Orwell: Author of '1984'

Overcrowding in jails in England and Wales is creating a "disastrous situation" for the health of inmates, a prison doctor says.

NEW YORK A record number of Americans now say that the Iraq war was a "mistake" and less than half say the U.S. can win the war, a record low number, according to a new Gallup/USA Today poll released today. Almost 6 out of 10 Americans (58%) want troops t

A new study points to disturbing data about Generation Y's supposed lack of empathy, aggressive behavior and inability to form relationships.

"Independent journalists, independent judges, independent filmmakers, independent professors -- all are anathema to the radical right." Or, to put it more appropriately, the authoritarian right.

.......a 50-year-old real estate agent, is one of nearly 47 million people in America with no health insurance.

The documentary "Jesus Camp" is sparking debate with its portrayal of evangelical Christians and an extreme Bible camp. Kids on Fire, a summer getaway for evangelical Christians, is a Bible camp nestled in Devil's Lake, N.D.

After a long fight through the courts, 80 per cent of children taken in Cleveland were returned to their innocent parents. Yet the damage was done. Many were traumatised. For years afterwards, they would hide if there was a knock on the door.

If Nobel Peace Prizes could refreeze the polar ice caps, then Sheila Watt-Cloutier would be a very happy woman indeed because her people are, "defending the right to be cold"

A Bush administration plan to allow 100 Mexican trucking companies to haul freight deeper into the United States than previously allowed drew an angry reaction Friday from labor leaders, safety advocates and members of Congress.