Florida girl’s abortion allowed. The Florida authorities admit defeat in a legal battle to stop a 13-year-old girl having an abortion.

Italy has issued a strongly worded rebuttal to a U.S. report clearing U.S. soldiers of responsibility for the shooting death of an Italian intelligence agent at a roadblock in Iraq. “Inexperience and stress” on the part of the soldiers were…

He says ethics demand jail-design boycott “Prisons are so often associated with their buildings, so I thought this would be a way for architects to connect the issue with their work, with something they could do about it”

Prisoners abused for ‘amusement’ A clique of US soldiers tormented Iraqi detainees at Abu Ghraib prison for “amusement,” not for any authorized military mission, Pfc. Lynndie England testified Monday as she pleaded guilty to seven abuse-related charges. Thus, Lynndie fell…

From Sue to The Daily News [Insert slur against more easily vilified group here] Your article dated May 2nd, “Childhood Obesity Bills to Sink State?”, could easily qualify as hate speech by merely substituting in the place of “overweight adults,”…

PDF Radacting Failure. I wasn’t going to even bother writing about this, but I got too many e-mails from people. We all know that masking over the text of a PDF document doesn’t actually erase the underlying text, right? Don’t…

Italian investigators believe there is no evidence that the car carrying Italian agent Nicola Calipari was going too fast when he was killed in ‘friendly’ US fire in Iraq, informed sources have revealed. A report drafted by the two Italians…