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A plan by an animal rights activist to sell-off a lizard tattoo on her right arm came unstuck Tuesday when the online auction house she was using pulled the plug on electronic bidding. eBay UK removed "Lizard Skin," an auction offered by Ingrid Newkirk, the British founder of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) because her ad breached guidelines. PETA, the world's biggest animal rights group, said eBay regarded the tattoo as "human remains" which contravened the company's policy to not allow auctions of human body parts. Newkirk said in a statement she was unimpressed by the move:...

<p>September 29, 2003 -- Saddam Hussein's own scientists may have fooled him - and the world - into thinking he had weapons of mass destruction that he no longer possessed, it was reported yesterday.</p> <p>A Time magazine report claims Iraq's mass murder weapons may have been destroyed or dismantled in the 1990s and never rebuilt, but Saddam's scientists lied so that they could keep millions of dollars flowing, often to line their own pockets.</p>

BAGHDAD - While Hans Blix was preparing to speak to the UN Security Council yesterday, Saddam Hussein banned all weapons of mass destruction. Denial and deception or just denial -- it's hard to tell in Baghdad right now. The decree prohibits nuclear, biological and chemical weapons. In terms of credibility, it seemed a bit like New Brunswick outlawing snow or British Columbia banning pot farms. The Iraqi parliament, which convened an emergency session yesterday afternoon to consider banning the weapons, was taken by surprise by the decree. Amid chants of support for the President and rehearsed speeches, parliamentarians condemned the...

When he visited Fidel Castro in Cuba last year, Jimmy Carter was quick to mention the happy and jubilant Cuban children he saw dancing in the streets. Were he to visit Kim Jong Il in Pyongyang tomorrow, it is likely he would return with a similar story of smiling North Korean marchers waving brightly colored flags. Certainly, it is important to remember the humanity involved when considering issues of foreign policy, but when the Nobel Committee awarded Carter a Peace Prize after his daft blindness in the face of a laughable Potemkin Village in Havana, it raised some very ominous...

New Jersey Republican U.S. Senate candidate Doug Forrester demanded Sunday that a federal judge unseal a letter from prosecutors who wrote earlier this year that they believed federal witness David Chang had testified truthfully in their bribery probe against Sen. Robert Torricelli, D-N.J. "A letter was written by the prosecutors who were involved in the investigation [and they] were asking for leniency for David Chang on the grounds that David Chang was telling the truth in a lot of very important respects," Forrester told WABC Radio's Steve Malzberg. "Mr. Torricelli's lawyers are trying to keep that letter secret," he complained,...