A schoolboy was held as a terrorist suspect by police support officers - for taking photographs of a railway station on a geography field trip.

Fabian Sabbara, 15, was dressed in his school uniform when… Continue reading

Reports from the Russian media suggest that the country is on the verge of an agreement with China to renounce the US dollar and stop using it in international settlements.

“The recent meeting between… Continue reading

It seems that the final days of the presidential campaign have made Erica Jong and her friends more than a little anxious.

A few days ago, Jong, the author and self-described feminist, gave… Continue reading

The toxic chemical melamine is probably being routinely added to Chinese animal feed, state media has reported.

Correspondents say the unusually frank reports in several news outlets are an admission that contamination could be widespread… Continue reading

Washington, taking a page out of Hollywood, looks set to release Stimulus 2, the sequel.

And unhappy, tapped-out taxpayers—aka voters—may get a sneak preview of the second fiscal package as soon as next week… Continue reading

SEATTLE – A 61-year-old former University of Washington staff member doused himself with gasoline and set himself ablaze Thursday in the midst of a crowded campus plaza. He died a short time later.

The man… Continue reading

Just 5 days before the election, at 3a.m. on October 30th, all of the front windows of the Cindy Sheehan for Congress campaign offices were shattered. Although staffers had been in the office less than… Continue reading

Police gave no warning before shooting Jean Charles de Menezes, a witness has claimed.

Rachel Wilson told the Brazilian’s inquest she did not realise at first that the marksmen were police and took them for… Continue reading

These astonishing scenes are the aftermath of a deluge of hailstones that buried a town in a river of ice.

Ottery St Mary, in Devon, was plunged into chaos by the storm in the… Continue reading

In an internal bank conference call last week, a JP Morgan Chase executive, unaware that his conversation would be heard and published by a reporter, confirmed exactly what Lyndon LaRouche has said about the Hank… Continue reading

What explains the paradox of the dollar’s sharp rise in value against other currencies (except the Japanese yen) despite disproportionate US exposure to the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression?

The European Commission will roll out a range of initiatives in the coming months to promote the Internet of the Future, while remaining highly vigilant in protecting citizens and networks, Information Society Commissioner Viviane… Continue reading

Next time you need a blood transfusion, you might consider asking your doctor to check the expiration date. A new study has found that patients who receive “old blood” are significantly more likely to develop… Continue reading

A federal appeals court rejects the idea of business-process patents, a decision that will greatly affect Wall Street and Silicon Valley.

Not only were Wall Street’s risk-hedging strategies and other so-called… Continue reading

Last week, New Mexico Democrat Jeff Bingaman went on an Albuquerque talk radio and declared his support for the so-called “Fairness Doctrine,” the FCC regulation that requires broadcasters to present “opposing viewpoints.” In 1987, the… Continue reading

Much of the University of Texas medical school on this island suffered flood damage during Hurricane Ike, except for one gleaming new building, a national biological defense laboratory that will soon house some of the… Continue reading

The Australian government’s plans to censor all web content at the borders of the country looks in danger of coming unstuck.

The Australian Labour government has pledged to filter all internet content coming into… Continue reading

The US economy contracted in the third quarter as panicked consumers slashed spending, data showed Thursday in the first downside leg of what analysts say could be a deep and nasty recession.

In its first reading… Continue reading

According to reports out of top Chinese mainstream news outlets, the RAND Corporation recently presented a shocking proposal to the Pentagon in which it lobbied for a war to be started with a major foreign… Continue reading

A woman who kicked a train passenger in the face with her stiletto heel after he asked her boyfriend to take his feet off a seat is facing jail.

Laura Cook, 29, aimed the kick… Continue reading

Goldman Sachs is on course to pay its top City bankers multimillion-pound bonuses - despite asking the U.S. government for an emergency bail-out.

The struggling Wall Street bank has… Continue reading

Police shot dead a man yesterday, reportedly outside his front door, after neighbours on an estate in east London saw him brandish a gun at children following a reported fight with his girlfriend.

Witnesses said the… Continue reading

Some parents are shocked to find their children are learning to be homosexual allies and will participate in “Coming Out Day” at a public elementary school tomorrow – and they claim the school failed to… Continue reading

GERMANY—Hard-Cash investor Walter K. Eichelburg, predicted the mortgage bubble bust and insolvency of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in the United States in an early 2007 Epoch Times interview. He made himself available for another… Continue reading

First came the mortgage crisis. Now comes the credit card crisis.

After years of flooding Americans with credit card offers and sky-high credit lines, lenders are sharply curtailing both, just as an eroding economy… Continue reading

Hints that the Pentagon will restart nuclear testing in effort to prod Congress to fund new generation of weapons.

After making a comment the same day saying that Russia must reduce its nuclear arsenal, Defense… Continue reading

Today’s food and financial crises have, in tandem, triggered a new global land grab. “Food insecure” governments that rely on imports to feed their people are snapping up farms all over the world to outsource… Continue reading

You’d think the emergence of a fatal disease—especially one that can be spread without physical contact—would be a big story. Yet a threatening new form of tuberculosis called extremely drug-resistant TB, or XDR-TB… Continue reading

Are the Big Three worth saving?The U.S. auto industry’s downward spiral has accelerated dramatically in recent weeks. In a desperate bid for solvency, General Motors Corp. is seeking… Continue reading