Born in a North Korean prison, Shin Dong-hyuk hits the book circuit with "Escape From Camp 14."

Contemplating 1972 predictions of environmental doom.

American media rallies to lament how the mental stress of multiple combat deployments provides sympathetic context to massacres of Afghan civilians. The ignored context is an Afghan population traumatized by more than four decades of war.

Malaria has spontaneously emerged from yet another hotspot in southeast Asia. If the super-parasites erupt elsewhere -- such as in malaria's African heartland -- years of progress against the disease could be rapidly unravelled.

Walk down any main street in Belfast, where the Titanic was built a century ago, and everything from Titanic walking tours to menus in the style of the ship's cuisine, are advertised in shop windows and hotel lobbies.

Why can't leaders like Barack Obama and David Cameron bring the badly behaved Rotweiler of big business to heel? The answer is simple: they don't own the dog; the dog owns them.

Anna Reid's book, "Leningrad: The Epic Siege of World War II, 1941-1944," is the first full-scale narrative of the event in more than four decades.

The once powerful, almost omniscient, Turkish army has been neutered.

Will the massacre in France turn out to be Nicolas Sarkozy's Oklahoma City?

Over the past few years hundreds upon hundreds of Palestinians have found a new and lucrative line of business. They traffic in the underground, illegal, tunnels of Gaza.

U.S. forces have been slaughtering Afghan civilians like they were going out of style. There have been countless massacres of supposed "insurgents" or "terrorists." Who invariably turned out to have been ordinary men, women and children going about their daily routines.

To thwart Iran, the Saudis could enter into a defense and intelligence alliance with Israel.

Israel's BGU fosters environmental cooperation -- in a war zone.

Even two degrees of warming could set in motion changes that could wreak havoc on ecosystems and world civilization.

Replace "Syria" and "Bashar al-Asaad" with "Iraq" and "Sadaam Hussein" and the media coverage is nearly identical to the coverage leading up to the Iraq war

How foreign aid to Haiti can pressure the local economy, compound inflation problems, and maybe do more harm than good in the end.

Despite the differences between Barack Obama and Benjamin Netanyahu, it is clear that Israel has secured the ability to strike and defend itself against Iran without American condemnation.

Groups such as Italy's ruthless 'Ndrangheta crime syndicate have expanded activities to include toxic waste handling and natural resources trafficking. Yes, the mafia has "gone green" but not in a good way.

"The Lost History of 1914" shows how that year began to sow the seeds of Nazism.

A popular Imam in Saudi Arabia, has called for the assassination of Bashar Assad. This demonstrates that many Arabs have lost patience with Syria's dictator.