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The Kurdish alliance took the lead with over a third of the votes in Iraq's special elections involving expatriates, soldiers, hospitals and detainees, according to results announced by the electoral commission.
A Beijing court convicted Tian Fengshan of accepting bribes over eight years while a minister and regional official. China is trying to crack down on corruption, amid fears it could undermine Communist Party rule. Tian escaped the death penalty as h
Ukrainian peacekeepers have marched 600 kilometers in three columns from Iraq to Kuwait and brought their hardware along.
After a 36-year run, "Monday Night Football" has aired its last touchdown Monday night on ABC. A change in the broadcast rights will move the second-longest-running primetime series to ESPN
Transport Canada system uses a GPS device installed in the car to monitor the car's speed and position. If the car begins to significantly exceed the speed limit for the road on which it's travelling the car makes it harder to depress the gas
Tom Delay: "One direction points to the higher road of the rule of law. The other road is the path of least resistance" in which "we pitch the law completely overboard when the mood fits us [and] close our eyes to the potential lawbrea
This season the San Francisco station KRON has embarked on a radical -- and some would say risky -- journalistic experiment. It supplies nearly everyone with hand-held digital video cameras and laptop computers to produce stories all by themselves.
Three growing entitlement programs consumed nearly half of all federal spending in 2004, and budget analysts expect them to make up an even bigger share in the future.
Walter Mann was jailed for more than a year without ever seeing a lawyer as he waited for a repeatedly postponed court hearing, gaining release only after a cellmate told an attorney about the case. Released after 15 months - more than twice the time
Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos expects a rocket-ship complex for his aerospace venture Blue Origin to open early next year. Sending a spaceship into orbit that launches and lands vertically, like a rocket, and eventually building spaceships that can o
Chilean ex-dictator Augusto Pinochet lost a key appeal before the Supreme Court and must now face charges for the disappearance of leftists during his regime.
A largely political project, aimed at asserting Europe's independence. Although GPS is free and ubiquitous, it is optimised for America and can drift by more than 30ft. GPS is controlled by the US military which can degrade or switch off the sign
Each spacecraft was originally expected to last 90 days. On Nov. 21, Spirit completed one martian year--some two Earth years--on Mars. Opportunity, reached that same milestone Dec. 12. Both rovers found what they were sent to probe: signs of past wat
The CIA's independent watchdog is investigating fewer than 10 cases where terror suspects may have been mistakenly swept away to foreign countries by the spy agency, a figure lower than published reports but enough to raise some concerns.
Congressman John Doolittle’s wife has earned more than $136,000 in commissions for her work raising money for her husband’s political campaigns over the past three years.
Some conservatives in Congress, as well as advocacy groups seeking to crack down on illegal immigration, say the 14th Amendment has been misapplied over the years, that it was never intended to grant citizenship automatically to babies of illegal imm
For the last quarter-century, the federal deficit has been a perennial problem of US politics. As defense and entitlement spending has grown, everything else that government does has been squeezed and squeezed again in search of savings.
September 11th does not justify ignoring the Constitution by creating broad new federal police powers. The rule of law is worthless if we ignore it whenever crises occur. We cannot predict how the Patriot Act will be interpreted and used in future d
A renegade Chinese supermarket chain blew off Bay State blue laws and did a brisk business on Christmas — until Boston cops rolled up before noon to close the bustling Super 88 Market in the South Bay Center.
When Julie Abel goes grocery shopping each week, she drives more than 25 miles to Georgia to avoid paying the nation's highest average tax on food: 8.4 percent in Tennessee.
Protected under Saddam, Christians once numbered 700,000 in Iraq, but church officials say half have now fled, especially from the south, where militias linked to Iraq’s ruling parties have waged a 3-year campaign to Islamise the country at gunpoint.
Frustrated by the coverage they were receiving from the news media, the Marines invited Roggio, who writes a popular Web log about the military called "The Fourth Rail," to come cover the war from the front lines.
Playboy playmate Anna Nicole Smith has an unusual bedfellow in the Supreme Court fight over her late husband's fortune: the Bush administration. When may federal courts hear claims that involve state probate proceedings? Smith lost in Texas state
Federal appeals court judges around the nation have repeatedly excoriated immigration judges this year for what they call a pattern of biased and incoherent decisions in asylum cases.
Former Secretary of State Colin Powell said that it would not have been "that hard" for President Bush to obtain warrants for eavesdropping on domestic telephone and Internet activity, but that he saw "nothing wrong" with the deci
"Understandably, Iraqis themselves would prefer to have coalition forces leave their country as soon as possible," General Pace said on Fox News. "They don't want us to leave tomorrow, but they do want us to leave as soon as possib
The RIAA used an investigator to go online and search for copyrighted recordings whom found hundreds on her computer. There was a phone call from the industry's "settlement center," demanding about $7,500 "to keep me from being sue
The city of Oakland has agreed to pay $210,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by a woman who was injured when police fired a bag of lead shot at her head at an anti-war demonstration two years ago, one of at least 58 people who were injured
The bound and bullet-riddled body of an Iraqi student leader has been found, a few days after he led a campus march alleging fraud in last week's election, a students' group said.
The CIA spent "enormous amounts of money" in lavish hotels during the 6 weeks it took the agency to figure out how to grab 39-year-old Muslim preacher Abu Omar off the streets of Milan, throw him into a van and drive him to the airport
