DEMOCRATS and Republicans alike are denouncing Republican Joe Wilson for shouting “You lie” at President Barack Obama during his speech to Congress, an extraordinary breach of decorum for which the South Carolina Republican swiftly apologised.

President Barack Obama today urged the US Congress to enact sweeping health care legislation, declaring the "time for bickering is over" and the moment has arrived to help millions who have insurance and many more without it.

'Mr & Mrs Smith' director Doug Liman is attempting to do what other moviemakers have failed to do - bring Russell Crowe and Nicole Kidman together on the big screen.

A juror was today dismissed from the trial of former White House aide Lewis “Scooter” Libby after court officials learned she had been exposed to information about the case over the weekend.

Attorneys and a federal judge today began privately questioning each juror in the Iraq-related CIA leak trial after one juror apparently saw or read something about the case over the weekend.

Tony Blair was “double-crossed” by US President George Bush’s aides in the run-up to the Iraq war, the former diplomat at the centre of the political crisis engulfing the White House argued today.

IN the same week the Rossport Five were committed to Cloverhill Prison, American journalist Judith Miller also received the same tough love treatment for failing to cooperate with a US federal investigator.

The US media is struggling to reconcile two cherished values. One is the idea that journalists must not be forced to reveal their sources. The other is much less noble, but no less cherished: get Bush.

TWO players from one of the country’s leading soccer clubs were hospitalised in the early hours of yesterday morning after they were set upon and robbed by a gang of youths, including two girls.