Dank u aan iedereen wie in uw beste wensen naar me voor de vakantie hebben verzonden, wordt het zeer gewaardeerd.
Jammer genoeg niet kan ik elk van u persoonlijk beantwoorden zodat hoop ik dit korte bericht één of andere manier gaat om mijn dank aan iedereen uit te drukken.
De hoop u allen heeft een grote vakantie en dankt u voor […]

De dierlijke rechtenactivisten hebben 15 kippen van een landbouwbedrijf van Auckland in een inspanning bevrijd om meer mensen te overreden om batterijeieren te boycotten.
Spreekbuis Deirdre Sims van de Redding van Nieuw Zeeland zegt de Open de groep de kippen wegens de voorwaarden nam zij in leefden. Zij zegt landbouwers in de kooi van Nieuw Zeeland 2.8 miljoen kippen, die […]

TELEVISION Quality seems to be the very last thing on BBC execs mind, writes Declan Lynch
THERE was a general air of stupefaction when the BBC bleeped the word “faggot” from Fairytale Of New York. But those of you who were reading this column last week were not surprised at all. No, you’ll have smiled knowingly, […]

CIA rebuts suggestion it did not cooperate with 9/11 Commission investigation

David Remes, an attorney for a dozen Yemeni prisoners being held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, speaks to reporters following a hearing in federal court as costumed protestors stage a demonstration
 The CIA on Saturday rebutted suggestions the spy agency was uncooperative and hid from the Sept. […]

Tony Blair’s conversion to Catholicism has been criticised by commentators who argue his views as PM were at odds with church teachings.

Tony Blair has met Pope Benedict
Mr Blair was welcomed into the Roman Catholic church by the Archbishop of Westminster, Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor - leader of the Roman Catholics in England and Wales.
Cardinal Murphy-O’Connor welcomed […]

PM hits the streets and gets looked at more than ever before, then heads to the shop for first-look details on a futuristic car so efficient it’ll make your jaw drop. The good news? It’s coming next year.

 
Three hundred miles per gallon and a Jetsons-style look are enough to get anyone excited. But ever since […]

By Diane Smith
According to the U.S. panel investigating the 2001 terrorist attacks, the CIA had deliberately withheld tapes of supposed torture of terrorism suspects to obstruct the panel’s work, the New York Times wrote in its Saturday edition.
Lee Hamilton and Thomas Kean, the leading chairmen of the panel, were the ones to comment on the […]

By Carolynne Wheeler in Jerusalem
Six-year-old Maria Amin races ahead of her father on the way to school. “Hurry up, papa. The bus will leave without us,” she calls, steering her electric wheelchair with a mouth-stick towards the specially-equipped van.

Symbol of hope: Maria Amin’s case has captured the hearts of the Israeli public

It’s a journey that, […]

The US dollar declined against the euro and the pound on Friday as traders continued to hotly debate whether the US Federal Reserve would continue cutting interest rates amid economic uncertainty.
The euro was swapping hands at US$1.4378 in late afternoon trading in New York, up from US$1.4320 late on Thursday.
The British pound was quoted at […]

By Deirdre Shesgreen
The first session of the 110th Congress started off with a snap and had plenty of crackle. But the end was more fizzle than pop.
“We had 50 weeks of basically polarization and brinksmanship and two weeks of problem-solving,” said Rep. Todd Akin, R-Town and Country.
Democrats were catapulted into power after the 2006 elections […]

As Bush and Sarkozy lose patience with Assad, Syrian MP threatens Dimona
A Syrian member of parliament thought to be familiar with the thinking of President Bashar al-Assad is quoted in the London-based pan-Arab daily newspaper Al-Quds al-Arabi on Saturday as saying that Syria could strike Israel’s nuclear reactor in Dimona as retaliation for any future […]

By Matthew Hay Brown
While Washington debates whether it should talk to Iran, one Maryland congressman has already struck up a conversation.
For the past year, Rep. Wayne T. Gilchrest has been meeting with Iranian officials and business leaders to talk about ways to improve relations between the United States and the Islamic republic that President […]

Britain’s former top policeman Lord Stevens was paid £1,000 a day for taking charge of the inquiry into the death of Diana, Princess of Wales.
Documents released exclusively to The Mail on Sunday under the Freedom of Information Act reveal he was being paid double what he would have earned in his former role as Met […]

A leaked memorandum from the former 9/11 commission says it made repeated requests to the CIA for information on the interrogation of al-Qaeda suspects. But ex-commission executive director Philip Zelikow says the CIA did not hand over tapes that have since come to light, the New York Times reported.
The CIA later erased the footage, which […]

FBI aims to amass huge database of people’s physical characteristics
By Ellen Nakashima
The FBI is embarking on a $1 billion effort to build the world’s largest computer database of people’s physical characteristics, a project that would give the government unprecedented abilities to identify individuals in the United States and abroad.
Digital images of faces, fingerprints and palm […]