The US military has successfully tested a missile that travels at five times the speed of sound.
The ''Advanced Hypersonic Weapon'' will be able to bomb anywhere in the world within an hour.
Amid heightened tensions with Iran over its nuclear program, the missile was fired from a US base in Hawaii. It reached its destination on an island 3700 kilometres away in the Pacific Ocean in less than half an hour.
The weapon is part of a scheme to allow American generals to ''destroy, delay, or disrupt key enemy targets'' at very short notice. A report published by the US Defence Department said the weapon would ''provide the president with the ability to promptly engage targets at strategic range without using nuclear weapons''.
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Doused: The UC Davis police officer brandished a red canister of pepper spray, showing it off for the crowd before dousing the seated students in a heavy, thick mist
A shocking videotape of police forcefully pepper spraying a group of students staging a sit down protest has emerged.
Footage of the tense standoff between police and Occupy demonstrators at the University of California, Davis, shows an officer using pepper spray on a group of protesters who appear to be sitting passively on the ground with their arms interlocked.
Witnesses watched in horror as police moved in on more than a dozen tents erected in the campus quad drenching demonstrators with the burning yellow spray and arresting 10 people, nine of them students.
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Former Malaysian prime minister Mahathir Mohamad, who heads the Perdana Global Peace Foundation that initiated the Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal, said both the leaders would be charged for planning, preparing and invading Iraq on March 19, 2003, in violation of the United Nations Charter and international law.
The tribunal would hold proceedings for four days, and will go public, the Star reports.
Dr Mahathir said although the two could not be jailed if they were found guilty, society could reject them by not inviting them for talks or events.
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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov made the remarks on Thursday after a Russia-EU Permanent Partnership Council (PPC) meeting in Moscow, Syria's state news agency, SANA, reported.
Detailing the anti-Damascus push, Lavrov said, "Some opposition representatives, with support from some foreign countries, [could] declare that dialogue can begin only after the regime goes."
Syria has been experiencing unrest ever since mid-March, with demonstrations being held both against and in support of Assad's government.
People taking up work experience places - providing up to 30 hours a week of unpaid labour - face losing benefits if they quit
Britain's jobless young people are being sent to work for supermarkets and budget stores for up to two months for no pay and no guarantee of a job, the Guardian can reveal.
Under the government's work experience programme young jobseekers are exempted from national minimum wage laws for up to eight weeks and are being offered placements in Tesco, Poundland, Argos, Sainsbury's and a multitude of other big-name businesses.
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) says that if jobseekers "express an interest" in an offer of work experience they must continue to work without pay, after a one-week cooling-off period or face having their benefits docked.
Young people have told the Guardian that they are doing up to 30 hours a week of unpaid labour and have to be available from 9am to 10pm.
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Cait Reilly, who is currently completing three weeks at Poundland, working five hours a day.
Cait Reilly, who is currently completing three weeks at Poundland, working five hours a day.
Under the government's work experience programme young jobseekers are exempted from national minimum wage laws for up to eight weeks and are being offered placements in Tesco, Poundland, Argos, Sainsbury's and a multitude of other big-name businesses.
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) says that if jobseekers "express an interest" in an offer of work experience they must continue to work without pay, after a one-week cooling-off period or face having their benefits docked.
Young people have told the Guardian that they are doing up to 30 hours a week of unpaid labour and have to be available from 9am to 10pm.
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Investigators have found no forensic evidence that Mark Duggan was armed when shot by police in Tottenham on 4 August.
Investigators have found no forensic evidence that Mark Duggan was armed when shot by police in Tottenham on 4 August.
A gun collected by Duggan earlier in the day was recovered 10 to 14 feet away, on the other side of a low fence from his body. He was killed outside the vehicle he was travelling in, after a police marksman fired twice.
The new details raise questions about the official version of events. The shooting triggered some of the worst riots in modern British history, which began in Tottenham, north London, in response to the treatment of the Duggan family. The investigation into Duggan's death is being carried out by the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC), but the Guardian has learned new details of the shooting, and a much more complex picture than first revealed is emerging.
