BELFAST (Reuters) - A Belfast man has appeared in court charged with murdering a prominent Catholic lawyer, a case central to claims of collusion between security forces and Protestant paramilitaries in Northern Ireland.
The 1989 shooting of human rights campaigner Pat Finucane in front of his wife and children at their north Belfast home is [...]

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SCO Group chief executive Darl McBride said a published report that his company may take legal action against Linux founder Linus Torvalds was overstated.
Responding to a portion of a Wednesday story by CBS Marketwatch that has generated intense criticism from the Linux community, McBride said that targeting Torvalds is unlikely.
“Virtually we see no reason [...]

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Researchers from University Hospital Gronigan in the Netherlands conducted a study of 570 children from group of over 3,000 born at a Dutch hospital between 1975 and 1978.
Data on the smoking habits of the mothers was collected and results from maths, spelling and reading tests taken by the children at the age of nine [...]

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LONDON (Reuters) - Absinthe, the fiery tipple with purported hallucinogenic properties, has stirred up fresh controversy before it goes on sale in nightclubs and bars next month packaged to be mixed with beer.
“Deco” comes with a small bottle of Kronenbourg lager with a shot of absinthe attached. The idea is to down the 45 [...]

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THE Labour prime minister Clement Attlee was warned by MI5 that Jewish extremists planned an IRA-style terror campaign in Britain, according to secret files made public today.
MI5 warned that “special reference” had been made to the then foreign secretary Ernest Bevin as a possible assassination target by militant Zionists pressing for a Jewish state [...]

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If there is an afterlife, Sir James Goldsmith, who died nearly six years ago, must be roaring with laughter today. Few politicians - and still fewer businessmen - can claim to have left an enduring mark upon the political landscape, but, to an extent that is easily forgotten, Goldsmith is among them. His Referendum [...]

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The Government is to investigate the widespread use of antibiotics in chicken feed after complaints that one in five poultry producers relies on the drugs to promote growth.
As reported by The Telegraph on Sept 30, most of the 14 million chickens sold each week are allowed to be reared on antibiotics despite an industry pledge [...]

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A WALKING and climbing group representing 9,000 people in Scotland has launched a campaign to block a controversial £6 million project to build a hydro electric scheme in a picturesque part of the Highlands.
Dundee-based Highland Light and Power (HLP) submitted a new application this month to develop the scheme in Shieldaig Forest in Wester [...]

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THE army inquiry into Lieutenant Colonel Tim Collins over alleged war crimes during the Iraqi conflict is being driven by jealousy of his rise to fame from senior officers, according to a retired commander who trained alongside him.
The investigation into Lt-Col Collins, 42, who was widely praised for an eve-of-battle speech in which [...]

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The British embassy in Saudi Arabia has reopened - three days after it was closed following warnings of a new terror attack in the country.
Britain, the US, Germany and Italy all closed their embassies in the Saudi Arabian capital Riyadh following intelligence suggesting that new terrorist attacks may be “imminent”.
The German embassy also reopened [...]

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Scotland Yard has moved to reassure the public that concrete blocks positioned around the Houses of Parliament are there “to alert and not alarm”.
A police force spokesman said the measures were being taken as a precautionary measure and no specific intelligence had been received of a terrorist threat in the capital.
Whitehall officials echoed the [...]

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I want to make your flesh creep, to frighten and perplex you. I can see no other way to alert this country and its people to the approaching end of a thousand years of history.
We are about to be extinguished as an independent nation. We are about to lose the power to control our [...]

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The introduction of identity cards to crackdown on the numbers of asylum seekers will not make Britain more secure, according to civil rights campaigners.
They claim Home Secretary David Blunkett’s plan to create an “entitlement card” will merely infringe civil liberties and add to the weight of information the state already holds on British citizens.
Mr [...]

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Each evening, as night falls on Baghdad, the Middle Ages return. This great modern city has been stripped of almost all the essentials of civilisation. By day it is not quite so obvious. But when the electricity shuts down for the night and there is only moonlight to see by, you understand that the [...]

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The war against marriage is now close to victory. Nearly half the children in England and Wales are not being brought up in a traditional married family.
Forty-one per cent are being raised in ‘alternative’ ways. Apart from one-parent households where the father is absent, these new-style arrangements include the huge and growing number [...]

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Thousands of missing passports are at risk of falling into the hands of terrorists or criminals, an MP has warned.
After government figures revealed that 11,500 passports were lost in the post between 1999 and 2002, Liberal Democrat spokesman Paul Burstow called for an immediate inquiry.
He said the situation was “scandalous” and posed a serious [...]

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There could be up to 800,000 families who have not received money from the government’s new tax credit system, the Conservative Party says.
Shadow work and pensions secretary David Willetts said the problems stemmed from government efforts to integrate tax and benefits - both complex systems in themselves.
But Dawn Primarolo, the Paymaster General, said the [...]

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Russian Soyuz rockets could soon be launching from the European spaceport at Kourou in French Guiana.
The proposal is part of a package of measures designed to restructure the European launch business and rescue it from its current parlous financial state.
On Tuesday, ministers from the European Space Agency’s (Esa) member states must consider the plans [...]

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Peter Hain has come out fighting over sweeping proposals to change the way Europe works, rejecting suggestions it will threaten British sovereignty.
The Wales Secretary, who is the UK’s representative on the body responsible for the plans, said the government would ensure that Parliament had ample opportunity to scrutinise the document “line by line”.
Mr Hain [...]

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There were more people on waiting lists at 53 hospital trusts in England in 2003 than there were in 2000, the Tories have said.

The Conservatives said the figures showed how overall waiting list figures for the NHS could disguise significant failures within the service.
The Tories looked at the total inpatient lists for each trust [...]

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