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News National News National Sport 'No booze culture at Broncos' ADRIAN PROSZENKO 16/11/2008 9:00:01 AM

SAM THAIDAY has slammed suggestions the Broncos have a drinking culture following his infamous toilet tryst, and claims the incident will bring the club closer together.

Broncos trio Thai...

The General Assembly of the United Jewish Communities is meeting in Jerusalem with the world reeling from the economic meltdown. More than 2,500 powerhouse leaders gathered, planning to celebrate Israel's 60th anniversary. Instead, the participants are sobered, dreading the cutbacks they will have to impose on so many worthy recipients in Israel and abroad. Hopefully, before these generous tre...

HALABJA, Iraq, Nov 16 (Reuters) - Inside an Iraqi clinic close to where Saddam Hussein's henchmen killed thousands of Kurds with poison gas, Azima Qadar waits for a check up of her artificial limb.

Her right leg was blown off by a landmine as she went to tend her family's walnut farm in rural northern Iraq, near the Iranian border, in 1993.

"When it happened, I thought: I'm not g...

Sun. November 16, 2008; Posted: 06:01 AM Do you want to trade professionally? Click here. Nov 16, 2008 (Chicago Tribune - McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) -- GTAM PowerRating -- The high-culture condescension and controversy that have long dogged "Porgy and Bess" die hard. That seems the likeliest explanation why it has taken Lyric Opera of Chicago so long to catch up with G...

It said performance data only tells inspectors about the subjects pupils have been tested in - for example, in primary schools children are only tested in English, maths, and science - meaning inspection of other subjects could go unchecked.

The authors added that non-academic teaching was also overlooked.

Tim Benson, head of a primary school in east London, said: "Having lived thro...

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Several hundred Tibetan exile leaders gathered in northern India on Sunday for a landmark meeting widely expected to determine the direction of the movement that has struggled for decades to win autonomy from China.

The weeklong meeting that begins Monday was called by the Dalai Lama, the Tibetan Buddhist spiritual leader, saying that new ideas were needed following the repeated failure o...

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Tamale, Nov. 16, GNA - Mr Kofi Asamoah, Secretary General of the Ghana Trade Union Congress (GTUC), has expressed worry over the increasing spate of dismissals of workers who try to form unions at their work places.

He said over the last few weeks there had been the unlawful dismissal of the local union chairman of the Pro-Credit company and earlier on the dismissals of other union leader...

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News Local News News General Charity groups' income concern BY PAUL MCINERNEY 17/11/2008 4:00:00 AM Charities should brace themselves for a rough ride following the global financial meltdown, according to a report released last week on the health of Australia's multibillion-dollar not-for-profit sector.<...

The 30,000 wild horses on Death Row are nearly out of appeals. They were condemned by the Government Accounting Office just in time for Veteran's Day - a profoundly cynical act when you consider that countless wild horses perished after being taken from the range and serving in the Civil War, our frontier wars, and World War I. The announcement concluded a dark cycle that began on July 4th as ...

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HUNTINGTON, W.Va. -- As a portly woman plodded ahead of him on the sidewalk, the obese mayor of America's fattest and unhealthiest city explained why health is not a big local issue.

"It doesn't come up," said David Felinton, 5-foot-9 and 233 pounds,...