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A training manual for Canadian diplomats lists the United States and Israel as countries where prisoners are at risk of being tortured, citing U.S. interrogation techniques such as stripping prisoners, blindfolding and sleep deprivation. The Canadian Foreign Affairs Department document, released Friday, singled out the U.S. detention center at Guantánamo Bay -- where a Canadian citizen is held. Also on the list are Afghanistan, China, Egypt, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Mexico and Syria as places where inmates could face torture. The listing drew a sharp response from the United States, a key NATO ally and trading partner, which asked to removed...

NEW YORK — Paris Hilton (search) and Nick Carter (search) have permanent reminders of each other after getting tattoos together three weeks before their July 22 breakup. Backstreet Boy Nick Carter, 24, got "Paris" tattooed on his wrist, People magazine reports. Carter says he's has no regrets about the untimely ink "because I love her. She'll have a place in my heart, always."

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Democratic presidential front-runner Howard Dean admitted on Monday that he sometimes gets so angry over political attacks on his character and record that he needs to be "restrained." "If someone punches me I am apt to chase them down and I need to be restrained by the people who know better and have been in the game longer than I have," Dean told MSNBC. Calling himself "a street fighter," Dean said that some of the worst attacks have been prompted by reports that he avoided service in Vietnam by telling draft board doctors that he a back injury - before...

During the 1990's, America became exponentially more powerful — economically, militarily and technologically — than any other country in the world, if not in history. Broadly speaking, this was because the collapse of the Soviet empire, and the alternative to free-market capitalism, coincided with the Internet-technology revolution in America. The net effect was that U.S. power, culture and economic ideas about how society should be organized became so dominant (a dominance magnified through globalization) that America began to touch people's lives around the planet — "more than their own governments," as a Pakistani diplomat once said to me. Yes, we...