Taliban militants are beheading and burning their way through Pakistan's picturesque Swat Valley, and residents say the insurgents now control most of the mountainous region outside the lawless tribal areas where jihadists thrive. Complete Story...
Masayuki Miura's restaurant is radically out of step with modern Japanese tastes. No Australian beef hamburgers, no mountains of fried Brazilian chicken, no imported steaks. Not a Chinese cabbage in sight.
The recent spate of drug-related killings in Nogales, Mexico, is driving apart what have long been close-knit communities, discouraging some residents of its Arizona sister city from crossing the border.
Just a year ago, investors were swaggering as the stock market surged to an all-time high. Now, almost everyone on Wall Street and Main Street seems to be shuddering amid a frightening reversal of fortune that has erased $8.3 trillion in shareholder wealth in the past 366 days.
As anxiety on Wall Street led banks and other investors to hoard cash last week, a different kind of market fear gripped cities across the Southeast.
Imagine living with a 50 percent chance of being enslaved or threatened with death by an armed group. One-in-three odds of being tortured or wounded. A 12 percent chance of being sexually assaulted multiple times.
At one end of the Black Sea coast of Georgia was an ordinary day at the beach — bathers sauntering to the water, adults with towels and umbrellas, children trailing them with inflatable rings.
The landslide election victory of Cambodia's ruling party puts the country under one party-rule and risks damaging its fragile democracy, rights groups said Wednesday.
The gloomiest outlook for the economy in 35 years may be forcing Americans to live with what they have and save up for what they want.
The stakes are high but enthusiasm appears low as Pakistanis face one of the most crucial elections in their history.
The war is visible in the graying hair and shrunken arms of hungry children whose parents have fled fighting as many as six times this year alone.
In the lab, psychology professor David Zald studies how fast adults react to fear. At his home this time of year, he watches kids adjust to it.
In the lab, psychology professor David Zald studies how fast adults react to fear.
A petrified woman scrambles to hide at the sight of a van, fearing the return of her husband's killers. A 20-year-old man won't leave his home, in case the militants who tried to abduct him are lying in wait. Gangs of gunmen demand exorbitant "taxes" from businessmen.
Frightened by raids last year at six Swift & Co. plants, illegal immigrants in the nation's meatpacking towns are preparing for their possible arrest.
For months, Earline Stelljes kept a brave face, scrubbing the black mold from her floor and eying the drywall sagging precariously from her bathroom ceiling.
Mike Sunnucks, writing for the Phoenix Business Journal, reports that Arizona state and local police "say they have broad plans to deal with social unrest, including trouble resulting from economic distress.
A shoe is an honest choice. Civilized. Convenient. Sends a simple "you're an artless jackass, and everyone knows it" kind of message.
Has this department ever been anything more than a symbol?
Forsyth, GA - A Religious Reflection See Jer 31:10; Is 35:4 Nations, hear the message of the Lord. Our Savior is coming. Have no fear.
Any dog owner will tell you that canines are compassionate and can sense human emotions. But a new study suggests that dogs' emotions are closer to ours than once thought. According to a study published Dec.
LOS ANGELES - Britney Spears may be back on top with a hit single, primetime spots on TV shows around the world and an album that may lead the U.S. charts next week, but her mother, Lynne, has admitted that during the dark times, she feared for Britney's life.
How do you fight something as abstract as fear? This economy has made me understand — but really understand — Franklin Roosevelt's famous declaration "Let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is — fear itself." I always knew in a book-learning …
While the research paper from September below is based on Christians the understanding of what conservatives and liberals fear can be appilied globally. (Saw this on the Daily show)
Let's not be pretentious here; these are just a bunch of unbelievably disturbing animals. Why? Because when it comes right down to the line, there are only two things that nature is really, really good at: Majestic landscapes, and unrelenting horror.
It's Thanksgiving Day. America is grateful today .Their reasons may differ but their sentiment does not. Mumbai is writing in pain, drenched in blood. Gratitude is a distant emotion there.
I read yesterday that an employee at WalMart got trampled to death by the Black Friday mob storming through the doors at 5:00 a.m.
The American economy has become a kind of piñata - lots of treats in there, but no guarantee that you will get any, making people prone to frenzy. It was a tragedy, yet it did not feel like an accident.
Swiss bankers are not known as paragons of transparency and moral accountability, so it's a nice surprise to read that the top officials of UBS, the foundering financial institution recently bailed out by the Swiss government, will forgo twenty-seven million dollars in compensa …
Nov. 26 - The evidence, which Homeland Security officials admit is uncorroborated and unsubstantiated, flooded headlines today as mainstream news outlets seized the opportunity for one more intriguing Al Qaeda-terrorist attack story formula.
One of two bombers who struck in Baghdad Monday was a mentally disabled woman whose explosives were detonated by remote control, officials said. More Articles
Elana Rozenman discusses her non-profit "trust" (Emun) organization. It is devoted to mutual trust and understanding among Jews and reaching out to Moslems, Christians and especially to women. She also discusses her son's recuperation from a terror attack.
Ever since Richard Nixon's infamous "Southern strategy" of 1968, Republicans have won power largely by convincing voters that strange and exotic others were to blame for all their ills. It's the feminists' fault, they said. Or the blacks.
They'll be back. Don't think for a minute that they won't.
It seems there are many people in this country who think we don't need change and they are living in a bottomless vortex of fear that has been brought to a head by our recent election. What is it in Obama's message of change that frightens these people so much?
"A surreal scientific blunder last week raised a huge question mark about the temperature records that underpin the worldwide alarm over global warming.
Jon Stewart hosted Bill O'Reilly as Thursday night's guest in a sometimes heated exchange during which the Daily Show host all-but openly mocked his guest.
Excerpt: There's plenty to be paranoid about these days.
You have to give Rush Limbaugh a perverse kind of credit. At least when he is demonizing Barack Obama, fabricating Obama policies, blaming Obama for single-handedly causing the recession and the stock market crash, he doesn't pretend to be fair.
BACK in the days when the Soviets and the Americans were regularly testing atom bombs, they exploded two devices simultaneously, knocking the Earth off its axis and sending it on a collision course with the sun.