| Rejected by Irish voters in a referendum last year, the treaty received overwhelming support in a second referendum in October after the Government received guarantees on taxation, military neutrality and ethical issues. | |
| Blackwater's Erik Prince was recruited as a CIA agent in the years after the 9/11 attacks, says an exclusive report at Vanity Fair that also reveals the billionaire ex-Navy SEAL plans to step down from Blackwater to teach high school | |
| DuPont has been covering up and refusing to take responsibility for its toxic pollution of the Ohio River for a quarter of a century, and the poisons it uses to make Teflon stay in the environment for 2,000 years, a nonprofit water association claims in Federal Court. | |
| One in five HIV sufferers in Africa was infected by medical staff using dirty needles and clinical equipment, new research has found. | |
| A trainee spy for Israel’s secret service agency Mossad was arrested by Tel Aviv police while taking part in a training operation, media reports say. | |
| Sprint Nextel provided law enforcement agencies with customer location data more than 8 million times between September 2008 and October 2009, according to a company manager who disclosed the statistic at a non-public interception and wiretapping conference in October. | |
| As the University of East Anglia investigates the disclosure of thousands of e-mail messages and documents from its Climatic Research Unit, as well as the implications of the contents for its climate research, the head of the unit is stepping aside. | |
| Belgian Prime Minister Herman Van Rompuy who has been elected the first president of the European Union will start his new job on January 1, 2010, a EU spokesman said. | |
| Honduran political observer and analyst Eduardo Bahr said Monday the government elected Sunday will be a puppet of US policy in Central America. | |
| For small wars, military officers need to go back to basics.The U.S. Marine Corps’ Small Wars Manual, first issued in 1935, is considered to be the bible for irregular warfare. | |
| I know it's science, which is ostensibly more objective than human intuition, but there's something unnerving about an MRI brain scan being admitted as evidence in a murder trial in Chicago, the first in the US. | |
| A.I. Anchors Engineers at Northwestern have created an entire newsroom operation using artificial intelligence, even using avatars to anchor the evening news. | |
| A new research report published in the December 2009 print issue of The FASEB Journal could one day give men similar type of control over their fertility that women have had since the 1960s. | |
| “The legislation lists 1,697 times where the secretary of health and humans services is given the authority to create, determine or define things in the bill,” said Devon Herrick, a health care expert at the National Center for Policy Analysis. | |
| Britain risks becoming the first country in the G10 bloc of major economies to risk capital flight and a full-blown debt crisis over coming months, according to a client note by Morgan Stanley. | |
| Is libertarian rock star and Texas Republican Ron Paul going mainstream? | |
| A Securities and Exchange Commission official received full retirement benefits and a $25,000 buyout package from the agency despite assisting a Ponzi scheme operator in Arizona who later was fined for defrauding investors, according to a new report by the agency's watchdog. | |
| European Union governments have given in to the pressure and appear set to make a last-minute agreement with the United States to allow its intelligence agencies to monitor bank accounts and transactions across the bloc. | |
| Russia is building arms plants in Venezuela to produce AK-103 automatic rifles and cartridges and is finalizing contracts to send 53 military helicopters to the Andean nation, Moscow's envoy to Venezuela said Monday | |
| In an age when multi-skilling is at a premium, Motoman may prove to be the model employee. When he's not spot-welding on a car production line, he's flipping pancakes – with not a drop of spilled batter in sight – and can even be called on to perform routine blood tests. | |
| Rushed into law by Congress just weeks after Sept. 11, 2001 three controversial provisions of the Patriot Act granting officials far-reaching surveillance and seizure powers in the name of national security, are due to expire this New Year's Eve. | |
| You know about Dubai's economic crisis. But do you know the background to - and fallout from - the crisis? | |
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