The Gulf oil spill in context: US oil consumption
Jeremy Hance
mongabay.com
May 31, 2010

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<p><em>One month after the brutal crime against Alberta Cari&ntilde;o Trujillo and Jyri Antero Jaakkola, and after a subsequent incident in which ...

WASHINGTON — A divided Supreme Court on Tuesday
enhanced prosecutors' ability to assert that a suspect waived his right
to remain silent even when he did not say so.

from bookfair, 1 June 2010: "We have now booked the venue for the 2010 bookfair. We will, for the fourth year running, be holding the event at Queen Mary's, University of London on the Mile End Road. The date for the 2010 bookfair will be SATURDAY 23RD OCTOBER 2010 from 10am to 7pm..." more

An anonymous reader writes "It appears that schools within the Australian state of Queensland are going to be required to teach Intelligent Design as part of their Ancient History studies.

The far-right government of Benjamin Netanyahu and Avigdor Lieberman has demonstrated once more its ability to go even further than earlier Israeli governments in trampling international law and basic human decency under foot. Their murderous attack in international waters on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla is a new escalation of the Israeli aggression against the Palestinian people.