Body Drench

Times Online - November 19, 2009 5:33 PM

Twelve years ago, William Sichel was fighting cancer, and fearing the worst. Now the wool dyer, from the island of Sanday, Orkney, is attempting to become the first person in ten years to run 1,000 miles in a non-stop race. In March, Mr Sichel, 56, will ...

Telegraph - November 19, 2009 3:15 AM

Severed limbs and severed heads. Attacks linked to al-Qaeda have killed 2,540 people in Pakistan over 29 months. A man has his foot X-rayed. The Lady Reading hospital has 1,543 beds, one CT scan machine and no MRI facility Photo: AFP/Getty images Doctors ...

Telegraph - November 19, 2009 3:15 AM

Doctors and nurses battle to save lives in Pakistan's war against the Taliban, threatened with death and struggling to treat horrific injuries at a colonial-era hospital. "We're under severe psychological pressure. How long will we get bodies of men, ...

Telegraph - November 11, 2009 12:10 AM

In the months that led up to the November 11 Armistice of 1918, the world's armies and navies had begun to disperse. On their way home, the demobilised took with them a virulent virus. The fetid, rat-rich, body-rotting trenches provided ideal breeding ...

Time - September 10, 2009 2:10 PM

Duct tape holds together his Chinese-made assault rifle, and the mosquito net in his rucksack gapes with so many holes that it practically invites dengue- and malaria-carrying insects to feast on his body. Felix has never fought in the jungles of ...