"Kids for Cash" scandal - MySpace parody, the student who ...

Opening Pandora's box: Over seven long years, two US judges, Mark Ciavarella and Michael Conahan conspired "to strip the local state detention centre of funding, diverting the money to a private company called PA Child Care which it helped to build a new facility in the...

Pakistan crisis: Sharif unwilling to trust Bhutto widower anymore

ISLAMABAD: The efforts of the ruling Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) and its allied parties for reconciliation with twice-elected former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, who has been declared by the Supreme Court of Pakistan ineligible to contest election to any public office,...

Former Serbian leader acquitted of war crime charges

Milan Milutinovic, the President of Serbia from 1998 to 2002, has been cleared of all charges laid against him by the UN International Criminal Tribunal. At the end of his presidential term in 2002, Milutinovic...

100 Pakistani lawyers booked on terrorism charge!

Although it is believed that a democratic government has replaced the dictatorial rule of former President Pervez Musharraf in Pakistan, the successors of former military ruler are also following in his footsteps.Just like the Musharraf, the democratic government too is doing...

BC's Olympic 2010: Terror, Mentally Ill Threaten Games

Barry Artiste Op/Ed Well DUH! As I warned time and time again in my stories on Now Public, British Columbia touted by a National magazine as a World Crime Superpower, this is a no brainer, in a province where...

Pakistan lawyers press call to reinstate judges

The lawyers’ movement in Pakistan that started after the suspension of Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry last year turned into a mass movement after Pervez Musharraf ambushed judiciary on this day of...

Woman wins slavery case against Niger

Justice did right on 24-year-old Adidjatou Mani Koraou after the Court of Justice of the Economic Community of West African States recognised she had been "a victim of slavery". It also held "the Republic of...

Indian author Aravind Adiga wins Man Booker Prize 2008

Beating predictions by bookies and others, debutant Indian novelist 33-year-old Aravind Adiga's book "The White Tiger" was on Wednesday declared the winner of the prestigious Man Booker Prize for Fiction for 2008.Adiga beat favourite Sebastian Barry to take the 50,000 pound...

X-Factor Goes from Bad to Worse as Eoghan Murders John Lennon's "Imagine"

16 YEAR-old cherub-faced hopeful Eoghan Quigg, murdered John Lennon's Imagine in Saturday's live X-Factor show, and thanks to the other acts being exceedingly dire, he managed to remain in the programme,...

Unfulfilled promises led Pakistan to prevailing crisis: Sharif

On the occasion of ninth anniversary of a bloodless military coup that had toppled his elected government on October 12, 1999, twice-elected former Pakistan prime minister Nawaz Sharif said Sunday that there would have been no crisis in the country had President Asif Zardari...

How Judges in India protect the Corrupt

  Justice Bilal Nazki by stopping me from arguing the petition, insisting I get a lawyer ... ... is indirectly trying to protect the Rs 3 crore bribe EVERY MONTH, received by the police from Advertising...

Outraged cops to take on lenient judges

"Outraged cops to take on lenient judges By Andrew Maykuth Inquirer Staff Writers Embattled Philadelphia...

Canada's Political Parties Lay Out Their Party Platform for Fighting Crime!

Barry Artiste Op/Ed As I previously mentioned in my other story today on Child prostitution in Canada http://www.nowpublic.com/world/child-prostitution-exposing-canadas-dirty-dark-secret All Political Parties seem...

Celebrity LEGO Figurines - Brad Pitt, Amy Winehouse and the Beckhams (GALLERY)

This is so uncool!!"LEGO has made a ton of yellow-skinned pop culture icons in recent years, including Indiana Jones, Batman, Speed Racer, and SpongeBob SquarePants. To celebrate LEGO’s 30th anniversary, the Denmark toy company has produced a series of celebrity-inspired...
 

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