TRUTH popularity and TRUTH trends

Conspiracy theories still grasp at the truth about the murder of seven Trappist monks at the height of Algeria’s civil war, writesMARY BOLANDin Tibhirine

With Donald Trump declaring anew to Lloyd Grove that Barack Obama is actually Kenyan-born and told the truth to a literary agent decades ago, I was reminded of this clip from a Boston Globe column last year about how Mitt Romney's name appears on his birth certificate: Four years ago, I asked Romney spokesman Eric Fehrnstrom to settle the matter. “It’s Willard Mitt Romney on the birt...

Robert sez, "Azerbaijan is hosting the final of this Saturday's Eurovision song contest. Amidst the absurdity and kitsch, human rights groups are worried that Azerbaijan's autocratic government will use the occasion to airbrush its appalling treatment of journalists and activists. Index on Censorship is asking Boing Boing readers to make the President of Azerbaijan face [...]

MIT's computers, programmed with the latest research information, do a better job of differentiating smiles of delight and frustration than human observers do.

Macho. The image of a manly, tough and assertive male figure comes to mind. He has an overly exaggerated masculinity. He's strong, well-built, and walks with a swagger. Perhaps dressed in a shirt opened down to "there", gold chains swinging."Machista culture", where the balance of power within a group is tilted towards overt displays of masculinity, has readily been linked to Latin Ame...

Kenya's Eric Wainaina speaks the truth to those in power

A "slut" is what haters call a liberated person, and that's what I am. I'm liberated. And the most liberating truth I've learned in the past few years has been this: You don't need to be in a relationship to live your life romantically.

MARTIN SAMUEL: Train firms are treating innocent travellers like criminals, simply for making mistakes. The truth is, it pays them to catch us out.

YES! Yes! YeeEEeeeSss! Is it wrong to get turned on by a TV show promo?? LOL! Season five of True Blood is promised to be the show's "most controversial" season yet. Judging by this promo, they're telling the truth! Ch-Ch-Check out the promo (above) to see the amazingness that's to come!! We can hardly wait [...]

This this flesh-creepingly funny comedy about two holidaymakers whose caravanning trip inadvertently turns into a mass murder has the terrifying ring of truth.

“I was wondering if you were interested in selling your domain. I see that you are not doing anything with it and I had a project that I wanted to use the name for.  I don’t have a lot of money, I’m just a student, so if you have it at a reasonable price I’d be interested” You’ve probably received this same email dozens of time.  My guess is that 10% of the people on the other end are telling t...

In 1991, when I was a staff writer for Scientific American , I wrote a letter to Thomas Kuhn, then at MIT. I said I wanted to profile him for Scientific American and “tell readers how you developed your views of the process of science.” When he didn’t respond, I called. Kuhn was reluctant to do the interview. He distrusted journalists, and he was still peeved by an old Scientific American ...

The uncomfortable truth is that the production of Mark Teixeira and Alex Rodriguez has steadily declined every season since 2007, and neither is even halfway through his contract.

The truth is that most of us - and by "us" I mean bad golfers - are using the wrong equipment

There's a theory that nostalgia runs in 20-year cycles. For evidence of its truth, look no further than the return of'90s alternative rock, which is everywhere these days, from cruise ships (The Weezer Cruise) to clubs and theaters, with the reunions of Pavement and Soundgarden just two recent examples.

Some scientists who had an unwavering belief in the truth of their ideas also had no compunction about breaking the rules to prove it.

REGARDLESS of what court proceedings might ensue, MPs have a duty to act.

AN emotional Craig Thomson used the cover of parliament to plead his innocence but failed to disprove the mass of evidence against him.

Israel should loosen its historic ambiguity regarding its nuclear weapons status to deter Iran.

NICK Xenophon urges Craig Thomson to be honest when he fronts Parliament over corruption allegations.

