National & World News Archive November 2008
Rumours Abound As Inquiry Begins Its Search for Truth
Get Thee to a Nunnery - Just Make Sure It Has an Eco Loo
Unilever to Sell Stake in Plant Based in West Bank Settlement
Thai Anti-government Protesters Defy Police Warning to Leave Airports
Creditors Meet to Learn Cost of Kaupthing's Loans
Nigerian City Counts Its Dead After Days of Christian-muslim Riots
After Savanna
Iceland Has an Unlikely New Hero
US Carmakers Rush to Devise Recovery Plans Before Crucial Bail-out Talks
Britain is Criticised for Deporting Hiv Patients
State Fails to Stop Rise of Gangs in Limerick
Saved By Their Stripes: Africa's Vanishing Herds
Gilmore: Banks Must Safeguard Families' Homes
Congo's Fearful Innocents, Driven Into Hiding - and Then Starvation
Grenade Blast Hits Thai Government House in Bangkok
Bangkok Chaos Grows After Grenade Attack on Opposition Protesters
Thai Police Flee Bangkok Airport As Protesters Attack
Wal-Mart Worker Killed in Black Friday Shopping Stampede
Marines Killed in Afghanistan Named As 1,000 Attend Funeral
Security Chiefs Fear Revamped Version of 70s-style Violence
Death Toll Climbs Past 150 As City Reels From Terror Attack
Station Bridges Iberian Divide - Now They Just Have to Settle the Bill
From People's Palace Back to Prussian Palace
Down to Their Last Hundred Million But Russia's Elite Still Enjoy Fun of the Fair
Medvedev Ends Tour By Meeting Castro Brothers
Go Home Early and Multiply, Japanese Told
Listing Scandal Hits Chinese Internet Giant
Coup Fears Rise After Thai Pm Sacks Police Chief
EC Threat to Drug Companies That Block Cheap Generic Medicines
Brothers in Arms
Culture Crunch: Struggling Booksellers Fall Into the Tourist Trap
'Narcissist' Corporal Who Tried to Spy for Iran Gets 10 Years
Chinese Internet Giant Sacks Staff Over Paid for Search Listings
Talks Begin to Remove Thai Protestors From Airports
America: The Old Cowboy that Rides Off into the Sunset
Besieged Prime Minister Declares State of Emergency in Showdown With Protesters
Zimbabwe Unions Call for Bank Protest Over Withdrawal Limit
Eye for an Eye: Iranian Man Sentenced to Be Blinded for Acid Attack
Smugglers Run Rife on the New Frontline Between East and West
Two Royal Marines Killed in Afghanistan
Thai Prime Minister Calls State of Emergency to Clear Bangkok Airports
Tycoon Described Hotel Drama Before His Death
Second Bangkok Airport Shut By Thai Anti-government Protesters
Greenland to Loosen Ties With Denmark
Porsche Savages Us Rivals for Seeking Handouts
Mbeki Aids Policy 'led to 330,000 Deaths'
Mafia's Secret Firing Range Found Beneath Housing Estate
France Finally Agrees to Pay Damages to Nuclear Test Victims
Former World Figures Turn to Eu for Peacekeepers in Dr Congo
Thai Pm Somchai Rejects Calls to Step Down
Crisis Exposes Thailand's Class Struggle
Thailand Government Rejects Army Call to Dissolve Parliament
Squaring Up: The Key Players
Getting Home May Take Days
Weak States Are Major Threat to British Security, Report Warns
A Ski Resort, a Lost Investment, and a Bulgarian Murder
Beijing Cuts Base Rate to Lowest Level in a Decade
Journalist Took Fatal Job in Fear, Says Coroner
Thai Pm Snubs Call to Quit to End Airport Siege
Educational 'gulf' for Children of the World
Bangkok Airport Protest: Live
Trapped in Thailand: 'we Still Don't Know How We're Going to Get Home'
Thai Military Chief Calls for Dissolution of Parliament and New Elections
Thailand Protests Strand Thousands of Tourists at Bangkok Airport
The Legacy of Chemical Warfare
Mass Testing Plan to Tackle Aids
Politkovskaya Killing Ordered By Politician, Lawyers Claim
The Men at the Heart of the Thai Power Struggle
Higher Quotas Will Push Atlantic Tuna Closer to Collapse, Campaigners Warn
Socialists Investigate Voting Allegations After S?gol?ne Royal's Narrow Defeat
Get a Load of This: Lizards Attract Attention By Doing Push-ups
MoD Bill for Afghan and Iraq Conflicts Tops £13bn
Met Police Officer Ends Race Row With Payout on Eve of Blair Exit
Growth Expected to Hit 19-year Low Despite Stimulus
Rioting Protesters Close Bangkok Airport
Car Explosion Kills Three in St Petersburg
Islamic Art Museum Marks Cultural Shift in Gulf
Plans to Protect Forests Could Do the Opposite, Warns Friends of the Earth
