Russia investors flee after conflict

"Investors have pulled funds out of Russia at the fastest rate since the country's 1998 debt crisis, in the wake of the conflict with Georgia, official figures have shown.Official figures from the Central Bank of Russia showed yesterday that the country's foreign exchange...

MI5 seeks gay spies in attempt to expand its recruiting base

M15, the British equivalent of the CIA, has instituted a new policy of actively seeking gay men and women as new recruits. The agency says its part of a wider mission to attract more diverse recruits from throughout society rather than just selecting people from Oxford or...

NowPublic on Techvibes

Headline: NowPublic - Now with Trust and Twitter"Vancouver-based news bookmarking and citizen journalism site NowPublic relaunched its website earlier this month and added a few new features that Mashable picked up on today. The new site design is less conservative that...

Judge’s ban on the use of the word ‘rape’ at trial

"Judge’s ban on the use of the word ‘rape’ at trial reflects trend"

E-mail warns of bloody weekend in Mexican border city

"CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (AP) -- The streets of Ciudad Juarez are empty after police became aware of an e-mail warning that this weekend will be "the bloodiest" in the Mexican border city....

Crime rate falling ever faster, but drug and gun offences increase

"· Police record 9% decline in year to September · More use of firearms as threats, but fewer deathsThe fall in the annual crime rate in England and Wales is accelerating, with a drop of 9% recorded by the police in the year to September 2007, according to Home Office...

The Slow Slide To Barbarity

"Laura Carlsen is the director of the IRC Americas Program at www.americaspolicy.org in Mexico City, where she has been a writer and political analyst for more than two decades. July 4, 2020. U.S. Border Security officials announced that a record 193 IFs (Immigrant Invading...

Democrats drop insistence on Iraq withdrawal timeline

" WASHINGTON — Scrambling to send President Bush an emergency war spending bill he will sign, Democratic leaders have decided to drop their insistence on a timeline for withdrawing U.S. forces from Iraq. The move — which comes just days after senior Democrats insisted...

US is defeated in Iraq: Zawahiri

"Al-Qaeda's second-in-command Ayman al-Zawahiri said a US congressional bill calling for a troop withdrawal from Iraq was proof of Washington's defeat, according to a web video posted on Saturday. "This bill reflects American failure and frustration," Zawahiri said. "But this...

Saudi King Declines to Receive Iraqi Leader

"In a serious rebuff to U.S. diplomacy, King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia has refused to receive Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki on the eve of a critical regional summit on the future of the war-ravaged country, Iraqi and other Arab officials said yesterday. The Saudi...