BBC journalist Ahmed Omed Khpulwak was accidentally killed by US troops in July after being mistaken for an insurgent, the International Security Assistance Force announced yesterday after a review of the incident, reports the BBC . Khpulwak was originally reported to have been killed by insurgents in a militant attack in…
Continue reading …Here’s a cell phone that’s got your number. A new prototype for a “sensuous” phone will blow on your neck, coo and even kiss. In pursuit of more “emotional” and “sensory” phones, a designer at the Berlin University of the Arts has come up with three different touchy-feelie models, reports…
Continue reading …There were good grades aplenty for President Obama’s new jobs proposals coming from pundits last night, with generally positive feedback from liberals like Paul Krugman—but also from conservatives like David Frum and Andrew Sullivan. “Krugman wrote in the New York Times that he was “favorably surprised by the new…
Continue reading …Mississippi conservatives have won the all-clear from the state Supreme Court for their abortion-busting initiative asking voters to label embryos as “people.” The vote could totally shut down abortion rights by defining a “person” as existing from the “moment of fertilization,” thereby conceivably opening the way for murder charges for…
Continue reading …They’re the most famous shoes never made—until now. They’re the Nike Air Mags, the LED-covered high-tops Marty McFly wore in Back to the Future Part II , and, as Gizmodo gushes , they can now be yours for a limited time … for the right price. Nike has made just 1,500…
Continue reading …What did leading economists think of President Obama’s jobs speech last night? The Daily Beast asked several of them, and although a few said that more spending and less tax cuts would offer a bigger bang for the buck, the responses were mostly pretty positive. As one put it: “This is the type of jobs
Continue reading …What did leading economists think of President Obama’s jobs speech last night? The Daily Beast asked several of them, and although a few said that more spending and less tax cuts would offer a bigger bang for the buck, the responses were mostly pretty positive. As one put it: “This is the type of jobs
Continue reading …At long, long last have scientists finally found the “missing link” connecting human-like apes to the first human? A South African researcher is convinced he may have tracked down the creature after an exhaustive examination of the partial skeletons of a young female adult and a male child of a…
Continue reading …9/11 anniversary: photographers recall day of horror – interactive slideshow
September 9, 2011 No Comment
Photographers who were in New York on 9/11 describe the carnage they witnessed and explain the visceral power of photographs to capture a moment. Their images – and those taken by members of the public fleeing the burning towers – show intimate glimpses of individual grief and shock in the devastated city Francesca Panetta Iain Chambers Jim Powell Elliot Smith Christian Bennett Guardian Interactive team
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