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Twelve MPs forced to quit over the expenses scandal will pocket an extra £1.2million of taxpayers’ money because they refuse to go now. Read more
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WASHINGTON – The Obama administration has asked a US appeals court to halt the release of disturbing images of detainee abuse, saying the photos could incite violence in Pakistan as well as in Iraq and Afghanistan. Read more
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Question: Can a North Korean missile hit the U.S.? Answer: Probably. South Korea reported in a 2008 white paper that North Korea tested medium-range ballistic missiles that can travel about 1,900 miles, putting the U.S. territory of Guam within reach. In April 2009, North Korea launched a Taepodong-2 long-range missile, claiming that the rocket was [...]
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The time for Conservative Party leader David Cameron to strike is while British Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s chips are as far down as they currently are, and today Cameron laid out his vision for a “massive, radical redistribution of power” in a Guardian article: “Our philosophy of progressive Conservatism – the pursuit [...]
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John Williams and Mary Schmich remembered to comb their hair for the taping of this week’s “World’s Greatest Podcast.” Topics include the taped phone call featuring Temp. Sen. Roland Burris, excess text-messaging by those darn kids, the nomination of Sonia Sotomayor to the U.S. Supreme Court and the end of the line for “The Kathy [...]
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4:02pm UK, Thursday May 28, 2009 Peter Sharp in South Korea The spectre of war loomed ever larger as South Korean and US troops boosted alert levels after the renegade North Korea regime threatened military strikes. [...]
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Britain’s Got Talent has captured the public’s imagination over recent weeks with Boylemania, Flawless fanatics and Stavros Flatley lovers sending the show’s viewing figures into record highs. In preparation for the live final, DS has decided to update its drinking game for the ITV hit to ensure that we make the most of our Saturday [...]
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Two British servicemen have died within hours of each other after being wounded in separate incidents in Afghanistan,. A Royal Marine died at Selly Oak Hospital in Birmingham on Wednesday night from injuries he sustained near Lashkar Gah in Helmand Province last Friday. Read more
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Sixteen people on Indonesia’s resort island of Bali have died after drinking a brew of alcohol mixed with more than 20 per cent methanol, police say. Read more
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Former California State Senate Pro Tem Don Perata said today that federal prosecutors’ decison to drop their investigation into corruption allegations against him amounts to “full vindication” — and now clears the way for him to concentrate on his next step, the run for Oakland mayor. Read more
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It is jokingly dubbed ‘the most expensive B&B in the world’. Then again the trailer camp is the only ‘bed and breakfast’ that also provides lunch, dinner, a gym, 24-hour Internet access and a relatively secure place to stay in Basra.Situated within the newly-acquired American military base in this southern-Iraqi province, the B&B provides private [...]
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The literary world: it’s a jungle out there Ruth Padel has resigned after just nine days as the Oxford Professor of Poetry in a mire of smears, sexual allegations and and counter-slurs. How better to mark the sordid affair than with some poetry of our own? You dream to become Oxford’s number one Poet. [...]
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WASHINGTON — When Bolivia’s Evo Morales was elected the Western Hemisphere’s first indigenous president of a country with an indigenous majority, Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chavez wasted no time proclaiming himself an ally. Read more
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LONDON, May 26 — Police in Northern Ireland have arrested 11 Protestant men after the slaying Sunday evening of a 49-year-old Catholic man, a brutal reminder of how religion-based violence and tension are still an everyday reality in the province. Read more
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Sometime next year, at a tightly guarded site south of its capital, Pakistan will be ready to start churning out a new stream of plutonium for its nuclear arsenal, which will eventually include warheads for ballistic missiles and cruise missiles capable of being launched from ships, submarines or aircraft. Read more
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SAO PAULO, May 26 — Brazilian authorities detained an Arab who ran a Web forum that authorities initially suspected could be linked to terrorists and included anti-American statements in Arabic, a prosecutor said Tuesday night. Read more
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MEXICO CITY, May 26 — In a series of raids that began at dawn on Tuesday, federal police detained the mayors of 10 prominent cities in the central state of Michoacan under suspicion that they were working for a violent drug cartel that beheaded its enemies. Read more
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KISUMU, Kenya — With the U.S. economy in turmoil, his job as a truck driver no longer secure and his upwardly mobile life in the Dallas suburbs in jeopardy, James Odhiambo decided it was time for a change. Read more
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, May 27 — The powerful car bomb that tore the walls off an office of Pakistan’s elite intelligence service, ravaged a police facility and killed as many as 30 people Wednesday morning is the latest reminder that insurgents are able to strike almost anywhere in this country as they wage war against the [...]
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SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea, facing international censure for this week’s nuclear test, threatened on Wednesday to attack the South after it joined a U.S.-led plan to check vessels suspected of carrying equipment for weapons of mass destruction. Read more