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Jul 7 2009 2:27PM
Huge payout as police suspend Taser use

Will the outgoing Chief Constable Sir Hugh Orde leave a multi-million pound, Taser-sized headache behind for his successor and the NI Policing Board? That could be the prospect facing the new PSNI chief following the settlement of a...

Jul 7 2009 9:11AM
Coup consequences

It’s unusual to have so many international news stories dominate the news agenda. Ongoing Uighur protests in China, President Obama making a speech in Russia and more discussion about MJ’s memorial are the hot subjects at the moment...

Jul 7 2009 5:07AM
Urumqi Massacre & Genocide

The CCP distracted people’s anger under its tyrannical rule by provoking racial hatred between Han Chinese and Uighur. The CCP produced another Massacre in Urumqi immediately after it incited bloody incident against Uighur in Guangdong...

Jul 6 2009 10:16AM
Ethnic tensions lead to more violence in China

The plight of the Uighurs – the much-persecuted, muslim ethnic majority in China’s distant north-western region of Xinjiang – was brought to the public’s attention this morning, and all for the wrong reasons. Getting reliable info from...

Jul 6 2009 8:20AM
Moonwalk this: rockets or rickets?

There was a fascinating footnote to last night's BBC4 programme, Man on the Moon , which told the story of the US space programme and the billions spent to put a man on the moon before the Soviets. On the eve of the Apollo 11 mission...