Web firms, such as Spoonfull.net, face investigations of cramming
— charging via telcos for unordered services
From the beginning, the heads of the American Central Intelligence Agency followed a plan to use the work of agents posing as human shields
. The CIA chiefs used peace activists in America carefully and systematically
Not one charge has been laid in Sydney since the post-Bali raids on six Indonesian families, but 255 Indonesians have been locked up since and the community feels under siege. Now some have even lost trust in each other
The US sugar industry is threatening to bring the World Health Organisation to its knees by demanding that Congress end its funding unless the WHO scraps proposed guidelines on healthy eating
Food from Kuwait finally arrives for the malnourished lions, tigers and other animals at Baghdad’s dilapidated zoo
A new security device, Observation Camera, allows householders to keep an eye on their properties using cameras that transmit images of intruders to their mobile phones
The Bush administration’s doctrine of pre-emptive first strike represents a radical departure from previous US national security doctrine and national values. Non-aggression had been the guiding beacon in the United States’ relations with the rest of the world
British designer, Michael Gill, has made what he says is the world’s first inflatable church — a grey plastic building with a blow-up organ, pulpit, altar, Gothic arches and fake stained-glass windows
The US Army’s chief of chaplains is investigating reports that a chaplain in Iraq was offering soldiers who haven’t bathed in weeks a dip in a 2000-litre tank as long as they agreed to be baptised
Some public library systems around the state won’t provide the federal government with records of their patrons’ reading habits, but they will still comply with that controversial requirement in the USA Patriot Act
AntiCap UK, a not-for-profit pressure group, has been launched in the UK to campaign for unlimited broadband access after ntl’s decision to limit the amount of downloads customers can make to one gigabyte per day
Italian scientists from the San Raffaele Scientific Institute in Milan say they have cured mice suffering from a form of multiple sclerosis. They used a novel stem cell therapy that could offer new hope for patients with the auto-immune disease
As fighting in Iraq enters the final chapter, the winners of the information war seem certain — online news services were boosted to new heights by those seeking a broader view
Stephen Avery, of Briar Court, Oxford Road, Smethwick, whose dog was nearly half its natural weight, has been banned from keeping an animal for five years and ordered to do two years of community service
Organised gangs of international art traffickers were behind the looting of the most important exhibits at Baghdad’s national museum
Even the animals have gone. Baghdad’s frenzied looting spree has left nothing untouched, and the city zoo is no exception
An exotic flesh eating fly, the parasitic Old World Screwworm fly, which has been found on pet dogs overseas could find its way to Australia
It’s going wrong, faster than anyone could have imagined. The army of ‘liberation’ has already turned into the army of occupation
Executives of companies found guilty of price-fixing could face jail terms under a federal government overhaul of competition law
Richard Alston’s Framework for the Future report came under fire before it was even released today, boding ill for the governments attempts to demonstrate it is acting decisively to improve Australia’s ICT industry
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