Daniel Isom takes office as St. Louis' 33rd chief of police confronting many vexing problems:

The 4,800 St. Louis employees of Wachovia Securities have been reduced to helpless onlookers as two financial titans €" Citigroup Inc. and Wells Fargo & Co. €" battle to acquire the securities firm's parent company, Wachovia Corp.

A federal judge has sided with the Ohio Republican Party in a lawsuit against the Democratic Secretary of State. This is just the latest action in a state that's been targeted by the parties and many politically-minded groups for massive

Cambridge MP David Howarth boarded the 1 in 4 Big Bus today (Friday) to back a campaign aimed at raising the stigma attached to mental health.

Liberal Democrats have drawn up battle plans to stop almost 1,000 homes being built on the second NIAB site.

Plans to expand Stansted Airport, increasing flights by almost 25,000 a year, have been attacked as "extremely bad news" by Cambridge MP David Howarth.

PODGORICA, Montenegro -- Both Montenegro and Macedonia reportedly are poised to recognise Kosovo's independence. The Montenegrin daily Vijesti says t...

PRISTINA, Kosovo -- UNMIK Regional Administrator for Mitrovica Gerard Gallucci said on Wednesday (October 8th) the EULEX mission has no mandate to op...

BUCHAREST, Romania -- The Constitutional Court on Wednesday (October 8th) deemed an amendment to the law on prosecutor-naming procedures adopted by t...

The UN General Assembly on Wednesday (October 8th) adopted a Serbian resolution requesting the International Court of Justice to assess the legality of Kosovo's declaration of independence.

SKOPJE, Macedonia -- Visiting US Defence Secretary Robert Gates reiterated on Wednesday (October 8th) Washington's strong support for Macedonia's NAT...

A s the U.S. courts put pressure on the government to justify the long detention of prisoners at Guantánamo without charge or trial (following the Supreme Court's ruling , in June, that they have constitutional habeas corpus rights, and that

I n an extraordinary and unprecedented ruling in a US District Court, Judge Ricardo Urbina has ruled that 17 wrongly imprisoned Chinese Muslims at Guant namo must be allowed entry to the United States. It is, as the media has

T he American empire is kaput. Neither John McCain nor Barack Obama realizes that fact yet, but the myth of the omnipotent unipower, the essential nation, the country which declares that what it says goes, has been exposed to all.

T he beginning of political talks between the Afghan government and the Taliban revealed by press accounts this week is likely to deepen the rift that has just erupted in public between the United States and its British ally over

I n a 1998 interview with Le Nouvel Observateur , Zbigniew Brzezinski, former national security adviser to President Jimmy Carter, spoke proudly of how, in July 1979, he had "signed the first directive for secret aid to the opponents of

Andy Worthington, author of The Guant namo Files , continues his analysis of the corrupt command structure of the Military Commissions at Guant namo, with Andy Worthington, author of The Guantánamo Files , continues his analysis of the corrupt command

P art of the psychology of the Greenspan Bubble a policy of bank credit expansion that distorted market signals and led to the over-valuation of certain assets, such as real estate has been the vaunted overestimation of America's staying power