Israels Mossad spy agency estimates Iran will develop a nuclear weapon within three years and continue to provide rockets to regional armed groups',a newspaper reported on Tuesday. Iran may have temporarily halted its nuclear drive five years ago but relaunched it while pressing ahead with a public uranium enrichment programme

Newspaper reports and photos on how the armed police in Cornwall are raiding homes and confiscating Cornish books and flags!

From the production shop of Washington's signature newspaper, the Washington Post, to the 100-year old National Press Club, journalists and newspaper support workers are up in arms over the further attempts to corporatize the Fourth Estate. Wayne Madsen reports.

A recent newspaper article in Hong Kong disclosed that Air China flights operate with armed with air marshalls on board. But just take a look at what weird stuff they are actually armed with...

Today’s decision would make George Orwell proud. We claim to be giving the news industry a shot in the arm—but the real effect is to reduce total newsgathering. We shed crocodile tears for the financial plight of newspapers—yet the truth is that newspaper profits are about double the S&P 500 average...

In Western cultures, the finger (as in giving someone the finger) is a well-known obscene hand gesture made by extending the middle finger of the hand while bending the other fingers into the palm. A known variation includes extending the thumb as well. A variation of the gesture is also made by showing someone the back of the hand, with three fingers extended, and telling the recipient to "read between the lines". Another variation includes folding the ring and index fingers alongside the middle finger.The gesture is also known as the "bird", "flipping the birdie", the "highway salute", "The New York Hello", "concert C", "sticking your middle finger up", "Showing Off Your Monkey", "The Canadian Turn Signal" "flipping/flicking someone off" and "the Supersucker Drive-By Blues". The gesture is mostly used as a non-verbal way of saying "fuck you". When both hands are used, it is known as the "double-barrel salute", the "double deuce", or the "dirty double". A more comical approach is to wiggle all five fingers and query, "Do you see these?" retracting all but the middle finger state, "Its a whole flock of these." (A distinct reference to the aforementioned "bird")In the UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand, the V sign (given with back of the hand towards the recipient) serves a similar purpose (primarily "f**k off"), whilst "the bird" is more often used for "up yours", "swivel on it", "sit and swivel on it" or "sit and spin".In eastern countries like Iran the "thumbs up" gesture means the same as "the finger" in western countries which can result in deep conflicts.In some African and Caribbean countries, the equivalent is extending all five digits, meaning "you have five fathers" (your mother is a whore).