PHNOM PENH (AFP) — The former Khmer Rouge foreign minister appeared before the UN-backed Cambodian genocide court Monday to appeal his detention, in a case that poses the first big test for the tribunal.
Ieng Sary, 82, is one of five top regime cadres currently detained for crimes allegedly committed during the Khmer Rouge's 1975-79 rule over Cambodia.
The aged and sickly lo...
"The new groupings will make wilderness therapy a more effective intervention for the entire community of girls," says Laurie Wilmot, LCSW, a therapist at SageWalk. "By separating the heavier users from the lighter users we can minimize the sharing of negative learned behaviors and take some pressure off the girls to 'fit in' and be 'cool.' In these specialized groups, the f...
DHAKA (AFP) — A major Bangladesh political alliance has vowed not to participate in upcoming local government elections unless its leaders, including ex-premier Khaleda Zia, are freed.
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party and its Islamist allies, which had a two-thirds majority in the last parliament, said it would consider taking part in the August 4 polls only after the army-backed g...
PHNOM PENH (AFP) — The former Khmer Rouge foreign minister appeared before the UN-backed Cambodian genocide court on Monday to appeal his detention, in a case that poses the first big test for the tribunal.
Ieng Sary, 82, is one of five top regime cadres currently detained for crimes allegedly committed during the Khmer Rouge's 1975-79 rule over Cambodia.
The aged and sickly...
LONDON (AFP) — More than 400,000 people in England have given up smoking as a result of the ban on lighting up in public places introduced in July, according to a study published on Monday.
Researchers say 40,000 deaths will be prevented over the next decade as a result of the ban.
The Smoking Toolkit Study involved interviews with more than 32,000 smokers and ex-smokers over...
ST. LEONARD, N.B. — Twelve million honey bees were on the loose Monday in northwest New Brunswick after a truck overturned on the Trans-Canada Highway.
Police say the transport truck, carrying 330 crates of bees, was travelling on a ramp on the highway near St. Leonard when the load shifted and the truck overturned.
"This smashed the crates of bees inside the truck," said RCM...
Twelve people, including a 7-year-old girl and a pregnant woman, are in hospital after eating poisoned rice at a diner in Haikou, capital of south China's island province of Hainan, local health official said on Monday.
Police are investigating the possibility that the poisoning was deliberate after lab tests identified rat poison in the food.
Lin Haining, Communist Party of China...
WASHINGTON (AFP) — The next president of the United States may be able to appoint several Supreme Court justices -- the powerful judges whose rulings affect the daily lives of Americans -- yet the issue is underplayed on the presidential campaign trail.
The US Supreme Court has nine justices, of which five are considered conservative and four are considered moderate or liberal.
...SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — More than a thousand wildfires — including a massive, stubborn blaze in the Big Sur region — were burning early Monday in Northern California and there was no relief in sight for weary firefighters.
Fire crews inched closer to getting some of the largest of 1,420 blazes surrounded, according to the state Office of Emergency Services. Some 364,600 ...
The family of a retired banker stabbed to death by a mental patient have condemned the decision to allow the psychiatrist at the centre of the case to sue for compensation.
Paranoid schizophrenic John Barrett absconded from Springfield Hospital in Tooting, south London, before stabbing Denis Finnegan, 50, who was riding his bike through Richmond Park in September 2004.
Consultant Gi...
Conservative leader David Cameron has called on ministers to "get out of the way" and allow health professionals to decide how to run the NHS.
Speaking as health minister Lord Darzi released his review of state healthcare, Mr Cameron claimed that his flagship proposal of a constitution for the NHS was in fact a Conservative idea.
And he said that plans for "polyclinics" to provide G...
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ATLANTA (AP) - The Supreme Court's landmark ruling on gun ownership last week focused on citizens' ability to defend themselves from intruders in their homes. But research shows that surprisingly often, gun owners use the weapons on themselves.
Suicides accounted for 55 percent of the nation's nearly 31,000 firearm deaths in 2005, the most recent year for which statistics are ...
Dr Mark Salter is a consultant psychiatrist working in Hackney, east London
What's striking about this - both the feeling of the stuff and the words of Alan Johnson and Lord Darzi - is that it's pretty much the same sort of thing as we've always heard. It sounds wonderful but what the NHS needs as regards mental health services isn't anything new and pioneering - we just need to get b...
BETHESDA, Md. (AP) — Tiger Woods does not know when he can play golf again, but he said Monday his rebuilt left knee has been sore his entire PGA Tour career and he looks forward to playing on two good legs.
"My left knee has been sore for 10 to 12 years," Woods said during a conference call for his AT&T National tournament, his first public comments since reconstructive surgery la...
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News National Rural News Dairy General Fonterra opens new US headquarters 1/07/2008 10:02:00 AM The Fonterra Co-operative Group, the fifth-largest dairy processor and the largest dairy exporter in the world, has opened a new corporate headquarters outside Chicago, in the United States.According to a company ...
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