Containing everything from presidential hubris to treacherous storms, ice packs, herds of reindeer and miserable sled dogs worked in brutal, dead-of-winter conditions — much of it photographed by participants — "The Impossible Rescue" is top-notch history.
Bahrain and Saudi Arabia have been the most brutal, with dozens dead in Bahrain and about 18 killed in Saudi Arabia.
On the subject of DayZ, we can expect Dean Hall's zombie survival game to go through more iterations this year; it'll be accompanied by other undead lurkers including brutal Los Angeles-based sequel Dead island 2 and Techland's open world chiller, Dying Light.
"All the gay men in it," he says with brutal simplicity, "are now dead".
But to many residents of Goliad, with its 18th-century Spanish fort and towering monument to the dead, that brutal episode in its history is still open to interpretation.
Kristof apparently was the lone member of the press who covered the lesser-known Tiananmen Square protests for government action to increase infant mortality that faced a brutal crackdown leaving hundreds dead in June of 1989.
Egypt seemed more divided than ever after a brutal day of violence here that left hundreds of people dead.
Last year "Dead Aid", a brutal indictment of the aid industry by Dambisa Moyo, a Zambian economist, became a bestseller.
In a brutal incident, Ricardo was shot dead on a street corner; Antonio was lucky to survive.
Last week, he filmed rockets pummeling the neighborhood, shells landing just yards away, and brutal, graphic images of the dead and the dying.
We can talk about dead babies and brutal rapes: things we can't go home to our wives and talk about.
