The failed attempt by the New Life Children's Refuge to take 33 Haitian children into the Dominican Republic has shed light on the activities of groups that disregard the rules of international 'adoption'. 　　Even before the earthquake, Haiti was known as a nation of orphans. Now there are countless more.... More

　　How the mighty have fallen. Just a few years ago, an overconfident Bush administration expected to oust Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, pacify the country, install a compliant client government, privatize the economy, and establish Iraq as the political and military headquarters for a dominating U.S. presence in the Middle East.... More

　　US President Barack Obama does have a foreign policy. It's called war. 　　The President has not defined any real difference between his hawkish approach to international issues and that of his predecessor, former US President George W. Bush. 　　Where's the change we can believe in? 　　Bush left a legacy of... More

　　Allegations that the Israeli secret service, Mossad, was behind the killing of Hamas commander Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in Dubai are gaining strength. 　　The accusation originated with Hamas after the 49-year-old was found dead in a hotel in Dubai last month. 　　Israel, unsurprisingly, has neither confirmed nor denied that Mossad operatives carried... More

　　For more than half a century, the Mossad has been blamed for numerous killings around the world, and is often at the centre of conspiracy theories, including those surrounding the assassination of John F. Kennedy, the 1998 Lockerbie bombing and the 911 attacks in the US. 　　While some of its... More

　　"This was a big one. A really big one,'' said Dr. Tim Dixon, geophysics professor at the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science in Miami, speaking of the magnitude 8.8 earthquake that struck near Chile Saturday morning. 　　How thunderous is 8.8 quake on the Richter scale? The energy released... More

　　For weeks, the U.S. public followed the biggest offensive of the Afghanistan War against what it was told was a "city of 80,000 people" as well as the logistical hub of the Taliban in that part of Helmand. That idea was a central element in the overall impression built up... More

　　Up to 20 million people in Bangladesh are at risk of suffering early deaths because of arsenic poisoning - the legacy of a ill-planned water project that created a devastating public health catastrophe. 　　In the 1970s, up to 250,000 children a year died in the country from drinking dirty water;... More

　　Human rights group Amnesty International has called on China to publicly state how many people it puts to death each year. 　　In its annual report on the use of the used of the death penalty worldwide, published on Tuesday, Amnesty said the number of people executed by Beijing last year... More

　　Personal information concerning the private lives of almost 1,000 British Muslim university students is to be shared with US intelligence agencies in the wake of the Detroit bomb scare. 　　The disclosure has outraged Muslim groups and students who are not involved in ‘extremism’ but have been targeted by police and... More

　　On February 12 of this year, U.S. forces entered a village in the Paktia Province in Afghanistan and, after surrounding a home where a celebration of a new birth was taking place, shot dead two male civilians (government officials) who exited the house in order to inquire why they had... More

　　Alberto Athie, a former Mexican priest, took the difficult decision to leave the Roman Catholic Church following his investigations into a high-profile pedophile priest. 　　He holds up the letter he wrote 13 years ago to Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict XVI. It details senior Mexican priest Marcial Maciel's sexual... More

　　The recent exposés from Iraq and Afghanistan--with their shocking images, appalling laughter, and video-game ethos--would have shocked the conscience of the world in an earlier era. After all, when what happened at My Lai was exposed during the Vietnam War, it shocked millions of people who hadn't been thinking very... More