Feb 17th, 2010 · Military commanders raised the Afghan flag in the bullet-ridden main market of the Taliban's southern stronghold of Marjah on Wednesday as firefights continued to break out elsewhere in the town between holed-up militants and U.S. and Afghan troops.
Jan 30th, 2010 · Democrats trying to salvage their health care legislation have been talking a lot about "reconciliation." It's basically a way to alter laws without the threat of a Senate filibuster. But reconciliation wasn't designed as a vehicle for controversial policy change, and it's no silver bullet. Host Guy Raz gets a reconciliation primer from Sarah Binder, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution.
Jan 9th, 2010 · Togo's national soccer team withdrew from the African Cup of Nations after gunmen reportedly sprayed bullets at the team's bus for 13 minutes in Angola before soldiers repulsed the assailants. An assistant coach, a team spokesperson and the bus driver were killed, according to the team.
Jan 1st, 2010 · Winter weather means more than skiing and snowmen. Bullet rosettes, stellar plates and capped columns are just a few of the crystal varieties commonly found in snowstorms. Science Friday asked Kenneth Libbrecht, physicist at Caltech and snowflake expert, for guidance on snowflake hunting.
Dec 31st, 2009 · The bullet train had just started traveling between two Chinese cities when a smoker triggered an alarm, and the super-fast train had to stop for two and a half hours. A railway spokesman says "smoking is strictly forbidden even in the toilet."
Dec 26th, 2009 · Israeli troops blasted their way into the homes of three wanted Palestinians on Saturday, killing each in a hail of bullets and straining an uneasy security arrangement with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
Dec 23rd, 2009 · Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes update, starring Robert Downey Jr. as the iconic sleuth, looks to put a bullet in the popular conception of the deerstalker-wearing detective — though exactly what drives the protagonist in Ritchie's indecipherable adventure remains something of a mystery.
Dec 8th, 2009 · "There are no silver bullets" for success, Gen. Stanley McChrystal told a House panel Tuesday. His testimony comes a week after President Obama announced his new Afghanistan strategy.