A clown who won a seat in Brazil´s Congress by a landslide has stayed true to his former profession by accidentally messing up his first vote.
A mother yesterday made an emotional plea for her daughter to be sterilised as she told a court how their family could not cope with looking after any more of the young woman´s children.
A BBC weatherman has appeared in court charged with brandishing an imitation shotgun in a high speed motorway road rage incident.
The Government has revealed the path Telecom must take if the company wins broadband contracts and splits itself in two.
Halle Berry and ex-boyfriend Gabriel Aubry have called a truce in the custody battle over their two-year-old daughter.
An Auckland man and his company could face penalties totaling $700,000 for allegedly sending out hundreds of thousands of spam emails and text messages.
Prince Albert of Monaco has asked a Paris court to force a former aide to remove from his blog passages accusing the prince of corruption.
Hawaii state legislators on Wednesday approved civil unions for gay couples, and Gov. Neil Abercrombie said he would sign it into law.
The EU´s highest court may classify honey containing traces of genetically modified material as "food produced" from modified plants. Such a ruling may enable beekeepers with hives close to GM crops to seek damages.
A Vodafone store employee who showed someone their own data in the telco´s Siebel management system sparked an uproar over the potential exposure of millions of customers last month, federal Privacy Commissioner Timothy Pilgrim says.
Air travellers all know the familiar message over the PA system: "Please ensure all electronic devices are switched off ...."
Lawmakers in the state of Mississippi have created a bill to prohibit restaurants from serving food to obese people.
It´s a show about an overweight couple, played by Billy Gardell and Melissa McCarthy, who met at an Overeaters Anonymous session. It is also, somewhat silently, a show about enormously overweight people.
The Kafkaesque nightmare of Maxcine Telfer and the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal continues. But the biggest scandal, in my opinion, has yet to be revealed.
The head of Rio de Janeiro state´s civil police stepped down Tuesday after a major corruption investigation resulted in the arrest of 35 policemen, including his right-hand man.
Parents of student convicted of killing Meredith Kercher face libel writ over claims in 2007 newspaper interview.
During a high-profile career, Alan Dershowitz has defended OJ Simpson and Claus von Bülow against murder charges and advocated the use of torture against terrorism suspects.
When Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi stands trial on charges he paid an underage girl for sex, he´ll be judged by a female panel.
The military officers governing Egypt on Tuesday convened a panel of jurists, including an outspoken Muslim Brotherhood politician, to revise the country´s Constitution in the first tangible evidence of a commitment to move the country toward democracy after President Hosni Mubarak´s ouster.
A Mexican appeals court has upheld the conviction of a French woman, Florence Cassez, whose imprisonment for kidnapping has caused friction between the two countries.
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