Spanish artist who filled the pages of 1950s British comicsIn the late 1950s, Fernando Fernández, who has died aged 70, was one of the youngest of a group of Spanish artists working for the British comics publisher Fleetway Publications. Only 17 when his first strips were published, Fernández filled the pages of British comics for the next dec....(more) (full story...)

In pictures: The Turner prize winner unveils his latest piece: a car salvaged from a fatal Baghdad bombing (full story...)

London museum hopes Jeremy Deller's piece will serve as reminder of impact of war on civiliansA rusting, crumpled car was today placed in the main atrium of the Imperial War Museum in London surrounded by some of the most powerful military hard war e of the last 1....(more) (full story...)

The dev team talks about all of the combat enhancements in The Force Unleashed 2. (full story...)

To call Batman a bad role model for boys because he is 'socially unjust' is to miss the complexity of such superheroesAfter surveying 674 boys aged four to 18, Professor Sharon Lamb of the University of Massachusetts criticised the narrow depictions of masculinity in recent movie adaptations of Iron Man and Batman. These films, argued the p....(more) (full story...)

Soldiers face charges over secret 'kill team' which allegedly murdered at random and collected fingers as trophies of war Twelve American soldiers face charges over a secret "kill team" that allegedly blew up and shot Afghan civilians at random and collected their fingers as trophies.Five of the soldiers....(more) (full story...)

Russian-born pioneer of the package holiday abroad with HorizonIn May 1950, a DC-3 Dakota aircraft touched down on a runway built by American forces on the French island of Corsica. The 32 passengers on board were making a little bit of social history. They were the first true package tourists. The organiser of the trip was Vladimir Raitz, a pionee....(more) (full story...)

A car salvaged from the 2007 bombing of a historic Baghdad street book market in Baghdad, is going on display at the Imperial War Museum in London. (full story...)

At their first meeting Sherlock Holmes says to Dr. Watson: "You have been in Afghanistan, I perceive." (full story...)

What does it mean that the most popular cultural depictions of America’s current wars are video games? (full story...)