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In the four weeks since Donald Trump's inauguration there have been a record number of human trafficking arrests - including the largest bust in US history which received virtually no MSM attention. In total, over 1500 suspects have been taken down, including high profile serial child molester Jerry Sandusky's adopted son, Jeffrey Sandusky, who was arrested a week ago on charges of sexually assaulting two minors and sending Anthony Weiner-esque texts. And it's way more than just domestic busts in the United States; two days before the Clinton Foundation pulled out of Haiti, a sting rescued at least 31 victims...

London - You might want to take that vacation in England just as soon as you can – before its 1,000-year run as a sovereign nation comes to an end. This winter, 27 nations of the European Union (EU) signed the Treaty of Lisbon. You may think, "Innocuous enough," as Portuguese-inspired visions of the Tagus River and chicken piri-piri swirl before your eyes. But for England (Britain, actually) the Treaty of Lisbon isn't that appetizing. That's because, if ratified, it will become the decisive act in this creation of a federal European superstate with its capital in Brussels. Britain would...

It has been sobering this past week watching some of my "woollier" colleagues (in Vicki Woods's self-designation) gradually awake to the realisation that the real suicide bomb is "multiculturalism". Its remorseless tick-tock, suddenly louder than the ethnic drumming at an anti-globalisation demo, drove poor old Boris Johnson into rampaging around this page last Thursday like some demented late-night karaoke one-man Fiddler on the Roof, stamping his feet and bellowing, "Tradition! Tradition!" Boris's plea for more Britishness was heartfelt and valiant, but I'm not sure I'd bet on it. The London bombers were, to the naked eye, assimilated - they ate...

Former British PM Sir Edward Heath Dies By MATT MOORE ASSOCIATED PRESS LONDON (AP) - Sir Edward Heath, the prime minister who led England into what is now the European Union but lost the Conservative Party leadership to Margaret Thatcher, died Sunday. He was 89. Heath, who governed England from 1970-1974, died at his home in the southern cathedral city of Salisbury. A carpenter's son who broke the tradition of blue bloods leading the British Conservative Party, he was a born politician whose major achievement was to negotiate Britain's 1973 entry into the European Community. The entry into what became...

LONDON (AFP) - Former British prime minister Edward Heath, who took Britain into Europe during his period of office from 1970 to 1974, died at age 89, his spokesman said. Earlier in the day the spokesman said Heath was "nearing the end of his life". Heath, who turned 89 earlier this month, represented the Conservative Party in the House of Commons for more than 50 years, only stepping down at the 2001 election. His most notable achievement during his single term as prime minister was taking Britain into what was then the European Economic Community, the forerunner to the European...

Former Conservative Prime Minister Sir Edward Heath is "nearing the end of his life", his spokesman said. Sir Edward, 89, is "resting quietly at home" where he is receiving medical attention, the spokesman said. He won his first seat for the Tories in Bexley in 1950 and led the 1970-74 Conservative Government. Sir Edward took Britain into the European Economic Community and sent troops to N Ireland. In 1975 he lost the leadership to Margaret Thatcher. The spokesman said: "Sir Edward Heath, who celebrated his 89th birthday with a party at his home in Salisbury a week ago, has recently...

From leaky roofs to secret agents: how the files I found in Iraq's looted foreign ministry cast light on the paranoid world of Saddam Hussein How many Iraqi officials does it take to fix the leaky roof of a diplomat's house in London? How long does a skilled translator need to convert one of George Galloway's parliamentary speeches into Arabic? In almost 1, 000 pages of Arabic prose, each stamped with the Eagle crest of Iraq, the files found inside the foreign ministry in Baghdad cast a somewhat surreal light on the questions that turned the bureaucratic wheels of Saddam...