UK tourism must focus on "heritage" in contrast to New Labour's attempt to market the country as "Cool Britannia", David Cameron says.
Jennifer Aniston's 'stalker' is given a restraining order, plus the rest of the day's showbiz news
A ban on using jobcentres to advertise for strippers and lapdancers is expected to be announced this week.
As the UK government warns of the need for extensive budget cuts, it says it wants to follow the successful example of Canada.
Speaker after speaker made it clear that we’re in a new era: the complete integration of computing into every part of our lives in a way that is seamless, ubiquitous and, ideally, dead simple
The much-maligned financial products brought down AIG and fueled the mortgage market meltdown. But some say they're not all evil -- they reduce costs and provide protection for customers. And as long as trades are done in the open, they say, banks shouldn
The International Monetary Fund is forecasting that global bank losses from the financial crisis will total $2.28 trillion, a drop of $533 billion from an estimate made last October. But the IMF cautioned that risks from government debt burdens had increa
One would think that in a story about how a four-year move-up of higher fleet gas mileage requirements being imposed by the Environmental Protection Agency would at least look at which manufacturers might be more or less affected by them based on what the
The Washington think tank New America Foundation has been reporting on drone strikes in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Iraq for quite some time and its tally of kills by U.S. drones reveals an interesting thing. It shows that drone kills under President Obama
I wonder if MSNBC can get its money back on that special “Watergate Jr.” graphic and the ominous theme music they used when throwing their resources (and reputations) at James O’Keefe? The charges against O’Keefe and three other men have been redu
Is there a conscious effort to give female conservatives a rough time in the mainstream media, especially in this highly politicized environment? Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., says there is. Bachmann, in an interview with the White House Brief Channel.
By Rebecca Knight Should we treat foods high in sugar and saturated fat - such as French fries and soda - like cigarettes and liquor, and subject them to a “sin” tax? Some health advocates think so, and this week a study that appears in the Archives o
