By John Solomon
How the government's punishing of the exposure of official wrongdoing can linger for years
Syrian rebels made a new push into Damascus on Wednesday, clashing heavily with troops in the rebellious suburbs of the capital and firing mortars at a presidential palace and a Palestinian refugee camp, activists said.
Britain has struck out against pressure for the 27-nation European Union to centralize more decision-making as the continent tackles its debt crisis, with its foreign secretary insisting that Europe needs flexibility and not uniformity.
Scotland moved a step closer Monday to a vote on independence after Scottish and British leaders signed a deal laying the groundwork for a popular referendum that could alter the shape of the United Kingdom.
The London games may be over, but Britain's Prince Harry isn't letting Team USA get away with the swimming gold that easily.
Syrian troops backed by tanks and helicopters broke into a Damascus suburb on Thursday following two days of shelling and intense clashes as part of a widening offensive by President Bashar Assad's forces to seize control of parts of the capital and surrounding areas from rebel fighters, activists said.
The prince has no clothes — but British newspapers aren't running the pictures.
The photos were embarrassing, silly, and raunchy, but were they a security breach?
Britain's Prince Harry has been caught on camera doing something embarrassing _ again.
Britain's Prince Harry has been caught on camera doing something embarrassing _ again.
The celebrity gossip website TMZ on Tuesday posted photos of the 27-year-old royal cavorting nude with an unidentified woman in a VIP suite in Las Vegas.
Syrian regime forces on Wednesday shelled two Damascus districts before troops backed by tanks swept through to carry out house-to-house raids in search of opposition fighters, killing at least 31 suspected rebels, activists said.
The British government said Tuesday that it wants the country's state-funded hospitals to help support themselves by setting up profit-making branches in other countries.
A group of American artists is using 450 balloons and thousands of light emitting diodes to turn the 2,000-year-old Hadrian's Wall into the world's longest work of art.
Philosopher Julian Baggini has a high-altitude new assignment _ pondering the significance and symbolism of the White Cliffs of Dover, landmarks he likens to Britain's Statue of Liberty.
Britain's Prince Philip left a Scottish hospital Monday after five days of treatment for a bladder infection.
