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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A continual undercurrent of discontent suggests that some legislators are not satisfied with Tony BlairÂs refusal to be pinned down on a firm departure date.
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The California congresswoman leads the Democrats with a fiery style that could make her the first woman Speaker of the House
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Madam Jodi Rell, Governor of Connecticut, US, underwent breast-cancer surgery Monday after being diagnosed last week. According to the local officials, 58-year-old Rell was
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In the socialiteâs case, the national obsession with celebrity collided with the issue of the equal application of justice.
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Rep. Nancy Pelosi, speaker of the  U.S. 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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The case of a Muslim woman fined for wearing a veil has created a dispute involving politicians, civil rights groups and a fashion designer.
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After raising record sums to win high office, the region's politicians are preparing to party -- and again looking for someone to pick up the costs.
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Fran Pavley, a soft-spoken, retired schoolteacher who went into California politics, probably never thought she would find herself defending the environmental credentials of Gov.
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A Californian politician is aiming to bring in a law banning the sale of traditional light bulbs.
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Rape suspects can be forced to undergo H.I.V. testing under a law signed by Gov. Eliot Spitzer.
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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.
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OLYMPIA - If Democrat Christine Gregoire is sworn in as Washington&#39;s second woman governor, the months following her Jan. 12 inauguration will be daunting.
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VICTORIA (CP) - A backbench Liberal MLA is proposing a working zone for prostitutes in a largely downtown industrial section of her Victoria riding.
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Can S&#201;gol&#200;ne Royal's feminine campaigning style get her elected to France's top job?
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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - A Malaysian politician has a solution for putting an end to screaming matches in a state legislature: set up a "shouting therapy" room where they can argue to their heart's content.
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"The emperor has no clothes," House Speaker-elect Nancy Pelosi once famously said about President Bush.