absence disrupted activity at the company's main sites, his service earned Morales a commendation from the Commanding General of the Quartermaster Corps.