Tories caught up in Russian oligarch row

The Conservative party in the UK has been caught up in a scandal involving Russian oligarchs. Soe high-ranking Tory politians may have received some shady cash from Russian tycoon Oleg Deripaska."The saga of Lord Mandelson, shadow chancellor George Osborne, Russian tycoon ...

Croatia Vs Turkey Highlights - Euro 2008 Quarter Final Highlights

"Croatia Vs Turkey Highlights - Euro 2008 Quarter Final Highlights digg_url="http://www.lovefooty.net/2008/06/croatia-vs-turkey-highlights-euro-2008.html"; Croatia Vs Turkey HighlightsUEFA EURO 2008 QUARTER FINALEuro 2008 Highlights OnlineDate: Fri 20th JuneKick off:...

Cleared by DNA results, Norfolk man still dogged by people's perceptions

      Shaka Harrell has big plans he wants to finish school. He wants to learn how to fix cars, wants to learn electrical engineering. He might go to college for computer training. He...

UK Doctors and teachers will be among first issued with ID cards

Labour says, for now, noone will be required to carry ID cards in the UK. But at the same time they have taken initial steps to get the program moving."Millions of teachers, doctors, nurses and carers could soon be issued with identity cards, Jacqui Smith disclosed yesterday...

City Report: São Paulo

"With more than 20 million inhabitants, São Paulo has recently become one of the world’s first ‘hypercities’. In a constant state of transformation, the city has fostered an attitude of improvisation, resourcefulness and cultural cannibalism amongst its...

Red Storm: Martian Dust Chokes Rovers

Getting stranded on an alien planet sounds bad enough, but throw in a gargantuan dust storm and things get very interesting indeed... NASA's solar-powered martian rovers are getting starved of precious sunlight by...

Ex-deputy arrested in 1964 race case

I grew up in the river city of Natchez, Mississippi. I remember these times, and these crimes and others like them. It has taken 40 years for the wheels of justice to finally turn. Forty years for an...

Literature Is Theft

"On the literary Dow Jones, glittering prizes go together with charges of plagiarism like bull markets and the Serious Fraud Office. Ian McEwan, the most successful novelist of his generation, has been dogged by imputations of fraudulence. He is not alone. In the past several...

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