Sometimes football simply doesn't make sense. The cliché that a club's name is on a trophy can't have any truth, and yet it was hard during Chelsea's Champions League final victory not to feel it had some greater power behind it.

Jennifer Lopez took to Twitter last night to refute reports circulating yesterday claiming she would be leaving American Idol "There is no truth to reports that say I am definitely leaving Idol" the pop singer said "All I said was I haven't decided what I am doing next year"  She added "When...

Jennifer Lopez's days on "American Idol" are up in the air, but not necessarily over. Following reports that she's exiting the FOX series after two seasons, the star spoke out on Twitter on Thursday night.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A lot of loyal Facebook fans and occasional investors are discovering a hard truth this week: Money and connections talk, especially when it comes to a hot deal handled by Wall Street.

Former Times editor recalls broken promises and says 'deal involving Thatcher' let Rupert Murdoch takeover papers in 1981Thirty years after he was forced out from his last fulltime job in British journalism, Sir Harold Evans was back on Thursday to offer his reflections on Rupert Murdoch's 1981 takeover of the Times and Sunday Times and to recall an unhappy year editing the daily title while in...

Stacked cinder blocks and boards work just as well as most, but they’re nowhere near as fun — or as optimistic in this e-book world — as the swirling, angled, wacky shelves in Alex Johnson’s new book. “Bookshelf” (Thames & Hudson, $24.95) has more than 300 color photos of minimalist, ladder-shaped shelves, jumbled boxes, swirling towers and the occasional farm animal. (That's Estante Vaco,...

President swears in new commission to look into offenses committed during former regimes

Long-delayed panel's work begins years after neighbouring nations fully investigated actions of dictatorial regimes.

Soon after India TV on Monday claimed to have blown the lid off "murky deals" in the IPL, a rattled Indian cricket board reacted swiftly suspending five players until an inquiry is conducted. We asked our readers in a poll - will the truth ever come out? The guilty 

Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff inaugurates a truth commission to investigate rights abuses, including those committed during military rule from 1964-1985.

East Room 2:12 P.M. EDT THE PRESIDENT:  Thank you.  (Applause.)  Everybody, please have a seat.  Have a seat.  Well, welcome to the White House, everybody.  And congratulations to the L.A. Galaxy on your third MLS Cup.  (Applause.)  Number three.    Before we start, I want to acknowledge an L.A. native and my outstanding Secretary of Labor -- I don't know how her game is, but she's a fa...

ON RUGBY:Not even Tom Kiernan could have envisaged a day such as next Saturday when a first all-Irish Heineken Cup final will ensure a fifth Irish triumph in seven years

Remember last week when Foxconn president Terry Gou said that he was working hard at building the new Apple TV? The rumor was, as you might suspect, patently false. But just how false is the surprising part. Welcome to the magical world of Apple rumors. Before we begin, take a look at this delightful Fortune piece that shows us the truth behind the big Apple rumor mill. It's well-written and...

It seems that Congress has removed nearly every consumer protection from student loans, including not only standard bankruptcy protections, statutes of limitations, and truth in lending requirements, but protection from usury (excessive interest). Lenders can vary the interest rates, and some borrowers are reporting rates as high as 18-20%

ATHENS (Reuters) - Greek political leaders on Sunday ignored a final plea from the president to form a coalition government to avert a repeat election, pushing the debt-stricken nation closer to bankruptcy and a possible exit from the euro zone.

If there's one thing we can count on from Khloé & Lamar, it's that they're always supporting each other. And in the season finale we saw a whole lot of that! It...

Greek political leaders ignored a final plea on Sunday from the president to form a coalition government to avert a repeat election, pushing the debt-stricken nation closer to bankruptcy and a possible exit from the eurozone.

Who pays for those political attack ads? Who knows?The television commercial is designed to spark outrage. "Billions of taxpayer dollars spent on green energy went to jobs in foreign countries," it intones. "The Obama administration admitted the truth — that $2.3 billion of tax credits went overseas, while millions of Americans can't find a job…. American taxpayers are paying to send their own ...

