National & World News Archive November 2007
Daredevil Evel Knievel Dies at 69
Motorcycle Daredevil Evel Knievel Dies Aged 69
Balkan Blues
Part Prison, Part Holiday Camp
Judge Left Innocent Man in Jail for More Than a Year
Pollock Cache May Have Been Painted After Artist's Death
Open Verdict on Death of Woolmer
Making of a Cause Celebre
Still Waiting for Peace
In Praise of ... Shah Rukh Khan
Judge Struck Off After Jailing 46 People for One Ringing Phone
The Debt 'socialised Medicine' Owes to Richard Nixon
In Praise of ... Gérard Errera
Cut Carbon By Up to Third to Save Poor, Un Tells West
10 Years to Change Our Ways, Warns Un Report
Cervantes' Epic Reborn As an Animated Romp
Astor's Son Faces Fraud Charges
Last Chance to Catch Nazis in South America, Say Campaigners
Two Civilians Killed in Kabul Bombing
Sick Are in the Frontline As Supplies and Hope Drain Away for Isolated Gazans
What is the G8?
Ministers Sneaked Out Missile Plan, Say Mps
Where Death By Water is Part of Daily Life
US Farmer Cuts Off Trapped Arm
US Obtains Swiss Records and Flies in British Witness in Bae Investigation
Capital Prepares
KGB 'killer' Steps Out of the Shadows in Crocodile Shoes
Rescued Antarctic Tourists Are Stranded
Pay Boost for Saffron Pickers Casts Cloud Over 3,000-year-old Export Industry
Turks Accused of Killing Christians Go on Trial
Safety Questions Over Doomed Antarctic Cruise Ship
Tributes to Drowned Five-year-old and Father
No Food, No Clothes, No Home. The Poor Who Have Lost Everything
Our Man in the Labyrinth
Proud, Tall - and Rotting: Anne Frank's Tree Wins a Reprieve
The Battle for the Soul of Chechnya
The Violence Falls But the Sewage Continues to Rise
School Massacre Plots Hatched on Internet
Rome Uncovers Its Founding Moment
Land of the Rising Stars
New Airship Era Takes Off in Tokyo
Buildings Not Blocks
Harlem Takes on University in Battle of Town Versus Gown
The Stone-age Auteur
Drama Relates Story of America's Downwinders
Fascists Vow to Defy Ban on Franco Tributes
Fascists Gather to Pay Homage to Franco
'I Wasn't Brave Enough'
Pilot Grounded After Mushroom Mission
Bawled Out
Kremlin Faces Eu Anger Over Election Monitor Pullout
Leaked Rules Detail Rewards and Penalties at Guantánamo
He's Unbelievably Energetic and He's Raised the Profile of Egyptology Enormously. He Gives It Drama and Cachet ...
Rattled Conductor Silences Cougher
Manual Exposes Divide-and-rule Tactics in Camp Delta
Profile: Abu Hamza
Apartheid in the Heart of Europe: How Roma Children Lose Out on Education
Danes Vote in Close-run Elections
Disaster in Black Sea As Storm Sinks Tanker
Saudi Prince Buys $310m Airbus
How the Danes Voted
VIP Welcome Home for Freed Killer of Air Traffic Controller
Sentenced to Death for Crimes They Did Not Commit: the Men Who Lived to Tell the Tale
Rust Belt City Celebrates a $100m Gift From the Friend They Will Never Know
Danish Pm Hails Narrow Election Win
Hundreds of Thousands of Women Raped for Being on the Wrong Side
Ahmadinejad Steps Up Rhetoric Against Critics at Home With Threat to Expose 'traitors'
Frozen Vault Saves Crops for Mankind
Southern Preacher Could Be Saviour of the Republicans
More Than a Game: How Football Beat Apartheid on Robben Island
The Pugilist Who Wrote the Story of America
Farewell to the Tough Guy
Britons Excluded From Us Drug Compensation
The Pupil Who Declared War
Detained Leader Offers to Hold Talks With Burmese Junta
Georgian President Announces Early Election to Quell Protests
Finland Massacre Teenager Felt Cast Out By Fellow Pupils
How the Georgian President Lost the Support of His People
State of Emergency in Georgia As Street Protests Turn Violent
'Revolution. Smash Everything'. Then Eight Were Killed By Student Gunman
Gehry Sued Over Leaky University Building
Taoiseach Buoyed By Prosperity, Peace and Friends at Old Trafford
Doctors Operate on Girl With Eight Limbs
Briton Charged Over Gay Sex in Ghana
Aung San Suu Kyi Set for Talks With Un Envoy
45 Migrants Die in Failed Canaries Sea Crossing
Halt! Your Truffles or Your Life!
