Wal-Mart Axes The New Yorker, The Economist, 1000 Other Mags

January 18, 2008 — RETAIL behemoth Wal-Mart is tossing more than 1,000 magazines from the racks in its stores, sending yet another shock wave through the battered publishing industry.
Most of the magazines are small, and more than a few of the victims are titles that have long since stopped publishing, including Child, Celebrity Living, Elle [...]

British Media Confirms FBI Nuke Cover-up

The Sunday Times has obtained a document that confirms that a file, which the FBI denied existed, could contain information about American officials stealing nuclear secrets for Turkish and Israeli spies, who would then sell the secrets to Pakistan and Saudi Arabia.
Earlier, FBI whistleblower Sibel Edmonds, 37, approached the Times about “explosive” communications [...]

Wounded Troops Sent Back To Iraq

(AP) Seventy-nine injured soldiers were pressed into war duty last month as the U.S. Army struggled to fill its ranks, but most were assigned to light-duty jobs within limits set by doctors, two Army leaders said.
The Denver Post, quoting internal Army e-mails and a Fort Carson soldier, reported that troops had been deployed to Kuwait en [...]

German academic compares Scientologists to Nazis

BERLIN (AFP) — Respected German historian Guido Knopp has compared a speech by US actor Tom Cruise to the Church of Scientology with a call to war by Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels.
In remarks described by the movement as “horrendous and disgraceful,” Knopp, an expert on World War II history, said in an interview with [...]

Man shot with police Taser dies

 
 

A man has died following a confrontation with police in Bedford.
He was shot with a Taser stun gun after threatening officers with a knife before he “inflicted a more serious injury on himself”, said police.
The incident happened at a house in The Spinney after reports of a domestic dispute between a mother and [...]