Report: Female Detainees in Egypt Forced to Take 'Virginity Tests'

Mar 24th 2011 – 9:59 AM |AOL News

Kevin Frayer, AP

Weeks after Egypt's vibrant, youth-led revolution, disturbing details are emerging about the treatment of some young female protesters briefly detained by Egyptian soldiers. Some of the women say...

US Robots to Peek Inside Japan's Nuclear Meltdown

Mar 24th 2011 – 9:57 AM |AOL News

Courtesy of iRobot

The world may soon get a glimpse inside Japan's stricken Fukushima nuclear plant -- through the "eyes" of a U.S.-made robot. A Massachusetts company that manufactures robots for U.S. military bomb...

40 Lipsticked Virgins: Gadhafi's Best Bet for Survival

Mar 23rd 2011 – 8:39 AM |AOL News

AFP / Getty Images

With Moammar Gadhafi in hiding as coalition aircraft bomb his country, he's counting on protection from a unique bodyguard corps he's been training for decades -- an all-female, gun-toting posse of...

Has Moammar Gadhafi's Son Been Killed by Libyan Pilot?

Mar 22nd 2011 – 7:52 AM |AOL News

Rumors are swirling in the Arab world that one of Moammar Gadhafi's sons has been killed in an attack on the family compound -- but not by a coalition airstrike. Khamis Gadhafi is said to have been...

Where Is Gadhafi Hiding This Time as Missiles Strike Libya?

Mar 21st 2011 – 10:51 AM |AOL News

Jerome Delay, AP

With his residential compound blasted apart by cruise missiles, where is Col. Moammar Gadhafi hiding? The Libyan dictator is thought to still be somewhere near Tripoli, while U.S., British and...

US Evacuee: 'I Left My Japanese Husband Behind'

Mar 21st 2011 – 7:32 AM |AOL News

Courtesy of Brooke Lathram

With fears of nuclear fallout swirling after Japan's earthquake and tsunami, American newlywed Brooke Lathram was forced to make a heart-wrenching decision: She evacuated her home in Tokyo and left...

If Cooling Fails, Japan May Bury Fukushima Nuke Plant

Mar 18th 2011 – 8:49 AM |AOL News

Kyodo News, AP

It's how Chernobyl's busted reactors met their final demise: encasing the entire nuclear plant in a concrete sarcophagus to seal it off from the world forever. The idea of burying Japan's stricken...

YouTube Hero: Australian Boy Body-Slams His Bully

Mar 18th 2011 – 7:32 AM |AOL News

YouTube

A chubby Australian boy has rocketed to YouTube stardom after a classmate recorded a cell phone video of him body-slamming a smaller boy who'd been taunting him in the schoolyard. The clip shows the...

Some Americans Vow to Stay as US Begins Evacuations From Japan

Mar 17th 2011 – 10:13 AM |AOL News

Charter planes are heading to Japan to evacuate U.S. citizens, as Washington raises its warnings about possible nuclear fallout at quake-ravaged nuclear reactors there. But many Americans are vowing...

Is There a Nuke Plant in a Quake Zone Near You?

Mar 17th 2011 – 6:54 AM |AOL News

Getty Images

A staggering one-fifth of the world's nuclear power stations sit on potentially shaky ground in earthquake zones, raising the specter that what's happening in Japan could come to a community near...

Why Is There No Looting in Japan in Earthquake Aftermath?

Mar 16th 2011 – 10:03 AM |AOL News

Los Angeles Times / MCT

Flash back to any natural disaster in recent memory, and among the scenes of homes in ruin and families weeping are often all-too-familiar images of looting: Desperate victims smashing windows and...

TV Networks Rig Reunions for Quake Survivors -- and Ratings?

Mar 16th 2011 – 6:53 AM |AOL News

CBS

With the scale of Japan's quake and tsunami devastation so large, U.S. television networks are struggling to boil the story down into human terms. TV networks have staged reunions between missing...

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