We've all bumped into them from time to time - and then wished we hadn't, probably for days as the smell just seems to linger.The great unwashed.There's a woman in Cardiff that you can smell at least five minutes before she arrives around the corner.

It is 1711.Spain and England have been at war for eight years, a war that would not end until 1713.A group of merchants, anticipating the end of the war, approached the cash starved English government and offered to buy part of the national debt. The

Every now and then there are images that come to haunt you.The picture of the hooded man with elctrodes attached at Al Ghraib prison will sadly be rembered for generations.This picture has always haunted me for entirely different reasons:The Afghan g

This is from 1968 when General Nguyen Ngoc Loan, director of South Vietnam's national police force, executed a Viet Cong prisoner on the streets of Saigon.It sent waves of revulsion around the world.yechydda,

Dear all,Kevin Carter was a photographer covering the famine in Southern Sudan.'Carter heard a soft, high-pitched whimpering and saw a tiny girl trying to make her way to the feeding center. As he crouched to photograph her, a vulture landed in view.

I'll never the photograph of Kim Phuc, running from her village being napalmed by the US army.As she ran she screamed in pain, Nong qua, nong qua" ("too hot, too hot"), and tore her burning clothes off in terror. The photographer, Nick

February 24th, 2003WASHINGTON — Iraq could be planning a chemical or biological attack on American cities through the use of remote-controlled "drone" planes equipped with GPS tracking maps, according to U.S. intelligence.The informa

A famous poll showed that Fox news viewers were more likely to believe than those who get their news form reliable sources (anywhere else) that there was evidence of links between Saddam and Al'Qaeda, that weapons of mass destruction had been found a

 While many Americans, still in denial over Iraq, congratulate themselves with this weeks excuse for invading Iraq - the toppling of Saddam, others less sure are now whining that if the Iraqis cannot seize the 'democracy' forced on them by the

There is a great deal to criticise about Bush. While the Bush administration has been impressive in it's use of military force, it has been incredibly incompetent both in diplomacy and in running postwar Iraq. Afghanistan is no more reassuring.Add th

Everyone knows the inventive jargon that estate agents use to sell property, but what about the travel industry?On my travels to date I've stayed in accomodation ranging from backpackers (a bed) to luxury hotels.The most important thing for any trave

Al-Qaeda is not and never has been a coherent pan national fighting force. They can be described as Islamist, jihadi or Salafi but that's about where any connection stops. This isn't a coherent enemy any more than all Christians are Catholic. An incr

It's always amusing to see the various ways that non-English countries abuse the mother tongue, especially when it comes to the written word.The Americans of course, are notorious for misspelling words such as color or analyze.But we've learnt to liv

It is the 5th and 6th month of the lunar calendar in Laos, the hottest time of the year. The harvest season is over and it is time to start the process all over again by planting and cultivating the crops for the

There is a popular national park in Thailand called Phu Kradung. One night eight young men decided to go camping there, to relax away from the city. They set up camp and then hiked to a beautiful spot where they could watch the sun set and chill out