• Thank You – From RINF

  Thank you to all who have been sending in your best wishes to me for the holidays, it is greatly appreciated. Unfortunately...

   

• Activists free battery hens

  Animal rights activists have freed 15 hens from an Auckland farm in an effort to persuade more people to boycott battery...

   

• Lyric censorship heralds swansong for the BBC

  TELEVISION Quality seems to be the very last thing on BBC execs mind, writes Declan Lynch THERE was a general air of stupefaction...

   

• CIA rebuts 9/11 suggestion

  CIA rebuts suggestion it did not cooperate with 9/11 Commission investigation David Remes, an attorney for a dozen Yemeni...

   

• Criticism For BUTCHER Blair Over Conversion

  

  Dec 24, 2007 19:45

  Tony Blair’s conversion to Catholicism has been criticised by commentators who argue his views as PM were at odds...

   

• VIDEO: Pop Mec Test Drives Electric Car

  PM hits the streets and gets looked at more than ever before, then heads to the shop for first-look details on a futuristic...

   

• 9/11 Panel Joins Probe of Destroyed CIA Tapes

  By Diane Smith According to the U.S. panel investigating the 2001 terrorist attacks, the CIA had deliberately withheld tapes...

   

• Girl hit in missile strike fights to stay in Israel

  By Carolynne Wheeler in Jerusalem Six-year-old Maria Amin races ahead of her father on the way to school. “Hurry up,...

   

• Dollar declines as traders wrangle over Fed rate cuts

  The US dollar declined against the euro and the pound on Friday as traders continued to hotly debate whether the US Federal...

   

• GOP deals Dems some bitter pills

  By Deirdre Shesgreen The first session of the 110th Congress started off with a snap and had plenty of crackle. But the end...

   

• Syrian MP threatens Dimona

  As Bush and Sarkozy lose patience with Assad, Syrian MP threatens Dimona A Syrian member of parliament thought to be familiar...

   

• Congressman reaching out to Iran

  By Matthew Hay Brown While Washington debates whether it should talk to Iran, one Maryland congressman has already struck...

   

• The Diana inquiry cop who was on £1,000 a day

  Britain’s former top policeman Lord Stevens was paid £1,000 a day for taking charge of the inquiry into the death...

   

• CIA ‘kept’ tapes from 9/11 probe

  A leaked memorandum from the former 9/11 commission says it made repeated requests to the CIA for information on the interrogation...

   

• FBI aims to amass huge database

  FBI aims to amass huge database of people’s physical characteristics By Ellen Nakashima The FBI is embarking on a $1...

   

• Patient data loss affects 168,000

  The loss of patient records by the NHS affects 168,000 people, including at least 160,000 children, the Department of Health...

   

• White House Can Keep Its Secrets – For Now

  Bush Admin. May Keep Visitor Records Private While Appealing Court Decision To Open Files AP  A federal judge agreed Friday...

   

• US urges others to help shut Gitmo

  US Secretary of State has urged countries that have nationals in Guantanamo Bay to help Washington close the detention center....

   

• CIA ‘impeded 9/11 panel’s inquiry’

  The CIA has purposely impeded the Sep. 11 Commission’s inquiry by withholding interrogation videos, say the two chairmen...

   

• New High-Tech Cameras Are Watching You

  

  Dec 22, 2007 4:25

  In the era of computer-controlled surveillance, your every move could be captured by cameras, whether you’re shopping...

   

• Privacy Fast Becoming Obsolete

  Almost every move you make is being watched – and privacy is fast becoming obsolete, writes Gerard Wright. If Hollywood...

   

• IPCC Menezes decision a ‘scandal’

  No-one is to be punished for police failings that led to an innocent man being shot dead on a Tube train. The Independent...

   

• Intel: Israel to attack Iran ultimately

  A former senior US intelligence official says Israel will ultimately attack Iran in order ‘to defend its nuclear monopoly’...

   

• VIDEO: How many times can you vote?

  TV news investigation about public officials illegally voting multiple times in the Senate.

   

• Police officers cleared in De Menezes case

  Fred Attewill and agencies The family of Jean Charles de Menezes have bitterly criticised the decision of the police watchdog...