WAR popularity and WAR trends

Wir alle produzieren jede Menge Daten. Und irgendwo müssen die gespeichert werden. Die Medien dafür haben sich im Laufe der Zeit immer wieder geändert. Dieses Video gibt einen netten Überblick: Ich selbst habe ja noch erstaunlich viele Datenträger mit erlebt. Meine Eltern hatte früher noch ein Tonbandgerät, das ich noch in Aktion erlebt habe. Dann gabs natürlich nen Plattenspieler; ich hab mir ...

Es war ein typischer Sepp Blatter. In seiner Ansprache auf dem Fifa-Kongress philosophierte der umstrittene Verbandschef über die Grausamkeit des Elfmeterschießens. Dass er damit eine Phantomdebatte ausgelöst hat, kam ihm am Ende nicht einmal ungelegen.Mehr zum ThemaDFB-Test in Basel - Löw vergleicht die Schweiz mit EM-Gegner HollandWechsel nach St. Pauli - Azzouzi verlässt Fürth trotz Bundesli...

Despite the fall of their key stronghold of Afgoye, Al-Qaeda-linked Somali militants vowed to intensify the war against government and AU troops.

In Japan gelten Tätowierungen als Symbol der Mafia. Bisher war das kein Problem. Doch nun hat der Bürgermeister von Osaka der Körperkunst in der Stadtverwaltung den Kampf angesagt: Wer bemalt ist, fliegt raus.

In der abgelaufenen Spielzeit war Wolfsburgs Mittelfeldspieler Diego an Atletico Madrid ausgeliehen. Was passiert nun mit ihm?

Kommt der "Grexit"? Auf dem EU-Gipfel in Brüssel in dieser Woche war das neue Kürzel für den möglichen Austritt Griechenlands aus der Eurozone in aller Munde. Die Politiker bestreiten, dass es Notfallpläne gibt. Und über das "Was wäre, wenn" gehen die Ansichten auseinander.

A U.S. sailor who died on Sunday of medical complications was the 3,000th life lost in the war in Afghanistan. Petty Officer 1st Class Ryan J. Wilson, 26, of Shasta, California, died May 20 in Manama, Bahrain, the Defense Department said on Friday.

WASHINGTON -- Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett (D) aggressively went after Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) in the first of two gubernatorial debates, taking him to task for an ongoing corruption probe, repeal of an equal pay enforcement law and out-of-state fundraising. Walker largely stuck to his talking points, spending more time going after unions than directly attacking Barrett, and telling view...

Suspicion falls on Israel for assassination campaign against leading scientists

Conspiracy theories still grasp at the truth about the murder of seven Trappist monks at the height of Algeria’s civil war, writesMARY BOLANDin Tibhirine

Jede Uni und teilweise auch jeder Fachbereich einer Uni hat seine eigene Traditionen, wie der Doktor gefeiert wird.Am physikalischen Institut der Uni Bonn z.B. wird ein Bollerwagen mit Anspielungen auf persönliche Besonderheiten und natürlich die Doktorarbeit geschmückt. Dann setzt sich der frisch gebackene Doktor auf seinen Thron und wird vom Doktorvater um den Block gezogen. Hier in Köln, zum...

SCOTLAND Yard’s SO15 War Crimes Team will interview Phillip Machemedze next week

He is a professional agitator. You name it — globalisation, war in Iraq, supermarkets — he’s protested against it.

A MAN accused of commanding a police squad that rounded up Bosnian Muslims for slaughter in 1995 fashioned a new life in Las Vegas as a grocery store owner before being arrested and deported to his native country to face charges of genocide, a lawyer and US officials say.

When the new Elizabethan age dawned in 1952, Britain was still reeling from the effects of World War II. There was still food rationing and many people were living in slums.

A U.S. sailor who died last week of medical complications was the 3,000th death among coalition forces in the Afghanistan war, according to CNN's count.

Multimillionär Tim Cook setzt Zeichen: Der Apple-Chef nimmt sich von der Dividenden-Zahlung an Mitarbeiter seiner Firma aus. Auch sein Vorgänger war Dividenden-Gegner.

Enrique Pena Nieto, says his top security priority will be on reducing homicide, kidnapping and extortion — the crimes that do the most damage to the greatest number of Mexicans.

Die massenhafte Erfassung von Handydaten in Dresden während der Proteste gegen Neonazi-Aufmärsche im Februar 2011 war rechtens. Das Amtsgericht Dresden wies die Anträge von acht Betroffenen auf Feststellung der Rechtswidrigkeit zurück. Es habe ein hinreichender Tatverdacht bestanden, so die Begründung.

(Official White House Photo by Pete Souza) There were no events listed on his public schedule Friday, but President Obama apparently took time out to greet members of Rolling Thunder, a nonprofit dedicated to bringing attention to POWs and troops missing in action. The White House put out a photo of the meeting, showing Obama meeting the group in the Diplomatic Reception Room.  The organization...

The mutilated bodies of a mother and four of her five children have been found in the latest atrocity in Syria, an apparently sectarian killing confirming the collapse into a murderous civil war.

HBO's unintentionally hilarious "Hemingway & Gellhorn" gets everything disastrously wrong

Washington (dpa) - Der «Drache» ist gefangen: Erstmals in der Geschichte hat ein privater Transporter an die Internationale Raumstation ISS angedockt. Zwei Astronauten an Bord der ISS war es zuvor ge...

In der letzten Generalprobe wurde es für die Grand-Prix-Teilnehmer zum ersten Mal richtig spannend. Die Jury war anwesend und vergab nach den Auftritten ihre Bewertung.Foto: dpa Picture-Alliance, dapdMehr zum ThemaPo d'Azur - Schöne Aussichten in CannesBundesliga-Ranking - Werder ist Twitter-Meister„Eier“-Skandal im Bundestag - Linken-Politiker bepöbelt FDP-KollegenDas „Wort zum Sonntag“ - Pfa...

Click here to download TV listings for the week of May 27 - June 2 in PDF format TV listings for the week of May 27 - June 2 in PDF format are also available here This week's TV Movies SUNDAY Captain America times two: Genuine WWII hero Audie Murphy plays himself in the 1955 bio-pic “To Hell and Back” and Gary Cooper is WWI’s highly decorated ...

The Pentagon sure wants more $15 billion boats, but it may have to look for other options. 

What happens when Captain Picard and crew finally cross galactic paths with Doctor Who's Eleventh Time Lord and his cosmic travelers? All-out war, thanks to a killer team-up between the Borg and the Cybermen.

Noch keine Entscheidung des DFB-Bundesgerichts: Wird das Relegationsspiel Hertha–Düsseldorf gewertet oder nicht? Hertha-Trainer Rehhagel: "Für mich war das irregulär."

There’s a confused and confusing debate going on over whether President Obama has presided over a “spending binge,” as Republicans claim, or whether, under Obama, “federal spending is rising at the slowest pace since Dwight Eisenhower brought the Korean War to an end in the 1950s.” Read full article >>

Wars are known to have dreadful effects to the society, causing death and injury to very large numbers of people. According to the international laws of war nuclear weapons,

1967 gelang einem Ärzteteam um Christiaan Barnard die erste Herztransplantation der Geschichte. Der Patient war ein 54-jähriger Lebensmittelhändler, das Spenderherz kam von einer 24-jährigen Frau, di...

