Jun 28th 2007 From the Economist Intelligence Unit ViewsWire Two big American oil companies may quit Venezuela Few companies have had the desire, or the guts, to challenge Venezuela’s powerful president, Hugo Chávez, and his increasingly nationalistic...

Sue Branford and Jan Rocha Published 28 June 2007 Print version Listen RSS In Brazil, environmental technocrats talk of saving the rainforest with satellite technology - but loggers, miners and farmers keep finding scams to evade the law. Sitting in an...

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press Writer tcdacmd="cc=lcn; dt"; MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- A sweeping universal health care plan that would cover virtually every person in Wisconsin cleared the Democratic-controlled state Senate on Tuesday as part of the two-year...

OK so last week on Go Skateboarding day (which is a totally genius idea) some stuff went down in Arizona that is really upsetting people (including myself) A bunch of juvenile skateboarders were arrested for riding their boards in public, and later others...

By Elana Schor June 27, 2007 As the Supreme Court’s term winds to a close this week, lawmakers are mulling the future of a thriving breed of bill: the high court “fix.” Members of both parties are pressing or planning at least six bills to clarify recent...

By Eric Kelderman, Stateline.org Staff Writer Corn is king of renewable auto fuels, for now. But federal and state governments already are racing to find alternatives to corn as they look for ways to use ethanol to help break the nation's dependence on...

Illustration by Nino Jose Heredia/Gulf News By Amir Taheri, Special to Gulf News Published: June 26, 2007, 23:24 Some Western commentators have called him "the Iranian Lech Walesa" after the Polish trade unionist who helped bring down the Communist empire....

By THE NEW YORK TIMES Published: June 25, 2007 KABUL, Afghanistan, June 24 — The NATO force in Afghanistan said Sunday that its soldiers, in pursuing Taliban insurgents on Saturday, had unintentionally chased them across the border into Pakistan, and...

EBEN HARRELL MEETINGS between the FBI and the SCRO were part of a larger effort by US intelligence officials to cover up the truth behind the Lockerbie bombing, according to Juval Aviv, Pan Am's senior Lockerbie investigator. Mr Aviv's investigation into...

Mark Macaskill ALLEGATIONS that police plotted to mislead the original inquiry into the Lockerbie bombing, resulting in a wrongful conviction, have been passed to official investigators, it is understood. The file being considered by the Scottish Criminal...