Chad Case Children Not Orphans, Says Un
US Troop Fatalities Plunge Following 'surge Strategy'
'I Wanted to Save an Orphan From War and Hunger. No One Said I Was Doing Wrong'
Ancient Church Takes Eight-mile £2m Journey
Boy Playing With Matches Started Huge California Fire
UAE Sheikh to Stand Trial for 'sexually Motivated' Assault
Man Held After Taking Clinton Staff Hostage
French Exchange
Banned Wrestler Vows to Change His Ways As Sumo Struggles to Repair Its Reputation
Pope Agrees to Talks With Muslim Leaders
Aids Cover-up As Chinese Pm Visits Village
Bush Handed Blueprint to Seize Pakistan's Nuclear Arsenal
Captured Videos Revive Hopes for Hostages
Iran Tries to Head Off Calls for Tougher Sanctions
Clinton Office Hostages Freed
Suspects in Kercher Killing Told They Must Stay in Prison
Brother of Accused Pilot Wins Damages for 9/11 Arrest
Meredith Suspects Told They Will Remain in Custody
Writers Set to Turn Down Latest Pay Deal
Teenager Accused of Leading £12.5m Cyber Crime Team
Sumo Welcomes Back Apologetic Enfant Terrible
Court Tells Uk to Remove Iran Opposition From Terror List
Iran Faces Further Sanctions As Nuclear Talks Stall
One Dead As Earthquake Rocks the Caribbean
Rudd Pledges to Withdraw Australian Troops From Iraq
Musharraf to End Emergency Rule Before Elections
'Blasphemy' Teacher Found Guilty
Desert Turkey
'I Believe in the War, But Being Here Sucks'
Cry, Robot: the Android Dental Patient at the Cutting Edge
Bin Laden: Europe Must Quit Afghanistan
Berezovsky Jailed in Absentia
Japan Defence Ministry Raided in Bribery Scandal
Israel Risks Apartheid-like Struggle If Two-state Solution Fails, Says Olmert
US Security Firm Runs Into New Trouble - and This Time It's Closer to Home
Musharraf Promises to End Emergency Rule By December 16
Q&A: The Russian Electoral System
Fraud, Intimidation and Bribery As Putin Prepares for Victory
VC Hero Was Probably Killed By Friendly Fire
UK Troops Ready for Kosovo Crisis
'A Time of Sacrifice'
No-show Brown Plays Into Mugabe's Hands
Japan Rocked By Bribery Scandal
Three Arrested in Slovakia 'had Enough Uranium for Dirty Bomb'
Spanish Judge 'forgot' to Free Innocent Man
State of Israel Could Disappear, Warns Olmert
Dalai Lama Challenges China - With a Referendum on Reincarnation
Musharraf Sworn in As Civilian President
New York Loses Mean Streets Image As Murder Rate Plunges
'Blasphemy' Teacher Appears in Court
Natwest Three Plead Guilty to $7.3m Enron-linked Transatlantic Fraud
Unwarranted Offence
Fiery Venus: Not Evil, Just Unfortunate
Chávez Forced to Battle for Long-term Future
Bush Takes Middle East Peace Bid to White House
Ex-drag Queen Arrested in French Gay Murders Case
Wild Dogs Kill British Woman in Bulgaria, Reports Claim
Musharraf 'to Lift Pakistan State of Emergency'
'Cheap Chinese Goods? Blame America'
Trouble in Nowhere Land
Judge Jailed Entire Court for Phone Interruption
Fears Grow As Kosovo Talks Fail
Derobed and Lonely: Life on Civvy Street
