Police, judge, and prosecutor visit Baby Doc's hotel. Academics and students have been unshackled. White House makes it marginally easier to visit Cuba. Fascinating notes on Stuxnet and how Siemens helped the U.S. and Israel destablizie Iran's centrifuges. Barak leaves to form new political party;
Environmentalist and photographer J. Henry Fair wants you to stop buying plastic bottles, driving to work, and leaving the lights on. With government controlled by polluting special interests, Fair believes we must vote with our dollars to curb environmental ruin.
Berlusconi probed over dealings with teenage dancer he told police was Hosni Mubarak's relative. Aerial photos of Port-au-Prince before and after the Jan. 12, 2010, earthquake. Ours is a miraculous country. Chinese driver gets life in prison for skipping tolls for eight months. Pictures from Brazil,
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week, a woman seeking men from Blighty meets the Connecticut Britons.
Lengthy period of deadlock, tension expected after Lebanese government crumbles. Good, brief primer on Lebanon's crisis (though from December). Events in Tunisia are symptomatic of what lies ahead. Arab rulers have striven to kill politics in all its forms. Honduras and Jamaica at odds over death of boat
Engine 28's Roy W. Chelsen is the first firefighter to die since the signing of the Sept. 11 responders' bill. "I want us to live up to her expectations. I want our democracy to be as good as Christina imagined it." Obama in Tucson. Following
The defense of Jared Lee Loughner may depend on an insanity argument--after Hinckley, that outcome has become less likely. U.S. claims New York City charged millions to Medicaid for unnecessary services that sometimes contradicted medical advice. If the world's population had the same amount of living
North Korea, complete arseholes. Revelations from Wikileaks reduced to three points. Letter from Brazil on current views on TV Globo and from the president's office of favela violence. Saudi Arabia releases vulture accused of spying for Mossad, saying Saudis too have espionage animals. Hitchens: Besides obsessive and homicidal
Fabian Nuñez gave employee at the prison in which his son is incarcerated a Kindle, which was immediately returned. From the moment it was introduced in America, end-of-term clemency has remained controversial. TMN's Leah Finnegan considers Loughner's warning signs, explores what Pima could have
DeLay gets three years in prison for money-laundering convictions. Basque separatists ETA declare permanent cease-fire in Spain; Spain wants dissolution, weapons dissolved. Terrorist plots against Europe declining; Islamists responsible for only one of 2009's 294 attacks. Australian prime minister's pilots suspended for long night&
