Globe and Mail For the first time in history, more than one in every 100 American adults is in jail or prison, according to a new report tracking the surge in inmate population and urging states to rein in corrections costs with alternative sentencing programs. The report, released Thursday by the Pew Center on the States, said the 50 states spent more than ...

CHICAGO TRIBUNE - United Technologies Corp. made public Sunday an unsolicited $3 billion bid for Diebold, one of the largest makers of automated teller machines and voting machines. United Technologies, which first approached Diebold two years ago, initially made the offer in private Friday. The bid amounts to $40 a share in cash, or a 66 percent premium over Diebold's closing price Friday of $24.12, United ...

Conservative leader David Cameron has accused the Government of "breaking the military covenant" as he launched a Commission to draw up proposals to improve support for Britain's armed forces. Mr Cameron said ministers were letting troops down on equipment, healthcare, family support and accommodation and promised a defence review to ensure that a future Tory government would match the demands it made on the military with the resources it provided them. But ...

Marcus Morgan Last Friday, the Labour government took out a high court injunction to prevent a former member of the British Special Air Services, Ben Griffin, from revealing further details about the government’s involvement in “extraordinary rendition” The US administration coined the term to cover the practice of sending arrested terrorist suspects to dozens of detention facilities where torture is often carried ...

By Nicholas Christian PRINCE Harry's tour of duty in Afghanistan was a "PR stunt" that has not fooled the British public, publicist Max Clifford has claimed. The Royal's 10-week deployment at the front was "virtual reality" because Army chiefs would have kept him away from any actual danger of being hurt, the PR guru added. He said the plan could backfire as the public would soon turn ...

Multiple 9/11s every day of the year: Why is there no war on this terror? By Shreeram Krishnaswami "Another child will die in the time it takes to read this sentence. And the death of that child, a child who had a name and a personality, a family and a future, is a rebuke to all humanity. It is no longer necessary. It is therefore no longer acceptable."...

The Student Climate Project All are invited to take part in a mass action against soaring public transport prices on Sunday 20th April. We encourage people from all walks of life to board trains into the central London terminals, refusing to pay the fare. People will converge together at the terminals at around 1pm. The action is highlighting the fact that public transport must become drastically ...

Israel has pulled back its troops from the Gaza Strip with an army spokesman saying that military operations in the territory were "winding down". The move came after an intense Israeli assault that killed eight more Palestinians overnight on Monday, adding to the more than 100 people killed in the past six days. The Israeli army spokesman said: "Almost all our forces have already returned to Israel." Ehud Olmert, Israel's prime minister, said ...