The Metropolitan police has announced that its officers will be authorised to use rubber bullets on rioters, but what are rubber bullets? Properly known as baton rounds, rubber bullets are pretty much ...

Victoria Snelgrove was in a crowd celebrating the Boston Red Sox’s win over the New York Yankees in 2004 when a police officer shot her through the eye with a rubber bullet. If she had blinked, the ...

As an emeritus professor of Middle East history at UA and author of "Palestine and the Arab-Israeli Conflict," now in 10th edition, I have viewed with alarm reports of police using rubber bullets to ...