Posted: 8:24:12 PM  

Air Force Col. Moe Davis, the chief prosecutor, said in a telephone interview that pretrial hearings could resume in March, but he added: 'I don't see us getting to trial on the merits until some time this summer.'

Pending court challenges could again derail the trials and long-standing calls to try the prisoners in the regular U.S. court system and close the Guantanamo detention camp have grown louder as the fifth anniversary approaches on January 11.
A group of U.S. and other activists plan a protest march to the gates of the base on that day. The prison has been condemned by human rights groups and other countries who allege mistreatment of detainees and say they should be given trials.

Posted: 1:48:20 PM  

Vulcano at Montserrat | theage.com.au

The Soufriere Hills volcano that destroyed the capital of the Caribbean island of Montserrat in 1997 shot a cloud of ash more than eight kilometres into the sky today.

Posted: 1:40:47 PM  

After comprehensive analysis with the assistance of other scientists, computer programmers, mathematicians, and other learned scholars, Professor Chang had wondered if the apparently junk Human DNA' was created by some kind of 'extraterrestrial programme. The alien chunks within Human DNA, Professor Chang further observes, 'have its own veins, arteries, and its own immune system that vigorously resists all our anti-cancer drugs.'

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KUALA LUMPUR | A strong earthquake registering a magnitude of 6.1 on the Richter scale hit near the Fiji Islands on Tuesday.

Today a few 6¥s appear on the Iris Seismic monitor

Posted: 9:20:06 AM  

Government funded drug running cartels, secret illegal social security programs and Pesos for Pizzas. What happened to the United States of America?

Posted: 9:15:43 AM