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According to a new book by Joe McGinniss titled ‘The Rogue: Searching for the Real Sarah Palin,’ the former governor of Alaska dabbled in cocaine and carried extra marital affairs with her business partner. It is also alleged that Sarah Palin had a ‘fetish’ for American men.

The research shows that the parents lose out on time due to working schedule and this causes a distress among children. In a bid to make up with their children, parents buy expensive gadgets, gifts and branded cloths for them

Pope Benedict XVI could end up at the Hague after human rights lawyers and victims of clergy sexual abuse filed a complaint Tuesday calling for the International Criminal Court in The Hague to investigate and prosecute the catholic cleric along with three other top Vatican officials for crimes against humanity and covering up and condoning the rape and sexual assault of children by priests.

Prime Minister David Cameron announced a plan yesterday to cut the benefits of those who are willing to learn English.

As the National Transitional Council leaders still struggle to assert control over Libya, they have now pledged "moderate" Islamic rule, however without police patrolling the streets to provide security, the country still fighting Gaddafi loyalists, threats of internal divisions and rebels forces accused of war crimes, religion it seems should be downgraded to a lesser priority for the government.

The Beds and Herts Major Crime Unit rescued 24 slaves yesterday by pouncing into the traveler’s site during a raid at Greenacres in Leighton Buzzard.

As the remnants of hurricane Katia are heading to the UK, habitants and travellers alike have been warned against high and powerful winds of up to 80mph accompanied by heavy rains.

All the weeks pictures from the world of news for the 5-9 September. This week has seen Ed Miliband turn his back on the unions, the phone hacking scandal increase pressure on James Murdoch as well as England beating Wales in European Championship qualifier as well as the 9/11 documentary which showed the months, days and moments after the death of Al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden.

The news adds to the growing spread of lawsuits spreading throughout the tech industry.

Reports have emerged suggesting Apple has extended its series of complaints against Galaxy device maker Samsung, now accusing the tech giant of patent violations in Japan.

According to a new study conducted by the UK Office for National Statistics (ONS) released recently, babies being born in a certain month will indicate what job they will end up with. “Which month the baby is born may determine what career he or she is likely to follow as an adult,” they asserted. Researchers in the study also found that the month in which babies are born could also affect everything from intelligence to lifespan.

Northern Ireland has lost their Euro cup qualifying game against Estonia.

Fourth September this year marked the first anniversary of the 7.1 Richter scale earthquake that struck the city of Christchurch at 04.35 local time. New Zealand's second largest city, and the largest in the South Island, the miracle was surely that despite extensive damage, no-one was killed in the quake. No doubt that the quake hit the area early on a Saturday morning helped make this possible.

The issue of Scottish independence is one that will dominate the parliamentary landscape of the next British parliamentary term but is it a fight that either the coalition government or the Scottish National Party need to be fighting?

Red Arrows Return to UK Skies

Britain's abortion debate returned to the forefront after a Conservative MP pushed for a new rules on the advice that can be offered to women seeking abortions, charging certain clinics have a financial motive to encourage them.

The New York Observer has reported that the Church of Scientology has made a spoof magazine of the New Yorker and circulated it after a critical article about Scientology was published no less than six months ago

Can phone hacking, "alleged" still in the majority of cases, be compared with rioting, looting, arson, murder and assault? This member of the public thinks it doesn't even begin to.

Britain's atomic clock is the world's most accurate time keeper. A new analysis of the clock, conducted by NPL scientists and American colleagues, published in the journal Metrologia, established that it will now drop just a billionth of a second every two months.

Scientists working at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) near Geneva will know in 6 months if the god particle exists. The Higgs Boson more commonly known as the God particle is a particle or a set of particles thought to lend mass to other particles.Finding the "God particle" - a sub-atomic particle that is fundamental to understanding the nature of matter, but so elusive that, physicists quip, it can only be compared to divinity.The existence or non-existence of the God particles can be...

700,000 students across England, Wales and Northern Ireland will today receive their GCSE results.

Justice Secretary Ken Clarke will today promise to end criminals on community punishments 'sitting idle at home watching daytime television'

Phillip Seaton and wife Deborah have sued a surgeon for "loss of service, love and affection", after Mr Seaton's penis was amputated during an operation which he said was done without his consent.

The Telegraph reports that a colleague of the Red Arrows pilot, who died in a fatal air crash on Saturday, was forced to make an emergency landing after a bird struck his plane during an acrobatic display.

Theresa May says, "The way we police in Britain is through consent of communities." How much longer?

The U.S. state of Virginia has executed a 30-year-old convicted of raping and killing an elderly Virginia woman. He was killed by lethal injection on Thursday, the first inmate put to death in that state this year, the attorney general's office said.

Fashion retailer Zara is under investigation in Brazil after a local supplier accused it of using slave labour.

Organisers of Belgium's Pukkelpop festival, who booked headline acts including Eminem, Foo Fighters and the Ting Tings, have cancelled the rest of the event after five people were killed when a stage collapsed Thursday.

Despite an international outcry against violence used by the Syrian forces, President Assad has refused to step down. However a new UN report could now push for the International Criminal Court to react and start an investigation.