Sun May 20, 2012 - 11:28 AM

Megrahi, who said he was not responsible for bringing the jumbo jet down on the Scottish town and killing 270 people, was found guilty in 2001 but was freed in 2009 and returned to Libya because he had terminal cancer and was not expected to live long. Megrahis brother Mohammed told Reuters he had died at his home in the Libyan capital from complications from prostate cancer and the funeral would take place on Monday. "He was too sick to utter anything o ... Full Story

Tue May 1, 2012 - 11:29 AM

Murdoch, according to the House of Commons select committee on culture, media and sport, which examined the phone-hacking scandal now convulsing the Australian-born moguls media empire, "is not a fit person to exercise the stewardship of a major international company". That wording immediately awoke memories of a judgment passed on Maxwell a generation ago by another arm of the British establishment, the Department of Trade and Industry, which had investigated the tak ... Full Story

Sun May 20, 2012 - 10:45 AM

Global sea levels rose by an average of 1.8 millimetres (0.07 inches) per year from 1961-2003, according to data from tide gauges. But the big question is how much of this can be pinned to global warming. In its landmark 2007 report, the UNs Nobel-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) ascribed 1.1mm (0.04 inches) per year to thermal expansion of the oceans -- water expands when it is heated -- and to meltwater from glaciers, icecaps and the Greenland and Antarctica icecaps. Th ... Full Story

Sun May 20, 2012 - 11:29 AM

Yet when play ended Saturday, Jason Dufner was the one alone at the top of the leaderboard for the second day in a row.Unfazed by more breezy conditions, Dufner shot a 1-under 69 for an 8-under 202 total. He had a one-stroke lead over Jason Day, J.J. Henry and Dicky Pride."Similar conditions as (Friday), so probably helped me a little bit, just being comfortable with the wind and how hard it was blowing," Dufner said. "Good ball striking, hit a lot of greens. ... Didnt feel like I was scrambling ... Full Story

Sun May 20, 2012 - 11:27 AM

Previous protests in the run-up to the summit Sunday and Monday have been lively but peaceful, resulting in fewer than two dozen arrests over the past six days, according to the Chicago Police Department. "I think were going to be able to handle it," Police Chief Garry McCarthy told reporters, adding the numbers of demonstrators this week were fewer than many had expected. Authorities said two more men were arrested in Chicago earlier this week, bringing ... Full Story

Sun May 20, 2012 - 11:30 AM

Football has snuck its way into the proceedings once more. Yesterday night, at the Carlton Cinéma Club (Canness VIP hotspot this year - so goes the word on the street) there were without a doubt more people who had come to watch the Champions League final than to celebrate star couple Gad Elmaleh and... Sophie Marceau -- yes, those two are an item, that's official -- that is, in the soon-to-be-released romantic comedy Un bonheur n'arrive jamais seul. The film is so popular that the open-bar gat ... Full Story

Fri May 18, 2012 - 9:33 PM

Everything By its nature, recruiting by humiliation is secretive, more so these days as its illegal in most states: Forty-four have anti-hazing laws. Often, a student suffered a mental breakdown or died to trigger legislation,  and past the defense that hazing is a voluntary rite (and therefore a right)â??a way to ferret out who's made of sterner stuff in a mollycoddled society. Recent tragedies underscore that hazing (inevitably) continues. What might be changing are attitudes, as people shif ... Full Story

The "Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines" actor made contact with friends via e-mail close to 10 PM on Friday to let them know hes all right and entering rehab, according to People. PLAY IT NOW: Redmond Oâ??Neal Headed Back To Jail After Failing Drug Test In Rehab "I'm relieved," Nick's wife, Rose Stahl, told the mag. "But I'm also skeptical that he's really in rehab."Rose, 30, added that her husband's e-mail was "unemotional and unapologetic," and stated that he was entering a month-long rehab p ... Full Story

Sun May 20, 2012 - 11:31 AM

With a controversial take on an intensely emotional issue, director Thomas Vinterberg returned to cinemas top international showcase 14 years after scooping up the Grand Prix runner-up prize with "Festen" (The Celebration). The new picture, which was enthusiastically applauded at preview screenings for critics ahead of its red-carpet premiere, presents Lucas, a divorced father of a teenage boy who is working at a creche. A young girl, the daughter of Lucas's best friend, develops a crush on him ... Full Story

Fri May 11, 2012 - 7:19 PM

McNamaras record-setting feat was verified by Guinness after an independent panel of big wave and photography experts painstakingly measured still and video images of the colossal wave, a spokeswoman for the agency said. (Video: http://r.reuters.com/fuq28s ) "I was totally in the moment. PCP. Present, connected and protected," McNamara, 44, told Reuters in a phone interview from his home in Haleiwa, Hawaii, on the North Shore of Oahu. According to Guinness, the epic feat eclipsed by more than 1 ... Full Story

Sun May 20, 2012 - 10:56 AM

"I go over the border and see people planting orchards, buying tractors, putting money back in their land," said Fitzsimmons, a Binghamton landowner who heads the 70,000-member Joint Landowners Coalition of New York. "Wed like to do that too, but instead we struggle to pay the taxes and to hang onto our farms."While New York state has had a moratorium on shale gas development for four years while the Department of Environmental Conservation completes an environmental impact review, thousands of ... Full Story

Sun May 20, 2012 - 11:27 AM

Previous protests in the run-up to the summit Sunday and Monday have been lively but peaceful, resulting in fewer than two dozen arrests over the past six days, according to the Chicago Police Department. "I think were going to be able to handle it," Police Chief Garry McCarthy told reporters, adding the numbers of demonstrators this week were fewer than many had expected. Authorities said two more men were arrested in Chicago earlier this week, bringing ... Full Story