German prosecutors said yesterday they intend to take action against an 88-year-old US resident for suspected involvement in the mass murder of 29,000 Jews, setting the stage for what could be the last major Nazi war crimes trial - in Adolf Hitler's former stronghold. The trial in Munich of John Dem...

Media outlets preyed upon people's emotions this week in its reporting of President Barack Obama's decision to overturn the Bush Administration ban on federally-funded embryonic stem cell research. Embryonic stem cell research is a hot topic among pro-life advocates because it involves the destructi...

Live television is hardly the most convenient setting in which to be reminded of the age-old proverb that only children and fools speak the truth. So the father who nicknamed his child's toy monkey after Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, must have been mortified to have his private joke cruelly...

NBC and ABC on Tuesday night marked President Barack Obama's first 50 days -- not by pointing out all his unfilled executive positions, failed nominations or the long wait for the stimulus spending in the “stimulus� bill -- but by heralding his “whirlwind� of action and “whirling dervish o...

City authorities plan a crackdown after a public pillowfight costs $20,000 to clean up Bad news for anyone who likes nothing better than turning up at a pre-arranged public place for no adequate reason, hanging around a bit, and then going home: the backlash against flash mobs has begun. No, I'm bei...

Tibetan spiritual leader tells thousands of supporters that Chinese martial law devastated Himalayan region The Dalai Lama today said Chinese rule in Tibet had created "hell on Earth" and resulted in the deaths of thousands of Tibetans. In a speech marking the 50th anniversary of the failed uprising...

UK hid illegal acts and breached basic human rights of detainees in US rendition programme, report finds Britain has been condemned in a highly critical United Nations report for breaching basic human rights and "trying to conceal illegal acts" in the fight against terrorism. The report is sharply c...

Kickboxer charged with insulting immigration officials claims UK embassy wrongly branded travel document false A British man holidaying in Thailand claimed he was beaten, handcuffed and jailed after Foreign Office diplomats mistakenly told Phuket immigration officials he was travelling on a false pa...

Do they or don’t they? That’s the question at the heart of a suit filed by Cook County Sheriff Thomas Dart against online classifieds site Craigslist. He’s taking the site to court, alleging that its erotic services section knowingly promotes prostitution. At a news conference, Dar...

Sid Salter's column Quote: For [Sen. Merle] Flowers - who is quickly becoming the Eddie Haskell or Douglas Neidermeyer of his party - to join with fellow GOP Sens. Billy Hewes, Joey Fillingane and Chris McDaniel to kill the election reform bill that House Republicans (and Democrats alike) worked so ...