Protected: Iraq. Pope intones a Prayer of the Sons and Daughters of Abraham. I was at an equally historic ceremony there during the Iraq war in 2003.
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Veteran BBC broadcaster Jeremy Paxman has attacked war reporters on television who put their own ego ahead of the story. In an online discussion Paxman said that in war reporting, egoism “switches the focus from whatever’s happening wherever you are to me, me, me”. He added: “That’s the besetting problem with television. It’s full of […]
MOHAMMAD ALI AND NELSON MANDELA: THEIR PASSION FOR BOXING AND HUMANITY.
Just two days before a historic visit to Iraq by Pope Francis, a dozen rockets slammed into a military base for American, British and other Coalition troops. This follows another attack a few days ago, apparently originating from the disputed oil-rich north-eastern district of Kirkuk. Analysts suggested the attacks are aimed at a propaganda victory for […]
By Health Day News Fill up that mug: Having one or more cups of caffeinated coffee a day may reduce your risk of heart failure, new research suggests. There was one caveat, however: Decaffeinated coffee doesn’t appear to provide the same protection as caffeine-rich blends. “The association between caffeine and heart failure risk reduction was […]
A U.S. Army soldier takes a nap — which the Pentagon now recommends to combat sleep deprivation — while another holds position on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border. Photo by Spc. Ken Scar/U.S. Army. March 3 (UPI) — A new Defense Department report called sleep deprivation a serious detriment to readiness, adding that most service members lack adequate […]
The revelation from former Daily Mirror editor Roy Greenslade that he “supported the right of the Irish people to engage in armed struggle” via the IRA throughout the 1970s and 1980s has prompted a furious response from many in the industry, reports the Press Gazette. From 1992 until 2020, Greenslade had also been the media […]
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The world has just seen astonishingly-detailed clear pictures from the surface of Mars, courtesy of an American rover called Perseverance [affectionately abbreviated to Percy]. However when BBC Newsnight proudly showed them [on February 24 2021], as a marvel of human achievement, it also linked up with a scientist in Britain. Except the picture of him […]