Dad takes on 30 gatecrashers with a whip, now faces charges

30 aggressive gatecrashers storm a home party and the angry owner drives them off with a whip. Guess who faces charges of using excessive force?  The home owner, of course.This is exactly what happened to...

US releases border strike footage

The US, saying it was actingin "self defence," has released footage of a controversial air raid that Pakistan sayskilled 11 of its...

Killing Children In The Name of Justice

OPINION PIECE:Disclosure: I'd like to say up front that I have moral and religious issues against the death penalty. To me, it's not our decision whether or not to kill people - that is purely the domain of one's...

Mass Graves Unearthed in Colombia

Once again, the earth spits up proof of conflicts that most of us never hear about. Columbia has been involved in a complicated civil war (are any of them simple?) between the existing government and right- and left-wing rebel groups. As peace deals begin to emerge, stories...

Bush defends Israel's right to self-defence

"Russia and the European Union condemned Israel's strikes in Lebanon on Thursday as a dangerous escalation of the Middle East conflict but the United States said Israel had the right to self defense."

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