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Gaza - The Dilemma By Morgan Strong December 27, 2008 (Originally published December 15, 2008) Editor’s Note: The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has returned to the news, as Israeli warplanes blasted away Saturday at security compounds in Hamas-ruled Gaza, killing at least 155 and...

Gaza: The Untold Story By Ramzy Baroud It’s incomprehensible that a region such as the Gaza Strip, so rich with history, so saturated with defiance, can be reduced to a few blurbs, sound bites and reductionist assumptions, convenient but deceptive, vacant of any relevant meaning, or even...

Scientists plan to ignite tiny man-made star It is science’s star experiment: an attempt to create an artificial sun on earth — and provide an answer to the world’s impending energy shortage By Richard Gray 27 Dec 2008 While it has seemed an impossible goal for nearly 100 years...

Holidaying feds leave bathers waiting for suspect sunscreen list Melissa Fyfe December 28, 2008 AS YOU head to the beach this summer, perhaps you would like to know which sunscreens may be toxic and which may not? Well, bad luck. The Federal Health Department has also gone on...

Economy 'on knife-edge' as Japan faces deflation fear Leo Lewis December 27, 2008 Japan’s economy — the second-largest in the world and a barometer of global consumer demand — was described yesterday as being “on a knife-edge” amid fears that it might plum- met into deflation within...

British banks may face second credit crunch in the New Year Rising unemployment may prompt new capital raisings By Mathieu Robbins and Sean Farrell December 27 2008 The worsening economic slowdown is increasing fears that Britain's banks will have to raise still more capital next year...

Scientists Add Kidney Damage To The List of Mobile Phone Ills By: Sarah Harris 12/13/99 Mobile phones were at the centre of a new health scare last night after claims they can seriously damage the heart and kidneys. Earlier reports have already linked their use to brain tumours...

Want to Live Longer? Start Laughing More A good chuckle doesn't just cheer us up. Doctors are discovering that it can ease pain and even help fight disease. By Roger Dobson December 25, 2008. Laughing at Charlie Chaplin can be a serious business. Chortling at a funny film may seem to...

Housing market crash has led to 32,000 estate agents losing their job More than 30,000 estate agents have lost their jobs since the start of the credit crisis, according to research which highlights how the housing crash has wreaked havoc across the economy. By Harry Wallop, 26 Dec 2008...

The 2009 recession could be so severe it sets Britain's economy back five years, according to the most chilling warning yet on the scale of the looming slump. By Edmund Conway, 26 Dec 2008 Households must not rule out the prospect that the UK's economy shrinks by between 5 per cent and...

Analysts say 15 retailers face collapse within month Sales start today as shops counter poor pre-Christmas By Martin Hickman, Friday, 26 December 2008 Up to 15 regional and national retail chains face going bankrupt within the next month, insolvency experts warned yesterday, as one...

China sends unemployed graduates to teach countryside peasants in ‘Mao policy’ Malcolm Moore December 25, 2008 Forty years after millions of students were sent to the provinces during the Cultural Revolution, the economic downturn has forced students to head for rural areas once again...

US holiday season retail sales plunge amid recession Friday December 26, 2008 dismal Christmas-New Year shopping season for American retailers -- that's what a preliminary poll showed Friday as the United States reeled from a prolonged recession that has cut jobs and spending. Total...

Little Blue Pills Among the Ways CIA Wins Friends in Afghanistan By Joby Warrick Friday, December 26, 2008 The Afghan chieftain looked older than his 60-odd years, and his bearded face bore the creases of a man burdened with duties as tribal patriarch and husband to four younger women. His...

Consumer advocacy group calls for Google to adopt an easy zero day data retention "opt out" provision Jason Mick 12-26-2008 One of the most controversial topics online is privacy. On the one hand there are the advertisers and content providers (and those who do both) like Google. They...

Somebody Is Giving Somali Pirates State-Level Intelligence Information By Victor Thorn Dispatched from a mother ship in the Gulf of Aden, a dozen pirates toting rocket-propelled grenades, AK 47s, and grappling hooks leap from speedboats to seize control of another ship, which they then...

Initial jobless benefit claims rise 30,000 to 586,000 in latest week Rex Nutting December 24, 2008 WASHINGTON— The nation’s labor market continued to worsen in recent weeks, with the unemployment lines stretching to the longest in 26 years, the Labor Department reported Wednesday...

ONE THIRD OF BANKS COULD COLLAPSE IN 2009 Paul Joseph Watson December 24, 2008 Financial analyst Ralph Silva of TowerGroup told CNBC this morning that he expects no less than one third of banks to fail in 2009 and that anything up to a thousand could collapse if they don’t merge. Silva...

Pak in war frenzy; intensifies troop movement Lahore, Dec 25 2008 In a move which could heighten tension between New Delhi and Islamabad, Pakistan has purportedly moved its tenth brigade to Lahore and ordered its third Armed Brigade to march towards Jhelum. Islamabad has also...

India Nuke Command In Secret Meeting Dec-25-2008 NEW DELHI -- Pakistan media has derided their government for ineffective diplomatic initiatives. In contrast, India's diplomatic 'offensive' is seen as a move to muster world support and to manage the impact in the event of an India-Pakistan...