African-American scholar and Harvard University professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. was arrested last week on a charge of disorderly conduct after a confrontation with an officer at his home, according to a Cambridge, Massachusetts, police report. According to the report, officers responded to a call Thursday from a woman who said she saw “a man wedging his shoulder into the front door” at Gates’ house near the university
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Serb cousins guilty of burning Muslims alive
A U.N. tribunal convicted two Serb cousins Monday of having burned alive more than 100 Muslims in what the presiding judge called a part of the "wretched history of man’s inhumanity to man." Milan Lukic and Sredoje Lukic were convicted of crimes dating back to the early 1990s, during the bitter ethnic conflict that ravaged the former Yugoslavia. The crimes include two incidents in which Muslim men, women and children were forced into homes that were then set on fire — some who tried to escape were shot.
What is man’s greatest achievement?
Fire, the wheel and even cup noodles were among the varied answers to the question posed by CNN: "What is man’s greatest achievement?" CNN producers armed with cameras put the puzzler to passersby in Berlin, Madrid, Rome, Bangkok, Tokyo, New Delhi and Paris. In the lead-up to the 40th anniversary of NASA’s Apollo 11 mission, more people might have been expected to nominate the moon landing as one of man’s greatest feats. Alas not
Florida Goes to War Against the Pythons
This is the Everglades that they paste on brochures. Summer rains have raised the waters, and lily pads blooming in the searing sun give the sprawling wetlands a Monet mood. But as his airboat glides through the sawgrass lanes 30 miles west of Ft.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Patching Relations with India, an Ignored Ally
The Bush years were a good time for relations between the world’s two biggest democracies. After years of suspicion and tensions, India and the U.S. finally began to explore common ground, a shift that culminated in a breakthrough deal that opens the way for India to import civilian nuclear technology despite the facts that it refuses to sign the nuclear-nonproliferation treaty and it has twice tested nuclear weapons.
Former Boeing engineer convicted of spying for China
A former engineer for Rockwell International and Boeing was convicted Thursday of economic espionage and acting as an agent of China, authorities said. Dongfan “Greg” Chung, 73, was accused of stealing restricted technology and Boeing trade secrets, including information related to the space shuttle program and the Delta IV rocket. U.S
Twitter hack raises questions about ‘cloud computing’
The recent hacking of a Twitter employee’s personal e-mail account is raising questions about the security of storing personal information and business data on the Internet. The Web has been buzzing since a hacker allegedly broke into a Twitter administrator’s personal e-mail account about a month ago and used that information to access the employee’s Google Apps account.
Russian leader acccused over activist’s death
The head of a leading Russian human rights group accused the presidents of Russia and Chechnya of complicity in murdering their top activist in Chechnya. “I am confident about who killed Natalya Estemirova. We all know this person.
Iran’s Campaign Against Foreign Plots, Imagined and Real
The execution of 13 men in Iran on Tuesday highlights a central theme of the regime’s response to the protests that followed the disputed result of the June 12 election.
Myanmar opposition skeptical of government’s amnesty claim
Myanmar’s pro-democracy opposition party said Tuesday it was skeptical of the government’s plan to grant amnesty to political prisoners, despite an announcement to the United Nations that it would do so. Nyan Win, a spokesman for the National League for Democracy, told CNN that he was doubtful that many prisoners would be released.