"Just over three-years since whistleblower John Francis Smith died in a filthy NHS hospital, the Director General of MI5 has told his family that no data can be released relating to his Government Service because of...
"Young women in bright miniskirts and high heels line up to sell themselves in the dingy back streets throughout the Russian capital. Moscow's illegal flesh markets are flourishing, with up to 30 women at each pickup point, or tochka, standing in order of price for the night....
Every bride wants to look good on her wedding day so when that dreamt of dress becomes a nightmare you'd better watch out. All too often rogue traders get away with it - even closing one business to open another...
As PETA and other environmental and animal supporters across the world protest against KFC here's another bad PR story for the Colonel. Other KFC news at NP here.Of course this isn't really a KFC crime but one of...
Parents who refuse to control their criminal children are to be thrown out of government housing in the UK under a new plan set to be unveiled today." Parents who fail to take responsibility for their unruly...
" After graduating from Cambridge University with a starred First Class degree, Mandy Kaye has the world at her feet. She achieved the highest possible grade, the only student in her faculty to do so. But she...
"A British woman teaching English in China has been deported. Dechen Pemba, 30, from Tower Hamlets in London, believes she was forced to leave the country because she is from a Tibetan family and the Chinese...
I have to admit, video game movies usually don't do very well. It's very difficult to translate a more interactive, hands-on experience into a passive one like a movie, and often the gimmicks or sheer fun of playing the game helped a gamer look past a shoddy plot and poor...
Hope he won't be "the next Esmin Green". " AN 80-year-old war veteran was forced to wait nearly 20 hours overnight for treatment at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital emergency department, his wife claimed today. Edward Webster from Bedford was brought to SCGH emergency...
" OIL giant Mobil could be forced to close its Altona refinery when the Rudd Government introduces a carbon emissions trading scheme. The closure of the refinery, which supplies half of Victoria's fuel needs, would cut competition and could push up petrol prices. Company...
Again the facts on the ground, this time in Somalia, belie the two-faced banality of the pronouncements of George W. Bush. The stunning aspect of his blatant hypocrisy is he behaves as if the whole world...
South Africa's President Thabo Mbeki is in Harare today where he is reported to have met Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe and members of an opposition faction.The outcome of those talks, at this moment, is not known."Mr...
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LINK TO FULL STORYhere's an excerpt from my story at EDGE NEW YORK...On the Wednesday evening before Gay Pride weekend in the city, the Meatpacking District was alive with activity. Finely dressed pedestrians made their way along cobblestone streets while window shoppers...
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" The Jakarta administration's plan to replace 2,500 base transceiver station (BTS) towers with 850 newer ones will lead to cellular network chaos, says a member of the Indonesian Telecommunications Regulatory...