Following a series of political assassinations of Afghanistan's political leaders, the United States' military officers have seen dramatic improvement in securing the country. Following the assassination of Osama bin Laden, President Obama announced the hasty drawdown of the extra "surge" troops he ordered to finish off the al-Qaeda regime. However, there have been several recent acts of violence that have some officials worried. Following the assassination of Ahmed Wali Karzai, the president's half-brother, a suicide car bomber attacked a police headquarters, killing twelve policemen and a ch...

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... on July 16th after a pipeline owned by China National Petroleum Corporation exploded in the Yellow Sea, immediately sparking a 15-hour fire consisting of 100-foot flames (Uncoverage). China's crisis is one of a lesser degree than the crisis in the Gulf, according to the Associated Press, who reported that the ... that the storage tank had a capacity of 27.7 million gallons and had just refilled. According to them, more oil has been collected in the cleanup process than was reported to have been leaked. The explosion occurred after workers continually injected an agent to strip sulfur fro...

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... openings nationwide and weakened his job approval standing with the public. Obama vowed to begin a $500 million initiative which will use technological innovations to create jobs and spur growth in clean energy and advanced manufacturing. To reach these goals, the government will join teams with universities and corporations to jumpstart the manufacturing sector, specifically targeting cutting-edge research and ... quality jobs, and make our businesses more competitive," Obama said in the address, which was taped at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. During his visit, Obama was in...

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... help you succeed. You will also have to talk to your family or the important people in your life. How will this affect them? How are you going to make sure that you set aside quality time just for them? What can they do to support you? Including them and letting them know that ... you will need your help as you take on extra responsibilities will help them to help you while making them a part of this new chapter of your life. The Question Of ... Time Organization is the name of the game, and you need to use your time wisely. Classes may only take a few hours a week, but what about assig...

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The trial of Dr. Conrad Murray, the personal physician of the late Michael Jackson, took a turn for the worse after the 911 call was played to jurors on September 29th. Murray chose not to call for an ambulance for nearly thirty minutes after he first realized that Jackson needed medical attention - a fact that prosecutors are calling an attempt at a cover-up (Los Angeles Times ... ). Jackson's security guard, Alberto Alvarez, took the stand against Murray, claiming that when he walked in the room, he saw Jackson's lifeless body on the ... reaction" and needed to be taken to the hospital. How...

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... shot by pirates, according to his wife Tiffany. The couple was riding jet skis on Falcon Lake, when they wandered onto the Mexican side, even though it is a known stronghold for the Zeta drug cartel (AOL News). Tiffany claims that the couple had gone to the other side of the lake that straddles the Texas-Mexico border to take pictures of ... a small church when a band of pirates opened fire on them (Owens). According to her, one of the bullets struck her husband in the back of the head, knocking him from his jet ski. She attempted to pull his body from the water but was forced to retrea...

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... death, Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Michael Pastor sentenced Murray to the maximum of 4 years in prison. However, under the new state law regarding conditions in state prisons, Murray will serve time in the LA County Jail rather than in the state prison. Even at that, a spokesman for the county Sheriff's Department said Murray would only spend a maximum of two years behind bars, with ... and is and remains dangerous" (Ryan). Judge Pastor went on to criticize Murray's tactics of administering surgical anesthetic for insomnia as "horrible medicine" practice, citing that Murray w...

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The Occupy movement that began months ago in New York and has since grasped hold of the rest of the country turned violent for the first time on November 2nd in Oakland when a small group of protestors smashed the windows of a Wells Fargo bank branch during a protest of wealth inequalities. The Occupy Oakland movement scheduled a noon rally in front of City Hall and then a free lunch afterward. The day's events were planned to wrap up with a "general strike mass convergence, rally, and labor cookout." Each of these were intended to be peaceful protests, but a small faction began passing out fl...

