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Britain faces years of tax rises and huge cuts in public spending as the government battles to control public debt that could soar to £15 trillion, an official report has revealed. Read more
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NEW YORK – Some 200 pickets chanting “Boycott the Post! Shut it down!” marched in front of the New York Post on Thursday to protest a newspaper cartoon that critics say compares President Barack Obama to the chimpanzee that was shot dead by police in Connecticut. Read more
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Now it’s time to face the tribunal, and Duch, now 65, is one of five Khmer Rouge kingpins facing charges of crimes against humanity under the joint U.N.-Cambodian effort. In the years since the brutal reign of the Khmer Rouge, Duch became an evangelical pastor and worked for a Christian aid organization. Still, after this [...]
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Why the Valentine’s Day party poopers? Valentine’s Day = St. Valentine = not an Islamic holiday. Plus, as an Islamic scholar told the Saudi Gazette, “As Muslims we shouldn’t celebrate a non-Muslim celebration especially this one that encourages immoral relations between unmarried men and women.” So in Saudi Arabia, the religious police — agents of [...]
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Valentine’s Day = evil! This isn’t the message from a chorus of bitter singles, but the annual refrain of some Hindus in India, who dedicate their Feb. 14 to busting up as much coupledom as possible. After striking too sharp of a tone with some young lovers, though, six members of Sri Ram Sena have [...]
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3:37pm UK, Thursday February 19, 2009 Three defendants in the murder trial of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya have been found not guilty. A Moscow memorial to Kremlin critic Anna Politkovskaya [...]
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Rex Features Jade Goody will not be filmed dying, her publicist Max Clifford has confirmed. The former Big Brother star will continue her deal with Living TV until her wedding this weekend, but the channel will not record her death. “All this talk about filming her dying – it’s never happened and it wouldn’t happen, [...]
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Sixteen years later, Tezagul is now a widow and still living in one room in the residence. Tezagul and her family are internally displaced people (IDPs) within Azerbaijan – victims of its conflict in the early 1990s with Armenia. There are 570,000 IDP and another 200,000 ethnic Azeri refugees from Armenia, out of a population [...]
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JERUSALEM – A prominent group of Jewish-American leaders urged the Women’s Tennis Association yesterday to punish the United Arab Emirates for barring Israeli player Shahar Peer from entering the country for a tournament this week. Read more
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Still basking in his oh-so-right predictions during last year’s presidential campaign, our favorite superhot supergeek Nate Silver of 538.com has posted his Oscar predictions. Read more
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As authorities struggle to find both the disappeared Allen Stanford and $50bn of his assets, allegations emerged today that he was being investigated over possible links to a Mexican drugs cartel (David Byers writes). The claims, made by the US broadcaster ABC, were among a series of revelations emerging in an international press fascinated [...]
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LONDON, Feb. 17 — An international group of judges and lawyers has warned that systemic torture and other abuses in the global “war on terror” have “undermined cherished values” of civil rights in the United States, Britain and other countries. Read more
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Feb. 18 — A controversial, closely watched peace agreement designed to end Taliban violence in the scenic Swat Valley hung in limbo Wednesday amid criticism in Pakistan and rising concern in Washington. Read more
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BUENOS AIRES Dinner hour in this city often arrives as close to dawn as to dusk, so it wasn’t until 9:48 p.m. that the food pilgrim picked the intersection of Medrano and Rivadavia to look for a taxi to places unknown. Read more
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President Barack Obama will leave today for Canada — his first foreign trip as president — where he is expected to discuss trade and the environment with Prime Minister Stephen Harper. Read more
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GREAT RIFT VALLEY, Kenya — A virulent new version of a deadly fungus is ravaging wheat in Kenya’s most fertile fields and spreading beyond Africa to threaten one of the world’s principal food crops, according to the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization. Read more
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BAGHDAD, Feb. 18 — Seven Shiite pilgrims were killed Tuesday night in the southern Iraqi city of Basra when their bus slammed into an armored British military vehicle, authorities said Wednesday. Read more
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BEIJING, Feb. 18 — The county of Lithang in Sichuan province was under lockdown this week after Tibetan monks, laypeople and nomads clashed with Chinese security forces Sunday and Monday, according to residents. Read more
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MAHTER LAM, Afghanistan (Reuters) – Afghan President Hamid Karzai said on Wednesday he expected a reduction in tensions with the United States, a day after President Barack Obama announced plans to send fresh troops. Read more
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MESA, Arizona (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama pledged up to $275 billion on Wednesday to help stem a wave of home foreclosures, part of a broad effort using massive sums of government money to push the country out of recession. Read more