A US marine has gone on trial accused of killing an unarmed captive in Iraq, in a case sparked by his own alleged confession during a lie-detector test.

The government is to provide funding for 15 more councils to get lie detectors to catch out benefit cheats, who cost taxpayers up to £400m a year.
The voice-risk analyser equipment detects changes in voices.

USA, state Texas - Mike Ward, staff reporter for the Austin American-Statesman reports that — much to the horror of the state’s Public Safety Commission — the Texas Department of Public Safety has hired applicants who failed lie detector tests. Unfortunately, left out of the report is any mention of the fact that polygraphy has no scientific basis. The proper question is not why are applicants who failed this bogus test being hired, but why is the state of Texas relying on this pseudoscience to screen applicants?

Moscow, Russia - in November, 2005 in the State Duma of Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation have been lead a meeting of the authorized representatives of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, FSB, FSO, Ministry of Defense, the State Office of Public Prosecutor and some other departments of Russia. At a meeting gathered the project of the Federal law " About application of a polygraph ", prepared has been presented to attention a commission of experts created at Committee GD FS of the Russian Federation on safety.