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... 's living and medical expenses, for chartered airfare, luxury hotels, and a rental house in Santa Barbara, California (Breen). Edwards' relationship with Baron was explored in great detail during his hearing on Friday. Baron, or "Person D" as he is referred to in the case made a $1,000 case payment accompanied by a written note: "Old Chinese saying: use cash, not credit cards." Lisa Blue Baron, Baron's widow, was questioned ... on six counts, including conspiracy, issuing false statements, and violating campaign contribution laws, he pleaded not guilty. If convicted, Edwards is looking a...

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Protestors in Cairo finally hit their tipping point after Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak named a vice president, Omar Suleiman - the first to be appointed since Mubarak took office nearly thirty years ago. Frustration has been building for several years about Mubarak's reign, which most Egyptians see as corrupt, heavy-handed, and neglectful of increasing poverty. Protestors were enraged at their president's move, which ... they see as an attempt to set up a successor (Hadid). Since the announcement, Cairo has been engulfed in chaos. Looting and lawlessness ran rampant through the ... with ...

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... sludge burst from its reservoir last week, killing eight people. The European Union and environmental groups are worried that the sludge could spread down the Danube River, resulting in long-term consequences for many nations. Emergency workers are currently trying to build temporary barriers to slow down the sludge before it reaches the Danube River. They will then scoop out as much ... by those who caused the damage," Orban said. "We have well-founded reasons to believe that there were people who knew about the dangerous weakening of the reservoir wall, but for personal reasons they t...

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Millions of hotels across the United States nonchalantly discard their visitors' once-used bars of soap every day. In fact, hundreds of millions of soap bars are discarded each year in North American alone. As relatively wealthy Americans, no has thought anything of it - until Derreck Kayongo launched the Global Soap Project (Ruffins). The project began in the early 1990s after Kayongo's first hotel stay in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Ugandan native panicked when he noticed his bathroom soap was being replenished every day despite the fact that he only got one or two uses out of the bars (...

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... spending. Consider the following statistics: • The world spends one trillion dollars in armaments while 800 people million live in extremely bad poverty, 770 million people do not have food for an active working life, 100 million people are without shelter, one billion people do not have safe drinking water and 14 million children five years and below die each years because of ... foreign direct investments. • Two thirds of world trade are controlled by multinational corporations. • The top five multinational corporations control 70 percent of the global market for consumer durabl...

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... spending. Consider the following statistics: - The world spends one trillion dollars in armaments while 800 million people live in extremely bad poverty, 770 million people do not have food for an active working life, 100 million people are without shelter, one billion people do not have safe drinking water and 14 million children five years and below die each years because of poverty ... stock of foreign direct investments. - Two thirds of world trade are controlled by multinational corporations. - The top five multinational corporations control 70 percent of the global market for cons...

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... believe that the continued ingestion of foods that contain high doses of preservatives may also lead to the disease. Whatever the ultimate cause for the cancer might be, one thing is certain. More information must be distributed to men. They need to understand and recognize their ... To confirm a cancer diagnosis, most physicians will typically run one or more of the following tests: Breast x-ray (mammogram), which looks for unusual changes in the breast area; Ultrasound to determine the solidity of any identified lumps; Needle aspiration, which removes cells from the affected tissue t...

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A landlord of a Philadelphian apartment discovered four mentally handicapped people chained in the basement when he went to investigate a short circuit on October 15th. Turgut Gozleveli discovered dogs locked inside of the boiler room and four adults hiding underneath a blanket. They were hunched together in a space not tall enough for an adult to stand, surrounded in human waste with only a jug of orange juice (Hoye). He unchained them while asking questions about their identity, but he didn't receive any answers. Believing them to be illegal immigrants, Gosleveli called in the police who qui...

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... the incident stating, "I should have killed you." Huguely faces first-degree murder and five other charges if he is found guilty of killing Love (FOX News). Huguely entered Love's apartment in May of 2010, where he alleged bashed Love's head against the wall until she passed out and eventually died. The defense claims that Love's death resulted from cardiopulmonary failure after ... Huguely's attorneys, the blood found at the base of Love's brain came from forcefully administering CPR (FOX News). Huguely and Love dated for two years before the relationship went sour, as displayed by the...