Oops, he did it again. Joe Biden speaks truth to power (the president) on gay marriage.

There are limits to embellishing a CV. It is generally considered a no-no to lie about a qualification, if only because this is easily checked

Headline Title:  Brazil: Uncovering the past; President Dilma names Truth Commission members 11 May 2012 The announcement by President Dilma Rousseff of the seven members of a Truth Commission to investigate past human rights crimes is a landmark event. It is crucial that th...

Terming the SIT report on Gujarat riots as an attempt to cover-up Narendra Modi's "heinous" role, the CPM on Friday demanded fresh probe into the Gujarat chief minister’s actions during the post-Godhra riots to ensure that the truth comes out and accountability is fixed.

I’m going to give Mitt Romney the benefit of the doubt and assume, just this once, that he is short-sheeting the truth. If he really couldn’t recall pinning a rumored-to-be-gay prep school classmate to the ground and clipping his longish, bleached-blond hair because he couldn’t stand to look at it — “He can’t look like that. That’s wrong. Just look at him!” — wouldn’t that be worse than remembe...

Critics of Penny Junor's (pictured left) latest book on Prince William, Born To Be King accuse her of being an insensitive, untruthful, poisonous, hatchet merchant over his claims on Princess Diana.

Mayor says sexual relations were held "consensually," expresses confidence that "truth will come to light."

VATICAN CITY (AP) -- The archbishop of Dublin, a leading voice for reform following Ireland's devastating Catholic church sex abuse scandal, said Thursday that the Irish church is trying to rebuild even as he demands the full truth be told about the past....

HOW DO YOU successfully marry a traditional broadcast news operation with social network news gathering? As social media and web editor for Al Jazeera English (AJE), Bilal Randeree is in a better position than most to answer the question.

Barak, the injured party in this instance, can be counted upon not to let anything be suppressed.

The newspaper admitted hacking the teenager's mobile phone but it remains unknown whether two missing messages were deleted deliberately or were removed automatically, the Leveson Inquiry heard today.

Attention all GOOP haters of the world, we have lost one of our own. Legendary children's book author, illustrator and King of All Wild Things (not these kind of wild things, though) Maurice Sendak passed away at 3 this morning at a hospital in Connecticut. Maurice was 83. Maurice's partner of 50 years, Eugene Glynn, passed away in 2007. They're now having a wild rumpus together u...

David Cameron: “Our job is to build a recovery on real growth and investment - not debt.”

Bob Stewart, who died Friday at age 91, created hit TV game shows including "Password," "To Tell the Truth," "The Price is Right" and "The $10,000 Pyramid."

DENTISTS are charging taxpayers more than £70million a year for work that was NEVER done, a report reveals today

Welcome to Geek Fitness Week! Getting in shape isn't just for the contributors of jockdad.com. I think there's this misconception that geeks are just sitting around with an X-Large drink in one hand and a slice of pizza in the other as we read our game manuals or watch our favorite shows. But I'd argue that this couldn't be farther from the truth. I believe that most geek dads today are probab...

LARA Bingle might not have known a lens was capturing every curve of her naked body, but she's always played the game from both sides.

Fact, in this case, is more interesting than fiction.

Telegraph View: Portraits are a dying art - yet they offer so more than a straight likeness, they offer an appointment with truth.

Burundi is making progress in improving it human rights record, but impunity remains a challenge, a senior United Nations official said, stressing that the envisaged establishment of a truth and reconciliation commission will be a real test of country’s commitment to upholding human rights.

MINISTER FOR Finance Michael Noonan has rejected claims that he is trying to scare the electorate into voting Yes to the fiscal treaty, saying the Irish people are entitled to know the truth. He said his comment that next year’s budget would be more difficult if the treaty is rejected was a “considered statement”.

Arianna continues last week's trend of relating more than Ten Things About Me.

Are those who make predictions prophets or charlatans?

