Driven: President Barack Obama meets workers at a Chrysler auto plant in Detroit, 30 July 2010. Photograph: Larry Downing/Reuters Apparently, government intervention in the US auto industry is working. The much-maligned rescue of General Motors and Chrysler has revived the companies, which... 

Under William Hague, the Foriegn Office is reviewing the publication of its annual human rights report. Photograph: Sang Tan/PA What ought we to make of the stories that the Foreign and Commonwealth Office has “scrapped” its annual report on human rights? The FCO has made a rather... 

AP July 29: Louisville basketball coach Rick Pitino, left, is escorted by Chris Francis of the U.S. Attorney’s office as he arrives at the federal courthouse to testify in the trial of Karen Cunagin Sypher in Louisville, Ky. LOUISVILLE, Ky. The tangled relationship among Rick Pitino, his personal assistant... 

A group of NASCAR team owners met at Hendrick Motorsports on Tuesday night to talk about cost-cutting measures and the sport in general. The meeting was an extension of discussions among NASCAR and team owners on ways to improve the economic stability of the sport as well as to grow the sport’s audience. “NASCAR...