THIS porn star is one who did make it into government.

The Hungarian-born Ilona Staller (below), also known as Cicciolina, was elected to Italy's parliament in 1987, representing a district in Rome. She was not re-elected at the end of her term.

Undeterred, she had declared her intention to run for mayor of Milan in 2004, two years before the election for the post.

''Make M...

The holdup of Georgetown Fine Jewelry and Art, at 1265 Wisconsin Ave. NW, marked the second time in just over a month that a robbery in Georgetown ended in bloodshed.

In early July, a British political activist was killed when he and a friend were accosted on a residential street as they walked home from a movie. Alan Senitt's throat was slashed, allegedly by one of the robbers, when he ...

Vatan daily dedicated almost an entire page yesterday to a statement by U.S. Ambassador to Turkey Ross Wilson.

Wilson's statement was in response to the joint appointment by Turkey and the United States of a U.S. coordinator to manage combat efforts against Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) targets based in northern Iraq. What exactly the coordinator will do remains ambiguous.

Accor...

It will take some time until U.S. authorities will come to a conclusion as to whether John Mark Karr is telling the truth about the murder of JonBenet Ramsey. But the arrest of the American migrant English teacher in Bangkok who confessed he killed the little girl in Boulder, Colorado, 10 years ago raised a new caution about unqualified - and morally unreliable - English instructors swarming ac...

Over 40 years have passed since Korea and Japan forged diplomatic ties to see their business and cultural exchanges prosper. But the two countries still dwell in hostility in terms of political sympathy and the direction of future positioning in the region.

At the bottom of the deep-rooted discord are issues concerning Japan's colonial rule of Korea between 1910 and 1945.

Although ...

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WANGDUE, Bhutan - This might be any country fair: families picnicking on the grass, kids playing tag, an intense B-I-N-G-O match in a tented fairway booth.

Except these kids are playing Pin the Tail on the Elephant, without a donkey in sight. The educational exhibits focus on safe sex; "Wrap that ...

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WANGDUE, Bhutan - This might be any country fair: families picnicking on the grass, kids playing tag, an intense B-I-N-G-O match in a tented fairway booth.

Except these kids are playing Pin the Tail on the Elephant, without a donkey in sight. The educational exhibits focus on s...

Whether one regards homosexuality as a legitimate lifestyle, an aberration determined by genes or environment or an unforgivable sin, everyone would agree that lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgenders (LGBT) deserve the same high level of health care as the "straights."

But how do you achieve this? In countries such as the US that lack universal health insurance, LGBTs - who are often e...

According to me, the most important piece of news last week was not about the Middle East conflict. Nor was it about the arrest of dozens of people in England on suspicion of plotting to blow up aeroplanes; Nor was it the arrest in the United States of brown-skinned people with dozens of cell phones in their cars.

My story affects the prospects of life and death for millions of people, so...

Health ministers and officials from 11 Asian member countries of the World Health Organization began talks in Bangladesh's capital Sunday on tougher tactics to combat diseases such as AIDS, malaria and bird flu, officials said.

Bangladeshi Prime Minister Khaleda Zia opened the meeting of ministers and representatives from India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, the Maldives, Nepal, Bhutan, Myanmar...