Month: January 2011

McDonald’s is being accused of homophobia after it blocked gay websites from its new free Wi-Fi service at its restaurants. People trying to access the lifestyle website GayNZ.com discovered they could not find the site, […] […]

TUCSON, Ariz.—At age 9, Christina Taylor Green was already an aspiring politician with hopes of being the first woman to play major league baseball. Her patriotism was inspired by a tragedy on her birth date—Sept. […] […]

TUCSON, Ariz. — Piece by piece, details of the weekend rampage in Tucson are beginning to emerge: The heartbreaking tales of people slain on a sun-splashed morning, the courage of those who overpowered the gunman […] […]

VATICAN CITY—Pope Benedict XVI baptized 21 newborns in an intimate ceremony in the Sistine Chapel on Sunday that marked the end of the Christmas season. Standing under Michelangelo’s magnificent “Last Judgment” fresco, the pope poured […] […]

LONDON—It’s the first ballot box test of Britain’s unlikely coalition government—a special election that pits Prime Minister David Cameron’s Conservative Party against his Liberal Democrat partners and gives voters a chance to vent over plans […] […]

SOUTH Korea has rejected North Korea’s latest offer of dialogue, saying the communist country must be judged on its deeds rather than its words. The North made what it called a formal proposal Saturday for […] […]

A BOEING 727 with state-run Iran Air crashed yesterday near a northwestern city in bad weather and broke up, killing at least 70 of the 105 people aboard, state media reported. “Based on information received […] […]

AUTHORITIES are hailing as a hero a woman who stopped a rampage by a gunman who shot about 20 people, including a US congresswoman, by physically confronting him as he tried to reload his handgun. […] […]

CELEBRITIES who endorse products on Twitter without declaring that they are paid to do so may face court action, the Government’s consumer watchdog said yesterday. Britain’s Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has already clamped down […] […]