Die Botschaft von Frankreichs Staatspräsident an seine Soldaten war eindeutig: Er will sie nach Hause holen. „Die Zeit der afghanischen Souveränität ist gekommen“, sagte Hollande bei seinem ersten Besuch der französischen Isaf-Truppen.

Auftritt Otto Rehhagel: Als einer von 16 Zeugen äußerte sich der Trainer von Hertha BSC am Freitag vor dem DFB-Bundesgericht, das den Einspruch der Berliner gegen die Wertung des Relegationsrückspiels in Düsseldorf (2:2) verhandelt. "König Otto" machte seinem Ruf als Sprücheklopfer einmal mehr alle Ehre - und sprach von "irregulären" Umständen.

Utl.: Die griechischen Wähler müssen verstehen: Verträge mit der EU müssen halten. = Wien (OTS) - Wer heute dem deutschen Staat kurzfristig Geld borgt, muss sich damit abfinden, dass er dafür keine Zinsen bekommt. Dafür ist die Anlage in deutsche Staatsanleihen so sicher wie sonst …

One of the battles in the war for the White House is being fought on Twitter. It’s common knowledge that Obama’s beating Romney hand-over-…

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) -- An African Union official says Sudan and South Sudan have agreed to resume talks over issues that brought the two nations to the brink of war: sharing oil wealth and establishing their border....

Kantine war gestern. Wer heute etwas auf sich hält, geht in der Mittagspause feiern: Der neue Trend heißt "Lunch Beat".

Hundreds of bullet-riddled bodies of activists, students and even poets in Baluchistan gives clue to biggest question hanging over Pakistan

Auch im Teamtrainingslager in Seefeld, wo sich die ÖFB-Elf auf die Testspiele gegen die Ukraine (1. Juni) und Rumänien (5. Juni) in Innsbruck vorbereitet, war am Freitag die "Staatsaffäre" rund um Aleksandar Dragovic und dessen Klaps auf die Minister-Glatze Thema Nummer eins. Teamchef Marcel Koller versuchte allerdings zu beschwichtigen und bezeichnete Dragovics Ausrutscher schlicht als "etwas ...

White Rabbits stopped by Conan last night to perform "The Day You Won the War" a highlight from their brand new album Milk Famous The Brooklyn six-piece was joined by members of Conan O'Brien's house band for the performance which fleshed out the song with a horn section

Wie war das vor 360 Millionen Jahren, als erste Tiere das Wasser verließen? Ein 3-D-Modell zeigt, wie das amphibische Wesen "Ichthyostega" etwas steif das Land eroberte.

The remains of 12 South Korean soldiers return home, in the first repatriation of soldiers from the South killed during the Korean War 60 years ago.

Da war schon von Zerschlagung und weiteren Entlassungen die Rede, nun soll der einstige Karstadt-Retter Berggruen Interesse an Schlecker angemeldet haben. Doch die Entscheidung liegt bei den Gläubigern.

Linz (OTS) - Nach bisheriger Rechtslage galt eine Zahlung per Banküberweisung als rechtzeitig, wenn sie innerhalb der Zahlungsfrist beim Bankinstitut des Zahlenden in Auftrag gegeben wurde und das Konto gedeckt war. In Zukunft soll das Einlangen des Geldes am Konto des Gläubigers maßgeblich …

Utl.: Gleich zwei Brände im 16. Bezirk hielten in der Nacht auf Freitag Feuerwehr und Wiener Berufsrettung im Einsatz = Wien (OTS) - Ein Todesopfer forderte ein Brand in der Neulerchenfelderstraße. Aus unbekannter Ursache war in der Wohnung gegen 20.55 Uhr ein Brand ausgebrochen. Eine …

Facebooks Börsengang war holprig, die Zweifel an den wirtschaftlichen Perspektiven des Unternehmens werden lauter. Doch die massenhafte Verbreitung des Social-Media-Giganten hat viel weiterreichende Konsequenzen: Facebook hat das (Arbeits-)Leben von Millionen Menschen verändert. Nicht nur zum Guten: Das weltweit größte Netzwerk weckt Neid, macht unproduktiv und unzufrieden. So beugen Sie vor.

Die Deutschen, nicht die Griechen sollten aus Euro austreten. So lautet die derzeit beste Lösung für Guillermo Nielsen. Er kennt sich aus mit Schuldenkrisen: Früher war er Finanzminister Argentiniens.

The tinny music of ice cream trucks — a summer icon that provokes adults and children alike, but in very different ways — has been banned in West Kelowna

How HMS Coventry was sunk in the Falklands War

FROM THE ARCHIVES:This editorial painted a bleak picture of Irish emigrants to the US in the post-Civil War years. -JOE JOYCE

Arizona businessman treks through Himalayas to find World War II-era planes of lost 'Hump Airmen'Condition of Vets' Graves Sparks OutrageOPINION: Every Day Needs to be Memorial Day Olympic Bobsledder Sets Sights on Military

LAS VEGAS (AP) -- A man accused of commanding a police squad that rounded up Bosnian Muslims for slaughter in 1995 fashioned a new life in Las Vegas as a modest grocery store owner before being arrested and deported to his native country, a lawyer and U.S. officials said Thursday....

Der Vatikanbank-Chef Ettore Gotti Tedeschi ist nach einem verlorenen Misstrauensvotum zurückgetreten. Der Experte für Finanzethik konnte den Ruf der Vatikanbank nicht retten - auch weil sein eigener gefährdet war.

Steve Jobs gets his final wish, companies appear ready to fight to the death in court

See the "aviation equivalent of Tut's tomb"—a World War II fighter plane newly found in the Egyptian desert.

Es war ein volatiler Handelstag, an dem der Dax letztendlich dann aber doch noch die Kurve gekriegt und zugelegt hat. Die Euro-Sorgen bleiben, traten aber zumindest kurzfristig in den Hintergrund.

The genocide trial of Bosnian Serb general Ratko Mladic is set to resume at the Yugoslavia war crimes tribunal on June 25th, four weeks later than initially planned, The Hague-based court said today.

In Berlin war die Welt in Ordnung. Als Ausländerinnen fühlten sich die Kreuzbergerinnen Canset Içpınar und Elif Gümüş erst, als sie in Frankfurt an der Oder studierten.

Pauly D has finally lashed back at Deadmau5 in their ongoing Twitter war ... but the MTV star inadvertently trashed a living legend in the process -- Neil 'Frickin' Diamond. Pauly obviously saw the comments Deadmau5 made to TMZ ... when he said the…

International organizations and human rights activists denounce the United States for maintaining secret prisons in various countries, where prisoners of the so-called war against terrorism are abused and tortured. They are the subject of the controversial issue of Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) prisons recently uncovered

Der Blackberry Messenger ist wohl eine der Zutaten, die maßgeblich am Erfolg des Unternehmens und seiner Geräte beteiligt war - vor nicht allzu langer Zeit fand der Dienst großen Anklang bei Jugendlichen als auch in der Geschäftswelt. Mit dem Vormarsch der Multi-Plattform Messenger gerät die Zukunft des Dienstes nun langsam aber sicher ins Wanken. mehr...

MEXICO CITY — The two most important criminal organizations in Mexico are engaged in all-out war, and the most spectacular battles are being fought for the cameras as the combatants pursue a strategy of intimidation and propaganda by dumping ever greater numbers of headless bodies in public view — the victims most likely innocents. Read full article >>

Der Kabarettist war der letzte grosse Star des «Teleboy»

The incumbent ICC chief prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda, has said world leaders should resist being blackmailed by war crimes suspects.

