We have always been given the impression that a person is innocent until proven guilty and not the other way round. This has been the precedence in the justice system through out the history of the US.

The escalating violence in Iraq has resulted in the most suicide bombs in one single week since the war began in 2003 and 250,000 people registering as refugees in the past seven months.

We are facing voting days soon, beginning of November 2006 in the United States. Does it matter who wins?

Bringing together workplace activists from the older and new EU member states together with occupational health and safety specialists and academics, this conference aims:

Google Inc. appealed on Thursday a federal judge’s order to turn over information on users of the company’s Orkut social-networking service.

The federal judge who ordered a halt to the Bush administration’s program of domestic wiretapping on Thursday allowed the surveillance to continue for a week to allow an appeals court to weigh in on an issue expected to end up with the U.S. Supreme Court.

Sixteen U.S. intelligence agencies contributed to the NIE report that concludes Iraq “has become the cause celebre for jihadists.” Bush ignores them all.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) have deployed the first e-Passport readers into production, even though that have faced enough criticism from privacy advocates and security experts concerned about the technology.

In a major article in Rolling Stone magazine, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., warns that the democracy may very soon go out the window altogether. He writes:

The New York Times disclosure of an official National Intelligence Estimate, which states that the Iraq invasion has worsened the global terrorist threat, carries an unspoken subtext

George Bush yesterday suffered a blow to his argument that the removal of Saddam Hussein had made Americans safer after he ordered the release of an intelligence report warning the war in Iraq had become a “cause celebre for jihadists”.

Republicans pushed a bill supported by George Bush to set rules for interrogating and trying terrorism suspects through the US House of Representatives on Wednesday.

AOL is being sued by three American users after details of their internet searches were made available by the US web firm this year.

The Home Office has admitted it breached the human rights of a teenager who died of a drugs overdose in prison, after she had made seven previous bids to hang herself there.