National & World News Archive January 2004
Now Cannibal Will Tell His Story
Snakes Let Loose in Bank
Chirac Heir Guilty in Corruption Case
Press Review: The Eta Meeting
EU Blacklist for Unsafe Airlines
Brussels Clears Gm Maize 'to Please Us'
Rebels Urge Liberia Head to Quit
Secret Meeting With Eta Hits Socialist Poll Hopes
EU Governments Scupper Chance to Halt Gravy Train
Parmalat Admits Real Debt is 14bn Euros
Parmalat Debt is More Than €14bn
Nuclear Chief Tells of Black Market in Bomb Equipment
Anti-migrants Plan Coup at 100-year-old Green Group
French Sikhs Threaten to Leave Country
EU Farm Policy Puts Birds at Risk
Kashmir Talks Yield Pledge to End Violence
Saudi Prince Alleges Kidnap
Liberian Warlord Given the Sack By His Wife
Apartheid Spy Smear Rebounds
Hit-and-run Vessel Sank Small French Boat Off Cornwall
Guantanamo Families to Take Fight to Us
Search for Carrier Survivors Called Off
Aznar Hangs Up His Legislative Boots
Car Bomb Targets French Muslim Leader
Suicide Bomb at Us Headquarters Kills 20
Judgment Day for Village Cross
Santa Maria Welcomes Jackson
EU Fires First Salvo in New Trade War With Us
Soldier's Tapes Pile Pressure on Hoon to Quit
'Criminal Neglect' Led to Media Deaths
EU Seeks Sanctions Against Us
USA Today Apologises to Readers
Dalí Biographer Seeks Peace in Battle for Rights
Finance Ministers Face Legal Action
King Asks Poor Swazis to Pay for 11 Palaces for Wives
US Military 'brutalised' Journalists
Flattened Pacific Island May Give Up Self-rule
Camp Delta Briton Claims Racial Abuse
Le Pen Tipped to Make Big Comeback in Local Polls
Aznar Keeps Promise to Stand Aside
19 Left Dead in Failed Hunt for Master Bomber
Deal for Camp Delta Britons
US Extremists to Be Sentenced Over Bomb Plot
Healing the Hidden Casualties of Kashmir
Search Over for $162m Lotto Ticket
42 Media Killings Last Year
French Mayors to Strike in Battle for Control of Bear Country
Mayors' Strike Threat Over Killer Bear
US Soldiers Sent Home for Beating Prisoners of War
Jeers and Scuffles As Sharon Defends Settlements Plan
Kinks Star Ray Davies Shot By Mugger
Manchester Mep Among Letter Bomb Targets
Two-speed Eu Divisive, Ahern Says
Crash Airline Banned By Swiss a Year Ago
Basra Tries to Regain That Riviera Touch
US Soldiers Ransack Sunni Mosque
Bam Survivors Turn Anger on Government
Few Cheers for Chirac's Jobs Promises
Pope Calls for a New World Order
Nine Killed in Bomb Attack on Iraq Police
US Officials Knew in May Iraq Had No Wmd
Hopes Rise for Cyprus Peace Deal
Kenyan Sport in Crisis As Athletes Go on Run
Sweden Backtracks on New Eu Workers
Pakistan's Nuclear Hero Throws Open Pandora's Box
Cannibal Who Fried Victim in Garlic is Cleared of Murder
Now Even Bush Admits Wmd Doubts
German Cannibal Gets Eight-and-a-half Years
Police in Zimbabwe Halt Opposition Policy Launch
Wife Talked Berlusconi Into Surgery
China Rejects Claim It Covered Up First Outbreak of Bird Flu
Crackdown Led to Hundreds of Communist Party Suicides
Iraqi Council Demands List of Alleged Bribes
Thousands Flee War in Sudan
Annan Attacks Fortress Europe Over Migrants
Prisoners Freed As Bomb Kills 10 in Israel
We Were All Wrong, Says Ex-weapons Inspector
Serb Chief Says Sorry to Croats
British Soldier Dies in Kabul Blast
Afghan Suicide Bomber Kills Two in Kabul
Plea to End Turkish Domestic Murder Laws
UN to Decide Feasibility of Iraq Election
Release Could Solve Mystery of Missing Israeli
Bird Flu Spreads to China