Comment: Now the picture becomes clearer. It seems that the riots were not simply about teenagers looting for a pair of shoes, but about the local community's justified anger.
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Dear Taxpayer,
Americans are facing tough times. Millions are still out of work. Wages remain stagnant, while health care costs, tuition, and other household cost continue to rise. Many homeowners owe more for their houses than they are worth.
With families across the country struggling to make ends meet during these economically trying times, many are left with few options so they are turning to the government - some very reluctantly - for assistance. The government safety net has been cast far and wide, with almost half of all American households now receiving some form of government assistance. But most taxpayers will be asking why when they learn who is receiving what.
From tax write-offs for gambling losses, vacation homes, and luxury yachts to subsidies for their ranches and estates, the government is subsidizing the lifestyles of the rich and famous. Multimillionaires are even receiving government checks for not working. This welfare for the well-off - costing billions of dollars a year - is being paid for with the taxes of the less fortunate, many who are working two jobs just to make ends meet, and IOUs to be paid off by future generations.
This is not an accidental loophole in the law. To the contrary, this reverse Robin Hood style of wealth redistribution is an intentional effort to get all Americans bought into a system where everyone appears to benefit.
"Everybody can have a free lunch," explains Howard Leikert, supervisor of school nutrition programs for the Michigan Department of Education, where a new federal program is providing all students, regardless of their families' incomes, free school meals in select areas.
But not everyone can have a free lunch. Ultimately someone must pay for each of the lunches being given away. Furthermore, not everyone needs a free lunch. The real result of serving everyone a piece of the pie is less is leftover for those truly in need.
Whacked for being Muslim and within range of a US Predator Drone: Ibrahim Adam, 24
Two young British men have been killed in US drone strikes against suspected militants in Pakistan's tribal belt, according to reports from the country. The pair, both Muslims from London, are reported to have been killed in separate drone strikes two weeks apart in South Waziristan.
One of the men has been named as Ibrahim Adam, 24, who fled from the UK with his brother four years ago, while both were the subject of control orders. The second is said to be Mohammed Azmer Khan, 38, the brother of another British Muslim, Abdul Jabbar, who was killed in a drone attack last year.
The Foreign Office was unable to confirm the deaths on Friday but said: "We are aware of reports and looking into them further."
Adam's father said: "We can confirm that we have heard that our son has been killed in a drone strike."
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Saif al-Islam Gaddafi after his capture, his fingers wrapped in bandages and his legs covered with a blanket.
Saif al-Islam Gaddafi after his capture, his fingers wrapped in bandages and his legs covered with a blanket.
Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, the fugitive son of Libya's deceased former dictator, has been arrested in southern Libya, according to officials from the country's new government.
Libyan state TV reported that Saif has arrived in captivity and unhurt at an army base in the town of Zintan, 90 miles south-west of Tripoli.
Muammar Gaddafi's second and highest-profile son was captured along with several bodyguards by fighters near the town of Obari in Libya's southern desert, said the interim justice minister and other officials.
Saif was said to be in good health, according to the justice minister Mohammed al-Alagi.
"We have arrested Saif al-Islam Gaddafi in [the] Obari area," the minister told Reuters.
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"I read the thesis, I examined him with an examiner, he defended his thesis very, very thoroughly. He had nobody else present, and I don't think there's any reason to think he didn't do it himself."~ Meghnad Jagdishchandra Desai, Indian-born British economist and Professor Emeritus of the London School of Economics.
Former judge Andrew Napolitano talks to former wrestling champion and Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura on Fox News show Freedom Watch. Ventura tells Americans they better wake up to the police state they're living in. His lawsuit against the TSA was thrown out earlier this month. Listen to Ventura explain what that means for Americans.
Comment: Modern day slavery by virtue of the intricacies of bureaucracy and for the benefit of big business, is what this is.