Glamorous politician wants law to allow 7-year itch
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Bavaria&#39;s most glamorous politician -- a flame-haired motorcyclist who helped bring down state premier Edmund Stoiber -- has shocked the Catholic state in Germany by suggesting marriage should last just 7 years.
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Legislation for a seven-year extension to an Internet tax ban is going to the president for approval.
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Modernisers and traditionalists are competing for the soul of the party.
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She's French. She's female. And she is causing quite a stir. Christine Lagarde, the first woman finance minister for a G-8 nation, was rated the best minister in President Nicolas Sarkozy's government last month by one of France's top-selling newspapers. Not bad for a political newcomer who only two years ago was unknown outside legal and business circles, and who is vocally pro-market in a capitalism-wary nation.
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Socialite and heiress begins term for violating probation, lawyer says.
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The seven-year itch? It may be down to three.
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UNNAO, India -- Early in September, a lawmaker here celebrated his 41st birthday with a packed poolside party of dancing, drunken, gun-wielding guests at a highway resort called Fantasy motel. As the party moved into full swing around midnight, people began firing into the air in delirious joy.
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For the past decade, M. Jodi Rell has worked to raise awareness about breast cancer prevention. Now with her own diagnosis and in the spotlight that comes with being governor
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A Conservative MP bids to give parents the right to know if underage daughters are being advised on abortion.
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As politicians throughout the European Union struggle with overhauling the continent's underperforming economy, they might find one answer over a drink at a bar tended by 36-year-old Solange Gellai.
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The government's GP leader is to go on a charm offensive after weeks of damaging stories about the profession.
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Some of the measures in the plan could be unpopular with voters even as they inspire politiciansâ acclaim.
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NEW YORK  - In the swank Rainbow Room,  high above the New York skyline, a young senator and a famous  governor spoke to a room crowded with high-powered lobbyists,  celebrities and entertainment industry bigwigs.
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Go ahead, call state Sen. Jeanne Kohl-Welles a scurvy wench, a wanton strumpet, a shameless hussy. She probably won't like it, but she doesn't want you to be prosecuted for it.
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Rep. Nancy Pelosi, speaker of the House of Representatives, said on Friday she wanted Congress to pass mandatory caps on heat-trapping carbon dioxide emissions this year.
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In a year voters say they crave fundamental political change, Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton is taking a gamble: arguing that her years of experience working within the political system make her the best candidate to change the system.
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A member of the California Assembly has warned the pornographic-film industry that unless actors wear condoms while they work he will write a law requiring it.