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... but the Republican Party is hoping to add a more likeable candidate to the ballot (Hunt). Christie, the former Massachusetts governor, is known for his budget-cutting policies. He unsuccessfully ran for presidency in 2008, which positions him well for the upcoming election as the Republican Party has a history of nominating candidates who have previously lost. Earlier, Christie turned down the chance to ... quickly withdrew from the race, and Minnesota Representative, Michele Bachmann, fell to the background after announcing her candidacy (Hunt). From a political point of view, Christie...

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... home because he said he had no money for a burial or a funeral. The missing body is not hard to believe, though, because following the earthquake, bodies were poorly handled in the chaos (Troutman). Waggoner's family has not been given permission to visit him in prison. However, they were allowed to provide him with food and water (WMUR). He is still waiting to be transferred ... to the National Penitentiary in Haiti after his trial at Port Au Prince. The National Penitentiary is notorious for its dangerous atmosphere and poor conditions (MMRC). Despite his current ordeal, Waggoner ... ...

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... recently come out with the recommendation that medical professionals should increase routine testing in the U.S. for chronic hepatitis B. Hepatitis B is a main cause of liver cancer and disease. The recommendation suggests that testing be done on all persons born in Africa and Asia and that it also be done on others in the at-risk population, such as men who have sex with men and ... injection drug users. The recommendations sent out by the CDC, for the first time, come with guidelines for managing chronically infected patients of hepatitis B. "Chronic hepatitis B affects the ... is th...

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... ," Damien Echols, Jessie Misskelley, Jr., and Jason Baldwin were released from prison, where they were currently serving out their sentences for the murder of three second-graders in West Memphis, Arkansas in 1993. Steven Branch, Christopher Byers, and Michael Moore were found dead in a ditch with their bodies mutilated and hog-tied by their own shoestrings. Police immediately suspected Echols, Misskelley, and Baldwin, claiming ... given the death sentence because he was believed to be the ringleader while the other two allegedly involved were sentenced to life in prison, said he was "ve...

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... her mouth with duct tape to suffocate her, and then dumping her deceased body in the woods as prosecutors claimed. The two-year-old Caylee went missing on June 16, 2008. Casey then partied for the next month before being forced by her mother to report her child's disappearance ... , "right down to the cause of death" (Alvarez). Baez approached the jury with a different story. The defense argued that Caylee accidentally drowned in the family swimming pool, and her panicked grandfather, George Anthony, helped Casey to conceal the death. Furthermore, they argued that Casey had been sexually...

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... largest exporter of oil and the third largest exporter of natural gas on earth. The "Snow White" undersea reservoir, 300 miles north of the Arctic Circle and located in Hammerfest, the northernmost city in the world, pipes gas from the sea bottom (Reiss). Despite being one of the world's leading exporters of both oil and natural gas, Norway is now being ... closely scrutinized for research purposes. As Washington prepares to revamp offshore drilling safety rules after the Deepwater Horizon catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico last year, the Norwegian system is being studied by regulators, o...

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... to pick her up later. After the argument, Freeman chose not to wait for her ride and instead decided to walk home but never made it (CBS News). On August 3, 2000, her body was found in a wooded area about eight miles from her hometown of Coquille. The autopsy ... the liner because of a fuel leak. Neighbors also reported that a bonfire was held at the McGuffin household the day after Freeman disappeared (Lohr). In October of 2009, Freeman's mother, Cory Courtright, requested that the Coquille Police Department and the district attorney's office reinvestigate the case. "They need ... more...

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... be no time to waste when he gets there. The new president will be facing the challenges of having to deal with two wars in which his country is embroiled, ensuring his country are safe from the threat of terrorism, and work toward helping the United States economy break ... his taking office. Obama will also have to address the problem of terrorism. Historically, transitions in the American government, when the government is assumed to be at its weakest, have been prime striking moments for terrorists to launch attacks. Even the original (pre-9/11) attack on the World Trade Center ... b...

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