Saving the world is no excuse for fudging the facts.

The highest battlefield in the world, Siachen glacier, hides a warming truth, recently discovered.

  To me, MayDay MayDay MayDay has always been about Indian soldiers and sailors abandoned to die, in their thousands. In the recent past, it has to do with piracy in the Indian Ocean, and sailors forgotten for years, becoming history. And especially, in a part of India's forgotten history, when India should by rights be proud of them. Over 20,000 of India's finest, by most accounts, who peris...

JOHN Cranko's romantic vision is in safe hands in Australia, says the man with charge of his estate.

With almost all states showing more than 60% of populations below the monthly expenditure averages, the oft-repeated claim that 70% of India lives on less than $2 a day has a ring of truth in it. As yet there is nothing official about using monthly average expenditure as the poverty line and the government has said its calculations are based on the Tendulkar Committee formula.

Robert Cushman: Sometimes there can be truth in advertising. The Exquisite Hour does run for an hour, or something just over, and it is exquisite, or something just under

Scientific American 's review of Thomas Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions in 1964 ended with the pat pronouncement that the book was "much ado about very little." The short piece, which appeared two years after the initial publication of Structure as a monograph in the International Encyclopedia of Unified Science , discarded as unoriginal Kuhn's critique of the positivist ar...

There are players at both Manchester City and United with much to offer but that does not disguise a broader truth -- a place among the elite.

Essays in a new anthology illuminate a hard truth about death in our culture.

Van Halen will give away a limited-edition vinyl single of their song "She's the Woman" with copies of the new album A Different Kind of Truth on May 4th Ultimate Classic Rock reports The 7-inch will only be available at participating independent retailers much in the same way that other...

BBC's Olympics mockumentary, Twenty Twelve is staggeringly inane and yet contains an alarming ring of truth.

Family lawyer Tim Danson says characterizing the death as a “freak accident” as race organizers have done “distorts the truth.”

Family lawyer Tim Danson says characterizing the death as a “freak accident” as race organizers have done “distorts the truth.”

The rise and fall of the Wildrose Party confirms a truth about Canadian politics, political strategists say: Social conservatism has become an “electorally toxic” Pandora’s box that parties should actively avoid

With the thousands of references to “flan,” “tomato” and the weather in Budapest, Hungary, that took place on French soc…

HBO's "Veep" is a funny and sharp take on our political absurdities -- with a dazzling Julia Louis-Dreyfus

Have you ever wondered about the controversies surrounding fracking and what the fuss is all about? Here's your chance to get answers.

Lindsay Lohan's "inability to tell the truth" is putting her latest acting role in a biopic of Elizabeth Taylor.

NEW YORK (AP) -- By one account, the moment of truth for three former high school classmates from Queens came as they sat in a car outside a neighborhood mosque with their militant religious views festering....

The human impulse toward storytelling is one of the qualities that differentiates our species from the rest of the animal kingdom. And too often, it has led to narratives that sacrifice truth in favour of illusion. But two new productions find more magic lies in finding empathy with animals

THE truth of this year's Origin series is NSW can't defend their way to victory.

"Will and I know the truth," she says

Most of the good thrillers I tend to watch have spies and assassins in them for some diabolical reason. In those movies you'll often find their target, the Archduke of Villainess, holed up in some remote local and the spy has to fake an identity in order to penetrate the layers of defense. Almost without exception the spy enters the country using a fake passport; relying upon a passport from an...

There is every chance Countrywide Flame will be disregarded by some layers who may view his Triumph Hurdle win as a 33-1 fluke. In truth, it was nothing of the sort.

Hi. My name is Nikita and I am an Idols fan. Don’t judge me. Yes, I am.

Time and again, the users of free online products and services cry ‘foul’ the moment their favorite gizmo is acquired by an 800-lbs industry gorilla. The news about Facebook buying photo-sharing app and web site, Instagram, for a billion dollars in cash and stock was met by frustration by many. The truth is, when the [...]