We didn't see this one coming!! If you left This Means War disappointed because Reese Witherspoon picked Chris Pine then these HIGHlarious alternate endings will perk you right up! The video (above) has Reese/Tom Hardy action, Pine banging some flight attendants, and even an awesomely unexpected homoerotic moment where Pine and Hardy get lost in each other’s [...]

Der bevorstehende Eurovision Song Contest in Baku war bisher vor allem eins: eine politische Bühne für die Auseinandersetzung um Menschenrechte und Meinungsfreiheit in Aserbaidschan.

Zum diamantenen Thronjubiläum legt Queen Elizabeth einen Feier-Marathon hin. Nach royalem Besuch vor wenigen Tagen, empfing sie nun die Stars in London. Darunter war auch Model Lily Cole, die der Königin scheinbar die Show stehlen wollte

Der Deutsche Katholikentag war sehr gut besucht - wohl auch wegen des Mottos „Einen neuen Aufbruch wagen“, wo für alle was dabei ist. Doch unangenehme Themen spart die Kirche aus. So kommt sei den Menschen nicht näher.

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 >>

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NSW coach Ricky Stuart has hit back in a war of words with referees boss Bill Harrigan over last night's controversial Origin try.

BLUES insist they won’t barter for players — despite their £50million Euro jackpot

BLUES insist they won’t barter for players — despite their £50million Euro jackpot

Two days of court-directed peace talks between the chiefs of iPhone-maker Apple and smartphone giant Samsung ended with no sign of a truce in the legal battle headed for court in Silicon Valley.

Small planes attach to the back of device and use the camera to place it into a World War II-themed simulation.

The discussion focused on a major project for the production of high quality beef in the Bryansk Region. The prime minister stressed that “we should not forget about medium- and small-sized businesses in rural areas; they employ a lot of people…” The regional governor also spoke about the housing situation for the veterans of the Great Patriotic War.

Patch.com, a network of small-town news sites owned by AOL Inc., has emerged at the center of a tug of war over the Internet company's future.

After 601 blog posts of Tammy Lynn Michaels doing nothing but moaning and groaning about how selfish lezmonster Melissa Etheridge left her with a flatlining checking account (aka $23,000 a month) and a mutilated heart stabbed by a shiny new rubber dick, their bitter bitch custody battle is finally over. Tammy Lynn managed to get through it without having to shut down her blog beca...

Geneva was cold and gray when air force one touched down in November 1985. President Ronald Reagan had come to meet Mikhail Gorbachev, the newly appointed leader of the Soviet Union. Reagan was convinced that the risk of catastrophic nuclear war was high, and he wanted to reduce the two superpowers’ swollen arsenals. Gorbachev also recognized that the arms race was strangling the Soviet economy...

World powers began talks with Iran today to test its readiness under pressure of sanctions to scale back its nuclear program, seeking to ease a decade-old standoff and avert the threat of a Middle East war.

Thailand's PTT Exploration & Production has trumped Royal Dutch Shell with a £1.22bn agreed takeover of Cove Energy, in the latest twist in the bidding war for the Mozambique-focused oil and gas explorer.

Joan Baez ist eine Ikone der Protestmusik. Heute unterstützt sie Occupy, 2008 war es noch Barack Obama. Warum er sie enttäuscht hat, erklärt sie im Interview.

Miley Curys wurde diese Woche dabei fotografiert, wie sie barfuß über einen Parkplatz in L.A. rannte und dabei Skinny Jeans und ein sehr offenherziges Top trug. Sie war sich aber wohl...

A western Indian state has declared war on animal poaching by sanctioning its forest guards to shoot hunters on sight in an effort to curb rampant attacks against tigers, elephants and other wildlife.

Wenn auf dem Platz nicht mehr viel geht, dann schlägt sie oft - die Stunde der Joker. Ein Quartett, das von "Edeljoker" Arjen Robben angeführt wird, schlug dreimal zu. Am effektivsten war allerdings ein Hannoveraner: zwei Einsätze, zwei Tore. Die torgefährlichsten Einwechselspieler der Saison 2011/12 in Bildern.

Wenn auf dem Platz nicht mehr viel geht, dann schlägt sie oft - die Stunde der Joker. Ein Quartett, das von "Edeljoker" Arjen Robben angeführt wird, schlug dreimal zu. Am effektivsten war allerdings ein Hannoveraner: zwei Einsätze, zwei Tore. Die torgefährlichsten Einwechselspieler der Saison 2011/12 in Bildern.

"We didn't choose this," one Syrian rebel says of the war with Assad's regime. With 10,000 dead, and counting, the group refuses to quit.

Tensions inflamed after brutal killing of man who had traveled to his native country to reclaim property occupied during recent civil war

"We didn't choose this," one Syrian rebel says of the war with Assad's regime. With 10,000 dead, and counting, the group refuses to quit.

SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea intensified its war of words against the United States on Tuesday, vowing to strengthen its nuclear deterrent after Washington warned Pyongyang of further sanctions if it did not abandon its atomic program.

The US ambassador to Afghanistan, Ryan Crocker, is to leave his post early for health reasons, US officials said on Tuesday, a day after Nato leaders charted a path out of the Afghan war at a summit in Chicago.

Monströser Kiefer, muskulöse Beine, mickrige Arme: Der Habitus des T-Rex war in der Kreidezeit ein Erfolgsmodell. Ein Knochenfund zeigt: Auch andere Arten hatten verkümmerte Arme - die Schrumpfung war bereits vor 175 Millionen Jahren im Gange.

The May 23 Baghdad talks between Iran and the P5+1 (United States, Britain, France, Russia, China, plus Germany) may prove to be a crucial juncture in the Iranian nuclear crisis. The talks could lead to a compromise with Iran while a lack of compromise could lead to an Israeli strike against Iran's nuclear facilities, and possibly a costly regional war involving the United States. There is ...

Utl.: klima:aktiv mobil Journalistenrallye 2012 machte Lust auf vielseitige alternative Mobilität = Wien (OTS) - Auf das eigene Auto verzichten und einmal ganz anders denken, wenn man in der Stadt unterwegs ist, das war die Devise bei der klima:aktiv mobil Journalistenrallye 2012 …

The mortal remains of 98 Iranian and 13 Iraqi soldiers killed during the 1980-1988 war between the two countries were repatriated today at the Shalamja border crossing near Basra with support from the ICRC.

Food industry experts question whether it can be possible to deliver a salmon to a British shopper for such a low price while paying a fair price to the fishermen involved.

London airspace will be controlled by the Ministry of Defence for the first time since the Second World War during the Olympic Games to prevent terrorist attacks.

In an unmistakable snub, President Barack Obama left Pakistan off a list of nations he thanked for help getting war supplies into Afghanistan.

At Chicago summit, NATO endorses plan to pull out most troops by end of 2014; Obama: We will responsibly withdraw but Afghanistan won't be perfect.

Leaders of the NATO Monday signed off on a plan to give Afghan forces the lead in combat operations next year, setting the stage for winding down the war in 2014.

CHICAGO (Reuters) - NATO set an "irreversible" course out of Afghanistan on Monday but President Barack Obama admitted the Western alliance's plan to end the deeply unpopular war in 2014 was fraught with peril.

LONDON (Reuters) - Low-quality and fake anti-malarial drugs flooding into markets in Asia and Africa are driving drug resistance and threatening gains made in the fight against the disease in the past decade, according to a study by global health experts.

