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A legal letter sent on behalf of Mark Thompson, the former director general of the BBC, raises questions about his assertions that he learned of accusations of sexual abuse against [...]

LONDON -- Last March, Mark Thompson addressed the Royal Television Society and took proud stock of his time leading the BBC, Britain's publicly financed media behemoth that is both treasure [...]

LONDON -- In the growing storm surrounding the BBC's handling of an investigation of child sexual abuse accusations against one of its longtime television hosts, the network's current director general [...]

The journey into the heart of Al Qaeda began here, in the frayed Yemeni-American neighborhood of this former steel town just south of Buffalo. For Sahim Alwan, a 28-year-old youth […]

The last of a group of six men accused of attending an Al Qaeda training camp months before 9/11 pleaded guilty today, marking a victory for federal prosecutors who argued […]

It was not the heat of war that rattled Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, but the lull beforehand. Meeting with advisers a couple of weeks before fighting began, Mr. Rumsfeld, […]

'I'M not talking politics,' says Dave Pabst, behind the counter at the Beaverkill Angler shop here. He says that as a warning, but it is a relief. 'The war's going […]

IN the 10 days since he was taken prisoner in Iraq, Sgt. James Riley has become something of a symbol in this working-class town where he grew up -- a […]

LAST fall, when six men from Lackawanna, just south of Buffalo, were accused of attending a training camp for Al Qaeda in Afghanistan, a top Justice Department official said it […]

JEFFREY ZAUN's first appearance on national television was as a prisoner of war in January 1991. It was filmed by an Iraqi camera. His face was battered. He was threatened […]

AS the war in Iraq roared into action, Debrah Talley went to a bedroom in her small apartment to spend a moment with the framed portrait of her son Robert. […]

THIRTY-SIX hours,' Rahim al-Mubalik said yesterday morning, 12 hours into Saddam Hussein's final 48. 'It starts.' Mr. Mubalik and another Iraqi, Hussain Altamini, sharing coffee at the Jerusalem Cafeteria were […]

OUTSIDE the city's only abortion clinic, there is plenty of talk about killing, but none of it concerns James C. Kopp and Barnett A. Slepian, the doctor Mr. Kopp admits […]

THIS stretch of the Black Horse Pike may have been Po Shan Cheah's greatest discovery. Mr. Cheah, a 29-year-old software engineer, was driving through southern New Jersey last Sunday when […]

BACK when the Peckman River was a watery dump for sewage, grass clippings and broken furniture, the notion of its becoming a trout stream seemed like a fantasy. But two […]

TALK about uncontrolled chain reactions. Nuclear fission has nothing on the serial finger-pointing under way in the debate over the Indian Point power plant. Whether or not you view Indian […]

FIVE months ago, this Hudson Valley village was an outpost of the vast mushy middle. With two-thirds of Americans telling pollsters that they supported military action to oust Saddam Hussein, […]

MIGUEL ARENAS has now served more than eight years of a 15-year-to-life sentence for selling two ounces of cocaine. At his sentencing in 1994, Justice Steven W. Fisher of State […]

YOU only thought the Martha Moxley case was over. Sure, Michael Skakel, 42, was convicted last year in the 1975 murder of Ms. Moxley, his teenage neighbor in Greenwich, Conn. […]

THE mayor of the state's largest city stars in his own corruption trial each day until 2 p.m., then heads to City Hall to do the people's business. An associate […]

HANY KIARELDEEN left family court on Monday after another round in the custody fight for his dark-eyed, ebullient 8-year-old daughter. 'The case belonged here from the beginning,' he said. 'They […]

RICHARD BRODSKY could hardly have been happier. Speaking to opponents of the Indian Point nuclear plant here Thursday night, Mr. Brodsky, a state assemblyman, recalled a similar gathering last year. […]

PROMISES to whip New Jersey's child welfare system into shape came fast and furious after revelations of government negligence in the recent Newark abuse case. But the get-tough language glosses […]

BEFORE Faheem Williams, there was Elliot Burgos. The death of 3-month-old Elliot, crushed in his crib by his crack-addicted father here in November 2000, provoked little outcry compared with the […]

ALREADY, the headlines have shrunk. CNN has moved on. Gov. James E. McGreevey began his State of the State address yesterday pledging to fix New Jersey's child welfare system after […]

Melinda Williams's sons always seemed to end up in the basement. When Ms. Williams's twins were 3 years old, a friend, Gloria Anderson, went to visit them on 18th Street […]

A teenage cousin of the boy found dead here last weekend in a gruesome child-abuse case has been charged with aggravated assault in the child's death, law enforcement officials said […]

A search that went as far as North Carolina ended today when the police found Sherry L. Murphy, suspected in the abuse of three children here, sleeping in the basement […]

BRIAN McQUEEN delivered the mail to the neat white house at 188 Parker Street but had no inkling of the horror brewing in the basement. Victor Hernandez, who has lived […]

TOM KEAN sometimes looks a bit like the shy, unassuming boy thrust on stage in the school auditorium. So when he walked onstage at Drew University last week it was […]

AS Bob Dylan sang in 1966, 'Everybody must get stoned.' Thom and Deirdre Forbes did. But growing up in the late 60's and early 70's, they didn't 'feel so all […]

MAYBE it's just Jeremy Hubbard's imagination, but everywhere he looks he sees either gangsters or gangstas. He lives in a neighborhood where each episode of 'The Sopranos' is an event, […]

FOR years, Jim McGreevey was the mayor of Woodbridge who would be governor. Now he is governor, and suddenly he's wistful for Woodbridge. It's not just that Woodbridge has it […]

THE resident former president in Chappaqua, who has made AIDS a cause of his post-presidency, declared Sunday in an Op-Ed article in The New York Times that 'too many countries […]

DRIVING down Conklin Street in Farmingdale that morning, you would hardly have noticed Juan Oliva. He was standing in one of those clutches of immigrants that sprout on street corners, […]

NOW comes the season of food and friends, so rather than pulling out the cookbooks, let's head to the parking lot at the Jets game to see what's cooking. 'Grilled […]

THIS is where the homeland begins, and thankfully, Morgan Badger is on the first line of defense. He lives in this speck of a town on the Canadian border, and […]

ENOUGH about the poor. Try being rich, even just comfortable. 'We have to pay for this, pay for that,' said Sal Miwa, who runs an Internet company in Manhattan. Property […]

IN high school, Zvika Krieger said, 'I was Mr. Liberal.' And all these years later, two to be exact, Mr. Krieger, now at Yale, says, 'I'm still like a total […]