Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani has reaffirmed his government’s belief in supremacy of law and constitution and all decision of the matters of national interest will be taken in a democratic way through consultations.
Addressing a news conference on his arrival at Lahore airport the Prime Minister said we came into power through the vote [...]

RALEIGH, N.C. – Each April, weather wizard William Gray emerges from his burrow near the Rocky Mountains to offer his forecast for the six-month hurricane season that starts June 1. And the news media are there, breathlessly awaiting his every word.

It’s a lot like Groundhog Day – and the results are worth just about as [...]

CHARLESTON, W.Va. – It’s not just concern for the squeamish biology students who wince at the feel and smell of cutting into a formaldehyde-soaked animal.

Think about the frog. The pig. Or even the rat.
That’s what animal rights activists in West Virginia’s Northern Panhandle had in mind when they donated interactive software that replicates a frog [...]

CINCINNATI – Ken Griffey Jr. hit his 599th career homer Saturday off Atlanta’s Jair Jurrjens, a two-run shot that left him one away from an elite mark.

Griffey’s homer in the first inning was a breakthrough for the Cincinnati Reds outfielder, who has been having trouble getting those last few to 600. He would become [...]

CINCINNATI – Ken Griffey Jr. hit his 599th career homer Saturday, leaving him one shy of a seldom-reached mark, and Jay Bruce extended his amazing weeklong debut with a 10th-inning homer that lifted the Cincinnati Reds to an 8-7 victory over the Atlanta Braves.

Bruce’s first big league homer off Manny Acosta (3-2) dealt another crushing [...]

Want to get rid of some fat cells as you age? Fat chance.
You’re stuck with the number of fat cells you have acquired by about age 20, a new study finds.
Researchers have known that people gain and lose weight at least in part by changing how much fat is in their fat cells. The new [...]

The US and Libya have agreed to work together to resolve compensation claims from the Lockerbie bombing and other 1980s attacks blamed on Libyan agents.
Libya has already paid out $8m (£4m) to each Lockerbie victim’s family but has not made final payments of $2m amid a dispute over America’s obligations.
A US court ruling that Libya [...]

Four police forces are to abandon government targets and allow officers to decide whether to make arrests.
The “common-sense approach” being tried by the Surrey, Leicestershire, West Midlands and Staffordshire forces has been welcomed by the Home Office.
Government targets have been criticised for encouraging officers to focus on minor rather than serious crimes.
Surrey police chief Mark [...]

NEW YORK (CNN) – Former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan, whose tell-all book blasts the Bush administration on issues including Hurricane Katrina, the election and the Iraq war, didn’t say Friday whether he still considers himself a Republican.

Former Press Secretary Scott McClellan is defending his book on the White House.
But he did say he [...]

(CNN) – A day before a Democratic panel is to determine how to seat the delegations of Florida and Michigan, the Clinton campaign’s chief lawyer said the committee is compelled to seat both delegations fully and not award Sen. Barack Obama any delegates from Michigan.

Sen. Hillary Clinton’s lawyer is set to make her case before [...]