When the World Cup bid win announcement was made, the Qatar crowd erupted, as did several strategically placed glitter cannons loaded with little plastic Qatari flags. Parents hugged children, men hugged men, and ex-pats shook locals’ hands.
A terrifying tale of sailing through the Gulf of Aden waters, notorious for hostage-taking Somali pirates. Rose George explains how "pirate watch" works. Will jets of water hold up against an AK-47?
Nearly a year on from the Haiti earthquakes and a cholera epidemic and unrest continue to plague the troubled nation. But the influx of aid has a major negative side for the developing country, writes Nicholas Kristof.
Last week a war broke out in Rio de Janeiro's favelas. Watch as the Brazilian police force arrive with tanks and guns and battle drug traffickers armed with automatic weapons, while journalists and citizens hide behind houses and try to escape.
Amongst all the incriminating WikiLeaks embassy cable news lies a a fascinating tale of a rural Russian wedding, which included a "perpetually tipsy" Olympic wrestler named Vakha and a performance by Benya the Accordion King.
It's diplomatic crisis time for the US, with 250,000 classified cables to US embassies leaked by WikiLeaks: including documents outlining US officials spying on UN leadership, corruption within the Afghanistan government and diplomats spying on the countries where they are posted.
The US military's tank-like MRAP (mine-resistant ambush-protected) vehicles work wonderfully in the streets of Iraq. But in the hills and desert of Afghanistan, the tanks just help the insurgents gain more ground writes Major Michael Waltz from the US Special Forces.
Crikey media wrap: In one of the most serious clashes between the bitter enemies in decades, North Korea attacked South Korea yesterday, killing two South Korean soldiers in a shelling spree.
Australians may be fat, but we ain't fat enough to make the top ten list of countries (to be fair, we make the top twenty) of the WHO's most obese nations. A whopping 95% of Nauru's population is overweight and
An outbreak of cholera in earthquake-affected Haiti -- with nearly 1000 dead and infection spreading rampantly -- is resulting in violent protests, with protesters claiming a Nepalese UN contingent caused the epidemic.
