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Are you curious to know what Hizballah’s Media Relations Department has to say about the Lebanon crisis, and their role in Western media’s coverage of the Qana bombing? Now you can call them and ask, thanks to a reader who forwarded scans of their business cards: UPDATE at 8/3/06 8:51:28 pm: This is not a joke.

<p>I have been meaning to write something about the Extradition Act 2003 for some time, on the grounds that it is one of those subjects when I would like to tell the US to shove their extradition requests where their prima facie evidence don't shine...</p>

LONDON (Reuters) - London's "young sluts" wreaked such havoc among U.S. troops during World War Two that the British government feared Anglo-American relations would suffer, files released Tuesday showed. Thousands of prostitutes and "good-time girls" were drawn to Piccadilly Circus and Leicester Square in search of young American men in uniform. They took advantage of blackouts, which plunged London into darkness during Nazi night air attacks, to evade the police. The government was so concerned by the problem that it asked the Metropolitan Police to write a report on it in 1942. The report described how prostitutes working in upmarket...