International – Page 294

Former ruling party gains in Mexico elections

July 9, 2009

In Sunday’s congressional and gubernatorial elections in Mexico, the big winner was the formerly ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), which with its ally, the Green Party (PVEM) (a rather conservative party not in good standing with...

COMMENTARY A coup is a coup is a coup is a coup

July 8, 2009

The pre-Neanderthal characters who have taken control, at gunpoint, of the government of Honduras are telling us that this was not a coup d’etat, but an orderly legal proceeding against a president who had violated the...

Michael Jackson will live forever

July 8, 2009

It was the white sequined glove, the unending zippers on that red leather jacket, the black penny loafers with the white sparkled socks and the famous moonwalk that shocked the world. These are some of many...

Boy, 6, bites rope to escape from kidnappers

July 8, 2009

A 6-year-old boy managed to bite and loosen the rope around his hands and escaped from his kidnappers. The student in Yangtian village, Shaanxi province, was kidnapped on Monday afternoon. Two men used a motorcycle to...

British prison opens top-class restaurant inside

July 8, 2009

(Xinhuanet) -- A top-class restaurant was opened inside a prison in Sutton, Surrey, Britain, according to media reports Tuesday. The restaurant, The Clink, is the first commercial one behind the bars in the country. Diners can...