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Major Guantanamo setback for Bush Foreign suspects held in Guantanamo Bay have the right to challenge their detention in US civilian courts, the US Supreme Court has ruled. In a major legal setback for the Bush administration, the court overturned by five to four a ruling upholding a 2006...

Russia and Ukraine clash over 350-year-old battle MOSCOW (Reuters) - A 350-year-old cavalry battle has become the latest irritant between Russia and its neighbour Ukraine after Russia's foreign ministry on Tuesday accused Kiev of using the clash to foment anti-Russian feeling. The...

Khadr's interrogators told to destroy notes, lawyer says June 8, 2008 at 8:23 PM EDT OTTAWA — Interrogators at Guantanamo Bay – including those...

German SPD Leader Breaks Customs, Backs Obama SPD chairman Kurt Beck said the whole world would be better off with a President Obama instead of another Republican administration. By endorsing the Democrats, Beck broke a tacit rule to refrain from any intervention in foreign elections...

U.S. reopens probe of gov't action in Arar case The United States is reopening an investigation of its government's handling of Maher Arar, a U.S. official has confirmed. Homeland Security has new information that warrants the reopening of the case. The watchdog's original...

Bardot fined over racial hatred Brigitte Bardot is a prominent animal rights activist...

Troops 'must back Mugabe or quit' Zimbabwe's army chief has told soldiers they must leave the military if they do not vote for incumbent President Robert Mugabe in next month's run-off poll. Chief-of-staff Maj Gen Martin Chedondo said soldiers had signed up to protect Mr Mugabe's principles...

Why Height Doesn't Matter Four short men who have survived ridicule and prejudice share their success secrets On the campus of James Madison University, in Harrisonburg, Virginia, stands a bronze statue of the school's namesake. This life-size replica of the fourth U.S. president is just 5'4"...

What is karma? Sharon Stone claims the earthquake in China is the result of bad karma for its treatment of Tibetans. Is her definition - "when you are not nice, bad things happen to you" - correct? And Sharon Stone, a convert to Buddhism, has claimed - to much criticism - that the earthquake...

Sugar Workers, Given Shares Instead of Pension, Wonder Why Price Is So Low CLEWISTON, Fla. — Thousands of workers at U.S. Sugar thought they were getting a good deal when the company shelved their pension plan and gave them stock for their retirement instead. They had a heady sense of...

Berlin remembers persecuted gays Germany has inaugurated a 600,000 euro concrete memorial to honour the thousands of homosexuals persecuted by the Nazis between 1933 and 1945. The four-metre high monument, which has a window showing a film of two men kissing, was unveiled in Berlin. The...

Children as young as six are being sexually abused by peacekeepers and aid workers, says a leading UK charity. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/7420798.stm --------------------------------------- Sickening! What is wrong with men???

"I'm grateful to His Excellency, Mr. Prime Minister, for his clear position that was stated on behalf of Canada during the (NATO) Bucharest Summit (last April)," Yushchenko told reporters at a joint press conference with Harper. Canada's approval of Ukraine joining NATO is in line with the...

Lebanon MPs elect new president Lebanon's parliament has elected army commander General Michel Suleiman as president, ending deadlock which has left the post vacant since November. Gen Suleiman is seen as neutral by Lebanon's rival factions. Gen Suleiman had won 118 votes out of 127. He said...

Dealing with China China's catastrophic earthquake last week in Sichuan province has prompted words of condolence from Canada's government, in a written press release. But there is no sign of any personal exchange with the senior leadership in Beijing. Nor has Ottawa sought to mobilize support...

Don't want no short, short man Have you ever heard of a limb-lengthening procedure? It’s an excruciatingly painful surgical process that involves breaking a patient’s legs, inserting metal screws and turning them to keep the separated sections apart as the bones grow back into one another...

Medvedev makes key visit to China Russian President Dmitry Medvedev is continuing his first official foreign tour since taking office with a visit to ally - and rival - China. Mr Medvedev will meet President Hu Jintao and other leaders for talks that are expected to focus mainly on trade...

Food imports 'to top $1 trillion' The amount of money being spent globally on importing food is set to top $1 trillion (£528bn) in 2008, an influential report estimates. Soaring food prices are the cause of the huge bill - likely to be up 26% on the 2007 total - said the UN's Food and...

Ted Kennedy has malignant brain tumour U.S. Sen. Edward Kennedy, who was hospitalized Saturday after suffering a seizure, has a malignant brain tumour, his doctors have confirmed. Reuters is reporting Kennedy will require chemotherapy and radiation therapy. Earlier this winter, he endorsed...

"I have always despised this government, now I really hate them," one young man said. The cyclone has filled the rice fields with sea water, devastating the crops Swollen figures float along the muddy banks of the river. A trail of wreckage and dead bodies stretched all along Burma's...