Balanced News Blog

Israel has already proven it can take unilateral action to defend itself (such as the raid on Osirak). Many times in fact. It beat back nine Arab nations in the Yom Kippur War, after all. Quite capable, one might say. But are they capable enough to knock out Iran’s nuclear program?

Using radar equipment along a wall of a landmark building, military specialists Saturday quickly found a time capsule buried more than a century ago by King Kamehameha V.

The commander of forces that shot and killed people protesting land seizures in a southern village has been detained, the Chinese government said Sunday, as police in riot gear patrolled the community and appealed for order.

A powerful earthquake shook Papua New Guinea early Monday, the U.S. Geological Survey said. A disaster official in the capital, Port Moresby, said there were no immediate reports of damage or injuries.

US Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist said Sunday he is prepared to strip Democrats of their to ability to filibuster if they try to stall Samuel Alito‘s nomination to the Supreme Court.

A suicide bomber has blown himself up near a convoy of US-led troops in the main city of volatile southern Afghanistan, wounding up to three passers-by, police and witnesses said.

The spies are coming out of the cold, or at least emerging from the shadows. This weekend MI5 has published for the first time photographs of the 15 director-generals who have led Britain’s domestic intelligence service.

Miss Iceland, Unnur Birna, became her country’s 3rd Miss World after winning the 55th Miss World pageant in Sanya, China, December 10th.

Explosions tore through a fuel depot north of London before dawn on Sunday, creating a wall of smoke and flames and injuring 36 people, four of them seriously, in what police said appeared to be an accident.

A tunnel leading from Gaza toward Israel has been discovered, the first since the Israeli military withdrew from Gaza over the summer, the Israel Defense Forces said Saturday.