Occupy Wall Street protesters arrested on Brooklyn Bridge
Hundreds held by NYPD – including New York Times journalist – after attempted march across bridge ends in chaos
Occupy Wall Street: Arresting a Little Girl
Occupy Wall Street: Arresting a Little Girl
More than 700 people were arrested on the Brooklyn Bridge on Saturday evening during a march by anti-Wall Street protesters who have been occupying a downtown Manhattan square for two weeks.
The group, called Occupy Wall Street, has been protesting against the finance industry and other perceived social ills by camping out in Zuccotti park in New York.
During the afternoon a long line of protesters numbering several thousand snaked through the streets towards the landmark bridge across the East River with the aim of ending at a Brooklyn park.
Afghanistan: Stories from a decade of conflict
Western forces ousted the Taliban but the insurgency
continues. Civilian and military deaths are on the rise and
the Afghan government is in a fragile state. What hope is
there for the country?
Ministers were "mortified" by the Prime Minister's decision to agree a plan to withdraw British troops from the country by the end of 2014, a senior Ministry of Defence (MoD) source revealed yesterday. Britain's defence chiefs are now resigned to a "face-saving" retreat from Afghanistan within three years, amid concerns over the timetable set by David Cameron.
The British military is preparing to abandon Afghanistan to its fate, with little certainty that the local security forces can protect the fragile democracy established since the Taliban were overthrown.
Libyans launch grassroots efforts to stop deadly weapons flow
By Hannah Allam | McClatchy Newspapers
- Posted on Saturday, October 1, 2011
TRIPOLI, Libya — Alarmed at the deadly arsenals piling up in ordinary Libyan neighborhoods, self-appointed community leaders in Tripoli have begun issuing their own gun licenses and, in some cases, conducting raids to retrieve land mines and rockets stored in private homes.
Qatar and other nations flooded Libya with arms during revolutionary forces' six-month struggle to overthrow longtime leader Moammar Gadhafi. And when the NATO-backed former rebels finally toppled the regime just over a month ago, weapons depots in newly liberated territories were left unguarded, flung open for anyone in the market for anti-aircraft guns, heat-seeking rockets and mortar rounds.
Portrait of a Man Possessed
A Search for the Real Ratko Mladic
By Erich Follath
He stands accused of some of the worst crimes known to criminal law. But former Bosnian-Serb military leader Ratko Mladic doesn't think he has to answer for anything -- not even for the wartime suicide of his daughter. There are many in Serbia who would agree.
To succumb to this kind of hobby in the way that he did, you have to be a bit of a dictator. But you also must be a bit of a lackey. You need to know those under your protection. And you can't have qualms if one of your underlings dies or be too sensitive when you get stung.
Ghana’s ghosts and graces
By Christopher Vourlias
We stood on the castle ramparts, pointing our cameras at one another. There was nothing to say. Waves pounded and churned against the seawall below; the fishing boats pitched sideways as they set out beneath somber skies. A blanket of clouds stretched toward the horizon, sitting low over an ocean that looked like freshly poured cement.
The grayness of sea and sky matched our mood. Just a few minutes before, our tour group had descended the long, dimly lit passageway into the underbelly of Ghana’s Cape Coast Castle, to the dungeons through which countless thousands of male slaves had once passed. The damp darkness, the memory of the evils committed in those cramped quarters, weighed heavily upon us. When we ascended again into the courtyard, the fresh sea air felt impossibly light. We circled the flagstones like gulls.
Love of animals led to language and man's domination of Earth
When our apemen ancestors began to interact with animals they developed empathy and the ability to communicate, claims anthropologist Pat Shipman
Humans became masters of the planet for a startling reason: our love ofanimals gave us unsurpassed power over nature. This is the claim of a leading American anthropologist who says our prehistoric ancestors' intense relationships with other creatures – including those we hunt, keep as pets and use for food – propelled humanity towards global domination.
Interacting with animals on an intimate basis led humans to develop sophisticated tools and evolve enhanced communication skills, including language itself, Dr Pat Shipman of Pennsylvania State University told theObserver.
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