Group: TV torture influencing real life
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Demanding information, Jack Bauer faces a terrified man tied to a chair in front of him. Through a window over Bauer's shoulder, the man sees his two children bound and gagged.
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Nearly two-thirds of parents in a new survey want the government to place tighter controls on sex and violence on television, researchers said Thursday.
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The military has been working for years on a pain ray that heats up the skin, sending crowds running.  Wired News' Sharon Weinberger decides to find out what the screams are all about -- and gets zapped herself.
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Human rights experts call them "prisoners of conscience." Hundreds of them around the world are forced to live in deplorable conditions in jail cells and prison camps.
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BBC News Online's Sarah Shenker spoke to some of the survivors. Lodz ghetto inmates were tormented by hunger, exhaustion and fear every day.
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Staff are to receive counselling to help them cope with the ordeal, which involved the families of two employees being held hostage for over 24 hours.
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Â· Family describe man who killed wife as tortured soul Â· Husband had been treated for mental illness
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Decisions about interrogation videotapes were prompted by fear about what the public might think, officials say.
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British public broadcaster Channel 4 is   courting controversy with what it calls a "shockingly real"   television drama about a fictional assassination of President   George W. Bush.
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Earthquake simulators can reduce post-traumatic stress in people who have survived the real thing, a study suggests.
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Beatings with bottles, sleep  deprivation and threats of violence against relatives are all  routine forms of torture in detention centres in the rebellious  Russian region of Chechnya, former inmates say.
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For the moment at least, the antistrike strategy of replacing scripted entertainment with so-called reality series seems inspired.
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Watching television disrupts  children's' normal response to food -- they will eat more while  they're sitting in front of the tube, whether or not they're  really hungry.
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A flat screen TV started broadcasting a distress signal, drawing the attention of emergency and law enforcement officials.
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Channel 4 is searching for volunteers to take part in a show about human decomposition.
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An American soldier describes how he and fellow interrogators in Iraq were influenced by harsh techniques gleaned from hit series like '24.'
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British public broadcaster Channel 4 is   courting controversy with what it calls a "shockingly real"   drama about the fictional assassination of President George W.   Bush.