A woman in Pakistan was killed by her family for marrying someone of her own choice. Her father has been arrested. I hope he never sees the outside of a jail for the rest of his life.

Obama says he will remove most of the US soldiers from Afghanistan by 2016, but this would not count US-paid mercenaries.

Apparently they will still engage in combat whenever they label an enemy as "al Qa'ida".

A psychiatrist says that the definition of PTSD is being stretched to the point where everyone who has been through a disaster gets that diagnosis. Of the Bosnians she treated after the war, most of them had other problems that called for other treatments.

Two counties in California are suing drug manufacturers alleging that misleading advertisements have provoked overuse of addictive painkillers.

The X-ray scanners that exposed American airplane passengers to the risk of dangerous radiation have been moved to prisons.

The prisoners, I suppose, can't opt out, and if a malfunction in prison causes a radiation burn the prisoners might not get proper treatment.