Balanced News Blog

Aggressive police making flippant remarks about teenagers’ electrocution and a minister who talked of ‘scum’ are accused of inflaming the violence. The exchange could hardly have been worse for the French police as they strive to allay their reputation as enemy of the ethnic estates.

Venus Express, Europe’s first probe to Earth’s mysterious sister planet, blasted into space from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan yesterday, with scientists hoping the mission will help them better understand the development of the greenhouse effect on Earth.

Judith Miller, the New York Times journalist who went to jail to protect a source, has left the paper with an undisclosed severance package after weeks of controversy.

Andrea Yates, the Texas woman convicted of drowning her children, will get a new trial after a Texas Court of Criminal Appeals ruling Wednesday. The court upheld a lower court`s decision the erroneous testimony of the prosecution`s key mental-health …

A decision by officials in Kansas encourages teachers to teach an alternative to Darwinism in the state’s schools.