politics

A Republican state lawmaker from Southern California has resigned after he was caught on tape bragging about his penchant for spanking and of having sex with female lobbyists.

BOSTON — Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, the liberal lion of the Senate and haunted bearer of the Camelot torch after two of his brothers fell to assassins' bullets, has died at his home in Hyannis Port after battling a brain tumor. He was 77.

Israeli troops are accused in a newspaper article of harvesting organs from dead Palestinians, and Israel wants Sweden's government to condemn the Swedish paper that published it.

A POLITICIAN diverted the resources of several major police units so he could make a surprise proposal to his girlfriend. Jon Cardin, a legislator from Maryland in the US, managed to get the Baltimore City Police air wing and a marine unit to stag...

Just two days before another former aide enters a plea agreement, former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich over the weekend launched a website to "speak his mind" in the "campaign of his life to clear his name." The trial of the former governor on a 1...

TEHRAN — Defeated Iranian presidential candidate Mehdi Karroubi has alleged that several male and female protesters held behind bars have been savagely raped, according to a document obtained by AFP on Monday.

Posters of American President Barack Obama which shows him as Heath Ledger’s Joker from the latest Batman sequel has covered the streets and highways of Los Angeles and numerous American web sites are reporting about them.

A presidential birthday isn't all that bad -- just think Marilyn Monroe crooning "Happy Birthday, Mr. President" to John F. Kennedy. But if President Barack Obama wants to make his 48th birthday today a happy one, he would be advised not to look a...

SYDNEY — Australia's centre-left ruling party on Saturday voted for national recognition of same-sex unions but stopped short of lifting a ban on gay marriage.

A day after Silvio Berlusconi, the Italian Prime Minister, sought to make light of allegations about his encounters with a prostitute, sensational new audio tapes and transcripts were released today purportedly recorded while they were having sex.