On February 2, 2004, Stephan Cowans became the 141st person in the United States to be exonerated as a result of postconviction DNA testing. On January 23, 2004, having proclaimed his innocence for over six and a half years, Cowans walked out of the Suffolk Superior Court in Boston, Massachusetts. He was officially exonerated at [...]

Matthew Wayne Shepard (December 1, 1976 – October 12, 1998) was an American student at the University of Wyoming, who was attacked by Russell Henderson and Aaron McKinney near Laramie, Wyoming, on the night of October 6 – 7, 1998 in what was classed by many as a homophobic incident. Shepard died from his injuries [...]

The top climate scientist at NASA says the Bush administration has tried to stop him from speaking out since he gave a lecture last month calling for prompt reductions in emissions of greenhouse gases linked to global warming.
The scientist, James E. Hansen, longtime director of the agency’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, said in an [...]

Thirty-six years of suffering a guilty conscience finally has proven too much for a German who shoplifted from a small store while on vacation in Norway in 1970.
Seeking to make amends, he sent a check for $375 to the small mountain town of Lom, and asked them to find the [...]

1991: US Congress votes for war in Iraq
The United States Congress has voted to authorise the use of military force against Iraq to end its occupation of neighbouring Kuwait.
The vote seals the United Nations’ 15 January deadline for the Iraqi President, Saddam Hussein, to order his troops out of Kuwait, or face military action.
After three [...]