Officials today opened the Center for the Intrepid and two Fisher Houses in a dedication ceremony at the Brooke Army Medical Center.
More than 3,000 people, including wounded and recovering military service members and their families, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Peter Pace, and Senators Hillary Rodham Clinton and John McCain who supported […]

Space shuttle Discovery roared towards the heavens on Saturday evening, starting a 12-day mission with the first night launch in four years.
The STS-116 mission is the 33rd for Discovery and the 117th space shuttle flight. During the mission, the crew of seven will continue construction on the international space station by rewiring the orbiting laboratory […]

An Eye for Details. PC Edge said: “I could clearly see he was blind as he had no eyes.”
The BBC can award itself a “department of the bleedin’ obvious” commendation for the headline adorning this piece yesterday concerning the case of 31-year-old Omed Aziz who was nicked while driving through Oldbury, West Midlands, while in […]

Australian naturalist and television personality Steve Irwin has been killed by a stingray during a diving expedition off the Australian coast.
Irwin, 44, died after being struck in the chest by the stingray’s barb while he was filming a documentary in Queensland’s Great Barrier Reef.
Paramedics from Cairns rushed to the scene but were unable to save […]

Italy won the World Cup after beating France 5-3 in a penalty shoot-out.
After an absorbing game, Italy defender Fabio Grosso scored the decisive penalty after David Trezeguet missed.
Playing his last game before retiring, Zinedine Zidane’s career ended in disgrace after he was given a red card and ejected for crazily headbutting Marco Materazzi.
Zidane had put […]

A Brazilian bankruptcy judge has cancelled the sale of the country’s heavily indebted national airline, VARIG, to a consortium of employees. The group failed to deliver its first payment of $75m by Friday’s deadline. The group, which had offered $449m for the ailing airline, said it had failed “to reach an agreement with investors”. The […]

Bill Gates has announced he will end his day-to-day role as head of software giant Microsoft by July 2008, saying the move would help him spend more time on health and education work at his charity, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Mr. Gates will continue to serve as the company’s chairman and advise on key […]