By Elaine Donnelly
Extending sexual misconduct to combat units

World history is littered with dictators who just happened to be — ahem — towering athletic giants. In honor of Russian President Vladimir Putin, who recorded an impressive two goals and one assist in a recent hockey game, we present a few of our favorite dictathletes.

Mexican authorities said Wednesday they had broken up an international plot to smuggle a son of the late Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi and his family into Mexico under false names and with false Mexican documents.
New gene-assembly technology that offers great benefits for scientific research also could be used by terrorists to create biological weapons, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton warned Wednesday.
For the first time in decades, soccer in Libya is just about, well, soccer.

Moammar Gadhafi's son, al-Saadi, denied allegations of corruption and intimidation and called Interpol's decision to put him on the equivalent of its most-wanted list political, according to an email sent Sunday.