The fallout from a custody row over Michael Jackson’s three children intensified today after fresh claims that neither Jackson nor ex-wife Debbie Rowe are the biological parents of any of the children. Jackson also never filed any papers to formally adopt any of the children, according to U.S. media reports today. Rumours have long circulated about the true parentage of Prince Michael, 12,... 

A Balloch woman was knifed repeatedly by a man she met through an arranged marriage website. The woman’s family were also threatened by crazed Yasir Afsar as he burst into their home. The High Court in Edinburgh last week heard how Afsar went berserk in the Balloch house after the relationship with his intended bride broke down. He turned up on the woman’s doorstep at 6.30am, forcing his way into... 

Reports are conflicting over whether the Jewish mother of two of the late Michael Jackson’s children will seek custody. Jackson, the “King of Pop” who died Friday of unspecified causes, and Debbie Rowe are the parents of Prince Michael I, 12, and Paris Michael Katherine, 11. By virtue of having a Jewish mother, they are considered Jewish. According to London’s Sunday Times,... 

Harlem, especially the Apollo, is the media’s unofficial spot to get Black America’s reaction to Michael Jackson’s death. Matt Harvey dropped by last Friday and listened in on a conversation that was full of adoration and, yes, angry conjecture. Hundreds of people – mostly black New Yorkers – are gathered outside of the Apollo Theater. It’s Friday afternoon and... 

A survivor of the Khmer Rouge’s deadliest torture centre wept today as he told a court about life at the facility where 16,000 others were abused before being  executed. Vann Nath, 63, escaped death because he was an artist and took the job of painting and sculpting portraits of the Khmer Rouge’s late leader, Pol Pot. But his special status did not spare him misery. ‘The conditions... 

Could you imagine that the above people are called “English” and “German”? They are just two foreigners dressed up in European clothes. Arsenal winger Theo Walcott has said the England camp is “buzzing” ahead of their European Under-21 Championship final against Germany in Malmo, Sweden, on Monday. Stuart Pearce’s men booked their place in the final with a... 

First it was Oprah Winfrey’s wistful reach for the continent, now other prominent African Americans are finding their roots. In 2005 Oprah Winfrey underwent DNA testing in an effort to determine the genetic make-up of her body’s cells. The popular American talk show host wanted to know where her ancestors, taken as slaves to the United States, had come from. Famous genes Since then thousands... 

Sonia Sotomayor’s discrimination against the white firefighters overturned. On the last day of the U.S. Supreme Court’s term, the high court handed down a major ruling involving race. Justices today ruled the city of New Haven, Connecticut, unfairly denied 20 white firefighters promotions because of their race. The ruling reverses Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor’s decision.... 

A federal judge rejected Bernard Madoff’s plea for leniency Monday, sentencing the 71-year-old swindler to spend the rest of his life in prison for an “extraordinarily evil” fraud that took a staggering toll on thousands of victims. U.S. District Judge Denny Chin cited the unprecedented nature of the multibillion-dollar fraud as he sentenced Madoff to the maximum of 150 years... 

Dead Michael Jackson Michael Jackson was bald, barely eating and his stomach contained only partially-dissolved pills when he died, autopsy details reveal. His hips, thighs and shoulders were pock-marked with needle wounds, believed to be the legacy of narcotic painkillers being injected three times a day, a post-mortem examination showed. The once athletic star had dropped to a ‘severely emaciated’... 

One child is raped in South Africa every three minutes, a report by trade union Solidarity said on Wednesday. A report compiled by Solidarity Helping Hand said that while there were about 60 cases of child rape in South Africa every day, more than 88% of child rapes were never reported. “This means that about 530 child rapes take place every day – one rape every three minutes,” said... 

Germany’s highest court has upheld a ban on three words appearing in sequence because of their link to a former anthem of the Nazi party. The Federal Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe rejected on Thursday an appeal by a member of a far-right party who was fined 1,750 euros ($2,400) for wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with the words “die Fahnen hoch.” This literally translates as... 

A 13-storey residential building under construction in Shanghai collapsed on Saturday, killing one worker and highlighting the dangers of shoddy building in fast-urbanising China. The building, in the outskirts of the city, collapsed at around 6 a.m. (2200 GMT), with one construction worker killed, the official Xinhua news agency reported. The block of high-rise residential flats was shown toppled... 

That’s the essential message from the 111th Congress to you and me: “eat dirt and die, peons”. The cap and trade bill passed in the House, 219- 212. More than forty Democrats voted against it, but a half dozen or so Republicans crossed over, enough to give them a majority. Here’s where you can read the roll call results to find out how your Congressman voted. Those suckers passed on it... 

The ACLU is demanding that schools in Michigan stop expelling violent out of control students. Claiming that it has to be white people’s fault that some black students are committing violent crimes and getting kicked out of school! Schools are not using enough discretion under Michigan’s zero-tolerance expulsion law and are disproportionately kicking out black students who ultimately end...