Freedom of information: limits of privilege

A 93-year-old man was rescued by the City police from the terrace of his house near Banashankari Temple where his family had allegedly chained him for the last one-and-a-half years. The nonagenarian was hardly fed, and left to defecate in a narrow open space.

Since House Republicans will block anything Obama proposes, his budget is best seen not as policy but as positioning, an attempt to gain praise from centrist pundits.

Srinagar, May 24: Democratic Freedom Party chairman Shabir Ahmad Shah was again placed under house arrest today. “By placing Shah under house arrest, the police barred him from participating in the funeral prayers of Maulvi Hilal Ahmad,” said a spokesman ...

The Lower House debate about media freedom and comments by MP Khawasi has drawn criticism. During the speech of Information and Culture Minister Makhdoom Raheen on Saturday, Khawasi had said Jihad was permissible against the media outlets who were ...

Smoke rises from districts in Aleppo, Syria, in December 2012. Credit: Freedom House/CC by 2.0 Saudi Arabian religious scholars are leading an increasingly vocal chorus of Islamic preachers who are urging Muslims and Arabs to support Syrian ...

Countries in Central Europe and Central Asia are increasingly being ruled by autocratic governments with little regard for democracy, according to the 2013 Nations in Transit report by democracy watchdog Freedom House. The result has been a ...

Michigan foreclosure bills would give banks the upper hand: Eric Schertzing On Wednesday, the House Financial Services Committee passed a package of foreclosure

37 min 12 sec ago WASHINGTON — A United States House of Representatives panel that funds defence spending has said it is disturbed by the number of problems marring the deployment to Asia of the Navy's first Littoral Combat Ship (LCS). The ...

Beijing, June 17: Chen Guangcheng, the dissident legal advocate whose escape from house arrest to the American Embassy in Beijing last year provoked a diplomatic crisis, said he was being forced to leave New York University over concerns that his ...