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A Playboy Enterprises shareholder has sued the magazine publisher and founder Hugh Hefner, claiming Hefner’s plan to purchase the company’s outstanding shares is inadequate. Stockholder Steven Braun’s lawsuit was filed yesterday in an Illinois state […] […]

LONDON – Facebook has rebuffed a call by British Prime Minister David Cameron for the removal of tributes to the gunman Raoul Moat which have been left on the social networking site. Cameron condemned the […] […]

A computing expert formerly employed by MI6 yesterday admitted he had attempted to disclose a welter of stolen secret information, including a list identifying 39 field agents, by setting up a “naive” £2 million ($4.2 […] […]

TONY BLAIR was at the head of an angry Labour reaction against Peter Mandelson last night as the former key strategist’s memoirs threatened to rupture his relationship with the party. The former prime minister was […] […]

THE impact on wildlife of BP’s Gulf of Mexico oil spill is worse than the US government has estimated, biologists say. The biologists say oil has smeared at least 300-400 pelicans and hundreds of terns […] […]

Facebook is on a collision course with David Cameron after it refused to take down a webpage set up in tribute to gunman Raoul Moat. The Prime Minister had earlier condemned those who had shown […] […]

A former MI6 worker who says he was “directed by voices” faces a jail sentence after admitting charges of unlawfully disclosing top-secret material. Daniel Houghton, 25, who worked for the secret intelligence service between September […] […]

PARIS—African soldiers from countries in France’s former colonial empire marched in the annual Bastille Day military parade in Paris on Wednesday. Planes flew over the capital trailing red, white and blue smoke. Parachuting soldiers dropped […] […]

A veterinarian says a dog trapped in a car on a 32-degree day in eastern Pennsylvania honked the horn until he was rescued. Nancy Soares says the chocolate Labrador was brought to her Macungie Animal […] […]

One of Beres Hammond’s more popular tunes, Rock Away (a celebratory anthem “bigging up” the golden days of Jamaican music), was soundly critiqued by Professor Carolyn Cooper at a symposium in celebration of International Reggae […] […]