Shia leaders blame Iraqi bombings on Sunni militants. The attacks in the sacred Shia cities of Najaf and Kerbala came just over an hour apart and left at least 60 people dead and more than 120 wounded. “Trying to ignite?”…

The pressure on the beleaguered US defence secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, intensified yesterday and threatened to taint his main supporter in Washington, George Bush. David Hackworth, a retired US army colonel turned writer, reported that Mr Rumsfeld had used a mechanical…

The Australian government “has distanced itself for the first time from the United States’ hardline attempts to stall international action on global warming.” The Environment Minister, Ian Campbell, has made a point of spelling out key differences with the US…

Fibromyalgia can mean long-term, chronic pain, often in the joints. There didn’t used to be anything that could be done to lessen the pain. There is now. Cymbalta relieves pain almost entirely for 30% of those who have fibro. It…

Pfifer will scrap ads for Celbrex, which is associated with increased risk of heart attack – but will keep marketing it to doctors. It gets worse They only killed the ads because the FDA forced them to. And worse still.…

The Fox Is in Microsoft’s Henhouse (and Salivating). The success of the web browser Firefox has shown that open-source software can move from back-office obscurity to your home, and to your parents’, too.

Republican Congressman Tom Feeney of Oviedo asked a computer programmer in September 2000, prior to that year’s contested presidential vote in Florida, to write software that could alter vote totals on touch-screen voting machines, the programmer said. Former computer programmer…