The central fact in the court-martial of Staff Sgt. Raymond L. Girouard is undisputed: Three unarmed Iraqi men detained during an operation northwest of Baghdad on May 9 were shot and killed.

Euclid - A Lyndhurst woman is looking for a home for a cat missing a tail, an eye but has six extra toes. Carol Salango said someone cut off the cat's tail and smashed her head so hard that her right eye will have to be removed

The Canadian wind power market has evolved from relative obscurity to become one of the world's largest and fastest growing. Large investments between 2007-15 expected to rank Canada among the world's five or six largest wind power markets.

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International law prohibits the use of the death penalty for crimes committed by people younger than 18, yet some countries continue to execute child offenders or sentence them to death. As a step towards the total abolition of the death penalty around

Greek Cypriots earned international praise on Friday for tearing down an emblem of the island's division but Turkey appeared in no rush to respond to calls to remove its troops from the area

"Israeli commandos had been operating on Iraqi territory for more than a year, the focus of their activities being the assassination of Iraqi scientists and intellectuals.

Despite the crimes against humanity, Iraq under Saddam Hussein was a happy little place for humans compared to today: Petty crime was non-existent; there were superb services compared to Iraq's neighbors. Saddam Hussein's Ba'ath Party not only espoused ec

THE remains of five Australians who died in a Garuda Indonesia plane crash last week will be brought home aboard a Royal Australian Airforce plane, possibly on Wednesday, Foreign Minister Alexander Downer has said.

THE braking system of a doomed Garuda airliner malfunctioned the day before it crash-landed in Yogyakarta, killing 21 people, including five Australians, it emerged yesterday.