LONDON British politicians were among those caught up Friday in the latest Twitter-based scam which hijacks users’ accounts to send out sexually explicit messages to friends and followers.The micro-blogging Web site has been hit by a wave of so-called “phishing scams,” which lure users to a bogus Web site where they’re enticed to part with their [...]

President Barack Obama dropped his threat to bypass the Senate and install nominees to their positions through recess appointments at least for now.Recess appointments can be made while the Senate is out of session and are a way for presidents to get around the need for a confirmation vote. The president said in a statement [...]

NEW YORK  Senate of New York, United States (U.S.), for the first time issued a senator from the membership. This is the worst in the last hundred years. Issued after the senator convicted of violence against his girlfriend. Hiram Monserrate, Democrat senator from the region representing Queens, New York, expelled from the New York senator, [...]

Washington United States President Barack Obama freeze the salaries of senior White House officials and other political officials. This will be announced in the annual speech (State of the Union) this evening. This was revealed by the Senior Staff of the Government, as reported by Reuters on Tuesday (26/1/2010). Obama’s decision will be applied to [...]

JERUSALEM, A man who threw a pair upset at Israel’s Chief Justice Dorit Beinisch, Wednesday, and the head of the Chairman of the Supreme Court.Dorit Beinisch Husband (67), Ezekiel Beinisch, told Israeli media said the shoe was landed at the front of the head, nose, and broke the glasses Dorit.Beinisch directly received treatment in his [...]

Mahinda Rajapakse re-elected as President of Sri Lanka in the last election, Wednesday, by a vote of 57.9 percent. He defeated former army commander Sarath Fonseka.”President Mahinda Rajapakse is the winner,” said a member of the Electoral Commission, Dayananda Dissanayake, when the election results were announced Wednesday night. He said, Rajapakse got 6.01 million votes, [...]

SAN FRANCISCO Former EBay Inc Chief Executive Meg Whitman has grabbed a lead of 28 percentage points in the race for the Republican nomination to succeed Arnold Schwarzenegger as California governor, a poll showed on Friday.The Field Poll survey found Whitman ahead of State Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner, 45 percent to 17 percent, with 38 [...]

ROME  Italy’s parliament gave its first nod on Wednesday to a draft law drastically cutting the duration of trials, a measure critics say is tailor-made to stop pending court cases against Prime Minister Silvio BerlusconiThe Senate, where Berlusconi has an ample majority, approved the so-called “short trial” draft bill — one of the most radical [...]

Scott Brown’s become a threat to the political stronghold of U.S. President Barack Obama. You see, politicians from the Republican Party is just a figure of the late Edward Kennedy successor in the Senate. The White House must take into account the implications for domestic policy.The results of this election is seen as a major [...]

GAZA  Palestinian high-school student Fida Hejji died of cancer waiting for Israeli permission to go to an Israeli hospital for treatment.Hejji, 18, was promised an entry permit three times. Three days after she died last November, her family got a call to say the hospital had set the date for her admission.One year after Israel’s [...]