Stories Archive by Month - December

A teddy bear is due to appear in a Sudanese court today charged with insulting Islam. If convicted it faces imprisonment and public flogging.

A group of Muslims, angry at the leniency shown to Gillian Gibbons, the 54-year-old English teacher found guilty of taking the name of some prophet bloke in vain, have promised to ta...

The CIA has announced that Cerberus, the guard dog at the organization's archives unit in Langley, Virginia who ate the videos of terror suspect interrogations, has been punished and 'will probably not destroy any more

(Iowa : Ucs News) With only three weeks left until the Iowa caucuses, Mitt Romney made a surprise announcement. Keen to swing Iowa voters to his point of view he confirmed

It was the year without a Santa Claus...

BRIMSTONE, SOUTH CAROLINA - Hoping to prove that lemmings have nothing over most Americans, Presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee is working out all the kinks in his Bible thumping routine.

(2007-12-11) -- When the director of Central Intelligence appears today before a closed-door hearing of the Senate Intelligence Committee to explain the destruction of recordings of CIA terrorist interrogations including the controversial technique of waterboarding,

It's the new dance sensation that's sweeping the nation...