15 December 2011 Last updated at 22:51 GMT Amanda Knox was cleared of the murder of British student Meredith Kercher in Perugia Lack of motive and faulty evidence led to the acquittal of Amanda Knox, an Italian court has said. Knox, 24, saw her conviction for the murder of UK student Meredith Kercher overturned on [...]
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December 16, 2011
December 16, 2011
GOP debate: expect more grenades tossed Newt Gingrich’s way
Tonight’s GOP presidential debate is the most imortant two hours of the year in US politics. Newt Gingrich, Mitt Romney and the other Republican rivals gather in Sioux City, Iowa, like the survivors of a first world war battle huddling in a trench. One by one, the Republican candidates have gone over the top. Some [...]
December 15, 2011
Jewish Rights Group Hunting Nazi War Criminals
The Jewish human rights organization, the Simon Wiesenthal Center, has launched a new campaign to find and prosecute missing Nazi war criminals while they are still alive. The director of the center, Efraim Zuroff, told a news conference in Berlin Wednesday the new operation will offer rewards of up to $32,000 for tips leading to [...]
December 14, 2011
Facebook acts to prevent suicides
13 December 2011 Last updated at 19:41 GMT A new reporting system means help can be offered more quickly than before Support charity Samaritans has said it wants to offer greater help to distressed people via Facebook. The website has improved its system in the US to put suicidal users directly in touch with support [...]
December 13, 2011
Canada pulls out of Kyoto accord
12 December 2011 Last updated at 23:04 GMT Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Environment Minister Peter Kent: ”Kyoto is not the path forward for a global solution for climate change” Canada will formally withdraw from the Kyoto Protocol on climate change, the minister of the environment has said. Peter Kent said [...]
December 11, 2011
2011: A good year to be gay
A funny thing happened in America in 2011. With the US political establishment in deadlock and Republicans bowing to Tea Party mandarins over a raft of issues from immigration to curbs on trade unions, one area of American civil liberties celebrated a watershed year. After decades in which gay rights have polarised US opinion, the [...]
December 10, 2011
December 8, 2011
Film questions TX death penalty
(CNN) — Throughout “Incendiary,” a new award-winning documentary, filmmakers pose a tough question with potentially huge consequences: Was a man wrongfully executed because of outdated arson investigation methods? The movie surrounds the 2004 Texas execution of Cameron Todd Willingham after his murder conviction in the house fire deaths of his three young children. Directed by [...]
December 8, 2011
Facebook begins rolling out Timeline feature
(Mashable) — Facebook officially took the “beta” label off its much-publicized Timeline Tuesday evening, but it’s rolling out the new feature gradually. New Zealand is currently the only country to get Timeline, the company said in a blog post. Other regions will get it in the “near future.” Facebook first unveiled Timeline in early September, [...]
December 3, 2011
Herman Cain: how Republicans fell out with their once preferred candidate
Herman Cain‘s decision to suspend his campaign removes the remote but tantalising prospect of a 2012 battle for the White House fought between two African-American candidates. Barack Obama winning the presidency three years ago was a major breakthrough in race relations in America. And grassroots Republicans, a party dominated by whites, enthusiastically endorsing Cain, even [...]
December 3, 2011
US weapons ‘full of fake Chinese parts’
December 3, 2011 by legitgov ShareThis US weapons ‘full of fake Chinese parts’ 08 Nov 2011 Thousands of United States’ warplanes, ships and missiles contain fake electronic components from China, leaving them open to malfunction, according to a US Senate committee. The US Senate Armed Services Committee said its researchers had uncovered 1,800 cases in [...]
November 29, 2011
Ron Paul labels Newt and Mitt muppets | Paul Harris
Ron Paul’s attack ad ‘Who Can You Trust?’ Video: 247FreedomOps/YouTube Who It’s Ron Paul, the long-time Texan congressman and favourite of libertarians who subscribe to his anti-government, pro-individual policies. Paul’s team must be wondering what they have to do to get a break. Paul is a conservative, family man, veteran and has a fervent base [...]
November 28, 2011
Middle incomes: the American nightmare | Editorial
The US economy is now almost thrice as big as in the early 1970s – and yet the typical working man finds not a dime of this transformative growth in his pay packet. At an outstanding event in London last week, the Resolution Foundation assembled experts from both sides of the Atlantic to consider the [...]
November 27, 2011
Kate Bolick: ‘The heterosexual world is a very conservative place’
As she approaches 40, Kate Bolick has come to a profound insight: that she – and many American women like her – might never marry. But revealing that fact in the Atlantic magazine caused an outbreak of soul-searching and frenzied comment. Here, she talks to Lisa O’Kelly Your piece went viral as soon as it [...]