The activist hacker group Anonymous plans to launch further attacks on Chinese government websites in a bid to uncover corruption and lobby for human rights, a member of the group said on Monday.

by John Vespasian This is a wake up call for those who believe that they cannot reduce their risk of falling sick. When it comes to health, evil is watching you closely at least three times a day: breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Nevertheless, the truth is so hard to accept that few people want to make the effort to change direction.Although millions of books about weight-loss and die...

Psoriasis, Shmoriasis ... TMZ has uncovered THE TRUTH about the suspicious mark on Kim Kardashian's neck ... and it DEFINITELY originated from Kanye West's mouth. Sources close to Kim's neck confirm ... the red blotch was NOT the result of Kim's…

Peter Gøtzsche's Mammography Screening: Truth, Lies and Controversy provides more insight into the polarisation and irrationality of the debate on breast cancer screening than any useful information about the impact of screening in reducing breast cancer mortality. Gøtzsche makes three main claims in the book related to screening performance. First, he maintains that the benefit of screening in...

ATHENS, April 5 (Reuters) - Greek bank shareholders are under pressure from Athens to contribute billions of euros to recapitalise the lenders so that the government can avoid taking them over.

Kevin Anderson explains why he refused to purchase a carbon offset, and why you should steer clear of them too.

The Vatican has been accused of hiding the truth about one of Italy's most intractable mysteries - the disappearance of a teenage girl nearly 30 years ago.

Here's the hardest truth about money. There are people who think about savings and investments in the bathroom and there are those who don’t and the latter cannot be converted into the other.

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk promises to get to the truth over secret CIA interrogations of al-Qaeda rendition suspects on its territory.

Politicians in Lisbon and policy makers in Brussels insist that Portugal isn't like Greece. This spring, the country will have to prove it.

The truth behind her mystery illness last autumn.

(PhysOrg.com) -- Honesty may be the best policy, but new research from the University of Sydney suggests that consumers feel more satisfied if they lie and get what they want than if they tell the truth.

JULIA Roberts strutted her wares on the streets of Hollywood Boulevard in Pretty Woman, the business of being a movie star was very different.

A magician will instantly see the truth behind any colleague's illusion. But we have a bit of an advantage: We know we are being fooled. Scientists are instinctive doubters who employ a rigorous method to zero in on the truth, but they aren’t necessarily trained to expect deception by subjects and collaborators. We can't make magicians out of scientists — we wouldn't want to — but we can help s...

A couple of months ago, the wildly popular public radio program “This American Life” aired a show that detailed the work of a performer named Mike Daisey. Daisey had been performing a one-man show in theaters called “The ­Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs,” which detailed his obsession with Apple products and concerns over the way in which those products get made. Read full article >> ...

BOSSES are warned to tread carefully when questioning the truth of employees' sick certificates over concerns with patient confidentiality.

He digs deep in Phoenix and finds Dodgers will rely on Ellis & Ellis, a comfortable Todd Coffey and Don Mattingly, who appears to have lied about the 2011 team, which is essentially the 2012 team.Reporting from Phoenix — Consider the excitement, arriving here and finding Vin Scully's car parked in the stenciled spot reserved for Dodgers "ownership."

If you're a fan of both American Idol and gossip magazines you may have already heard some rumors about tonight's episode But just because the truth is already out there doesn't mean that the producers are going to tell you anytime soon Nope they are going to  draw out the...

Canadians are about to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the conflict they've long been told defines their national character. If only the truth were so clearcut

Investors are right to worry that jobs data may be more show than reality.

ISLAMABAD - Out-going Senate Deputy Chairman Mir Jan Mohammad Jamali Thursday stressed the need for the constitution of ‘Truth and Reconciliation Commission’ on the pattern of South Africa to expose all the wrongdoings of the politicians, generals and bureaucrats and end the grievances of masses. “If Truth and Reconciliation Commission could be formed in South Africa, then why ...