Musharraf Says an Emotional Farewell
Slovak Police Say Three Accused of Trying to Sell Nuclear Material
Iran Leader Dubs Summit a Failure
Sarkozy Promises Tough Stance on Rioters
Female Suicide Bomber Wounds Seven Us Troops in Iraq
Musharraf Bows Out to the Strains of Auld Lang Syne
Chinese 'messenger of Peace' Docks in Tokyo Port
US Airstrikes Kill Civilian Roadworkers in Afghanistan
Minister Targeted in Sri Lanka Suicide Attack
Sudan Plays Down Teddy Blasphemy Case
Israel to Lure Soviet Jews From Germany
Wife Asks Court to Declare Missing Tycoon Fossett Dead
Israel and Palestinians Commit to Peace Talks
PM Boycotts Eu-africa Summit Due to Mugabe Attendance
Musharraf Says Farewell to Army
Iran Unveils Long-range Missile
Citigroup Given $7.5bn Lifeline From Gulf State
Official Cleared of Spying Despite Intervention By Iran's President
Fossett's Wife Wants Him Declared Dead
Finding a 'living Buddha'
Israeli Migration Agents Target German Jews
EU Scrambles to Control Mugabe After He Confirms Summit Visit
Refugees Celebrate First Bus Back to Iraq
'Peace There Won't Be, But You Look Well'
Rhetoric and Reality: Bush's Battle for the Future of the Middle East
Scores of Police Hurt in Paris As Riots Spread Through Suburbs
NatWest Three May Plea Bargain Over Enron Charges
US Pledges Long-term Presence in Iraq
Ahmadinejad Offers to Be an Observer at Us Presidential Election
Bangladeshi Writer Goes Into Hiding
Putin Says Us is Behind Poll Experts' Boycott
Bullets, Viagra and Tnt on Tap As Tunnellers Beat the Blockade
Sharif Rules Out Musharraf Pact
Bush 'optimistic' About Middle East Conference
Frantic Bid to Bridge Middle East Divide
Bush Commits Troops to Iraq for the Long Term
British Friendly Fire Kills Danes
Diary of 'eillen' Tells of Life With Colombia's Communist Rebels
Anti-Putin Protesters Arrested
Iran Leader's Blog Attracts Critics
Australian Poll Holds Lessons for Labour, Warns Milburn
Musharraf's Troubles Deepen As Sharif Makes Triumphant Return
Boost for Middle East Summit As Syria Joins in
Rescued Cruise Boat Tourists Taken to Chile
Musharraf Allows Rival to Return to Pakistan
Howard's Reign in Australia Ends
Musharraf Set to Be Civilian President As Sharif Prepares Return From Long Exile
US Troops Surge Ends As Violence in Iraq Falls
Fight Begins for the Soul of South Africa
Hamas Warns of Violence After Talks
Round One to Sarkozy But President Still Faces Fight for Reform
Pirates Face Crackdown Over Movie Downloads
Taboo is Broken, Now We Need Drugs
Arms Dealer Jailed for Sale of Iranian Guns to Kuwait
Bush Wins Crucial Saudi Support for First Israeli-palestinian Peace Talks in Seven Years
Cautious Sarkozy Survives Round One of Fight for Change
Exiled Ex-leader Sharif Ready to Return to Pakistan
New Polish Prime Minister to Loosen Ties With Us
Leaving Home for the Homeland
Lebanese President Declares State of Emergency
Sarkozy Gets Tough on Internet Pirates
Last-ditch Effort to Break Lebanese Impasse
The Lucky Country?