The chargesheet, filed in a special court in Guwahati, mentioned that the two outfits – PLA and CPI (Maoist) – had signed “a joint declaration for unified actions of waging war against India” during one of their meetings in Myanmar in 2008.

Pakistan is reportedly demanding $ 5000 per US/Nato container in 'taxes', plus $ 1 billion in reparations for its war 'sacrifices' from the United States.

CHICAGO (Reuters) - NATO leaders sealed a landmark agreement on Monday to hand control of Afghanistan over to its own security forces by the middle of next year, putting the Western alliance on an "irreversible" path out of an unpopular, decade-long war.

The agreement to give the Afghans the lead role in securing their country next summer begins the end of the United States’s involvement in a decade-long war.

Honestly, my dear readers, I've been trying to pivot away from deconstructing Mitt Romney's foreign policy musings.  After a half-year of watching GOP presidential debates and then reading Romney's blinkered musings on various hot spots, I think this horse has pretty much been beaten to death.  Except that, with Romney's NATO Chicago Tribune op-ed this past weekend, I fear he and his...

In the court-ordered talks that begin Monday, the two sides are playing by different rules FORTUNE -- The federal judge overseeing the Northern California front of the global smartphone patent war has the power to bring the CEOs of Apple (AAPL) and Samsung -- Tim Cook and Choi Gee-sung -- to a mediation session, but even he can't force a settlement. The differences between the kinds of patents...

19 Jahre lang war er das Gesicht von Juve – nun hat sich Alessandro del Piero mit einer Final-Pleite von der „alten Dame“ verabschiedet.Foto: Reuters

Ein deutscher Arzt ist bei der Besteigung des Mount Everest ums Leben gekommen. Der Mann erlitt wohl ein Hirnödem. Er war auf den Berg gestiegen, um den Gipfel von Müll zu befreien.

Online war game World of Tanks and its simulation siblings are redoubling their Chinese efforts after their developer Wargaming.net tied up a regional deal with KongZhong Corp.

A London newsroom at the brink of the digital age is the setting for this entertaining novel by a veteran British journalist. The plot consists of two tales of humiliation. Honor Tait, a legendary war correspondent, has been reduced to writing about her declining health—“the wearisome naming . . . (Subscription required.)

Westeros is filled with men of honor and some who are completely devoid of it. Last week Jon Snow's (Kit Harington) new wildling friend was giving him some grief. Meanwhile, the King...

U.S. President Barack Obama promised the war in Afghanistan will end within two years as he met Sunday with Afghan President Hamid Karzai before the start of a NATO summit during which the U.S. and its allies will work to solidify a strategy for the military transition.

War chest built up to purchase loans as many of the continent’s stricken lenders seek to sell assets and shrink their way to health

Ottawa is under pressure to extend its participation in the Afghanistan war beyond 2014

DIETRICH Fischer-Dieskau's artistry immediately set him in the front rank when he made his first appearances in the closing years of World War II.

Der wegen des Lockerbie-Anschlags verurteilte Libyer Abdelbaset el Megrahi ist tot. Der libysche Agent war als Einziger für den Anschlag auf ein US-Flugzeug 1988 über dem schottischen Lockerbie mit 270 Toten verurteilt worden. 2009 war er nach Libyen zurückgekehrt.

Der wegen des Lockerbie-Anschlags verurteilte Libyer Abdelbaset el Megrahi ist tot. Der libysche Agent war als Einziger für den Anschlag auf ein US-Flugzeug 1988 über dem schottischen Lockerbie mit 270 Toten verurteilt worden. 2009 war er nach Libyen zurückgekehrt.Mehr zum ThemaChen Guangcheng aus China in die USA geflogen - Blinder Aktivist mit Jubel empfangen – Sorge um die AngehörigenHolland...

Ahead of Jerusalem Day, Shimon "Katcha" Cahaner reflects on the war that changed history 45 years ago.

China demands the United States "respect facts, change its mind-set and stop its wrongdoing in issuing similar reports." Cold War mentality

NATO LEADERS gathering in Chicago on Sunday are all, in their own way, looking for the exit from Afghanistan. It’s understandable, after a decade of war. But it is safe to bet that the faster they rush out, the more they — or their successors — will regret. Read full article >>

Gerade erst eingeschworen, schon wieder entlassen: Das Parlament in Athen wird am Samstagvormittag offiziell aufgelöst. Es war erst am Donnerstag vereidigt worden. Jetzt beginnt erneut der Wahlkampf in Griechenland.

Foreign minister says country is conducting its own inquiry into alleged war crimes, as troops march through Colombo.

Britain's war in Afghanistan will cost taxpayers almost £20 billion by time the mission draws to a close, new figures have revealed.

Patrick Vieira and Roy Keane were used to battles on the football pitch – but now they have entered into a war of words about the Manchester rivalry.

A comment by Russia's prime minister that discussed nuclear war more candidly than typical for politicians accelerated a stock market sell-off in Russia.

Is The Avengers worth your money? Do the disc-blasting Nerf guns leave a welt? How do you pull a Pebble and reign in $3 million on Kickstarter? In this week's TC/Gadgets webcast, we answer all this and more.

The Wankhede stadium scuffle involving Shah Rukh Khan on Friday threatened to turn into a tug of war between the MCA, which controls the venue, and BCCI. Anand Sachar & Sanjjeev Karan Samyal report.Deshmukh announces SRK ban  | Scuffle in pics | SRK spat splits India

My union, the Library chapter of The York University Faculty Association (YUFA) has released a couple of open letters to The Honourable James Moore, Minister of Canadian Heritage and Official Languages in the current Canadian government. The letters protest the current cuts to staff and programs at Library and Archives Canada. The letters do sketch out the context but you can read more here...

Bruchlandung am Münchner Flughafen: Eine Air-Dolomiti-Maschine musste am Nachmittag notlanden. Nach FOCUS-Online-Informationen war zunächst der gesamte Flughafen gesperrt. Fünf Menschen sollen verletzt worden sein.

GRAND finale of Celebrity Apprentice finishes in a disappointing 10th place after winner leaked online.

MIAMI (Reuters) - Defense lawyers want to force a former CIA official who supervised what they called torture of al Qaeda captives to testify in the war crimes tribunal for five Guantanamo prisoners accused of plotting the September 11 attacks.

The wide consequences of US Civil War hero's expulsion of Jews

BHP Billiton boss Jac Nasser blasts 'class war' debate ignited by the PM, warning overseas investors openly question what's going on in Australia.

Mehr als zehn Jahre war der serbische Militärchef Ratko Mladic auf der Flucht. Jetzt wird ihm der Prozess gemacht. Mladic werden schwere Kriegsverbrechen vorgeworfen.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- An independent group favoring Republican presidential rival Mitt Romney is launching a $25 million, monthlong advertising campaign in 10 states against President Barack Obama, further escalating an expensive TV ad war in presidential battlegrounds six months before Election Day....

SO there are threats of a "class war" against us residents of Sydney's north shore suburbs. Well, we have three words for the enemy: Bring it on!

Ihr Start war eigentlich für Ende März geplant: Nun ist eine russische Sojus-Rakete mit drei Raumfahrern an Bord vom kasachischen Raumflughafen Baikonur abgehoben.

Horst Seehofer ist vor laufender Kamera explodiert. Doch hinter seiner Wut steckt auch viel Taktik, kommentiert Katharina Schuler.

