Scientists have cast doubt on charges that five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor deliberately infected Libyan children with HIV. The medics could face the death penalty if found guilty by a court in Tripoli later this month. An international team analysed samples taken from the infected patients. Writing in Nature, they said their work showed the HIV subtype involved began infecting patients in Libya well before the medical workers

of International Terrorists? The Spanish government is investigating claims that Venezuela has granted citizenship to four suspected members of the Basque separatist group Eta. Venezuelan nationality would help them evade extradition to Spain for trial. Spanish Interior Minister Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba said the move, if confirmed, would be unacceptable. Eta is blamed for the deaths of more than 800 people since it began an armed struggle for Basque independence in

One of my oldest buds sent me this pic of a friend of his with some band that was passing through LA.  I thought I’d post it just for giggles.  I hope it’s not too drecky for you guys.

From Patterico: In working on my post on the L.A. Times report on the Ramadi airstrike, I exchanged several e-mails with Maj. Megan McClung, a press officer in Ramadi. She was at all times very cooperative and friendly with me. She never once gave me the impression that she thought my inquiries were unimportant because they were coming from a mere blogger. I quoted her by name in the post:

Headline from Tailrank. That wacky Angel Gabriel must be at it again.

Via Malkin comes this story of Sheilas marching in their bikinis Down Under to protest the comments of the Imam who likened unveiled women to “uncovered meat.” You ladies ask, how can you show your tits solidarity?  Send your pics of yourself in a bikini to Jeff, and he’ll post them. That’ll teach those bastards. UPDATE: check out Thomas Foreman’s Hotties for Freedom Contest.  Because freedom isn’t free.  But it’s

I have the feeling that a one-winged dove is not going to last too long, though you might argue that it would fly in circles.  But maybe that’s just me. Answer ghosted here->“Edge of Seventeen,” by Stevie Nicks Note: as I said the first time, this is music lip-synched by drag-queens, not written or recorded by them. Update: apparently I’m an idiot and it’s “white-winged” dove even though I always

Environmentalists claimed victory on Wednesday after the publisher of the Victoria’s Secret catalog agreed not to use paper from an area of Western Canada that is home to threatened caribou herd. U.S. retailer Limited Brands also agreed to increase the amount of recycled paper used in its catalogs, and to increase the environmental standards it requires in buying paper produced from logging in the boreal forests that stretch across northern

Phew!  Well, I win, Jeff.  It only took me a couple of months. Those guys had me going there, for a while.

Vatican archaeologists have unearthed a sarcophagus believed to contain the remains of the Apostle Paul that had been buried beneath Rome’s second largest basilica. The sarcophagus, which dates back to at least A.D. 390, has been the subject of an extended excavation that began in 2002 and was completed last month, the project’s head said this week. “Our objective was to bring the remains of the tomb back to light