The most senior British officer to be killed in action in Afghanistan was one of the two most recent casualties in the c...
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Updated : Thu, 02 Jul 2009 22:31:44 GMT
 AP - U.S. Marines suffered their first casualties of a massive new military campaign Thursday as they engaged in sporadic gunbattles along 55 miles of Taliban-controlled heartland in southern Afghanistan.
Publ.Date : Thu, 02 Jul 2009 22:31:43 GMT
 AP - The investigation of Michael Jackson's death is widening as questions intensify about the drugs he took, the doctors who provided them and the actions of police.
Publ.Date : Thu, 02 Jul 2009 22:31:44 GMT
 AP - Americans who refuse to buy affordable medical coverage could be hit with fines of more than $1,000 under a health care overhaul bill unveiled Thursday by key Senate Democrats looking to fulfill President Barack Obama's top domestic priority.
Publ.Date : Thu, 02 Jul 2009 22:29:14 GMT
 AP - LOS ANGELES — An attorney says Deborah Rowe has not reached a final decision on whether to seek custody of the two children she had with Michael Jackson.
Publ.Date : Thu, 02 Jul 2009 22:20:01 GMT
 AP - After the 2003 invasion of Iraq, Saddam Hussein stayed in Baghdad until he saw "the city was about to fall." Months later, he was caught hiding at the same farm where he had fled in 1959 after taking part in an attempt to kill the country's prime minister.
Publ.Date : Thu, 02 Jul 2009 22:31:23 GMT
 AP - Air France Flight 447 slammed into the Atlantic Ocean, intact and belly first, at such a high speed that the 228 people aboard probably had no time to even inflate their life jackets, French investigators said Thursday in their first report into the June 1 accident.
Publ.Date : Thu, 02 Jul 2009 22:28:36 GMT
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A top diplomat said he is heading to Honduras to demand the return of the president toppled at gunpoint — a mission he said is likely to meet rejection, bringing diplomatic and economic punishment for the impoverished Central American nation.
Publ.Date : Thu, 02 Jul 2009 03:51:28 EST
Baitullah Mehsud, Pakistan's top Taliban leader, is paying between $7,000 and $14,000 for a child bomber.
Publ.Date : Thu, 02 Jul 2009 09:55:38 EST
Two bombs targeting police and government workers killed up to eight people and wounded more Thursday — the latest attacks on Pakistan as it battles Taliban insurgents near the border with Afghanistan.
Publ.Date : Thu, 02 Jul 2009 09:54:49 EST
The purple "W" logo at Wimbledon might as well stand for the siblings who have made the women's championship their own playground. Yes, the Williams sisters are back in the Wimbledon final.
Publ.Date : Thu, 02 Jul 2009 03:06:39 EST
Israeli forces killed hundreds of Palestinian civilians in attacks that amounted to war crimes, Amnesty International charged Thursday, in the first in-depth human rights group report on the recent war in Gaza.
Publ.Date : Thu, 02 Jul 2009 03:13:31 EST
Police say a small incendiary device has exploded under the parked car of a top Greek judge in Athens, causing damage to the vehicle but no injury.
Publ.Date : Thu, 02 Jul 2009 10:03:29 EST
The U.S. ambassador to Venezuela has returned to his post — more than nine months after he was expelled by President Hugo Chavez.
Publ.Date : Thu, 02 Jul 2009 01:23:16 EST
Honduras' interim leader accused Venezuela's Hugo Chavez of instigating his nation's crisis and lawmakers tightened a curfew aimed at stemming unrest, as coup leaders showed few signs of bending to international pressure to restore the exiled president.
Publ.Date : Thu, 02 Jul 2009 04:14:02 EST
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Joanna Lumley Grabs Brown By The Gurkha’s
The YouTube, U turn King, un-elected Prime Minster Gordon Brown has caved in under pressure from guess who, us the public. At least one good thing has come out of the death throws of this disgraceful government, justice for the Gurkha’s.
The move, announced in the Commons by Home Secretary Jacqui Smith, means thousands of Gurkha’s who retired before 1997 will be given settlement rights.
"A great injustice has been righted. The Gurkhas are coming home." Confirming the news in the Commons this afternoon, Home Secretary Jacqui Smith said: "I am delighted that we have now be able to agree, across government, across the house, and with the Gurkha representatives, all of those who have served us so well so highly deserve all of this," she said.
The decision sparked jubilant scenes outside parliament as Lumley informed her fellow supporters that victory was complete.
Well, Piereport-news say’s about time. We’re sure Ms Smith spared no expense coming to this decision.
Priests beat and raped children during decades of abuse in orphanages and industrial schools in Ireland, a report revealed yesterday.
Its findings showed more than 2,000 boys and girls were terrorised in the Catholic-run institutions from the 30s to 90s.
The 2,500 harrowing pages detailing appalling abuse were followed by immediate apologies.
But still-traumatised victims, now in their 50s to 80s, were furious as names of abusers were changed and no one will be charged. Police had to be called to the report launch as victims were prevented from attending.
Its findings detailed how children scavenged in bins for food while absconders were flogged or had heads shaven.
In one case, a boy had to lick excrement from a priest's shoe.
The five-volume report took the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse nine years to complete. Chaired by a High Court judge, the report said: "Children lived with the daily terror of not knowing where the next beating was coming from."
The report slammed the Department of Education for its failure to act. Legal action by the Christian Brothers, the largest provider of boys' residential care, led the Commission to drop its intention to name the abusers.
