2005-2014

NEW YORK (Opinion) You would think the senseless murder of a decent, just-retired gentleman on the streets of Washington, D.C. would never be exploited, especially by a former colleague, but never underestimate New York Times columnist John Tierney. On Saturday he joined the ranks of those identifying, and pressing, some larger political point in the killing of David E. Rosenbaum. Earlier this...

Kampala - The Ugandan government has ordered all journalists accredited with foreign media to re-register with a new state press agency, the head of the media agency said Saturday. The government was reluctant to accredit a Canadian journalist for participating in talk shows on local radio, the official added. Will Ross, a reporter with the British Broadcasting Service (BBC), had his 12-month...

A Dubai newspaper is reporting that one of its journalists in Iraq was held captive for five days in December before being freed by US troops during a chance raid on an insurgent hideout. English-language UAE daily Emirates Today said its correspondent Phil Sands, a 28-year-old Briton, was kidnapped by unknown gunmen on December 26 from a Baghdad neighbourhood as he travelled with a local driver...

Ever felt worn down by the modern world? Find yourself fantasising about other lives you could have lived -- as a courtier at Versailles, a geisha, perhaps a pipe-smoking Edwardian gentleman? A vision of the world as a simple place, without bio-terrorism, frankenstein foods, melting ice-caps. Life in serene freedom from latter-day horrors. Except that some people still speak of the bad old days...

Described by Reporters Sans Frontieres as "the biggest prison for journalists in the Middle East" -- where, in the last six years, 41 daily newspapers have been banned -- Iran has long lacked a public forum for independent voices. But it hasn't been immune to the user-driven web revolution. In April 2003, Iran became the first government to imprison a blogger: Sina Motallebi of the popular weblog...

On Tuesday, the investigative website The Smoking Gun published the six-page report, "A Million Little Lies," exposing a number of fictional events in James Frey's supposedly nonfiction memoir A Million Little Pieces. TSG reported that the confessional, an Oprah Book Club selection and a memoir of Frey's struggle with drug and alcohol abuse and eventual recovery, was riddled with exaggerations...

One of the nation's top political bloggers purchased the cell phone records of former presidential candidate Gen. Wesley Clark on Thursday to demonstrate the growing privacy concerns highlighted in a Chicago Sun-Times story last week. John Aravosis, publisher of AMERICAblog.com, said he bought Clark's records for $89.95 from celltolls.com. Aravosis said he obtained a list of 100 calls made on...

Will yesterday's in-your-face decision by Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, Iraq's most influential Shiite leader, to renege on his pledge to amend the new Constitution in a manner acceptable to Sunnis be the shove in the back that sends Iraq over the brink into all-out civil war? It certainly has that potential. Before the constitution was put to a vote in October, Sunnis were threatening to boycott the...

The immense human toll caused by conflicts in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Haiti, Chechnya, and northeast India are among the "Top Ten" Most Under-reported Humanitarian Stories of 2005, according to the year-end list released Thursday by international humanitarian medical aid organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). The eighth annual list also highlights the lack of media attention...

WASHINGTON – The Arab news network Al Jazeera announced Thursday that Dave Marash, an award-winning former correspondent for ABC News' "Nightline," is joining its 24-hour English-language network, to be launched this spring. In an interview Thursday, Marash, 63, described his new position as "the most interesting job on Earth." Calling Al Jazeera "a thoroughly respectable news organization,"...