Ethics

* Scandal becoming one of biggest to strike government * Conservatives had promised to be more accountable By David Ljunggren OTTAWA, May 17 (Reuters) - Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper defended on Friday a top aide who is at the center of an...

FRIDAYMAY 17 THE LEHIGH VALLEY CHAPTER OF THE SOCIETY FOR HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT will hold a half-day diversity seminar, "Diverseforce IV: Facing the Newest Challenges of the 21st Century," 8 a.m. to noon, at the Best Western Lehigh Valley Hotel and...

John le Carré's novels have responded brilliantly to the absence of the Cold War, which was, from 1963's classic "The Spy Who Came in from the Cold" to "The Secret Pilgrim" in 1990, their traditional domain. In one sense, though, whether set before or...

May 16 (TheWrap.com) - The early Cannes verdict on Sofia Coppola's "The Bling Ring" is in and for most part the reaction has been favorable.  The movie, about the gang of celebrity-obsessed teenage thieves from the San Fernando Valley who swiped jewelry...

WASHINGTON, May 16 (Reuters) - U.S. Representative Mel Watt, nominated by President Barack Obama to serve as a top housing regulator, plans to divest bank stock he owns if confirmed in the post, according to a statement filed with the Office of Government...

If you don't believe in souls or an afterlife, then a corpse is just a body — potentially a teaching tool, a source of life-saving organs, but little more. In 1829, taking such thinking to the extreme, a radical British pamphleteer named Peter...

By Ed Stoddard JOHANNESBURG, May 16 (Reuters) - For biologist Frans de Waal, a peaceful species of great ape in Africa is a mirror of humanity and a living argument that empathy and cooperation are far from unique to mankind. "The Bonobo and the...

* Pope makes first major speech on economic issues * Decries "tyranny" of the market, "cult of money" * Calls for ethical reforms of financial structures By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY, May 16 (Reuters) - Pope Francis issued a strong call for world...

When Illinois lawmakers sit down to draw new legislative maps, the two most important pieces of information are 1) how each precinct voted in the last election and 2) where the incumbents live. Using that information, the majority party sorts voters...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Alternative asset managers such as Blackstone Group LP and KKR & Co LP have for decades scoured the stock market for undervalued companies. Now they are trying to convince investors that shares in their own firms are a bargain. As...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - After more than 15 years of failures by scientists around the world and one outright fraud, biologists have finally created human stem cells by the same technique that produced Dolly the cloned sheep in 1996: They transplanted genetic...

Finding affordable housing in Winnetka over the years has been a journey of faith for Sister Peggy McDonnell. A Catholic nun, McDonnell has found a way to stay in Winnetka for nearly 25 years — including 11 years in a coach house — despite...