“We were both in our ways manipulative people,” Blair writes, “perceiving quickly the emotions of others and able instinctively to play with them.” As well as admitting a strong personal fondness for Princess Diana – “I really liked her and, of course, was as big a... [Read More]

A video apparently showing a young woman throwing live puppies into a river has sparked outrage across the Internet. And now it has also led to an animal rights group offering a bounty for the arrest of the people behind it. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has offered a reward for information... [Read More]

Last night, Alaska senator Lisa Murkowski conceded something that had been obvious for a week: She won’t be her party’s nominee this fall. She lost her primary for being insufficiently anti-abortion. (Here’s what that means for a Republican in Alaska: She and her opponent both endorsed... [Read More]

Hurricane Earl churned on a path toward the North Carolina coast of the eastern U.S. seaboard on Tuesday after lashing Puerto Rico and northeast Caribbean islands with winds, rain and waves, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said. The forecast track of Earl, the second major hurricane of the 2010 Atlantic... [Read More]

U.S. home prices rose strongly for the third-straight month in June, pushing prices up 3.6% during the second quarter from a year earlier, according to the S&P Case-Shiller home-price indexes, thanks to boosts from a winding-down government tax credit for homebuyers. However, the year-to-year increases... [Read More]

Russia will impose an export ban on grain and grain products from Aug. 15 to Dec. 31 as the country’s worst drought in half a century cuts yields. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, gave the dates of the ban by telephone in Moscow today. Earlier, Putin said a ban would be “appropriate”... [Read More]

Charles Taylor may be a former warlord but he also has a reputation as a flamboyant showman. He was once asked in a BBC interview why some people thought he was little better than a murderer. He shot back: “Jesus Christ was accused of being a murderer in his time.” In 1980 Taylor joined... [Read More]

An unprecedented day in the history of California, as Justice Vaughn Walker released his decision on the heated Prop 8 trial today, around 1:45 pm PST, ruling in favor for the plaintiffs in the trial, thus annulling the highly contentious proposition which outlawed gay marriage in the State of California. In... [Read More]