A "small army" of officials and consultants working on identity card plans has been recruited by the Home Office before Parliament has approved the project.

The abortion issue is a slam-dunk for anyone who has considered it objectively. The idea that the pro-life movement is some dreadful attempt to impose religiously based moral values on women, or deny them basic civil liberties, is more sophistry than substance.

Such a debacle.

Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas has offered "the hand of peace" to Israel after his landslide victory in Sunday's presidential election.

A retired research assistant professor at the University of Missouri-Columbia died of multiple stab wounds before firefighters found in his body in the trunk of a burning car Friday.