MI5 faced an unprecedented and damaging crisis tonight after one of the country's most senior judges found that the Security Service had failed to respect human rights, deliberately misled parliament, and had a "culture of suppression" that undermined government assurances about its conduct.

LISBON, Portugal – Portugal's parliament passed a bill Friday that would make the predominantly Catholic nation the sixth in Europe to permit gay marriage.

Arthur Tsang Hin Wah of Reuters took several shots, but the one shot of Tank Man climbing the tank was chosen from his batch of photos.
"Tank Man", second from left, prepares to face down the row of oncoming tanks. Photo by Terril Jones (Associated Press).

Founders Peter Sunde and Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, along with two other employees Fredrik Neij and Carl Lundström, were sentenced to a year in jail after being found guilty in a Swedish court of making 33 copyright-protected files accessible for illegal downloading on the website Piratebay.org.

Japanese nationals can now wed their same-sex foreign partners in countries where same-sex marriage is permitted.

Google said Tuesday that its YouTube video-sharing Web site had been blocked in China.

Google said it did not know why the site had been blocked, but a report by the official Xinhua news agency of China on Tuesday said that supporters of the Dalai Lama had fabricated a video...

The Office for National Statistics reported yesterday that manufacturing output fell by 6.4 per cent in the three months to January – an even faster rate of decline than the 4.9 per cent contraction seen in the quarter to December. Overall, the annual rate of decline in output has reached an alarming 12 per cent.

No one questions the value of trees. But many people have raised concerns about planting trees as a way to generate carbon offsets.

In order to address global warming, we need to reduce the flow of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, preventing this insulating blanket of gases from thickening and warming the planet further.

On Wednesday, Joe “the Plumber” Wurzelbacher said that if he were in Congress, he would “probably be in jail” because he’d be charged with “slapping some member.” He added, “And that’s not [bull] either.” Wonder where our PM is this week?

Afghanistan - The children who were killed and wounded in an explosion outside a tiny Afghan village this week were likely scavenging for bits of metal. Village elders in Salehan, about 15 kilometres outside of Kandahar city, say today that the children found what may have been unexploded munitions in a field after Canadian soldiers conducted a range practice.