Supreme Court to Review Cases of Juvenile Killers
Palestinians Shocked at Use of Suicide Mother
Chirac's Wife Gives Hint of Political Aspirations
France Fails Immigrants, Says Official Study
Victims Urge International Trials for Terror Suspects
Aventis Scorns 48bn Euro Bid From Drugs Rival
US May Pay for Libya to Dismantle Weapons
Nuclear Inquiry Targets Father of Pakistani Bomb
Cautious Voters Turn Back to Steady Kerry
Scientists Create Gene Modified Sperm in Fish
Bird Flu Epidemic Spreads to Pakistan As Death Toll Rises to Seven
Iraqi Who Gave Mi6 45-minute Claim Says It Was Untrue
Golden Globes Take a Shine to The Office
Bird Flu Virus Spreads to Pakistan
US Must Quit Iraq Before Vote, Say Sunnis
Algerian Massacre Site 'erased By Police'
US Tests the Air in Reformed Libya
Indonesia Falls Victim to Bird Flu
Italians Ditch Vests for Exotic Holidays
Pakistan Attacks Traffic in 'nuclear Secrets'
Bird Flu Could Be Worse Than Sars, Un Warns
Nigeria Launches Anti-graft Campaign
Turkish Generals Back Talks on Cyprus
French Health Service 'on Verge of Collapse'
Berlusconi's New-look Italian Politics
Greek Isle Casino Was Big Gamble
Iraqi Informer's Family is Marked for Death
New Wmd Blow for Blair
EU Ban in Bird Flu Crisis
EU Bans Thai Chicken Amid Bird Flu Fears
Coroner Blasts Turkish Police for Fans' Deaths
Von Hagens Forced to Return Corpses to China
Turkish Army Main Bar to One-nation Cyprus
NY Mayor Shocked By Woman's Electrocution
Mbeki Claims Mugabe is Planning to Hold Talks With Opposition Leader
Deep South Divided By Rape Case
Murders Still Bedevil Chianti's Rolling Hills
Experts Fear Bird Flu Pandemic As Thailand Reports Human Case
Sharon Rejects Calls to Quit in Bribe Row
Two Us Soldiers Killed in Iraq Mortar Attack
Turkey Promises to Compensate Kurds
North Korea Could Soon Be Making 13 Nuclear Bombs a Year
Britart Goes to Iran
Bush Switches Focus to Economic Battles
Bribes Claim Threatens to Bring Down Sharon
Iranian Mps Resign En Masse
Courtroom Test for New Malaysia
North Korea 'using Food As Weapon'
Israel Hits Back After Army Death
Haitian President Urged to Quit to End Violence
Morocco Boosts Women's Rights
US Set for Iraq Election Retreat
Annan Considers Sending Un Mission to Iraq
Indonesia Ends Use of British Tanks
South African Judge Charged With Rape
Annan Stalls on Sending Un Mission to Iraq
Israel Scrambles to Defend Fence
Family's Murder Fuels Fears of South African Poll Violence
Disabled Dad Forced to Support Graduate
Row Brews Over Un Role in Libya
Israeli Envoy Snub to British Jews
Italians Worry As Their Pm Avoids Spotlight
Al-Qaeda Launches Online Terrorist Manual
Bomb Takes Us Toll in Iraq War to 500
Israelis 'to Kill' Hamas Cleric
Flying Train Plan Comes Off the Rails
Time on Our Side, Kim Tells Us
Harrison Legal Action is Settled
Record Cold in New York
Ayatollah Forces Us Rethink on Iraq Poll
Libya's Black Market Deals Shock Nuclear Inspectors
80,000 Unite Against Globalisation
Saudis Find Al-qaida Training Camps
Bomber's Family Hits Out at Islamic Jihad
Berlusconi is Unofficially Missing
Iraqi Protesters Demand Election As Ayatollah Threatens Fatwa
Plea for Forgotten Men at Us Base
Mugabe Arrest Bid Fails
Muslim Cleric Held in Us
Chirac Furious at Minister's Challenge
Saddam Wanted Jihadists Kept at Arm's Length
Europe Asks Turkey to Help Unite Cyprus
Sri Lankan Crisis Deepens As President Extends Term
I Acted on Impulse, Lindh's Killer Tells Court