Suspect's Dna Found in Meredith Murder Inquiry
Pushed Before He Can Jump
Colombia Halts Chávez Negotiations Over Hostages
Pakistan Suspended From Commonwealth
Saudis Make Up 41% of Foreign Fighters in Iraq
Hostage Hopes Fade As Colombia Sacks Negotiator Chávez
Court Politics
Piling the Pressure on Musharraf
Case Dismissed: Behind Barbed Wire, Judges Back Musharraf
Failure to Meet Deadline Brings Fresh Commonwealth Suspension
Pakistan Suspension Tops Agenda at Commonwealth Summit
Court Rules Musharraf Can Stay on As President
Spanish Tv Show Blamed for Woman's Murder
MP Steps in to Aid Football Fan's Jail Plight
Afghanistan 'falling Into Taliban Hands'
Disease Fears for Bangladesh Cyclone Survivors
Arrested Man Denies Meredith Kercher Murder
Iraq Helicopter Crash Dead 'were Sas'
Peace is Possible
Musharraf Regime Seeks Commonwealth Amnesty
Godfathers of the Nation
Holocaust Hero Accused of Savings Theft
Woman Killed After Rejecting Tv Marriage Proposal
Putin Decries Western Meddling
Come to Summit, Abbas Tells Arab Nations
Iraqi Refugees Start to Head Home
'This is Like a Fantasy'
Could This Holiday Snap Hold the Key to a Murder Case?
Father and Son, Five, Die in Sea Off Spanish Coast
Two Sas Soldiers Die As Raf Helicopter Crashes in Iraq
Four-course Meal
British Girls Guilty of Ghana Drug Smuggling
Release of Khmer Rouge Torturer 'would Threaten Public Order'
British Helicopter Crash in Iraq Kills Two
UN Lowers Estimate of Worldwide Hiv/aids Cases By 6m
Germans Hold New Perugia Killing Suspect
Water Park Planned for Arizona Desert
Pakistan Says 3,400 Political Detainees Are Freed
New Bid to Resolve Kosovo Status
Pakistan Frees 3,000, But Arrests Go on
No Surrender, Says Sarkozy As Strike Action Widens Out
Khmer Rouge Prison Chief Faces Court
Pakistan Frees 3,000 Held Under Emergency Rule
Dangers of an Illusory Independence
Aleksandr Feklisov
Iraqi Footballers Abandon Team to Seek Asylum
UN Aid Chief Attacks New Israeli Checkpoint Plan
Guards Shot Children Dead After Afghan Suicide Blast, Says Un
Musharraf to Quit Army - As Soon As Purged Court Rules
Bangladesh Cyclone Death Toll Passes 3,000
Ahmadinejad in Dog House Over Security Sweep
The Middle East Has Had a Secretive Nuclear Power in Its Midst for Years
Afghan Mps' Bodyguards 'killed Dozens'
Striking Civil Servants Turn Heat on Sarkozy
Israel and Palestine Fail to Agree Before Conference
More Us Special Forces to Aid Fight Against Insurgents
Court Dismisses Challenges to Musharraf
US and Europeans Try to Avert Breakaway By Kosovo With New Year Recognition Pledge
US Looks to Make Allies of Pakistan's Tribesmen
Hispanic Names Make Top 10 List in America
Escaped Police Killer Arrested in The Hague
US Could Enlist Pakistan Tribal Leaders
Japan Urged to Recall Whaling Fleet
EU Ministers Try to Head Off Kosovo Breakaway
Ukraine Mine Blast Toll Rises to 69
Purged Pakistan Court Upholds Musharraf Election Victory
Bangladesh Cyclone Death Toll 2,400 and Rising
James Jackson
Climate Change Will Destroy Asia's Gains, Study Says
More Than 50 Killed in Ukraine Coal Mine Blast
Communists Set to Gain From Putin's Squeeze on Democrats
Berlusconi Plans Broader Party
US Envoy to Musharraf Returns Home With Nothing
King's Outburst Generates £1m-worth of Ringtones
Fears for Thousands in Remote Areas As Bangladesh Storm Toll Hits 2,300
Blair Unveils Huge Jobs Plan to Bolster Middle East Peace Talks
Military Feeling Iraq Fatigue, Warns General
Oil Leaders' Private Debate Televised By Mistake
'Safe' Uranium That Left a Town Contaminated
Cyclone Disaster Toll Climbs
Musharraf Widens His Sphere of Punishment
It Was Murder: the Chávez Version of Liberator's Death
Musharraf Faces Us Pressure to End Emergency Rule
French Police Hold Mp's Niece Over Man's Death
Bangladesh Cyclone Kills More Than 600
Video Game of Spain's Civil War Causes Outrage
