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WASHINGTON, March 22 — A bitterly split Supreme Court, ruling in a case that arose from a marriage gone bad, today narrowed the circumstances under which the police can enter and search a home without a warrant. In a 5-to-3 decision, the justices sided with Scott F. Randolph of Americus, Ga...

By Fareed Zakaria Wednesday, March 22, 2006; Page A21 Three years ago this week, I watched the invasion of Iraq apprehensively. I had supported military intervention to rid the country of Saddam Hussein's tyranny, but I had also been appalled by the crude and unilateral manner in which the Bush...

Where the hell did MMMike and Wednesday's Child run off too? I don't recall them signing any forms either. See what you've done Haggis? You've set a precedent, people just get up and leave with no regards to our feelings :cry:

VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. - NASA fired three microsatellites into space Wednesday to study the Earth's magnetic fields, a week after an earlier launch was scrubbed. The 55-pound ST5 satellites, which will test new technologies for future science missions, were carried aloft from...

The Chief Rabbi of Israel, Yona Metzger, has called for the creation of a world body with representatives from the major religious groups. Rabbi Metzger was addressing the International Congress of Imams and Rabbis for Peace in Seville, Spain. He called for the formation of a "United Nations...

Canada Refusing to Offer Asylum to Persecuted Christians (LifeSite News, March 21, 2006) By Gudrun Schultz TORONTO, Ontario, March 21, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Canadian immigration frequently fails to recognize the claim of refugee status from Egyptian Coptic Christians, reported CTV news...

Groups prepare for contested seal hunt Brigitte Bardot to lobby in Ottawa for end regulated slaughter TORONTO - Protesters, celebrities and fishermen were gearing up for Canada's hotly debated seal hunt, set to get under way later this week in the gulf off the Atlantic Ocean. Federal Fisheries...

Fear and Loathing in Siberia This week's Sino-Russia summit highlights the rise of one superpower, and decline of another. March 27, 2006 issue - Vladimir Putin, like Russia's double-headed imperial eagle, has two faces. Both have lately been very much in evidence. At a meeting of G8 energy...

Mob beheads 5 family members for ‘witchcraft’ Tea worker, his 4 children accused of spreading mysterious deadly disease GUWAHATI, India - A tea plantation worker and his four children were beheaded in India’s remote northeast by a mob which accused them of practicing black magic, police said on...

U.K. schoolgirl loses right to wear Muslim garb Britain's highest court backs school in case likened to French headscarf row LONDON - A British girl lost a legal battle on Wednesday to be allowed to wear full Islamic dress in school in a case which has been likened to the row in France over the...

N. Korea: Pre-emptive strike not U.S. monopoly Spokesman says nation has weapons to counter American nuclear threat SEOUL, South Korea - North Korea suggested Tuesday it had the ability to launch a pre-emptive attack on the United States, according to the North’s official news agency. A...

Moose rides shotgun in Massachusetts car 500-pound animal crashes through windshield, ends up in passenger seat LEOMINSTER, Mass. - A 500-pound moose crashed through the windshield of a car in Leominster and ended up sitting in the passenger seat with its head sticking through the glass...

German court prescribes Viagra for stallion Potency drug worked on animal and resolved financial dispute BERLIN - A German court ordered Viagra to be given to a stallion after his new owner claimed he was impotent and refused to pay the full asking price. The buyer of the horse named Vedor...

NEW YORK - A wily coyote led sharpshooters armed with tranquilizer guns on a merry chase through Central Park for two days before it was finally captured Wednesday morning. At one point, the searchers had it cornered near the park's ice rink, but the clever creature jumped into the water...

BRUSSELS, Belgium - The European Union on Wednesday banned 92 airlines, most of them based in Africa, from landing at European airports, declaring them unsafe by international standards. The ban applies to cargo and passenger carriers from Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Sierra Leone, Swaziland and...

Inuit alarmed by signs of global warming 'Sentries for the rest of the world' report massive changes to Arctic life PANGNIRTUNG, Canada - Thirty miles from the Arctic Circle, hunter Noah Metuq feels the Arctic changing. Its frozen grip is loosening; the people and animals who depend on its...

DNA exonerates jailed man — 18 years later Gregory Wallis, now 47, was sentenced to 50 years in prison DALLAS - A man who spent 18 years behind bars for allegedly attacking a woman in her home has been released after DNA testing excluded him as the attacker. “I don’t know how to apologize. I...

Top Iran ayatollah backs talks with U.S. on Iraq But Ali Khamenei warns Washington not to ‘bully’ Tehran into compliance TEHRAN, Iran - Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Tuesday that he approves of proposed talks between U.S. and Iranian officials on Iraq but warned that the...

Breaking Out of the Box Tensions are rising on both sides of the border, again. Yet the only real solution is one that North American leaders aren't talking about. March 27, 2006 issue - Five years ago, U.S. President George W. Bush visited Mexican President Vicente Fox at his home in...

Airline group says 30 million bags briefly lost On average, most luggage returned to owners in less than 2 days GENEVA - If you’ve ever been frustrated after an airline lost your luggage, you’re in the good company of millions of others. An estimated 30 million bags were temporarily lost by...