On Sunday, in a front page New York Times piece (”U.S. Finds Iraq Insurgency Has Funds to Sustain Itself”), John Burns and Kirk Semple reported that a federal “interagency working group,” looking into the finances of the various branches of the Sunni insurgency in Iraq, had come to the conclusion that it was now financially [...]

Darcy Murphy says she owes her life to a little, four-legged hero.
But her furry savior isn’t a dog or even a cat – it’s Robin the rabbit. One night in May, Robin was making a racket in its cage. The noise repeatedly awakened Murphy’s husband, Ed.
He finally checked on his wife, and realized she was [...]

Harry Scull Jr./Buffalo News
Lisa Savarese owes her life, her marriage and her new twin daughters to the heart she received from Daniel Gianadda.
Twin baby girls from Long Island, swaddled in a lot of pink, gurgled and fussed Saturday morning in the Clarence home of the Gianaddas - a family whose decision more than seven years [...]

1943: Germans surrender at Stalingrad
The Soviet Government has announced the final defeat of the German 6th Army at the port of Stalingrad, in southern Russia.
A statement late this evening said: “Our forces have now completed the liquidation of the German Fascist troops encircled in the area of Stalingrad.
“The last centre of enemy resistance in the [...]