Donald Cerrone was originally scheduled to face veteran Yves Edwards at the UFC on Fuel card but will instead will meet Jeremy Stephens in a precursor to the main event of the evening when Chan-Sung Jung - better known as the Korean Zombie - faces Dustin Poirier in what will decide an immediate opponent for UFC champion Jose Aldo.

To improve its external environment, the DPRK is endeavoring to develop nuclear weapons. But this has only further isolated it from the international community and increased its feeling of insecurity.

Die Furcht vor einer Rezession war unbegründet. Nach dem Dämpfer Ende des vergangenen Jahres hat die deutsche Wirtschaft im ersten Quartal 2012 unerwartet deutlich Fahrt aufgenommen.

Following a huge slump in audience figures, the next series of The Voice is likely to see major changes - and none of the four celebrity coaches (including Jessie J, pictured) has yet signed up for it.

Ich war am Wochenende in meiner Heimat: Bochum, westfälisches Ruhrgebiet (ein kleiner Werbedschingel: recht gute Uni, deutlich grüner als man denkt, ein Chemienobelpreisträger [wer kennt ihn, ohne zu googeln? War auf meinem Gymnasium], ein gutes Schauspielhaus, und eine Architektur, die immer wieder in einem den Wunsch aufkommen lässt, alles nochmal von vorne anzufangen). Wie sicher alle mitbek...

Wien (OTS) - Bundeskanzler Werner Faymann hat heute seine tiefe Betroffenheit über das Ableben von Ernst Hinterberger geäußert. Der Wiener Schriftsteller und Drehbuchautor ist am Montag im Alter von 80 Jahren verstorben. "Ernst Hinterberger stammte aus einfachen Verhältnissen. Er war Zeit …

WASHINGTON - The Pentagon has revealed that it suspended late last month a controversial military course that portrayed Islam as the enemy and suggested ‘total war’ as the only way of dealing with the Muslim religion, reported The Christian Post on Friday. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen Martin Dempsey explained that the course, which also proposed ...

WASHINGTON - The Pentagon has revealed that it suspended late last month a controversial military course that portrayed Islam as the enemy and suggested ‘total war’ as the only way of dealing with the Muslim religion, reported The Christian Post on Friday. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen Martin Dempsey explained that the course, which also proposed ...

WASHINGTON - The Pentagon has revealed that it suspended late last month a controversial military course that portrayed Islam as the enemy and suggested ‘total war’ as the only way of dealing with the Muslim religion, reported The Christian Post on Friday. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen Martin Dempsey explained that the course, which also proposed ...

A Microsoft-Facebook alliance plans an overhaul of Bing in an effort to loosen Google’s grip on the search engine market.

"Iran did not ask anything of us, we think Iran is not in need of us," Hamas prime minister says, adding that Netanyahu's coalition deal was for internal reasons, but may have had "external motives."

Mr. Katzenbach, an attorney general in the Johnson administration, tackled segregation, the Cuban missile crisis, Vietnam War strategy and the Kennedy assassination in his government service.

A Microsoft-Facebook alliance plans an overhaul of Bing in an effort to loosen Google’s grip on the search engine market.

The game publisher has seen World of Warcraft subscriptions stabilize.

On the first anniversary of the death of Osama bin Laden, two symbolic events reminded us that despite all the whitewash, the original war was still on.  US president Barack Obama swept into Afghanistan in a surprise visit and in the "pre-dawn darkness" signed a strategic partnership agreement with Hamid Karzai, a hard-won deal among two sides who have little trust and less faith in each othe...

A US war veteran becomes an artist after 20 years of service, and other stories from the world of arts this week.

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.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - America's skyscrapers, many built before World War Two, are showing their age. IBM's "building whisperer," Dave Bartlett, believes many of these buildings could use a diet.

Über eine Stunde war der Handel an der Deutschen Börse nur eingeschränkt möglich. Die elektronische Handelsplattform Xetra hakte. Bestimmendes Thema bei den Händlern ist weiterhin die Griechenland-Wahl.

Meet the top contestants fighting for the iPhone's crown

Der ehemalige NBA-Star Shaquille O'Neal hat am Wochenende in Florida den Doktortitel in Pädagogik bekommen. Foto: ddp

Hoffenheims Ryan Babel hat nach der Gelb-Roten Karte gegen sich getwittert: „Der Schiri war auf Drogen.“ Der DFB ermittelt.Foto: Getty Images

Hoffenheims Ryan Babel hat die Gelb-Rote Karte gegen sich auf Twitter mit den Worten kommentiert: „Der Schiri war auf Drogen.“Foto: Getty Images

MEXICO'S drug cartel war has escalated with 23 murders near Nuevo Laredo. Warning: graphic photo content.

Today’s topics: faith at tee time; what the Gideon Bible is and isn’t; Obama at love and war; Diefenbaker’s legacy ... and more

A day after skating a whopping 53 minutes 21 seconds in the Rangers’ triple overtime victory, Ryan McDonagh spent part of his Thursday away from the rink visiting Arlington National Cemetery. “It was a quite a scene,” McDonagh said. “You talk about … war and the battle that [Game 3] was, then you go out and you see something like that. It really hits home for you.” Read full article >> ...

KABUL (Reuters) - Spot made the clandestine journey from the Afghan Taliban stronghold of Helmand to the capital Kabul, where he is undergoing medical treatment before moving to the United States to...

FORMER Liberian president Charles Taylor deserves an 80-year sentence for the war crimes he was convicted of last week, including aiding and abetting murder and rape, prosecutors said in a written filing.

Am letzten Tag der Testfahrten in Mugello hat Lotus-Pilot Romain Grosjean dem Weltmeister Sebastian Vettel noch die Gesamt-Bestzeit weggeschnappt. Der Franzose fuhr am Donnerstag in der Toskana mit 1:21,035 Minuten die schnellste Runde der drei Testtage und war 0,2 Sekunden schneller als der Red-Bull-Pilot.

It takes determination to run businesses in Africa, especially in regions which are prone to political conflict or even war.

GAMES fans flock for glimpse of latest war game instalment which is set in future

An all-new multiplayer mode will allow furious Grecian deities to team up for a bout of online monster bashing in 2013's PlayStation 3 game God of War: Ascension.

Obama's impulse to score points off the anniversary of Bin Laden's death is understandable, but the president should have resisted mixing military valor and politics.We're far enough away from it now that we can probably all agree: It was a mistake for George W. Bushto land on that aircraft carrier in a flight suit to proclaim "Mission Accomplished." And not just because the war in Iraq was far...

The game, due Nov. 13, gazes into the geopolitical crystal ball to foresee how a new Cold War might play out.

The US is escalating the risks of a currency war, Brics nations say. Matt Quigley explores the consequences if the US doesn't "knock it off".

Sniper Elite V2 is an enjoyable, if limited, twist on the World War II shooter, writes Tom Hoggins.

DANIEL Radcliffe will star in a First World War medical drama with Mad Men hunk

For Manchester City fans, Monday's night's crucial clash with United isn't simply the final battle of a season-long war. It isn't even just about clawing their way back into the race for the Premier League title. Their pain runs far deeper than that. City have lived in the shadow of their rivals for too long and they are desperate to break out into the light. You have to go back to 1991 to find...

