Global warming blamed for ice melt

Scientists say global warming is melting one of Canada’s last remaining ice shelves. The edges of the Ward Hunt Ice Shelf, located about 2,175 miles north of Edmonton, are melting. Ward Hunt is the largest of five separate shelves that…

Brazilians to probe Menezes case

Two senior Brazilian officials are due to arrive in Britain to question the commission investigating the shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes. Wagner Goncalves, from Brazil’s Federal Prosecutor’s Office, and Marcio Pereira Pinto Garcia, of the Ministry of Justice, hoped…

Debtors rush to file bankruptcy before laws tighten

Rushing to beat an October deadline when the biggest overhaul of the bankruptcy law in a quarter century goes into effect, rising numbers of Americans have filed for protection in the four months since the law was changed, seeking to…

KMPG: sleazy weasels face criminal indictment

From Sue Mississippi probably will file criminal charges against accounting giant KPMG because it created a tax strategy that the state says illegally let WorldCom, now called MCI Inc., shield billions of dollars from taxes, sources close to the case…

Menezes: The coverup is blowing up in their faces

Police knew Brazilian was ‘not bomb risk’ Police officers from the team involved in the fatal shooting of Brazilian Jean Charles de Menezes did not believe he posed ‘an immediate threat’. It was only when they were joined by armed…

Department of Stating the Obvious

From a semi-hysterical report about drugs in high schools. The survey revealed that teens at drug-ridden schools are three times more likely than their peers in drug-free classrooms to try marijuana or get drunk. Wow, what an insight. Students at…