France strikes over retirement-age bump; South Africa quits striking over pay adjustment. Netanyahu's ministers complain he's keeping them in the dark, giving them nothing to leak. Op: Contemporary war is a battle between the impersonal and personal--robots vs. suicide terrorists. Data-mining software works
Peace experts urge Abbas, Netanyahu, and Obama to have a Plan B. Austrian conservative party launches game targeting minarets and Muslims. Despite technology, printed propaganda remains Army's best communication tactic. United Nations now says 240 women, girls, and babies may have been raped in DR Congo town. Commodity
Op: No one is sure what the war's end means; few are willing to wager a guess. In Somalia's civil war, pirate gangs aid both the government and the insurgents--and become a political force. Researchers investigate the use of diabetes drug metformin for prevention of
National Geographic pictures of Pakistan's floodwaters. Op: Pakistan's problem isn't too much water. It's too little water--and one day it could cause a war. In a Missouri prison, inmates find relief through quilting for charity. Twenty-five percent of wrongful convictions
In the past seven years, life for Iraqis has gone from oppressed--but unambiguous--to chaotic and now, apprehensive. As some mosques invite F.B.I. agents to prayer services, Muslim leaders wonder if protection could be mistaken for surveillance. It's September, the numbers are in, and it
Detained Yemenis' flying behavior "odd and unusual," but not related to terrorism, say U.S. officials. Fearing U.N. report charging it with mid-'90s genocide in Congo, Rwanda threatens to yank troops from Darfur. Packer: Obama's speech marked "a rare moment of
Investigators find L.A. County officials have covered up "potentially dozens" of child deaths from abuse or neglect. Iraq invaded Kuwait in August 1990; 20 years later, the U.S. withdraws forces from Iraq; who won? "It doesn't mean people just start running around and
Airline passengers detained for possible terrorist dry run; Pakistani two-star general yanked off flight for "inappropriate remarks." Methods behind the making of tables of tide times and heights. "World's most high-profile climate change skeptic" to U-turn and advocate for spending $100
Though research may now be in peril, the first stem cell therapy trials in humans are fast approaching. Adam Clayton Powell IV takes aim at Charles Rangel, who usurped his father, who he mostly knew through letters. O.E.D. signals a full move to the web--its latest print
"Dropout factory" label works for colleges, too, and low-income minority students are disproportionately steered toward them. Two days after last week's anti-PowerPoint op-ed by a U.S. colonel, N.A.T.O. command sacked him. Second Mexican border-state mayor assassinated in two