ISLAMABAD - Out-going Senate Deputy Chairman Mir Jan Mohammad Jamali Thursday stressed the need for the constitution of ‘Truth and Reconciliation Commission’ on the pattern of South Africa to expose all the wrongdoings of the politicians, generals and bureaucrats and end the grievances of masses. “If Truth and Reconciliation Commission could be formed in South Africa, then why ...

ISLAMABAD - Out-going Senate Deputy Chairman Mir Jan Mohammad Jamali Thursday stressed the need for the constitution of ‘Truth and Reconciliation Commission’ on the pattern of South Africa to expose all the wrongdoings of the politicians, generals and bureaucrats and end the grievances of masses. “If Truth and Reconciliation Commission could be formed in South Africa, then why ...

MOUNT HOLLY, North Carolina (Reuters) - President Barack Obama, under Republican attack for high gas prices that could harm his re-election bid, urged Americans on Wednesday to have faith in alternative fuels and accused rivals of not telling the truth about the rising cost of energy.

The paid obits in the back of the papers can say anything they want because the family has paid for the space.

PICK OF THE DAY: Frank Woodley, is still cracking us up in this adventurous series in which he uses mainly mime and the odd sound.

Martin Sheen commanded the stage with his impassioned portrayal of an attorney arguing for gay-marriage rights; Jane Lynch inspired instant response as a vehement same-sex marriage opponent; Brad Pitt dazzled as a judge.

Costa Concordia's survivors seek compensation, justice and truth in the first hearing of the shipwreck investigation on Saturday.

@georg, dass du dich aber so mit al gores schundluderei "inconv... truth" identifizierst, gereicht dir aber gar nicht zur ehre. man verliert doch geradezu seine honorigkeit wenn man die primitiven ausfälligkeiten einer klimapfeife wie gore nicht verurteilt als das was sie sind: reiner dreck und volksverfuehrung eines gescheiterten

BOSTON—At long last, one of the hairiest problems in modern physics has been solved. Researchers have devised a theoretical model to describe the shape of a ponytail. A ponytail may look like a relatively simple object, but in truth it is a bundle of physical complexity. Multiple forces are in play. Each hair is elastic, [...]

You want the truth on the nation's top teams? Seth Davis spoke with two coaches from each of the six power conferences to get candid assessments of 30 NCAA tournament contenders.

Andrew Breitbart was remembered Wednesday for his strong conservative views, which he developed as a young man after growing up on Los Angeles' traditionally liberal Westside. Breitbart's mother-in-law, Alison Mills Bean, called Breitbart "one of the most genuine people I’ve...

Truth and Reconciliation Commission also recommends mental health facilities be built to deal with ongoing trauma

PHOENIX (AP) -- His voice self-assured, Ryan Braun stood a few feet from the batter's box and hit back at those who he feels tarnished his name and image....

Jennifer B. McDonald talks about "The Lifespan of a Fact," in which the essayist John D'Agata wrestles with a fact checker over questions of truth, beauty and accuracy.

One of my occasional concerns about foreign policy is how ill-conceived, ill-informed, or simply illegal policies get fixed.  As I've noted before, one of the problems with relying on whistleblowers is that the kind of person who believes themselves to be a truthteller also tends to have otherbaggage.  To the blunt, the personality tropes that permit whistleblowers to speak truth to power also...

Tweet Widget Facebook Like (Kathmandu) – The government of Nepal should take immediate steps, with the full cooperation of the Nepal Army, to ensure truth, reparation, and justice for human rights abuses during the country’s decade long conflict, Advocacy Forum and Human Rights Watch said today. The organizations called on the Nepal government, eight years...

The awful truth gradually filtering into the public consciousness of Europe and the wider world is that there is not going to be any deal.

