On Thursday 20th November 2008 Joanna Lumley will take the Gurkha Justice Campaign to 10 Downing Street to present a petition following a massive rally of Gurkha supporters in Parliament Square which starts at 11:00 am. The rally and petition
The administration contended that a fired staff lawyer never offered advice about the governor's policy requiring public records, including e-mails, to be retained.
The Metropolitan Police’s attempts to criminalise Stop the War’s June 15th protest against George Bush received a blow yesterday, when a judge stated that the case against one of the protestors arrested on the demonstration should be thrown out.
It was rather rich to see Saudi Arabia sponsoring a United Nations conference last week on religious tolerance. This from an Islamic nation that maintains a national police force to enforce strict Wahhabi orthodoxy. As one dissident Saudi Shiite Muslim
Renzi, a three-term congressman who announced his retirement last year, was indicted in February on 35 counts including conspiracy, extortion, money laundering and insurance fraud.
Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL), the top ranking Republican on the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee, said using any of the $700-billion economic rescue package to help the American auto industry stay in business would be a mistake.
The hand-made white cardboard sign is posted to a tree on Vay, Idaho resident Ken Germana's property. The sign reads "Free Public Hanging" in large letters. It also has Obama's name written in equally large letters.
A few days before the historic election that swept him into the presidency, Barack Obama was asked to name his top priorities for 2009. They were, in order, the economy, energy independence and health care reform.
Fresh from their success in capturing the entire North-western coast, the Sri Lankan Air Force fighter jets on Sunday pounded bunkers of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam and seized hundreds of arms and ammunitions while recovering the bodies of
A consignment of 1700 tonnes of food and relief material from India reached Colombo as part of humanitarian aid for thousands of civilian Tamils caught in the war between the LTTE and the island nation's Army, officials said on Sunday.
L ast April, top George W. Bush administration officials, desperate to exploit any possible crack in the close relationship between the Nouri al-Maliki government and Iran, launched a new round of charges that Iran had stepped up covert arms assistance
The Sourcebooks 2009 Barack Obama Wall Calendar: Words of Hope and Inspiration is the top-ranked calendar on Amazon and the No. 1 best-selling calendar at major retailers across the country. Selling over 100,000 units to date, the calendar is now
All smiles and compliments, President-elect Obama and his wife, Michelle, called on President Bush and first lady Laura Bush Monday in a White House visit.
President-elect Obama planned to honor fallen troops Tuesday, taking a short break from his primary task of mapping out his administration to mark Veterans Day
Russian President Dmitriy Medvedev IANS MOSCOW: Reacting for the first time to criticism of an anti-US speech on the day Barack Obama was elected president, Russian President Dmitriy Medvedev said he "simply ...
