Pop Star Joss Stone Under Attack for Marijuana Comment
Stone is not alone in her belief that marijuana is less harmful than alcohol. She has some pretty solid back-up among the UK's scientific community.
Stone is not alone in her belief that marijuana is less harmful than alcohol. She has some pretty solid back-up among the UK's scientific community.
AP | Posted 11.13.2009 | World
LONDON — Britain's prime minister says NATO nations may contribute 5,000 more troops to Afghanistan – offering key backing as the U.S. dec...
Huffington Post | Adam Taylor | Posted 11.11.2009 | World
Gordon Brown's poor spelling and awkward telephone manner may have won him sympathy this week, as the British public begins to feel sorry for a prime ...
Guardian | Adam Gabbatt | Posted 11.09.2009 | World
Gordon Brown has apologised to the mother of a dead serviceman who took offence after he sent her a handwritten letter of condolence that misspelled h...
Times Online | By Suzy Jagger | Posted 11.09.2009 | Business
ST. ANDREWS, Scotland -- U.K. Prime Minister Gordon Brown and U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner clashed over potential taxes on bank transactio...
Dr. Orin Levine | Posted 11.09.2009 | World
More importantly than events in Washington and London, for the first time ever, parliaments in developing countries, where the bulk of pneumonia deaths occur, were active locally on World Pneumonia Day.
AP | GREGORY KATZ | Posted 11.06.2009 | World
LONDON — Prime Minister Gordon Brown, Washington's closest ally in Afghanistan, toughened his tone Friday with this harsh message for the Afghan...
Huffington Post | Danny Shea | Posted 11.04.2009 | Media
Another international leader has come out attacking a Rupert Murdoch-owned media outlet as a political operative. As the White House continues its wa...
Emily Henry | Posted 10.28.2009 | World
Britain is tearing up its socialist roots and traversing a path back to conservatism. For those who feel sidelined in the immigration debate, the BNP has become a solution - albeit an extreme one.
Robert Amsterdam | Posted 10.26.2009 | World
The ungrateful chauvinism of U.S. foreign policy reaches far beyond a rant provided by Joe Scarborough, who at least has the excuse of being in the business of manufacturing polemics.
Elizabeth Lynch | Posted 10.26.2009 | World
The true test of a society's criminal justice system is how well it protects society's most vulnerable.
washingtonpost.com | Anne E. Kornblut and Scott Wilson | Posted 10.15.2009 | World
President Obama, convening his fifth war council meeting in as many weeks, pressed his senior national security advisers Wednesday on the political si...
James Denselow | Posted 10.15.2009 | World
The British priority in Afghanistan is less about any particular vision for a democratic, stable or terrorist free country, but rather the strategic future of NATO and more importantly the US-UK alliance.
AP | MEERA SELVA | Posted 10.09.2009 | World
LONDON — At a memorial service honoring Britons who died during the Iraq war, the Archbishop of Canterbury said Friday it will take time for his...
BBC NEWS | Posted 10.06.2009 | World
Prime Minister Gordon Brown refused a major Afghanistan troop reinforcement against the military's advice, the former head of the Army has said....
Judith Ellis | Posted 10.03.2009 | Politics
When it comes to secrecy and international politics, we wink and nod when necessary.
Daily Telegraph | Alex Spillius | Posted 10.02.2009 | Business
The President is believed to have angered the European leaders by insisting on delaying a joint press conference until after he had chaired a meeting ...
Shirin Sadeghi | Posted 09.30.2009 | World
It's not Obama's fault that Iraq and Afghanistan happened, but it will be his fault if he rushes into a threat-laden, pseudo-engagement with Iran at this historical crossroads in US-Iran relations.
William Bradley | Posted 09.30.2009 | World
There's a point in the Iran situation where semantics come into play. Is Iran on a path to nuclear weapons-capable technology? Yes. Is it producing nuclear weapons? No. Does it intend to produce nuclear weapons?
The Sun | Posted 09.30.2009 | Media
At the 2005 election, we and our readers believed Labour had many failings but gave them one last chance over a lacklustre Tory party. They have ha...
Mark Weisbrot | Posted 09.29.2009 | World
The expansion from the G-8 to the G-20 is mostly a symbolic move. Since the rich countries control the institutions with actual power, the G-20 is still mainly the G-7 with the other 13 countries sitting in.
Ben Cohen | Posted 09.28.2009 | World
When the Conservative Party talks about cutting costs, it isn't talking about hurting the rich. The poor will bear the brunt of the new 'streamlined' government as cuts are made to education, health care and welfare.
William Bradley | Posted 09.25.2009 | World
Iran went front and center today, with war a real possibility in the wake of this morning's revelation of a secret nuclear facility.
BBC NEWS | Posted 09.25.2009 | World
Gordon Brown has met with US President Barack Obama to discuss several "big issues" including claims Iran has built a second uranium plant....
AP | CHARLES BABINGTON and ROBERT BURNS | Posted 09.26.2009 | World
PITTSBURGH — Backed by other world powers, President Barack Obama declared Friday that Iran is speeding down a path to confrontation and demande...
Mason Tvert | Posted 11.16.2009 | Entertainment