Human-bomb Mother Kills Four Israelis
Airman Faces Us Court Martial
Tiananmen Slips Into China Media
Italy to Try Three Former Nazis
US Opens New Front in War on Terror
British Peace Activist Shot By Israeli Soldier Dies
White House Rethinks Iraq Plan
Berlusconi to Go Back on Trial
Europe Heads for Seismic Budget Battle
Bigamist Passed Hiv Recklessly
Dean's Bid for White House Alarms Blair Allies
Two Eu States Uphold Human Rights
Journalists Accused of Defaming Mugabe
India's Pm Seeks Early Election As Economy Surges
Denktash Puts Cypriot Deal Back Into Play
Israel Goes Ahead With Plans for Border Changes
Cardinal Backs Use of Condoms
Hunt After Albanian Boat Disaster
ANC Kicks Off Bitter Battle for Third Term
British Troops Under Attack After Iraqi Deaths
Al-Qaida Terror Plot Foiled, Say French Police
Bush Decided to Remove Saddam 'on Day One'
Iran Mps Hold Sit-in Over Election Ban
10,000 'died of Hunger' in Zimbabwe
Terror Cells Regroup and Target Europe
Father in 'private Ryan' Plea As Son Killed in Iraq
MPs and Peers in Camp Delta Plea
Where Death Eats Up the Means of Life
Swiss Hold 8 Over Saudi Suicide Bombs
Soft Treatment Fails to Get Saddam to Talk
Libya Agrees Payout for French Jet Bombing
Five Killed in Iraq Mosque Blast
US Disbands Iraq Team Looking for Battle Weapons
China Sees Second Sars Case
Blair's Eu Deals Now Void, Warns Ahern
Haiti Opposition Calls for Strike
Multiple Murders Spark Us Manhunt
Quake Survivor Found After 13 Days
Lifeline for Isolated North Koreans
Israeli Hunt for Suspect Kills 19
Military Team Seeking Wmd Pulled Out of Iraq
Six Jailed for Killing of Belgian Minister
Decision to Let France and Germany Off Deficit Hook Was Illegal, Says Ec
Wealth-sharing Deal Heralds Sudan Peace
Suspect Tells Lawyer He Killed Swedish Politician in Random Attack
Greek Pm Calls Early Election
Criminal Inquiry Into Legionnaires' Outbreak in France
NYPD Pays $3m After Killing Man
US Terror Patrols Wield Guns and Golf Bags
US Frees Iraqis After British Protest
Iran and Egypt to Resume Ties
Pakistan Denies Giving Nuclear Equipment to Libya
Bicycle Bomb Kills 11 Children in Afghanistan
Italy Seeks Anarchist Group for Anti-eu Bombs
Kashmir Edges a Step Closer to Peace
French Workers Shot in Iraq
Prodi Irritated By Jewish Criticism
US Delegation to Visit North Korean Nuclear Plant
Teenage Israeli Refuseniks Jailed
MoD Pays Out for Iraqi Civilian Deaths
Iran Considers Moving Capital From Quake Zone
Musharraf and Vajpayee Pledge Peaceful Links
Exotic Animals to Be Culled As Sars Returns to China
British General May Become Un's Man in Afghanistan
US to Fingerprint Millions of Foreign Visitors
Majorca Pools Pose Health Risk
Straw: Bin Laden is Alive
UK Troops in Iraq for Years - Straw
City Gears Up for Police Trial
Ireland Considers Health Warnings on Alcohol
Jewish Women Fight Holy War
Pakistan and Indian Leaders Meet at Summit
'Bin Laden Tape' Urges Uprising Against Us Troops
Mugabe Aide Admits Land Grab Failed
Woman of 97 Rescued Alive After Eight Days in Ruins
Hunt for Uk Terror Cell
Families of Air Crash Victims Fly to Egypt
China Braced for New Sars Outbreak
Prodi Warns of Two-speed Eu
Uranium Kit Seizure Pushed Libya to Come Clean
Votes Crisis Hangs Over Ireland's Eu Presidency
Russia No Longer a Game of Business Roulette
Italy Honours 'oddball Tramp'
Confidence Votes Tighten Musharraf's Grip on Pakistan
Flails and Insults Await Mugabe Refugees