Raymond James‘s Tavis McCourt this afternoon reflects on Q1 data for mobile phones and concludes the pressure is increasing on companies who are neither Apple (AAPL) nor Samsung Electronics (005930KS). Handset sales fell in Q1 for the first time ever, he thinks, even as the global economy is expanding. There seems to be increasingly little [...]

The contest between Virat Kohli and Gautam Gambhir will be closely followed. Nilankur Das reports. Face-off | Bowling at death gives Super Kings the edge

NEW YORK (AP) -- The African child soldier drama "War Witch" won best film and its 15-year-old star earned best actress Thursday night at the Tribeca Film Festival....

After more than a decade of continuous warfare, the cost of disability compensation for wounded veterans is surging to mammoth proportions.

In a speech in New York, Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. portrayed Mitt Romney as a cold war relic who would leave American troops stranded in Afghanistan.

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India will urge its airlines to boycott the European Union's carbon charge scheme, raising the prospect of a global trade war over a law requiring flights in and out of Europe to pay for their greenhouse gas emissions.

A movie about Cuban teenagers trying to escape the communist island and a film about a child soldier in Africa were the big winners.

Denver executive vice president of football operations shows KUSA around Denver's inner sanctum as team prepares for 2012 NFL draft.

Denver executive vice president of football operations shows KUSA around Denver's inner sanctum as team prepares for 2012 NFL draft.

Headline Title:  Charles Taylor guilty of aiding Sierra Leone war crimes 26 April 2012 International judges in the Hague have found former Liberian president Charles Taylor guilty of aiding and abetting war crimes during the Sierra Leone civil war."There is no doubt that today...

RENO, Nev. (AP) -- Tiny meteorites found in the Sierra foothills of Northern California likely were part of a giant fireball that exploded in daylight with about one-third the explosive force of the bomb dropped on Hiroshima at the end of World War II, scientists said Wednesday....

The Aspen Institute released the IDEA Common Statement and Principles as a do no harm Hippocratic Oath for Internet governance. The Aspen report describes the present moment as an inflection point for "the most robust medium of information exchange in history". Reed Hundt outlined the risks associated with Internet governance changes favored by China and a group of developing nations through th...

The Times Editorial: Africa, and the international community, celebrated on July 9 last year when the world's newest nation, South Sudan, was born out of the ashes of two decades of civil war that killed millions of people.

The 'This Means War' actress is currently pregnant with her third child and has been waking in the night with desperate urges for strange foods.

SWITZERLAND'S financial industry could lose 20,000 jobs in the coming years due to the "economic war''.

Six years after he won the Giller prize for his short stories, Vincent Lam returns with a novel that supplants the usual voices of the Vietnam War with those of his family

Leading world economies yesterday pledged $430 billion in new funding for the International Monetary Fund, more than doubling its lending power in a bid to protect the global economy from the euro-zone debt crisis.

I’m not sure what it is that attracts me to making films about moguls. It could be the almost perverse and Faustian exercise of power they have

The morning show war appears to have a new victor.

They suffered a similar fate to European Jews during World War II, but thousands remain unrecognized by the State of Israel.

Jose Mourinho, the Real Madrid manager, is striving to become the first coach to win Europe's top prize with three clubs.

One day in late November an unmanned aerial vehicle lifted off from Shindand Air Base in western Afghanistan heading 75 miles toward the border with Iran The drone's mission to spy on Tehran's nuclear program as well as any insurgent activities the Iranians might be supporting in Afghanistan With an...

Seine Geburt vor 30 Jahren war eine Sensation. Oliver war das erste deutsche Retortenbaby. Heute lebt er zurückgezogen in einem oberfränkischen Dorf. Die künstliche Befruchtung dagegen trat ihren Siegeszug um die Welt an.

by Kumar Govindan I had been through a rough patch recently-not entirely my making. Despite a very good performance over the previous year my Company’s Management, going by its own prejudiced, parochial assessment made an egregious conclusion typical of such class of people - Bosses and Owners, it was decided (by the ‘Counsel of Elders’) that I wasn’t ready for the next level. (That too, wit...

It was a 61-minute war, writes Sarah Kwak. It ended when Chris Neil backhanded a rebound past Rangers goaltender Henrik Lundqvist, lifting the Senators to a gritty 3-2 victory in OT.

Felix Sturm war nach seinem Abbruch-Sieg „einfach happy“, Sebastian Zbik dagegen war schwer gezeichnet und „enttäuscht“.Foto: dpa

The 480-page book is about a seemingly idyllic English town at war over a parish council election

Der 1. FFC Frankfurt hat zum zwölften Mal das Finale um den DFB-Pokal erreicht. Gefeierte Heldin im Spiel gegen den FCR Duisburg war FFC-Torfrau Desirée Schumann.

Plus: Matt Damon in 'We Bought a Zoo' and Italian thriller 'The Double Hour.'

Bislang war umstritten, wann genau die Vorfahren des Menschen Feuer entzünden konnten. Eine Studie zeigt, dass sie vor einer Million Jahren ihre Höhlen damit heizten - 600 000 Jahre früher als bislang erwiesen.

Extrapolating from newly digitized census data, a historian suggests about 750,000 died in the conflict — about 20 percent more than previously thought.

The Oakland Athletics want to build a new stadium in San Jose, but the Giants insist that San Jose is in their territory, a fact included in Major League Baseball’s constitution in 1990.

Businesses across Argentina stayed shut on Monday as the country ground to a halt to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the start of the Falklands/Malvinas conflict, a 74-day war which resulted in th...

Wie schafft es ein Aprilscherz in die Wikipedia? Eine Spurensuche.Claude Allègre ist ein ehemaliger französischer Politiker, der in seinem Heimatland heute vor allem wegen seiner Kritik an Einsteins Relativitätstheorie und der Klimaforschung häufig in den Medien präsent ist. Vor 3 Jahren war er mal Thema eines Aprilscherzes hier auf den scienceblogs: Primaklima-Autor Georg Hoffmann, da...

  A week ago, The New York Times magazine ran an article on what psychologists call “post-traumatic growth.” An experience that can purportedly occur subsequent to PTSD, it might be best titled “The Oprah Moment” for non-clinicians. It entails an arduous life experience—combat, cancer—that, once confronted, is said to engender psychological transformation that affords a [...]

Kentucky’s John Calipari and Louisville’s Rick Pitino ready to lock horns in national semi-finals

NICKI Minaj both busted out of her low-cut top and started a verbal war with Jennifer Lopez while appearing on "American Idol".

MANUFACTURERS are urging the Gillard Government to crack down on the dumping of cheap Asian imports.

Unversal Pictures and Focus Features have acquired the screen rights to EL James' hit erotic novel Fifty Shades of Grey for an undisclosed amount following an intense bidding war reports Deadline Hollywood The book which evolved into a trilogy with its own unique characters and storyline from Twilight fan fiction...

Russian President Dmitri Medvedev has offered full support for envoy Kofi Annan's peace mission in Syria, saying it may be the last chance to avoid a "prolonged and bloody civil war".

BERLIN (AP) -- German authorities have scrapped plans to cordon off part of the city of Stuttgart and shut its main station after discovering a suspected World War II bomb was actually an old water pipe....

Thin margins have some Canadian lenders rethinking decision to follow Bank of Montreal’s lead

Vietnam is a country where history confronts you on all sides - from memories of war to the palaces and monuments of the country's imperial era. Jenny Coad steps back in time.

