PARENTS..let this be a lesson to you: TEL AVIV (AFP) – An Israeli teenager was convicted in Tel Aviv of murdering his mother because she refused to buy him a personal computer, a judicial source said. The Tel Aviv district court ruled that 19-year-old Yivgeni Selastihin strangled and stabbed to death his mother, Ella, 42, […]
Tony Blair’s failure to improve the procedures for investigating claims of ministerial misconduct is undermining his own government, the sleaze watchdog has warned. Following the scandal surrounding culture secretary Tessa Jowell and the investigation into her conduct by cabinet secretary Sir Gus O’Donnell, the committee on standards in public life has called for a tightening up of […]
You just know this is going to get nasty in the near future: TEHRAN (Reuters) – President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Thursday Western countries were vulnerable and would suffer more than Iran if they continued to try to impede its attempts to develop nuclear technology, local media reported. Speaking a day after it became clear […]
I agree that abuse of people in Iraq is not acceptable. Thing is though with this case they have not disclosed what (if anything) was going on before the beatings took place. For all we know they could have been stoning the patrol, threatened the patrol with a weapon or made verbal threats. Before condemming […]