Following the latest news about intensified preparations to launch an operation against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in Mosul, it has stepped up its assaults in various parts of Iraq in recent weeks. Most recently last week, it carried out a suicide attack with an explosives-laden…

Surgeon Zalazun looks at monitor displaying donor kidney for patient Abernathy, who participated in five-way organ transplant swap in New York (Copyright…

Laughing through tough times My father loved cowboy pictures and also enjoyed watching war movies, but the reason he relished them wasn’t so much the action but the humor. “Just watch their one liners in a tough situation Bob!” he used to tell me and we laughed together as soldiers…