Authorities are still determining the motivations and mental state of accused Fort Hood shooter, Nidal Malik Hassan. But for every incident of mass killing, the same question is invariably raised: What causes someone to commit mass homicide?
A crucifix over the blackboard. An image of the Virgin Mary presiding over a classroom full of students. These pervasive Catholic symbols, still present in some Spanish public schools, may soon become things of the past.
A photograph handed to The Independent claims to show Iraqi civilians captured in southern Iraq being mistreated by British soldiers in breach of international law and the Geneva Conventions.
By Afghan standards, it\'s a panic of apocalyptic proportions. This in a country whose people laugh in the face of earthquakes, shrug off suicide bombers and deal daily with war and insurgency. Khanzir, the only pig in Afghanistan is STILL under lockdown. FREE THE PIG! Or eat it. That\'s good bacon, sitting right in front of you.
McBride, an Irish-Australian dual citizen, accused the church of driving his younger brother Edward McBride to suicide in 2007 after he spent 25,000 Australian dollars ($23,000) on courses to become a counselor. \"I believe the bombardment of 19 telephone messages backed him into a corner and he just had no room to breathe,\" Stephen McBride said.
A Philippine police official says 11 more bodies have been recovered from a mass grave in the country\'s south, raising the number of massacre victims to 35. Police said the convoy of about 40 people was going to register Mangudadatu, vice mayor of Buluan township, to run for provincial governor when they were stopped....
British officials heard the \"drum beats\" of war with Iraq emanating from the US government more than two years before the 2003 invasion and several months before the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Sir John Chilcot\'s Iraq inquiry has heard.
In the Spring of 2009, the photographer Richard Mosse traveled to Iraq, where he captured arresting images of U.S. soldiers working and living in what used to be palaces of Saddam Hussein. The transformation of an imperial palace into a site of temporary housing also speaks to the notion that our histories are constantly being rewritten.