Am Donnerstag blieben die favorisierten Niederländer bei der Einzelstrecken-WM der Eisschnellläufer in Heerenveen über die 1500 m der Herren noch ohne Medaille, über die 1000 m revanchierten sie sich dann aber und sicherten sich mit Stefan Groothuis und Kjeld Nuis gleich einen Doppelsieg. Für Groothuis war es der erste Sieg über 1000 m, auch bei den Frauen gab es eine Siegpremiere.

Doctors have been trying to create viruses (pictured) that are weak so they don't damage healthy cells but strong enough to destroy cancer cells.

Utl.: Korruption hat erst mit der Telekom-Privatisierung begonnen Wien (OTS) - "Die zu Tage getretenen Korruptionsfälle in der Telekom-Austria haben alle erst begonnen, nachdem die Telekom zum größten Teil privatisiert worden war. Und das auf Initiative der ÖVP. Es ist daher ...

Are fifteen million mobile phones enough to wage war on graft in Afghanistan?

Gilroy police called off a search Saturday for a woman believed to have been killed by her son, a veteran of the Iraq war suffering from PTSD.

Dario Cologna hat den Massenstart über 15 Kilometer im klassischen Stil gewonnen. Bester Deutscher beim Saisonfinale im schwedischen Falun war Jens Filbrich als Zwölfter. Tobias Angerer lief lange vorne mit.

SAN DIEGO (AP) -- Jason Russell may be the most public face of Invisible Children, the nonprofit group he co-founded to stop African war atrocities. He narrates a 30-minute video on warlord Joseph Kony that went viral on the Internet....

Israel’s American supporters are crying out for war against Iran. The entire Republican Party - with the exception of the intrepid Dr Ron Paul - is consumed by war fever bordering on the hysterical. Republican presidential front-runner Mitt Romney, whose foreign affairs experience is, to put it politely, limited, vowed unlimited military support for Israel and insinuated that Obama was an ... ...

WINNIPEG, Manitoba/LONDON (Reuters) - Canada's largest grain handler, Viterra , said on Thursday it has opened its books to potential buyers, setting the stage for a possible bidding war and sending...

"It's taken nasty dictatorships and a brutal civil war to keep Uganda off the tourist radar, but stability is returning and it won't be long ...

The next battle in the coffee war will be waged on the kitchen counter, writes Angela Moore.

In the war against obesity, one’s own fat cells may seem an unlikely ally, but new research suggests ordinary fat cells can be reengineered to burn calories.

CHICAGO (AP) -- Morphine and similar powerful painkillers are sometimes prescribed to recent war veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress along with physical pain, and the consequences can be tragic, a government study suggests....

The journalist died Feb. 16 at the age of 43 while covering the civil war in Syria for The New York Times.

La película de Scorsese tiene 11 nominaciones a los premios de la Academia, le sigue The artist, con 10, y War horse y Moneyball, con seis cada una

Letztes Jahr im September gab es ziemliche Aufregung unter den Physikern. Man hat bei einem Experiment am CERN Teilchen gemessen, die sich schneller als das Licht bewegt hatten. Damit hat eigentlich niemand gerechnet, denn die Relativitätstheorie sagt, dass so etwas nicht möglich ist - und sie gehört immer zu den experimentell am besten überprüften Theorien! Aber wer weiß - vielleicht ist ja do...

Wow, da bin ich doch etwas sprachlos. Daran, dass man bei OPERA wirklich überlichtschnelle Neutrinos gemessen hat, habe ich ja nie geglaubt, dafür gab es viel zu wenig Belege und auf der anderen Seite viel zu viel Physik die dagegen stand.Aber jetzt ist die Lösung, was es war, doch ziemlich ernüchternd: Ein fehlerhaftes Kabel war es. Eine Glasfaser-Verbindung zwischen der GPS-Kiste und Elektron...

It may or may not exist. But it'd be big. First The Daily said they had a hands-on with a prototype, and gave us a picture. Then Microsoft (via the Times) said it wasn’t so. Then ZDNet parsed Microsoft’s denial. Then The Daily defended its story. Then Microsoft went mum, but then piped up. Then The Verge called the whole thing World War III.

You may not be truly shocked by any single statistic in Tracie McMillan's new book, "The American Way of Eating: Undercover at Walmart, Applebee's, Farm Fields and the Dinner Table" -- but by the time you finish reading, you'll definitely feel the impact of her cumulative case.McMillan spent months exploring the American food system from three different angles: picking produce in California fie...

Vor 60 Jahren war die Arbeiterstadt Nowa Huta ein soziales Experiment. Die Fotos von Götz Diergarten zeigen sie heute – als Touristenattraktion und Stadtteil Krakaus.

Ohrringe haben eine lange Tradition, doch in den letzten Jahren war auffälliger Ohrschmuck fast verschwunden. Für den Sommer kündigt sich jetzt ein großes Comeback an.

A trio of appealing actors (Reese Witherspoon Tom Hardy and Chris Pine) is trapped in an action-spiked romcom (the guys are CIA agents vying for the same cute product analyzer) death-sentenced by a lack of humor heart and a coherent reason for being I could say more but do I...

Bankkunden müssen sich bald eine neue Kontonummer merken. Das Europäische Parlament hat den Weg für die alleinige Verwendung der sogenannten IBAN freigemacht. Sie war bisher nur für grenzüberschreitende Überweisungen nötig. Es gibt allerdings noch eine Schonfrist.

Adele räumt ab: Die britische Sängerin konnte am Sonntagabend in Los Angeles sechs Grammys mit nach Hause tragen und war die große Gewinnerin der Verleihung.

The media war can be a standard business competition or it can be a psychological warfare between nations.

Dr. Hans-Werner Bertelsen ist ein kritischer Zahnmediziner aus Bremen, der sich intensiv mit pseudomedizinische Therapien in der Medizin und insbesondere in der Zahnheilkunde auseinandergesetzt hat. Wie es um die Praxis der sogenannten Alternativmedizin bestellt ist, darum weiß er aus eigener Erfahrung. In jüngeren Jahren war er Mitarbeiter in einer Einrichtung, die die "ganzheitliche" F...

Die wegen des Kälteeinbruchs sprunghaft gestiegene Nachfrage hat den Preis für Heizöl kräftig in die Höhe getrieben. So teuer wie heute war Heizöl zuletzt im Sommer 2008.

Peter Christie was told a World War 2 story on a recent visit to Tuscany

Just three months after its triumphant launch, India’s $49 tablet computer is mired in an ugly public relations war

(Reuters) - The fun and games of the National Hockey League's All-Star weekend turned serious Saturday as league commissioner Gary Bettman and player's union chief Donald Fehr danced around questions about a looming labor war.

Un pura sangre de 12 años, es uno de los más de 150 actores equinos que participaron en la cinta postulada al Oscar "War Horse" y uno de los 14 que interpretan al carismático Joey

A PARDON for thousands of Irish soldiers who deserted from the Defence Forces to fight for the Allies in the second World War is on the way, Minister for Defence Alan Shatter has indicated.

Blog post by Mummery + SchnelleOri Gersht: This Storm Is What We Call ProgressMummery + Schnelle is pleased to announce that Ori Gersht's solo exhibition "This Storm Is What We Call Progress", will open at the Imperial War Museum in London on 25 January and continue until 29 April. The exhibition will feature the first UK screening of two recent films, "Evaders" and "Will You Dance For Me", and...

