Al Sharpton called Sunday for an investigation of the district attorney prosecuting a group of black teenagers on serious criminal charges stemming from a high school fight involving a white classmate. drug racketeering sentence ended Sunday, but the former Panamanian dictator remains in the same prison where he has been held for 15 years, awaiting the outcome of a legal fight over possible extradition to France. CDT ODESSA, Texas (AP) A gunman shot and killed two police officers and...

The growing trend of working from home will affect almost everyone, with meetings held in virtual rooms or even on an exotic computer-generated island to save on carbon emissions. No, this isn't from the pages of a sci-fi fantasy, but an expert's vision of what the future holds for Southampton residents in five decades' time. The results suggest that the Southampton resident of the future will live in a hi-tech multimedia world, where the boundaries between work and home will blur....

Mr Smith, aged 74, who has been working the farm for almost 40 years, first became aware of the raid when one of his staff went out shepherding and found some of the cattle pens had been disturbed. Mr Smith, who is helped on the farm by his son Richard and daughter Lynne, said they had had sheep stolen about five years ago, but not on this scale. Though the farm also rears cattle and grows corn, breeding lambs is the bulk of the business. He said: "We noticed the gates had been opened and...

Over the past eight years, Liberty Ridge has become a fall tradition for thousands of families who flock to the farm to hang out with barnyard animals, ride the silver mine chute slide and conquer the massive maze. Schaghticoke Even though the high noon sun is shining brightly and the sounds of laughing children can be heard in the distance, it's easy to get just a little bit scared as you make your way through the never-ending rows of the Liberty Ridge corn maze. On one early September...

MADRID Shepherds from across the world joined their Spanish counterparts, left, to lead sheep through the centre of Madrid in defence of grazing routes threatened by urban sprawl. ALGIERS Political parties, unions and civil society groups organised protests against terrorism that were attended by tens of thousands of Algerians after two suicide bomb attacks claimed by an al-Qaeda offshoot killed at least 52 people. ANKARA A man shot dead eight people with a hunting rifle in a small village...