• CIA ordered to speed up release of torture report

  On Wednesday, the Federal judge overseeing the American Civil Liberty Union’s Freedom of Information Act request for CIA...

   

• Bush, Cheney knew they were violating law

  Torture instigators George Bush and Dick Cheney should not be allowed to evade prosecution on grounds they acted in good...

   

• Freedom of Information Act to be extended

  The Freedom of Information Act looks set to be extended to include four new bodies. The government has published its response...

   

• Obama on slavery

  President Obama slowly walked across the grounds of Cape Coast Castle, a slave outpost in Ghana where hundreds of thousands...

   

• EU justice ministers call for more data protection

  Stockholm – The European Union must balance its attempts to gather more security information on EU citizens with the...

   

• Indians to get biometric ID cards

   The Indian government plans to give all of its 1.2 billion citizens biometric ID cards, and Infosys co-founder Nandan Nilekani...