When former shadow home secretary David Davis forced a byelection over the 42-day detention proposal, he said it was a question of liberty. He tells Nicholas Watt why he has no regrets

Palin's reference was to Bill Ayers, one of the founders of the group the Weather Underground. Its members took credit for bombings, including nonfatal explosions at the Pentagon and U.S. Capitol, during the Vietnam War era.

Spectrum Brands (the "Company") (NYSE: SPC) today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement with Salton Inc. ("Salton") and its wholly owned subsidiary, Applica Pet Products LLC, for the sale of its Global Pet Business for $692.5 million in

Clay Shirky's posted a transcript of a recent talk he gave on "cognitive surplus" -- the idea that automation gave us an enormous amount of free time to think and cogitate, and that sitcoms and other light entertainment from the past century were a way

MANILA, Philippines—After last Monday’s Philippine Daily Inquirer editorial, I heard that an Indonesian diplomat told his Filipino counterpart, “Blame the global economy — with the price of oil so favorable to us now, what you paid us last year to