BlackBerry ban in India delayed
India’s ban on BlackBerry services, which was expected to begin Tuesday, has been delayed pending a 60-day security test.
Tigers’ versatile Gilchrist even more valuable against spread offenses
CLEMSON — Marcus Gilchrist is a hybrid. In college football’s spread-heavy offensive environment, Gilchrist is an eco-friendly option for Clemson coordinator Kevin Steele.
Tigers-Twins Preview
After a frustrating road trip that included three one-run losses, the Minnesota Twins open a nine-game homestand hoping to increase their AL Central lead. Owners of the AL’s second-best home record, the Twins begin a three-game set against the Detroit Tigers on Tuesday night. Minnesota (75-56) resumes play following a 3-4 swing.
Tigers-Twins: What’s riding on it?
With their deficit back to 10 games in the AL Central, guess there’s no kidding about what this game in Minnesota means to the Tigers: stats and a chance to help out the White Sox in the race. Since nobody cares about that, it’s stats. For example, Armando Galarraga (4-5) will try to even his record and Jim Leyland wouldn’t mind getting a contract extension past 2011.
Missouri Tigers’ Derrick Washington charged with sexual assault
Missouri running back Derrick Washington was charged Monday with sexually assaulting a former tutor over the summer.
Counter-Insurgency: From Latin America to Afghanistan
The US COIN program has its origins in the decades long US interventions – secretive and not so – in its own southern hemisphere. And the war in Afghanistan (and in Iraq) takes on the same state terror versus insurgent terror attributes of that long era of violence, notes Pablo Behrens .
MILF: Peace talks likely to resume by end-Sept
Peace talks between the government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front might resume end-September to early October at the earliest.
Tigers alive despite being tamed
LANCEFIELD will have a second chance to keep its back-to-back premiership dream alive this weekend after a 21-point loss to Riddell on Saturday.
Tigers seeking ‘a higher level’
Pinkel s team is poised to improve in 2010, but off-field issues may hinder progress.
Afghan President Calls For NATO Review Of Its ‘Ineffective’ Counter-Insurgency Strategy
(RTTNews) – At a time support for the nine-year-old war against terrorism in Afghanistan is waning in the United States and other NATO member states, Afghan President Hamid Karzai has lambasted the coalition’s counter-insurgency strategy, describing it as “ineffective.”
Expanding counter-insurgency in Taliban stronghold Canada’s focus this fall
Maj. Ned Ash points out his lightweight army uniform and the civilian clothes of a guest sitting at a meeting table in a small military strongpoint at the Dand District Centre in this small village south of Kandahar city.