The war of words involving the two legends of the beautiful game continues to wage on, with the Argentine taking aim at his rival's advancing years and robotic demeanor

BEIJING (Reuters) - China is rapidly becoming a country on wheels and its crowded driving schools are racing to churn out licensed drivers as fast as cars roll off the assembly lines.

THE International Monetary Fund said it needs up to $500 billion more to pad its war chest as the debt crisis deepens.

World War Z, le prochain film très attendu de Brad Pitt, ne sortira qu'à Noël prochain, mais les producteurs seraient déjà en train de penser à une...

Brad Pitt's much-anticipated World War Z zombie flick won't be released until next Christmas, but producers are reportedly already thinking about turning the sci-fi adventure into a...

Las princesas también lloran, y si no que se lo digan a Kate Middleton. Embutida en un espectacular vestido largo de encaje, la duquesa de Cambridge acudió el pasado domingo acompañada de su marido, el príncipe Guillermo, al estreno en Londres de la última película de Steven Spielberg, 'War horse' (Caballo de batalla), que narra la intensa amistad entre un joven y su caballo durante la I Guerra...

Los duques de Cambridge, Guillermo y Catalina, acapararon anoche la atención mediática en el estreno en Londres de la película 'War Horse' (Caballo de guerra), de Steven Spielberg, junto con el equino protagonista del filme, Joey. A la alfombra roja, instalada en la plaza de Leicester Square, acudieron el director, los actores y también militares miembros de organizaciones benéficas que ayudan ...

 In another case of sports fan violence, a decorated war hero was brutally beaten by fans of the opposing team after a hockey game. INSIDE EDITION reports.

Früher war Ailton der beste Fußballer der Liga. Nun reist er ins RTL-Dschungelcamp. Wohl aus Geldsorgen – wie viele ehemalige Profis nach Karriereende. Von C. Spiller

Von der Energiewende nach Fukushima war im vergangenen Jahr an den Börsen fast nichts zu spüren. Die meisten Öko-Aktien stürzten ab wie Ikarus. Besonders in der Solarbranche herrschte Untergangsstimmung. Für 2012 ist keine Besserung in Sicht. Es könnte sogar noch schlimmer kommen.

Experts talk about the growing threat of cyber crime, espionage, and warfare, and how to thwart it.

ISTANBUL (AFP) - The war of words between France and Turkey escalated dramatically on Friday, when the Turkish premier accused Paris of committing genocide in Algeria and of stirring hatred of Muslims.Furious that French lawmakers had voted on Thursday to outlaw denial of the Armenian genocide in Ottoman Turkey in 1915, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan hit back directly at France's President...

Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Iftikhar Muhammed Chaudhry Friday said no takeover is possible in the country in his presence, stressing that Pakistan will now have supremacy of the Constitution.Heading a nine-member bench of the Supreme Court (SC) hearing the infamous memorandum scandal case, the CJ Chaudhry said, ‘Past are the days when the courts used to endorse unconstitutional measures; in...

Solar technology is the result of decades of global competition and collaboration—a trade war would undermine its future.

KARACHI - Awami National Party (ANP) Sindh President Shahi Syed said on Sunday the nation did not forget the 17th Amendment revolution of Munawar Hassan’s mullah-military alliance.He said that failed politicians would not get attention of the people by raising the issues of corruption and revolution in the country, saying the masses were suffering because of the US’s war against terror.He alleg...

Milken Institute report says New Zealand, Norway are models to emulate.

Industry already feels like they are 'at war,' according to one security expert.

Dank eines Doppelpacks von Vedad Ibisevic hat Hoffenheim in Nürnberg gewonnen. Es war ein ruppiges Spiel, in dem Schiedsrichter Jochen Drees gleich zwei Rote Karten zeigte.

As the U.S. completes its military withdrawal from Iraq, some say there are huge lessons to be learned about the limits of U.S. power.

Artists from the-Dream to Frank Ocean to the Weeknd have been revamping Casanova soul spiking their pillow talk with arty weirdness But Robin Thicke is a true believer In his bedroom it’s still 1974 champagne chilling in the bedside ice bucket Love After War dips into a range of decades-old styles from blaxploitation funk to groovy Al Green/Willie Mitchell...

The battle over the euro, or are they still fighting the Franco-Prussian War? The November employment report: Hold the champagne.

A skiing price war has erupted after tour operators slashed prices to Alpine resorts following no snow and increased competition from cheap resorts in Bulgaria.

Der Mannheimer Konzern will seine Markenvielfalt reduzieren. Durch Zukäufe von rund 80 Firmen war Bilfinger Berger in den Besitz von immer mehr Marken gekommen. Zu einer Einmarken-Strategie soll es aber nicht kommen.

L'autre jour, dans l'avion qui les ramenait de Tripoli vers Paris, Nicolas...

Jo-Wilfried Tsonga war chancenlos - Roger Federer entschied das Finale der ATP-Tennis-WM in drei Sätzen für sich.

Ready for a little lunchtime sexiness? If not, don't watch this.

Aldebaran Robotics lässt den Internet-Hasen Nabaztag von Violet weiterleben und vertreibt dessen aktuelle Variante Karotz. Das Unternehmen war bekanntgeworden durch seinen humanoiden Roboter Nao. (Aldebaran, Internet der Dinge)

An American university returned a 15th century painting to a Berlin museum on Monday, more than six decades after the valuable piece was stolen in the chaotic aftermath of the Second World War.

"We can never fully repay the debt we owe them but we can stop our busy lives, stand and remember."

Fallende Renditen auf italienische Bonds und die Hoffnung auf eine neue Regierung hatten den Dax zunächst ins Plus gehievt. Doch der Index musste einen Großteil seiner Gewinne wieder abgeben - Schuld war ein Gerücht.

Colorado police arrested a 31-year-old man for allegedly threatening to blow up a Best Buy when he was told it was sold out of the new release ...

The M5 crash led to safety campaigners urging the Coalition to abandon plans to increase the 70mph limit to 80mph.

Die Liebe zum Käfer kann weit gehen: Zwei Freunde fahren im alten VW beliebte Strecken der fünfziger Jahre ab. Doch die Freundschaft zu "Rexi" war schon in Gefahr.

Dr Drew Pinsky may be the Col Kurtz of the War on Drugs He's gotten off the boat and set up his own compound for his Celebrity Rehab empire at the Pasadena Recovery Center Conventional medical practices be damned — he rules a houseful of fame junkies who wander

Idrissou erzielt drei Tore für Mönchengladbach Borussia Mönchengladbach hat dank seines herausragenden Neuzugangs Mohamadou Idrissou ein Testspiel gegen die gastgebende Nationalmannschaft Luxemburgs mit 4:2 (2:1) gewonnen. Vor etwa 2000 Zuschauern in Mondorf-les-Bains traf Idrissou dreimal (45., 67., 68. Minute). Außer dem vom SC Freiburg zur Borussia gewechselten Angreifer war für Mönchengladb...

A Federal Appellate Court has ruled against AOL and given Advertise.com the right to continue doing business under their generic domain name. AOL claimed Advertise.com violates their trademark on Advertising.com. AOL's over-reaching claims also scuttled a $1.4 million auction sale of Ad.com.

For all the talk about the positive impact that mobile technology can have on education, officials in the East Java are not convinced. From the Jakarta Post:  The Kediri Education Office has launched raids across schools in the East Java town to crack down on students bringing cell phones to class.Education officials and teachers at 192 schools have also begun searching students' bags, motorcyc...