Poverty-stricken people are being encouraged to plead guilty to crimes they did not commit out of fear they will face crippling costs imposed by new financial penalties, leading lawyers, magistrates and campaigners have warned.
With the summer travel season winding down and with traffic deaths up across the state, South Carolina law enforcement agencies are gearing up their efforts to keep drunk drivers off the road.
SPA-FRANCORCHAMPS, Belgium (Reuters) - Life after death has only got faster for Patrick Dempsey.
ACCRA, Aug 21 (Reuters) - Doctors in Ghana will suspend a three-week strike they called to press for better conditions of service, the Ghana Medical Association (GMA) said on Friday.
LONDON, Aug 21 (Reuters) - Centurion Steve Smith praised Australia's bowlers after they reduced England to 107 for eight in the first innings to set up a victory bid in the fifth and final Ashes test on Friday.
If you’re looking to kick back with a cold one for football season, a special edition brew has just rolled off the line.
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Has the murky just murkier?
Iraq's top Shiite cleric urged the government on Friday to press ahead with reforms and fighting corruption, but cautioned against doing so at the expense of the fight against the Islamic State group, which is...
WASHINGTON, Aug 20 (Reuters) - Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton would more than triple enrollment in the public-service program AmeriCorps to 250,000 and offer participants increased college aid as part of her plan to make higher education more affordable, her campaign said Thursday.
Files reveal that Nobel prize winning author Doris Lessing was placed under surveillance by the British intelligence services for more than 20 years. Bob Mezan reports.
ACCRA, Aug 21 (Reuters) - Ghana's doctors will suspend the three-week strike they called to press for better conditions of service, the Ghana Medical Association said on Friday in a statement sent to Reuters.
Macedonian police fired stun grenades Friday to disperse thousands of migrants stuck in a no man's land with Greece and clashed with them as they desperately tried to rush over the border, a day after Macedonia's...
Twelve years after British forces marched into Basra and six years after the vast majority of them left, the spectre of the Iraq war still looms large over the Westminster body politic. Those who were instrumental in taking the decision to invade – Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, Jack Straw – have all shuffled off the stage. Those who drew up the botched invasion plans and advised ministers have almost all retired, while the most contentious aspect of the decision to go to war has already been covered by two previous inquiries. Читать дальше...
EDGARTOWN, Mass. (Reuters) - The White House confirmed on Friday that the second-in-command of the Islamic State militant group had been killed by a U.S. air strike on Tuesday.
COLUMBIA, S.C. — With the summer travel season winding down and with traffic deaths up across the state, South Carolina law enforcement agencies are gearing up their efforts to keep drunk drivers off the road.
A victory for Jeremy Corbyn in the Labour leadership contest could be challenged in the courts, the team behind the left-winger’s rival contender, Andy Burnham, has warned as the party’s divisions deepen.
Staffers at a jail in eastern Washington state foiled an escape attempt by spotting a long trail of knotted bed sheets hanging from the window of a cell housing a suspect in a murder-for-hire plot.
(Reuters Health) - Hairdressers who reuse gloves while dyeing hair risk exposure to chemicals that cause irritation and allergic reactions, according to a study from Belgium.
(Reuters Health) - Hairdressers who reuse gloves while dyeing hair risk exposure to chemicals that cause irritation and allergic reactions, according to a study from Belgium.
GREENVILLE, S.C. — Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders is telling supporters in the early voting state of South Carolina that his progressive agenda will benefit African-Americans and other minorities.
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Читать дальше...GEVGELIJA, Macedonia/IDOMENI, Greece (Reuters) - Macedonian police fired tear gas and stun grenades to drive migrants and refugees back from its southern border from Greece on Friday but crowds continued to build up at a new bottleneck in an increasingly desperate flight to western Europe.
W’s associate digital editor is lusting after this feminist top.
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Officials say wind gusts of up to 40 miles an hour are presenting significant challenges to firefighters in Washington State, where safety remains a top priority for emergency crews. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
BRASILIA, Aug 21 (Reuters) - Brazilian Vice President Michel Temer, a key ally of embattled President Dilma Rousseff, might end his role managing her unwieldy coalition in Congress but he is not planning to leave her government, members of his party said on Friday.
