Intellpuke: The following editorial appeared in the French newspaper Le Monde's edition for Thursday, February 28, 2008. Each citizen has the right to respect for his privacy. That injunction from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is incumbent upon all

Intellpuke: The following commentary was written by LizaPersson and appeared on the OpEdNews.com's website edition forThursday, February 28, 2008."We are living in an era of extraordinary expansion of executive authorityâВ ¦." - Arlen Specter United States Senator (Republican Pennsylvania)"[the Adminstration]

U.S. Agriculture Secretary Ed Schafer told Congress Thursday that he would not endorse an outright ban on"downer" cows entering the food supply or back stiffer penalties forregulatory violations by meat-processing plants in the wake of thelargest beef recall in the

A report from Swiss Bank UBS predicting more severe subprime mortgage losses also sends shivers across Wall Street. Another batch of distressing news from the beleaguered financial sector sent the stock market reeling this morning.A brutal loss at insurance giant

Federal officials last year certified as complete the new $600million U.S. embassy in Iraq, even though the mammoth complex was stillplagued by construction defects, a senior House Democrat charged Friday.Rep.Henry Waxman, who heads the House Oversight and Government ReformCommittee, called

A substance found at a Las Vegas, Nevada, motel may be the deadly toxin ricin, butauthorities said today they don't believe it was intended for aterrorist attack. Lab tests on the substance were pending and sevenpeople were taken to hospitals

Britain's defense chief decided Friday to immediately pull Prince Harryout of Afghanistan after news of his deployment was leaked on the U.S.Web site the Drudge Report.Air Chief Marshal Jock Stirrup, chief of the Defense Staff, said hedecided to withdraw the

An American Marine accused of raping a 14-year-old girl on Okinawawas released by Japanese police on Friday after the girl dropped heraccusation, said the police. It was unclear if the MarineâВ В™s release could help defuse the furor in Japan

TurkeyâВ В™s military announced it had withdrawn all of its troops from northern Iraq by Friday morning, bringing an eight-day ground offensive againstKurdish guerrillas to a close, just one day after Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates warned Turkey to pull

The NFL Combine serves as a veritable background check of college stars entering the NFL Draft. But can a few sprints and a psych test really tell us whether a player will be All-Pro, or end up on skid row?

Top sports officials are alleged to have collected more than 18 million Swiss francs in bribes for TV and merchandising deals. The soccer association FIFA is involved, and the case in Switzerland will expose a system of bribes -- and

Last week saw the World Taxidermy Championships take place in Salzburg, Austria -- the first time the event has ever been staged in Europe. It offered an unusual glimpse of a world as unsettling as it is fascinating -- one

Tension in Serbia and Kosovo has not erupted into widespread violence so far. But in Belgrade, the government is split on what to do about a European Union that is pro-Kosovo indpendence.

A Berlin gallery has closed an exhibition of satirical art by the controversial Danish group Surrend after receiving threats from a group of Muslims. The men were objecting to a picture of the Kaaba at Mecca under the title "Dumb

Slowly but surely, Grozny is coming back to life. Eight years after the Russian invasion, little evidence of the war remains. But the Moscow-supported strongman Ramzan Kadyrov rules with an iron fist --and thousands of mothers are still searching for

Surgical scissors left in stomachs, operations on the wrong knee, prescriptions of uppers instead of downers -- medical error is not just the stuff of fiction. Now a group of German doctors has decided to break a taboo and talk

gives Ypulse readers a sneak preview at what the biggest teen magazines will be featuring in their April issues before they hit newsstands. Recurring themes include Gossip Girl, going green and of course, prom. Seventeen boasts "Heroes" star Hayden Panettiere,

The office of Amitabh Bachchan Corporation Limited, the production house owned by the actor, was attacked by some unidentified miscreants in Mumbai on Friday. The attackers reportedly threw stones and bottles at the office from inside a car. 'Janak' houses

I have already sent a letter to Maharashtra Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh and spoken to Railway Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav and Union Steel Minister Ramvilas Paswan, to use their influence in the Union government to stop attacks on Biharis. Now