FORTUNE -- Microsoft will always have its detractors. The truth is that Bill Gates moved away from the company he founded just as the Windows dynasty was being supplanted by rival technologies. That left CEO Steve Ballmer with the thankless task of trying to find a place for Microsoft in an industry where companies like Apple, Google and Facebook seemed to be increasingly setting the agenda.

We've earned this right? When David Lee Roth and Van Halen went down their own separate mean streets in the Eighties who paid the price? We did Van Halen fans everywhere have suffered through the years waiting for this reunion We don't need it to be Fair Warning or Van...

IN THE FALL of 2010, the Obama administration acknowledged a shocking truth: From 1946 through 1948, officials working in Guatemala for the U.S. Public Health Service conducted tests on some 5,100 unwitting individuals and deliberately infected at least 1,300 with sexually transmitted diseases. None of the victims — who included prisoners, soldiers, the mentally ill and commercial sex workers —...

Van Halen, "A Different Kind Of Truth" (Interscope)...

After two deployments in Afghanistan, Lt. Col. Daniel L. Davis says the Pentagon is not telling the whole truth about how the war there is going.

There is a campaign for truth-in-wine-labeling laws supported by a loose-knit cohort of wine regions around the world.

Van Halen feiern die Rückkehr des verlorenen Sohns. "A Different Kind Of Truth" ist das erste Studioalbum mit Sänger David Lee Roth seit "1984" - und schließt nahtlos an den 28 Jahre alten Klassiker an. Von FOCUS-Online-Redakteur Jens BauszusMehr zum ThemaLeonardo da Vincis Meisterwerk - Double der Mona Lisa im Madrider Prado entdecktHollywood-Schauspielerin in Berlin - Goldene Kamera für Scarl...

Chinese state media has accused Western govts of distorting truth about deadly clashes in Tibetan-inhabited regions, and said Dalai Lama was "abusing his religious reputation."

Blog post by Ritums IvanovsJanuary 29 at 12:00: meeting with the artitst at Riga Art Space (Riga, Latvia)Today, the exhibition hall under Riga town hall square will host a Sunday Brunch together with the artists of the exhibition „Is it that he does not seek the truth, but does want to influence?”. Everybody is invited to walk through the exhibition and discuss it with artists Džemma Skulme, Si...

One man was convicted in connection with the murder of Hrant Dink, a well-known Armenian editor, but 18 were acquitted in what critics called a missed chance to find the truth.

Whether it's investing in stocks, bungee jumping or public speaking, why do we often plan to take risks but then "chicken out" when the moment of truth arrives? Scientists argue that this "illusion of courage" is one example of an "empathy gap" -- that is, our inability to imagine how we will behave in future emotional situations.

Explorers' website calls for 'truth to go viral' over Helen Skelton kite-ski record.

Republican candidates variously strained the facts on President Obama's record on trade and erred on the history of the federal income tax.

The Roger Miller who sings and plays guitar for Mission of Burma isn’t exactly the king of the road. The Boston-based group was thunderously loud onstage but notoriously inconsistent; a live album was named “The Horrible Truth About Burma.” Miller dissolved the original group in . . . (Subscription required.)

A researcher fighting a legal battle with police over interviews with former paramilitaries says prosecutions are not the way to get at the truth.

Mark V. Hurd was fired by the board at Hewlett-Packard, but the veracity of a racy lawsuit raises some questions about his ouster at a time when the company was thriving.

The truth is that, whether you're with him or against him, the candidacy of the Republican leadership hopeful is all about sex

Californian pressure group makes Kim Kardashian the poster girl for higher taxes. The only problem? They got their facts wrong. But apparently nobody cares, says Brett Arends.

Juste... un peu... plus bas. La dernière pub en date de Madonna pour son nouveau parfum, Truth or Dare, nous fait nous demander si quelqu'un l'aurait défiée...

Ex-Liverpool MD Christian Purslow reveals truth about transfer window.

STING'S wife Trudie Styler claims her husband was stretching the truth when he told the world about their tantric sex sessions.

