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By Bridget Johnson, your guide to Journalism
A year after Snoop Dogg and his crew threw down at Heathrow Airport, the British government is adamant that they don’t want Calvin Broadus Jr. on their turf. Border Agency officials are appealing the January decision of an asylum and immigration tribunal to allow the rapper back in the […]
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The proposal to move the Chicago Children’s Museum to Grant Park is pitting neighborhood residents and 42nd Ward Ald. Brendan Reilly against Mayor Richard Daley.
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Tonight - a segment about betting - ahead of the biggest betting day of the year. Nick Powell has the latest info from Aintree. We’ll also reflect on the near panic in the mortgage market, as many would-be house buyers suddenly find that their mortgage company is making extra demands of their lenders - or […]
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Ms Yade told Le Monde newspaper: “Nevertheless, three conditions are indispensable for him to go: an end to violence against the population and the release of political prisoners, light to be shed on the events in Tibet and the opening of dialogue with the Dalai Lama.”
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Rex Features
Geri Halliwell has found love with dancer Ivan Velez, according to a report.
The singer grew close to Ivan, who is nicknamed “Flipz”, when he worked with the Spice Girls on their recent reunion tour.
A source told The Sun: “Geri and Ivan met on the tour and were working very closely together. Towards the […]
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British Muslims who plotted coordinated bomb attacks on trans-Atlantic airliners said in martyr videos they were seeking revenge for U.S. and British military action in Iraq and Afghanistan, a prosecutor said …
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Naomi Campbell is used to bullying her help and getting a slap on the wrist - but brawling with a British bobby could land her in the slammer for six months.
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It’s Autobiography Week on the History Channel, uh, the McCain Campaign as the McCainers dropped their latest online bio piece on the former Navy Lt. Commander. While the Dems beat on each other, McCain has a wide-open superhighway to tell his life story to Americans who haven’t paid attention to politics in the past three […]
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Tokyo - I’m back in Japan after an absence of four years; I’ve lived and worked in Japan in the past, I have deep personal and professional ties here, and I always enjoy coming back. Each return visit provides a snapshot vision of what the future may look like in some or many parts of […]
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I rarely have to leave home early enough to travel during Tokyo’s notorious rush hour, and for this blessing I thank the Shinto gods. We’ve all heard the ghastly stories: about the station staff whose job it is literally to squeeze commuters onto the trains; about carriages so packed that they would choke a sardine; […]
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“I don’t think anybody in this city is shocked about what consenting adults do. As long as you don’t involve children, animals and vegetables, they leave you to get on, and live their own life in their own way.”
Perhaps this is merely the wishful thinking of a man with five children by three different […]
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WASHINGTON — Corruption charges leveled against Puerto Rico’s governor put the island briefly in the news last week. Anibal Acevedo Vila is accused of soliciting thousands in improper contributions to erase campaign debts and cover lavish personal expenses. He denies the charges and is continuing his bid for re-election this year.
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Vladimir Putin, the aspiring dictator of Russia, has forced President Bush to reveal how committed he really is to the cause of democracy around the world.
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Desperate presidents resort to desperate rhetoric — which then calls new attention to their desperation. President Bush joined the club this week by citing the U.S. failure in Vietnam to justify staying on in Iraq.
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ZAGREB, Croatia, April 4 — President Bush promised NATO allies at a summit that ended in Bucharest, Romania, on Friday that the United States will increase forces in Afghanistan next year no matter what happens in Iraq, aides said.
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SHANGHAI — A spike in the price of rice and other food staples is triggering consumer panic, including food riots in Yemen and Morocco, and hoarding in Hong Kong.
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KINGSTON, Jamaica, Aug. 19 — Hurricane Dean’s massive eye skidded just south of Jamaica on Sunday, but its ferocious outer bands still socked the island with 145 mph winds that shredded roofs, shattered windows and toppled trees.
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BOGOTA, Colombia — It was a godsend, the 12-page letter that Ingrid Betancourt sent her mother. It confirmed that the best-known hostage in Colombia, one of hundreds, was alive, deep in a guerrilla encampment.
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LONDON, April 3 — Seven transatlantic flights, all leaving Heathrow Airport within 2 1/2 hours of one another, were to be simultaneously blown up in midair with the goal of killing on “an almost unprecedented scale,” jurors were told at the opening of the long-awaited trial of eight British Muslims.
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HARARE, Zimbabwe, April 3 — President Robert Mugabe’s fractured inner circle called an emergency meeting for Friday morning to debate whether the president should step down or participate in a second round of voting against opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai, who appeared to receive more votes in last weekend’s election, ruling party sources said.
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