Spain's Divorce Rate Soars After Rules Relaxed
McCanns' Friend Says She Saw Madeleine Being Abducted
Bhutto Freed As Top Us Aide Arrives
British Officials Hold Talks With Mahdi Army
Monitors to Miss Russian Poll After Moscow Fails to Give Visas
Cyclone Cuts Trail of Destruction Through Bangladesh - 1,100 Feared Dead
The Real Inconvenient Truth – Has Already Taken Fifty Million Lives
Bangladesh Cyclone Kills 242
UN Committee Calls for Abolition of the Death Penalty
Indonesian Troops 'deliberately Killed' Reporters, Cornoner Rules
Coroner Accuses Indonesians of War Crimes in East Timor
Kosovo Ready to Break Away
Bhutto Calls for New Coalition As House Arrest is Lifted
Ruse Fails to Save Book From Iran's Censors
'DNA Find' on Knife in Case of Kercher Killing
DNA of Meredith and Suspect Found on Knife
Iranian Publisher's Ruse Fails to Protect Raunchy García Márquez Title From Censors
Musharraf Appoints Ally As Caretaker Prime Minister
Clarence House Steers Clear of Jerusalem Visit
Suspected Atlantic Airline Plotter Faces Deportation
Australians Named As World's Worst Polluters
Sect Members Wait in Russian Cave for World to End
Britain Scorns France's Plans for Eu Defence
Bhutto Calls for Coalition to Replace Musharraf
Abbas Calls for Overthrow of Hamas in Gaza Strip, Claiming Population is Being Abused
Decision Time for Us Over Iran Threat
Hey Big Spender: the £3m Spree That Landed a Saudi Prince in a London Court
Russian Doomsday Sect Threatens Mass Suicide
US Author Mounts 'libel Tourism' Challenge
Two Children Killed Amid Fresh Violence in Pakistan
Musharraf to Announce Caretaker Government
Police Arrest Teenager Over Virtual Theft
Soldier Took Overdose on Eve of Iraq Deployment
Law Lords Back Home Office in Darfur Appeal
Profile: Imran Khan
Staying Afloat
Earthquake Rocks Northern Chile
Paris Transport Workers Join Strike Over Pensions
Palestinian Peace Brokers Aim at Pact With Israel Within Year
Iranian Charged With Passing Secrets to British Embassy
Blackwater Promises Action After Fbi Report
Imran Khan Faces Anti-terrorism Charges in Pakistan
Xenophobia Destroys Eu's Ultra-rightwing Mep Group
Iran Hands Over Nuclear Papers - Four Years Late
Iranian Hardliners Accuse Former Nuclear Negotiator of Leaking Secrets to Uk Embassy
From Opera to Power Station: Stoppages Over Pension Changes Divide Country
Palestinians Aim for Agreement With Israel Within Year
General's Last Stand
Khan Arrested Under Terror Laws As Musharraf Defends Crackdown
Blackwater Promises to Hold Guards to Account
Mozambique Works to Attract Big Spenders to National Parks
Danish Pm Wins Gamble on Early Election
The Murder Case That Gripped the World
Bhutto Deepens Rift By Telling 'contaminated' Musharraf to Go
Burmese Activists Arrested
Taiwan Squeezed As Us and China Negotiate
Putin: I Have a Moral Right to Continue Wielding Influence
Czechs Found Guilty of Bias in Roma Schooling
Venezuela Scrambles for Food Despite Oil Boom
EU Budget Fails Health Check for 13th Year As Billions in Subsidies Are Claimed Falsely
Fatah Loyalists Held By Hamas After Rally
German Vice-chancellor Resigns
Afghanistan and Iraq Wars Cost $1.6trillion
A Click Away From Freedom
Musharraf Defends Emergency Rule Decision
Bhutto: I Will Not Serve As Pm As Long As Musharraf is President
Instability in Pakistan
Bhutto Placed Under House Arrest
Royal Insult Echoes Persecution of Christ, Says Venezuelan Leader
Inside the Green Zone
Hundreds of Dying Birds Are First Victims of Russian Tanker Leak
Japan's Melody Roads Play Music As You Drive
Transport and Utility Strikes Pose Biggest Threat to Sarkozy
Six Die in Fights With Bengali Communists
Former Mp Claims Mbeki Killed Bae Bribery Inquiry
Finnish School Killer Was in Contact With Us Plotter
Car Park Film Casts Doubt on Story of Kercher Suspect
Bye Bye Belgium?
