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Manchester United fans all around the world will be eagerly scouring for transfer news and gossip over the possible arrival of new players during the close season. But just as important to many supporters over the break will be being among the first to get their hands on the club’s new kit. The English Premier League champions have just launched a new home kit for the forthcoming season which pays homage to their 100th year playing at their Old Trafford stadium
Farrah Fawcett, the blonde-maned actress whose best-selling poster and "Charlie’s Angels" stardom made her one of the most famous faces in the world, died Thursday. She was 62.
It wasn’t easy being green. Or yellow or red or blue, for that matter
Aside from transfer news and gossip, the close season is a time when many football fans are scrambling around to grab their beloved team’s new playing kit before the new campaign begins. European champions Barcelona and English Premier League sides Arsenal and Chelsea are among the major sides to have already released their kit design for next season — all of which have sparked interest with their respective changes. Barcelona’s new away strip is described by the FC Barcelona Web site as being a “bright mango” color, and it has a round neck
Hunch, a site that launches for the public Monday, will consider your quandary by getting to know you, asking you a series of questions and then spitting out three decisions. Another site, Let Simon Decide, makes a similar attempt.
There is hardly anything in U.S.-Arab relations that screams scandal louder than the torture pictures of Abu Ghraib: Naked hooded male bodies in the fetal position, piled up on top of each other in a pyramid shape, next to them U.S. soldiers in uniform smiling and giving two thumbs up
The aunt of former U.S. soldier Steven Green told jurors tearfully Monday that "We did not send a rapist and murderer to Iraq" as defense lawyers worked to save her nephew from a death sentence
While President Obama’s liberal allies are decrying his decision to refuse to release hundreds of additional detainee-abuse photographs, Pentagon officials — and nearly 200,000 troops in Afghanistan and Iraq — are breathing a little easier. Their argument that the photos could endanger soldiers by potentially inflaming anti-U.S.
Award-winning photojournalist James Nachtwey was one of five photographers commissioned by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to capture images of life in some of the world’s most troubled countries. The project took him to the ICRC Orthopedic Center in Kabul, Afghanistan, a place he describes as “a kind of miracle,” and a refuge from the harsh reality of life in the country’s war-torn capital. More than 40,000 patients have been treated at the center since it opened in 1988, including 30,000 amputees
President Obama has ordered government lawyers to object to the planned release of additional detainee photos, according to an administration official. The Defense Department was set to release hundreds of photographs showing alleged abuse of prisoners in detention facilities in Afghanistan and Iraq. “Last week, the president met with his legal team and told them that he did not feel comfortable with the release of the [Defense Department] photos because he believes their release would endanger our troops, and because he believes that the national security implications of such a release have not been fully presented to the court,” the official said