In the claustrophobic confines of a combat post, it was not easy to do. He left notes on the door to her quarters, alternately pleading and menacing. He forced her to have sex, she said. He asked her to marry him, though he was already married. He waited for her outside the women’s latrines or her quarters, once for three hours.

“It got to the point that I felt safer outside the wire,” Captain White said, referring to operations that take soldiers off their heavily fortified bases, “than I did taking a shower.”

Though Senate leadership remains relatively tight-lipped on the tentative health care deal working its way through the Congressional Budget Office, the public option is all but officially gone. Limited premium-based expansions of Medicare and Medicaid have taken its place.

So why did Democrats spend nearly a year chipping away at the public option to make it more palatable, if they weren’t going to fight for it in the end? Isn’t Reid frustrated to ha

Forbes reports today that Brazil has now overtaken China as the spam capital of the world. A report issued by Cisco’s security division says that more than 7.7 trillion spam messages came out of Brazil last year, nearly triple their 2008 total. The U.S. took home the spam silver, with about 6.6 trillion messages, a marked decrease from their 8.3 trillion mark set in 2008. The good news is that China’s spam production has seen a steep decline. Coming in at a distant 7th, The People’s Republic was only responsible for 2.4 trillion spam e-mails, a full 25-percent drop from 2008.

Joslyn James, who has starred in a number of extremely explicit adult films, allegedly slept with the sportsman on a number of occasions.

According to sports website Deadspin.com, she had boasted of their relationship to a friend.

James joins a string of women to have reportedly had affairs with the golfer, including another porn star Holly Sampson, 36.

Fresh revelations emerged as a dramatic 911 call made after Tiger Woods’ mother-in-law collapsed at his mansion has been leaked online.

Barbro Holmberg was rushed to hospital after falling sick at the disgraced golfer’s £1.7million mansion in the early hours of yesterday morning.

It is believed she became ill after confronting Woods over claims that he had cheated on her daughter Elin Nordegren with a string of mistresses.

The court accused the officers of paying a Peruvian air force officer to reveal national secrets.

The officer, Victor Ariza Mendoza, has been arrested and charged with spying.

Peru’s President Alan Garcia said he was leaving the Asia-Pacific summit in Singapore a day early over the espionage row.

He also said he had cancelled planned talks with his Chilean counterpart, Michelle Bachelet, at the Apec summit.

The former president of the Soviet Union spoke to CNN’s John King Sunday on State Of The Union and after talking about the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Gorbachev suggested that the US revisit the Kremlin’s efforts to control Afghanistan as the US plans its next move.

“I think that what’s needed is not additional forces,” said Gorbachev. “This is something that we discussed, too, years ago, and we decided not to do it. And I think our experience deserves attention.” McClatchy has reported that President Obama is leaning toward sending as many as 34,000 more US troops to Afghanistan. The Soviet Union fought for nine years in Afghanistan in a war to support Afghanistan’s then-communist government. The USSR ultimately lost the war and 13,000 of its soldiers died.

She also said Iran must not be allowed to have a nuclear weapon and reiterated Germany’s commitment to Afghanistan.

Mrs Merkel is only the second German chancellor to address Congress since Konrad Adenauer in 1957.

Before her address on Capitol Hill, Mrs Merkel was hailed as an “extraordinary leader” by US President Barack Obama.

“Germany has been an extraordinarily strong ally on a whole host of international issues,” Mr Obama

Two helicopters collided in mid-air, in the South of the country, while a third went down under heavy fire in the West, moments after extracting soldiers from a daring night raid against one of the region’s most wanted drug-smugglers.

US officials said that hostile fire was not involved in the mid-air collision, but they are still investigating the cause of the second crash.

The soldiers injured in the collision were evacuated to military hospitals, but a rescue operation to recover casualties