Six Die in Clashes As Fatah Emerges Onto Streets of Gaza
Commonwealth Ultimatum to Pakistan
Nasa Told to Solve 'ufo Crash' X-file
High-rise Vision Sparks Paris Revolt
Packed Classes Hint at Peace in Battered Iraq
Murder Trial Sniper Says Us Used 'bait' for Suspect Iraqis
Iraqi Fighters 'grilled for Evidence on Iran'
Pressure Builds As Bhutto Pushes Ahead to Endgame
Protege's Corruption Charge Embarrasses Giuliani
500,000 Chinese-made Toys Recalled Over Date-rape Drug Link
Land is to Hong Kong What Oil is to a Gulf State
59 Children Die in Deadliest Afghan Suicide Attack
Albania in Nuclear Export Scheme
Spain Shown Perils of Climate Change
UK's New Afghanistan Plan: Pay Farmers to Ditch Opium
Appeal Court Ruling Against Zuma Intensifies Anc Power Struggle
A Faded Rose
Campaign to Put Soldiers on Stamps
Bush Puts Pressure on Pakistani President As Bhutto Issues March Ultimatum
News Media Feels Force of Musharraf Crackdown
Bhutto Prepares to Defy Ban With Mass Rally
Upbeat Us Military Claims It Has Forced Al-qaida Out of Iraqi Capital
Washington Tells Eu Firms: Quit Iran Now
Irish Police Arrest Former Ira Leader
Spain Calls a Halt to Building on Islands
Germans Hanker After Barrier
Big Food Companies Accused of Risking Climate Catastrophe
Airlines Told They Must Reveal Passenger Data
Nicaraguans Awarded $3.2m Over Pesticides
Five Mps Among Up to 50 Killed As Insurgents Switch Focus From Military to Civilian Targets
Six Mps Among 50 Killed in Suicide Attack in Afghanistan
Tamil Paramilitary Held Over Immigration Offences
Closure of Crossings Traps Students in Gaza
'Boss of Bosses' Successor Arrested at Mafia Summit
Pregnant Woman Killed in Mass La Street Fight
Congressmen Corner Yahoo! Over Jailed Chinese Dissident
The Tough Guy Outsider Who Loves to Be in Control
MPs and Children Killed in Afghan Suicide Bombing
Italian Right Calls for Repatriation of Roma
Rabin Assassin's Son Circumcised in Prison Amid Furious Protest
Musharraf Snubbed Brown and Rice on Emergency Rule
Fear and Brutality Inside the Fiefdom of Islamist Shock Jock
Seven Released After Sarkozy Flies to Chad for Talks on Fostering Case
China Takes Tough Line on Olympics Protests
Turkey Defends Cross-border Raids on Kurdish Guerrillas
A Souvenir of 1945 Reveals Hitler's 'mail Order' Art Looting
Suicide or Murder? Iran Blames Us After 152 Dolphins Die
Italian Woman's Murder Prompts Expulsion Threat to Romanians
Turkey Bans Flights to Northern Iraq
Fears Grow for 150,000 People As Flood Chaos Hits Mexico
Building of Iraqi Police Barracks Threatens World Heritage Site
Sudanese President Demands Brown Apology
New Chinese Rocket Raises Concerns of Arms Race in Space
US Supreme Court Calls a Halt to Executions
Bomb on Russian Bus Kills Eight and Injures 56
Spanish Lessons for Britain
Mass Murderers Jailed for 40 Years As Judge Delivers Verdicts on Spain's 9/11