A Houston firm certified the oil tanker Prestige as good to go. It broke apart in the Atlantic, causing the worst environmental disaster in Spanish history.
A federal lawsuit filed here by a local businessman is threatening to derail a multi-billion-dollar nuclear-power deal between the US and the United Arab Emirates.Why? Because one of the parties in the deal engaged in cruel, barbarous torture. Surprise!! It's not the US!A 45-minute video smuggled out of the UAE shows Sheikh Issa bin Zayed al-Nahyan -- well, let's use the Times of London language -- "mercilessly and repeatedly
beating a man with a cattle prod and a nailed board, burning his geni