Month: October 2010

A WEALTHY British lawyer who was shot dead by police during an armed siege at his London home in May 2008 was killed lawfully, an inquest has ruled. Divorce specialist Mark Saunders, 32, was drunk […] […]

They were once seen as a must-have domestic gadget which made household chores a doddle – but it seems that the British love affair with the vacuum cleaner has finally run out of suction. So […] […]

Michelle Obama has been named as the world’s most powerful woman, ahead of the likes of Hillary Clinton, Angela Merkel and Oprah Winfrey. The Queen, however, did not even make the top 10. Mrs Obama […] […]

A Guantanamo Bay detainee facing serious terrorism charges has found an unusual ally – the US justice system. The judge in the first civilian trial of a Gitmo detainee has barred the prosecution’s star witness […] […]

Women’s rights were once the poster issue for Western intervention in Afghanistan, and images of women shrouded in burqas fuelled outrage against the extremist Taliban regime. But nearly a decade later, says a senior Canadian […] […]