The Philippines Hostage Crisis began when an ex-policeman, disgruntled for being fired from his job, decided to hijack a bus packed with tourists from Hong Kong so that he could ask for his job in ransom. The police man was adorning a combat uniform and carrying an M-16 assault rifle. The Philippines...
Two men will be put to death and a woman will be imprisoned for life after at least six babies died and 300,000 people became ill after drinking infant powdered formula that was deliberately contaminated with an industrial chemical. Tian Wenhuaa, 66, was the head of Sanlu Group, a dairy company,...
Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party (or National Socialist German Worker’s Party) created in the Third Reich the most extreme and terrifying example of a totalitarian regime the world has ever seen. It is often wondered...
In light of the recent release of 250,000 U.S. cables by the whistleblowing website Wikileaks, the CIA has created a Wikileaks Task Force, dubbed W.T.F., to track the impact of the cables. The Washington Post was first to report that "Officially, the panel is called the Wikileaks Task Force. But...
Captain Holly Graf, of the United States Navy, is under investigation following reports that she was physically and verbally abusive toward her subordinates. The official Navy investigation is occuring at Yokosuka Naval Base, Japan, following five to eight complaints filed against Graf. The former...
A blast in Mohmand, Pakistan, has killed 40 people and injured 70. The blast occurred in the early hours of Monday in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province per reports from Express TV. A group of tribal elders had gathered in the Mohmand agency district when the explosion occurred. Officials...
The latest Wikileaks cables states that Al Qaeda can build atomic bombs. The whistleblowing organization has released thousands of American diplomatic cables and security briefs to the UK's Daily Telegraph. The Wikileaks cables suggest the world's most menacing terrorist organization has complied...
The SV Concordia along with 64 passengers sank of the coast of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Friday. High school seniors from the West Island Class Afloat Alternative School based in Montreal, Canada and first year college students were rescued by the Brazilian Navy and Japanese merchant ship, Hokuetsu...
Al Qaida leader Osama Bin Laden is dead, following an extensive, undercover U.S. investigation. President Barack Obama addressed the nation late Sunday, May 1, 2011, and declared "Justice has been done." Details of Osama Bin Laden's death have not been fully released. Reports indicate Bin Laden...
Calling a dictator crazy is like calling cat fuzzy. It's pretty much a given. Yet some dictators go above and beyond just genocide and repression, and travel so far into balls out madness that you have to give them some sort of credit. These 12 ruthless bastards not only ruled with an iron fist,...