Former president Thabo Mbeki says South Africans deserve to know facts about the country's history which are not yet public knowledge.

Khadzhimurad Kamalov was a battling editor doing his job – the essential job for any good journalist working in Dagestan. He reported the truth about official corruption, about organised crime, about the lawlessness that grips Russia’s North Caucasus, and he surely knew the risks he was taking. The masked gunman who ambushed him outside his office last week and shot him a sickening 14 times or ...

Jonathan Goldstein: “I’m a little busy right now,” I say. In truth, I’m engaged in what’s become my generation’s solving of the Rubik’s Cube: untangling our earphone cords from our key chains

Add another name to Syria's growing enemies list: Barbara Walters. Syria's U.N. envoy, Bashar Jaafari, denounced the ABC broadcaster's handling of a prime time interview she conducted with President Bashar al-Assad, the first by an American television journalist since public protests began threatening the Syrian leader's rule. "She distorted the truth," he told report...

A defamation suit that seemed to be an example of a blogger being unfairly denied the protections of a journalist was actually something else entirely.

Most of the reporting on Syria's Bashar al-Assad's interview with ABC's Barbara Walters has focused on the lies. And it's easy work: The president, after all, claimed that he wasn't responsible for his security forces' actions, and that nobody in his government had ordered a crackdown on protesters. For the commentariat, that's a softball lobbed over the middle of the plate. But just becaus...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Shares in Japan's disgraced Olympus Corp surged Tuesday as investors bet that a probe into its scandal-ridden accounts would not turn up any nasty new surprises which could lead to the stock being delisted.

LAHORE– Punjab Governor Sardar Latif Khosa has said that the great sacrifices rendered by Hazrat Imam Hussain (RA) and his brave companions guide the Ummah to forge unity against any aggression and stand for the truth under any circumstances.In his YoumeAshura message, the Governor said that the Karbala battle between the truth and the false is a bright chapter of the Islamic history. He said t...

Kate Beckinsale wurde stark davon getroffen, dass ihr Film 'Nothing But The Truth' aufgrund einer Firmenpleite nicht in die Kinos kam.

Key chapter looms for the elusive Higgs boson particle

Walter Piecyk of BTIG Research today writes that Sprint-Nextel (S) is arriving at a “critical point” in its negotiations with its broadband wireless partner Clearwire (CLWR). Basically, Clearwire is supposed to make a debt payment tomorrow, and it’s not clear whether Sprint will sign a new wholesale agreement with Clearwire that will ease the latter’s [...]

Using nude art to expose corporate America

SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) -- Syracuse assistant basketball coach Bernie Fine dismissed as "patently false" allegations that he molested two former ball boys for years, and the university chancellor vowed Friday to "do everything in our power to find the truth."...

CHELSEA striker Fernando Torres says Kop fans do not know truth of £50m move

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The lawyer who took on the Roman Catholic Church in Boston in a sex abuse case has some advice for Penn State University: embrace the victims and tell the whole truth, promptly.

Kim Kardashian never received kidnap and death threats for taking a role in Tyler Perry's "The Marriage Counselor." Kim Kardashian's reps have confirmed there was no truth to the rumors.

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James Murdoch insists that he told Parliamentthe truth about being kept tin the dark over phone hacking and police bribery by employees of the ...

 Herman Cain is denouncing the allegations of sexual harassment made against him, saying, "there is not an ounce of truth" to the accusations. INSIDE EDITION reports.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Herman Cain says he's going to set the record straight now that someone's publicly detailed an alleged instance of his sexual misbehavior. Cain tells late night host Jimmy Kimmel that he'll fight the latest harassment allegations head-on because there is not an ounce of truth to the claims....

Fiery unidentified flying objects over the Free State have left star gazers puzzled, the Volksblad newspaper has reported.

Gu Changwei's feature film about AIDS comes with a documentary about the real roles of six HIV-positive people who worked on the movie.