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What Americans owe to those who serve

The woman's Halloween costume featured a Third Reich motif.

The Fareed Challenge

1) For the 19th year in a row, the United Nations General Assembly voted this week almost unanimously to express its opposition to what?

Commentary: Why Obama deserves the prize

President Obama woke up today with the once-in-a-lifetime news that he won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize. The joy and pride of this early morning news must have matched, if not surpassed, that other piece of news he received the evening of November 4, 2008, when he won the presidency of the United States.

North Koreans have made nuclear progress, experts say

The U.S. intelligence community believes that North Korea tested a nuclear device last month with an explosive yield of several kilotons, considerably more powerful than its first test nearly three years ago.

Gitmo prisoners defend 'blessed' 9/11 attack

Five Guantanamo prisoners accused in the September 11, 2001, terror attacks on the U.S. staunchly defended their actions, calling the operation "blessed" and "great" and the accusations against them "badges of honor."

Japan fires military chief over WWII denial

A state-run Chinese newspaper expressed relief Monday that senior Japanese officials had dismissed the country's air force chief after he denied Japan's aggression before and during World War II.

U.N. Security Council reaffirms sanctions on Iran

The U.N. Security Council unanimously passed a resolution Saturday reaffirming three previous rounds of sanctions on Iran for refusing to halt its uranium enrichment program.

Big Thinker: Daniel Libeskind

Daniel Libeskind is one of the greatest architects of the modern era. Prior to his involvement in the design of New York's Freedom Tower, he was best known for designing the Jewish Museum in Berlin.

Tunguska blast still a mystery 100 years on

It produced a blast hundreds of times stronger than the Hiroshima bomb, was seen hundreds of miles away and narrowly missed obliterating an entire city -- but 100 years to the week after the mysterious explosion in Siberia, no one is any closer to understanding what caused it.

Time.com: Security Flaws Exposed at Nuke Lab

Exclusive: 'Terrorists' penetrated one of America's main nuclear-weapons labs in a recent simulation, sources tell TIME

What Americans owe to those who serve

The woman's Halloween costume featured a Third Reich motif.

The Fareed Challenge

1) For the 19th year in a row, the United Nations General Assembly voted this week almost unanimously to express its opposition to what?

Commentary: Why Obama deserves the prize

North Koreans have made nuclear progress, experts say

Gitmo prisoners defend 'blessed' 9/11 attack

Japan fires military chief over WWII denial

A state-run Chinese newspaper expressed relief Monday that senior Japanese officials had dismissed the country's air force chief after he denied Japan's aggression before and during World War II.

U.N. Security Council reaffirms sanctions on Iran

The U.N. Security Council unanimously passed a resolution Saturday reaffirming three previous rounds of sanctions on Iran for refusing to halt its uranium enrichment program.

Big Thinker: Daniel Libeskind

Daniel Libeskind is one of the greatest architects of the modern era. Prior to his involvement in the design of New York's Freedom Tower, he was best known for designing the Jewish Museum in Berlin.

Tunguska blast still a mystery 100 years on

Time.com: Security Flaws Exposed at Nuke Lab

Exclusive: 'Terrorists' penetrated one of America's main nuclear-weapons labs in a recent simulation, sources tell TIME

U.S. sailor held over killing of Japanese man

Authorities have arrested a U.S. sailor on suspicion of robbery and murder in the death of a Japanese taxi driver.

Obama diverted by pastor detour

They're calling it the pastor disaster. Once again this week, drama inside the Democratic party dominated the attention of US voters. (You'd almost forget there's a Republican candidate named John McCain, who's campaigning and doing quite well).

4 U.S. Marines face courts-martial

The U.S. military plans to court-martial four Marines accused of raping a 19-year-old Japanese woman in Hiroshima last year, a military spokesman said on Thursday.

Visiting sites of tragedy to touch history, ease grief

On a blustery January day, a few tourists gather at the spot where the World Trade Center once stood in New York City. In pictures, words and a roll call of the dead, an area of kiosks and signs near the eastern edge of the site recounts the events of September 11, 2001.

FSB: A small biz breaks into the major leagues

Architectural firm Nadel Architects hires a new president and wins some high-profile contracts.

Space's threat to civilization

What should we do if an asteroid is on a collision course with Earth? This question is being taken increasingly seriously by scientists as more is learnt about the impact a near earth object (NEO) would have on the future of civilization.

Review: 'Letters From Iwo Jima' a masterpiece

There aren't many examples of war films made from the vantage point of "the enemy," but perhaps there should be more.

Greenfield: Echoes of another war, another massacre

Consider these facts: Americans in combat, in a far-away country, fighting against an enemy that may lurk behind every wall, in every home.

Fortune: Excerpts from the writing of John Kenneth Galbraith

John Kenneth Galbraith died in April at the age of 97. Always the enemy of inequality, he left a lasting legacy of economic thought and social commentary.

Review: Hearing the light

"Eternal light" sounds serenely stable, doesn't it? And in the liturgy of the traditional Requiem, or Mass for the dead, it's usually just that.

IAEA, ElBaradei win peace prize

The U.N. nuclear watchdog and its head, Mohamed ElBaradei, won the 2005 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for their efforts to limit the spread of atomic weapons.

Doves, silence for A-bomb victims

Hundreds of doves were released in Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima Saturday as tens of thousands of people gathered 60 years after the world's first atomic bomb was dropped on the city, killing nearly half of its residents.

Hiroshima: 60 years later on CNN

On August 6, 1945, the U.S. B-29 bomber Enola Gay released its payload -- an atomic bomb named "Little Boy" over the Japanese city of Hiroshima.

Death and music: A survivor's tale

Hiroko Yamashita remembers August 6, 1945.

Hiroshima still stokes controversy

The atomic bombing of Hiroshima -- an act that ushered in the nuclear age but also helped end World War II -- still stokes controversy 60 years on.

Excerpt: What were their names?

It was a difficult task fraught with danger and uncertainty, but it had to be done and the assignment went to CNN's China correspondent Stan Grant, who had arrived in Colombo in the early morning hours of 29 December.

New guide for scientific explorers

If you've ever wrestled a grizzly bear while running naked to the South Pole, then you are probably hallucinating, quite possibly under the influence of dimethyl tryptamine, a mind-bending substance from the Brazilian Amazon.

Deadly gas explosion rocks Belgium

At least 10 people were killed and 100 others injured when a leaking underground natural gas pipeline exploded in southern Belgium, officials said.

June 6, 1944: D-Day sets the stage

It began as one of the greatest secrets in history. But by the end of June 6, 1944, the world knew the Normandy invasion was under way, turning the tide in World War II.

New AP exhibit displays gripping images of World War II

Some pictures only a few people have seen. Others are so famous they're emblematic of the great conflict known as World War II.

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