ex-Minister Elliot Morley Admits to £30,000 Expenses Fraud

April 8, 2011

Elliot Morley, the former Labour Environment Minister, is facing being put in jail after he admitted to dishonestly claiming over £30,000 in parliamentary expenses through false mortgage claims. This comes after magistrates heard in a hearing last March that ...

Senior Libyan Officials Leaving Country to Defect

April 1, 2011

A second senior Libyan official defected on Thursday, telling reporters that he won't take an official position. The former foreign minister, Ali Abdussalam Treki, was due to be an ambassador to the United Nations. With his defect, along ...

Pressure Rises at 3rd Japan Nuclear Reactor, Other Progress Made

March 21, 2011

On Sunday, Japanese officials reported that they have made progress in battling to gain control over the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant, which was damaged by the earthquake and tsunami disaster on March 11 and has been leaking radiation ever since. ...

Evacuation Flights for Americans and Britons in Japan

March 18, 2011

Governments are doing more now to evacuate foreign citizens from Japan due to authorities in the country having trouble cooling the nuclear reactors at a plant damaged by the 9.0 magnitude earthquake that hit last Friday. The situation seems ...

Evacuation from Japanese Nuclear Plant Urged

March 17, 2011

The US has significantly extended its evacuation warnings surrounding the troubled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant in Japan. Both the US and Japanese governments were telling people to evacuate to at least 12 miles away or stay indoors, but this ...

Japan Death Toll Could Hit 10,000 after Quaked and Tsunami

March 14, 2011

Officials in Japan are now estimating that about 10,000 or more people may have been killed from the earthquakes and tsunami that hit the country. The natural disaster started on Wednesday, and since then aftershocks have continued and a ...

Britain Revokes Immunity and Freezes Assets of Gaddafi

February 28, 2011

Over the weekend, the UK revoked Muammar Gaddafi and his family's diplomatic immunity, as well as froze their British assets. The UK is also one of many countries that is a pushing for the leader to step down. Gaddafi owns ...

Castro Claims US and NATO May Invade Libya

February 23, 2011

On Tuesday, former Cuban president Fidel Castro said he thinks the US is going to attempt to invade Libya through NATO. This comes amid ongoing unrest to oust the country's ruler, Muammar al-Gaddafi, whose been in office for more ...

Court prevents man from having sex

February 13, 2011

A High Court judge has banned a man with a 'moderate' learning disability from having sex. The man, known as only Alan, expressed a wish for his gay relationship to continue, as this, he said, would make him happy. But the ...

Vickers to outline bank reforms

January 22, 2011

Sir John Vickers, who heads the committee tasked with reforming the UK bank system, is expected to announce the committee's preliminary decisions for heavy reform in the sector. Sir John is set to speak in London on the matter and will ...