Jon Bare

ITV bosses are facing another animal cruelty storm after actor Larry Lamb and son George helped to slaughter a goat for a new show. Read More

It wasn't long ago that Wangari Maathai , Kenya's well-known campaigner for women's rights and the environment (see Ms. , April/May 2001 ) was jailed yet again by the regime of former President Daniel arap Moi. On International Women's Day in 2001, she awoke in a prison cell, arrested for traveling to plant trees with other women and for demanding that the government cease illegal forest clearing. Read More

I rather like the days that straddle Christmas and New Year: that sort of festive no-man's land of half-eaten boxes of chocolates and barely touched bowls of walnuts. Read More

I am a Guardian ad Litem for a couple of families with very small children that just moved into their homes. Read More

AFTER the great Christmas spending blow-out, there's barely a household in the land that does not make a New Year resolution to save. Read More

Fisher DeBerry made the smoothest handoff of the decade. Read More

The alleged child abuse in Gerry Adams 's family is close to being a perfect metaphor for Ireland 's failure to confront the disaster of violent republicanism. Read More

New Zealand maxi Alfa Romeo has a slim lead over Great Britain's Leopard and four-time defending champ Wild Oats XI a quarter of the way through the Sydney to Hobart yacht race. Read More

Dec. 25--For many years, First Night was downtown Grand Forks' and East Grand Forks' official party for ringing in the new year. Read More

A grassroots Facebook campaign has spoiled American Idol mogul Simon Cowell's Christmas by denying one of his new acts the prestigious Christmas No. 1 spot in Britain. Read More