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It's too cold. It's too late at night. It's too late in the year. The complaints about baseball's postseason all carry weight and aren't going away. The playoffs are the way they are because the TV networks want it that way and owners who make a bundle off TV...

Seven high-ranking Iranian officers, including at least two generals, and several tribal leaders were among the 31 people who died in a suicide bombing attack on their meeting in the Sistan-Baluchi provincial town of Pisheen early Sunday, Oct. 18. Tehran vowed swift retribution, soon after Parliament speaker Ali Larijani accused the US. Washington condemned the attack and rejected the charge of involvement. DEBKAfiled names one of the generals as covert commander of al Qods foreign terror bases in the Middle East.

As America's military role in Iraq winds down, the U.S. is grappling with how to help some of the more than 30,000 troops injured ...

Parents and boys were all in on the ruse to get on a new reality TV show, police say

On Sunday evening Microsoft issued a statement that said it was expecting to start restoring lost T-Mobile Sidekick contact data this week and that other data, such as photos, would be restored next. Read the full story here.

A bomb attached to a motorcycle exploded on Sunday near a popular cafe in a largely Sunni district of Baghdad killing five people, Iraqi police said.

Daniel Melnick, the producer who brought gutsy, smart movies like Straw Dogs,Network and Midnight Express to the big screen, ...

Sheriff says he believes he has evidence that panic over disappearance of Falcon Heene was publicity stunt and that charges will followThe parents of 'balloon boy' Falcon Heene are hoaxers who fooled police into believing the six-year-old could have had been carried away inside a helium weather balloon, sparking a massive rescue operation, the local sheriff said today.Confirming what had become an ever-increasing suspicion since it emerged that the boy's parents were reality TV veterans with a taste for fame, Sheriff Jim Alderden told reporters in Colorado that his officers had been fooled by skilled actors.Charges would follow soon against Richard and Mayumi Heene, the self-styled amateur weather obsessives who seemingly hatched the plot in the hope of winning their own television series, he said.'It has been determined that this is a hoax, that it was a publicity stunt. We believe we have evidence that this was a stunt, that it was a done with the hopes of [the family] better marketi

As a potentially controversial new bus line began climbing the hills of east Jerusalem on Sunday, almost no one noticed and nobody got on.

. US to unveil new policy to resolve conflict. Critics say move will do little to halt violenceThe Obama administration will tomorrow roll out a new policy aimed at resolving the Darfur crisis in Sudan, a much softer and more conciliatory line than the president promised during his election campaign.Barack Obama is dropping a plan to isolate the Sudanese government and introduce tougher sanctions. Instead he will offer incentives aimed at the normalisation of relations with President Omar al-Bashir.Earlier this year Bashir was charged with war crimes over the conflict in Darfur, in which hundreds of thousands are estimated to have been killed and 1-2 million displaced.The US hopes that working with the Sudanese government will allow it to exercise more influence.The offer of normalisation is dependent on Khartoum beginning to implement measures to end the conflict. If it does not, the Obama administration will threaten to resort to punitive measures.The policy comes at the end of a rev