Abuse of Power

This 2013 photo provided by the International Committee of the Red Cross shows Shaker Aamer. Shaker Aamer, a Saudi who emerged as a defiant leader among prisoners during nearly 14 years of confinement on the U.S. base at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba has been released to join his family in Britain.

Shaker Aamer calls for â€˜open and transparentâ€™ inquiry into UK torture allegations after Guantanamo release
The Independent Shaker Aamer, the UKâ€™s last detainee at Guantanamo Bay, has called for an â€œopen and transparentâ€ inquiry into allegations that the UK was complicitÂ in torture. | Aamerâ€™s lawyer Clive Stafford... (photo: AP / International Committee of the Red Cross)

Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., talks with a reporter as he leaves the Capitol following his address to the Senate in Washington, Sunday, May 31, 2015.

Rand Paul cashes in on 20 minute filibuster
The Examiner GOP Presidential candidate Senator Rand Paul, (Ky.), conducted a 20 minute filibuster on the Senate Floor and asked for donations of $20.16 from supporters on Twitter, according to ABC News on Thursda... (photo: AP / Cliff Owen)

The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi in addressing at the launching ceremony of the Skill India Mission, on the occasion of the World Youth Skills Day, in New Delhi on July 15, 2015.

Modi taunts Nitish, says PM of India can't be 'bahari'
Yahoo Daily News Muzaffarpur (Bihar), Oct. 30 (ANI): Taking potshots at Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar for calling him 'bahari', BJP's star campaigner Narendra Modi on Friday said the jibe was baseless ... (photo: PIB of India)

File - A view of an honour guard at the Vatican.

New revelations of Vatican finance problems anticipated

Palm Beach Post The Vatican is bracing for a new set of revelations about alleged wrongdoing and financial mismanagement with the publication next week of two new books that underscore the challenges Pope Francis is ... (photo: UN / Eskinder Debebe)

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Head of Iran's Experts Assembly, Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani addresses a seasonal meeting of the assembly, in Tehran, Iran, Tuesday, Sept. 14, 2010. The 86-member all-cleric assembly has the right of choosing and dismissing the supreme leader, who has the final say on all state matters.

Iran considered nuclear weapons during 1980s Iraq war, ex-President says
Deccan Chronicle Dubai: Iran considered pursuing a nuclear deterrent when it began its nuclear programme in the 1980s, during an eight-year war with Iraq, a former President has been quot... (photo: AP / Vahid Salemi)

US Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker speaks to reporters about a new initiative to promote exports to Mexico and the United States 10 other Free Trade Agreement partner countries in Latin America Thursday, Jan. 9 2014 at the Omni Hotel in Los Angeles.

Ukraine faces years of dependence on Western aid
Springfield News-Sun Looking on from her vegetable patch at the motorcade of U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker, Ukrainian villager Olha Voloshchenko says she'd seen the lady on the TV... (photo: AP / Nick Ut)

Sepp Blatter Claims 2022 World Cup Was Supposed To Be In The U.S.
Huffington Post With virtually nothing to lose and everything to tell, suspended FIFA president Sepp Blatter revealed to Russian news outlet TASS that the United States -- not Qatar -- w... (photo: AP / Anja Niedringhaus)

Four views: How can we save the rhino from poachers?
BBC News Rhinos are in trouble. The ancient Sumatran rhino has been declared extinct in Malaysia, following the fate of black rhinos in West Africa in 2011. | Central Africa's nor... (photo: GFDL / Ikiwaner)

Fighting talk from Spain PM Rajoy on Catalan breakaway
The Irish Times Spanish prime minister Mariano Rajoy has vowed to do everything in his power to thwart Catalan separatist parties, who Tuesday formalised their intention to break away fr... (photo: AP / Manu Fernandez)

London link to FFA payment probed in FIFA corruption scandal
Canberra Times Criminal proceedings could finally be launched over the FIFA scandal in the UK after the head of the Serious Fraud Office revealed that it was examining potential "m... (photo: WN / Arturo Ubaub)

Euro currency coins and banknotes of various denominations.

Three South Wales police officers stole Â£30,000 after raid, court hears
The Guardian DS Stephen Phillips, PC Philip Christopher Evans and PC Michael Stokes are accused of taking money from safe after executing search warrant | Three serving police officer... (photo: Creative Commons / Avij)

President of Sudan Omar Hassan Al-Bashir, arrives at the African Union summit being held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Sunday, Jan. 30, 2011.(AP Photo/Samson Haileyesus

International Criminal Court says India should hand over Sudan's Bashir
Yahoo Daily News By Nita Bhalla | MUMBAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The International Criminal Court said India should arrest and hand over Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir, w... (photo: AP / Samson Haileyesus)

Some 2,000 Catholic men gathered in Boston yesterday to pray, sing, and listen to unusually frank speeches by clergy discussing contraception, pornography, adultery, adoption, and community service. sa1

'Spotlight' film illuminates Boston clergy abuse scandal
Tampa Bay Online BOSTON (AP) — It was a scandal that shook the Roman Catholic Church to its core: Hundreds of priests molested children for decades and got away with it because church lea... (photo: WN)