By John Solomon
How the government's punishing of the exposure of official wrongdoing can linger for years

The Prince of Wales issued a scathing denouncement of corporations and of climate-change skeptics for failing to take environmental actions to save the "dying patient," planet Earth.

The new archbishop of Canterbury was formally enthroned Thursday — and questions about the Church of England's opposition to same-sex marriage greeted his promotion.
A collection of some of Princess Diana's most memorable evening gowns, including one she wore to a White House dinner where she danced with John Travolta, fetched over 800,000 pounds ($1.2 million) at a London auction Tuesday.
If dresses could talk, this dark navy, figure-hugging velvet number would have the best stories to tell.
British prosecutors said Friday they will not press charges against two Australian DJs over the royal hoax call that preceded a nurse's suicide.
Royalty means rarely having to mind the gap.

Royalty means rarely having to mind the gap. Britain's Prince Charles took a ride on the London subway Wednesday — for the first time in a quarter century.
One European queen has announced her retirement. Any chance Europe's most famous queen _ Elizabeth II of Britain _ might join her?
The Australian radio show behind a hoax phone call to the London hospital where the pregnant Duchess of Cambridge was being treated has been officially canceled.
A photo marked "not to be published" that shows a teenage Diana Spencer before she became Princess of Wales has been sold by a New Hampshire auction house for more than $18,000.

Capt. Wales is coming home to be Prince Harry once again.
Capt. Wales is coming home to be Prince Harry once again.

"There's been a lot written about this movie; some of it has popped off the entertainment page to the news page. And from time to time, some of you might have wondered if we would have liked to comment on some of that coverage, and the answer is yes," said Mark Boal, writer of "Zero Dark Thirty," during his acceptance speech for best picture at the New York Film Critics Circle Awards on Monday.
A nurse was found hanging in her room three days after she had been duped by a hoax call from Australian DJs about the pregnant Duchess of Cambridge, a U.K. inquest was told. The case is being treated as an apparent suicide.
The result of an autopsy on the nurse involved in a prank call for information about the former Kate Middleton's hospital stay will be revealed Thursday, London police said.
"If you think about the impact of climate change [it should be how] a doctor would deal with the problem," he said during a meeting of government heads, business officials and scientists. "A scientific hypothesis is tested to absolute destruction, but medicine can't wait ... [The doctor] has to act on what is there."
Britain's Prince Charles condemns ‘corporate lobbyists’ for killing planet →
He acknowledged that many gays have enduring relationships of "stunning" quality — a fact he said that has "deeply challenged" his own views on gay marriage.