LANZAROTE, Spain - UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay on Tuesday called for Western Sahara activist Aminatou Haidar, who is on a three-week-old hunger strike at a Spanish airport, to be allowed to go home. Haidar has consumed only su
Hospital patients in England may get the right to be seen privately if the NHS cannot treat them quickly enough.Hospitals have to start treating patients within 18 weeks of referral - or two weeks in the case of cancer. But ministers now want to giv
Despite losing three key players - Jackie McNamara, Burton O'Brien and Kjartan Finnbogason - from a squad already stretched after budget cuts, May's side claimed a point against the SPL's top side.
The Bairns had twice led Celtic but trailed 3-2 unt
BERLIN - Harald Jaeger was a loyal East German border guard — respected and trusted to command a crossing point to the west on Berlin's Bornholmer Strasse. So when his checkpoint was swarmed on the evening of Nov. 9, 1989, as East Germany anno
David Cameron has said a Conservative MP who is to stand down from Parliament after facing questions about his expenses has made the right decision .David Wilshire, MP for Spelthorne, said he would not seek re-election after reports he channelled &
PERTH, Australia - An Australian quadriplegic who recently won a landmark court case allowing him to refuse food and water from his nursing home died Monday, his brother said. Christian Rossiter, 49, succumbed to a chest infection, his brother, Tim,
DUBLIN - European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso warned Saturday that Ireland could lose its right to nominate an EU commissioner if it rejects the Lisbon Treaty for a second time. The only way to ensure that Ireland will always have a c
The former Blackburn defender was out of contract after leaving West Ham in the summer but despite interest from several clubs, most overseas, he was prepared to bide his time.
That patience was rewarded when Everton manager David Moyes made an appr
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