Officials at Afghanistan's Kandahar prison show the tunnel through which 480 prisoners, including Taliban commanders, escaped. It may not have been Stalag Luft III, but the escape from Sarpoza prison in Kandahar was pretty ingenious. Kandahar’s prison may not be Stalag Luft III but in terms of ingenuity, organisation and sheer cunning the successful break-out by at least 480 Taliban prisoners... 

Texas Congressman Ron Paul could be set to officially announce whether or not he is running for the Republican 2012 nomination this week with a series of back to back high profile media appearances. The Libertarian favorite is scheduled to appear today on The View, Hannity, and The Colbert Report. Officially these appearances are to promote Paul’s new book, Liberty Defined, yet they could serve... 

Documents leaked by WikiLeaks on Tuesday (19) prove once again that the “war” in Iraq was a big hoax – concocted by the capitalist powers and amplified by the corporate media. They show that the British government, in collusion with the U.S., discussed the sharing of oil from the invaded country a year before the invasion. The history of the existence of weapons of mass destruction... 

A DAD-of-four who split up a fight in a McDonald’s was shot dead moments after being told he wouldn’t see the morning. Raymond Mitchell, 34, had only popped into the restaurant to buy a hot chocolate. But he apparently caused offence after splitting up two men fighting in the queue. One of them, who had several gold teeth, shouted at Raymond: “You are gonna die tonight, you are not gonna see... 

Palestinian Christians of various denominations celebrated Holy Saturday (the day before Easter Sunday) in the ‘Old City’ of al-Quds (Jerusalem) amid tight Israeli security measures this year. Tens of of thousands of Christian pilgrims from around the world annually flood the city of al-Quds during Holy Week (the week preceding Easter,) to pray at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, an ancient... 

There is only one difference between a bad economist and a good one: the bad economist confines himself to the visible effect; the good economist takes into account both the effect that can be seen and those effects that must be foreseen… the bad economist pursues a small present good that will be followed by a great evil to come, while the good economist pursues a great good to come, at the... 

The US pastor whose burning of a Koran sparked deadly violence in Afghanistan was briefly jailed in a heavily Islamic suburb on Friday after a court banned his protest outside a mosque. A local judge jailed Pastor Terry Jones of Gainesville, Florida and his associate Wayne Sapp after a court found their planned protest outside the Islamic Center of America in Dearborn, Michigan, could lead to violence. During... 

Hero: Tristin Saghin sits in his grandmother's back yard where he saved his two-year-old sister's life when she was found floating in the pool. ‘I would do anything for her’: Boy, 9, saves two-year-old sister from drowning by giving CPR. Heroes come in all shapes and sizes. And though pint-sized hero Tristin Saghin is still small, his quick-thinking actions that saved his sister’s... 

A helicopter used by the NATO-led forces in Afghanistan crashed in the northeastern province of Kapisa. A helicopter used by the NATO-led forces in Afghanistan has crashed in the northeastern province of Kapisa as the attacks against US-led troops surge in the war-torn country. Afghan officials said Saturday that the NATO chopper crashed at 4:00 a.m. local time in Afghanistan’s Kapisa province,... 

Nick Griffin MEP left climate change Eurocrats lost for words this week after a stinging attack on the global warming hoax during a speech in Brussels. Speaking at a debate of the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety, of which he is a member, Mr Griffin called EU biofuel policy a disaster, anthropogenic global warming “non-existent” and wind farms “Mickey Mouse technology”. His... 

Konstantin Poltoranin A spokesman for the Federal Migration Service was fired Wednesday hours after he declared that uncontrolled migration threatens “the survival of the white race.” Konstantin Poltoranin, speaking in an interview with the Russian BBC Service, criticized the EU’s immigration policy for accepting migrants from the Middle East and North Africa who, he said, have largely... 

By the end of the current year, Russia is expected to finish the establishment of air and space defense troops. According to General Lieutenant Oleg Ostapenko, the commander of space troops of the Russian Federation, the concept for establishing air and space defense troops has been approved. The decision about the new type of troops was made by President Medvedev in 2010. In his Address to the Federal... 

Click on the image to enlarge it. NASA scientists recently discovered an underground dry ice lake containing more carbon dioxide than originally thought. The trapped carbon dioxide is thought to have come from the planet’s atmosphere earlier in its history when it was conducive for life on Mars to exist. “It really is a buried treasure,” said Jeffrey Plaut, a scientist of the NASA... 

A radical Muslim preacher has been ordered by German authorities to depart the country immediately. The move comes after he attended an Islamist rally in Frankfurt that took place despite the objections of city leaders. Citing security concerns, the authorities said if he doesn’t depart on his own, he could be arrested and forcibly deported. Philips, who was born in Jamaica and raised in Canada,... 

Wolfgang Schäuble enters multiculturalism row, saying problems of integrating Turkish guest workers have grown with third generation. Germany’s finance minister has waded into the country’s simmering row over multiculturalism, saying it had been a mistake to bring in so many Gastarbeiter, or guest workers, from Turkey during the economic boom years of the 1960s. In an interview with the...