In what most news outlets described as a daring and stunning military victory, on July 2, 2008, the Colombian government freed 15 hostages being held by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).

Not far from the closely packed mud huts of Pabo camp for Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) in Northern Uganda, the Catholic parish office lights up like a beacon in the inky night of this war-torn area; the region has never had electricity.

As reporters and researchers know all too well, releasing information isn't necessarily the same thing as releasing useful information.

During the night of August 7, coinciding with the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics, Georgia's president Saakashvili ordered an all-out military attack on Tskhinvali, the capital of South Ossetia.

Vegging out in front of your flat-panel TV may pose more danger than turning your brain to mush.

If the nuclear powers wish to be safe from nuclear weapons, they must surrender their own.