Unexpected Rise in Carbon-fuelled Ocean Acidity Threatens Shellfish, Say Scientists
Zimbabwe on Brink of Collapse As Outbreak of Cholera Spreads
Rauf Did Not Die in Us Attack, Say Fugitive's Family
Anger at Tagging Plan to Fight Hiv in Indonesia
How an Avatar on Second Life Sparked a Real-life Court Case
EC Wants Consumers to Make Mass Cross-border Claims Against Traders
Chinese Tycoon 'held' in Share Trading Mystery
Whitehall Kept in Dark Over Strike That May Have Killed British Fugitive
Inquest to Look at Bbc Danger Zone Briefings
Finds That Made Basques Proud Are Fake, Say Experts
Miliband Makes Diplomacy Pledge to Iran in Nuclear Dispute
World's House Values Fall for the First Time
Islamic Ruling Bans Malaysia's Muslims From Practising Yoga
Fine Gael Promises 25 Years for Murderers
Vegas Bids to Cash in With Plan for $50m Mob Museum
Anger As 'gay-hating' Dj's Show Goes Ahead
'Martial Arts Gang' in Expat Kidnap Probe
Gang Wars Turn Caracas Into a Murder Capital
The Eco Machine That Can Magic Water Out of Thin Air
US Kills Alleged Transatlantic Airline Plot Leader, Reports Say
Aubry wins French Socialist leadership battle - just
Concerns Over Rising Power of Russian Energy Firms As Lukoil Targets Spanish Oil Group
The Resentment Rises As Villagers Are Stripped of Holdings and Livelihood
Ireland's Banking Sector Poised for Radical Restructuring
Rich Countries Launch Great Land Grab to Safeguard Food Supply
Lights Out at La Scala
Outrage in Venice As Giant Ads Smother Cultural Jewels
San Francisco Bay to Be Electric Car Capital
Axe Falls on Historic Dijon Mustard Factory
Acid Attacks and Rape: Growing Threat to Women Who Oppose Traditional Order
Embarrassed Gm Axes Two Private Jets
Colombia Tailor Offers Bespoke Bullet-proof Jackets for Millionaires
Wife's Call Saves Sailor After Nights on Liferaft
Panic in Detroit As Ceos and Workers Stare Into the Abyss
The Bnp Next Door
Astral Discovery: Copernicus Skeleton Identified
Police Investigate 'live Suicide' on Internet
16th-century Skeleton Identified As Copernicus
Families of Lockerbie Bombing Victims Receive Compensation From Libya
Ségolène Royal Leads Race to Become French Socialist Party Leader
California Officials Unveil Plans to Turn San Francisco Into Electric Car Capital
Police Officer on Bnp Membership List is Suspended
Woolas Plans to Curb High Court Role in Deportation Cases
History's Missing Pages: Iranian Academic Sliced Out Sections of Priceless Collection
Germans Savour Jamie Oliver, the Cabaret
Pupils and Teachers Protest After Beijing Imposes Daily Winter Jog
US Judge Orders Release of Guantánamo Five
How the Malacca Straits Were Reclaimed
Supertanker Pirates Demand $25m Within 10 Days
Dante to Dialects: Eu's Online Renaissance
From the Kremlin to Caracas, How Oil Collapse Changes Everything
No More Them and Us, With a Farewell to American Supremacy
Former Labour, Tory and Lib Dem Members on Bnp List
Fatal Grenade Attack on Thai Anti-government Protestors
Flight Attendant Earns Her Stripes
Leicester's 80 Party Members Are Rare Voices of Discontent
The Rise and Fall of Rachida Dati
British Warship to Lead Eu Armada Into Gulf of Aden
Winston Churchill Never Even Went to Australia So Why Do They Still Have Bones to Pick With Him?
Carmaker Bosses Cling to Their Jets But Could Lose Their Aid
Riches Galore, But President's Wasteful Ways Leave Country in Economic Mess
Politkovskaya Supporters Condemn Secret Trial
UK Police Withheld Details of Sex Abuse at Orphanage From Albanian Authorities
Crack Down on Overseas Bribes, Ministers Told
Alarm at Trade Unionist Murders Toll
Chinese Conman Who Fooled Officials to Demolish Police Hq Reveals His Secrets
British Hostages on Hijacked Supertanker Named
US Homebuilding Figures Hit Back-to-the-50s Low
Flight Attendant Helps Steer Passenger Jet to Safety
New Law to Criminalise Men Who Pay for Sex With Trafficked Women
Alaskan Senator Ted Stevens Loses Fight for Re-election
Piracy and Ransom Payments: Risky Business - Safe Transactions
Life is Sweet in Piracy Capital of the World
Life Magazine Photo Collection Goes Online
Georgia Calls on Eu for Independent Inquiry Into War
President's Latin America Tour Cements Beijing's Trade Clout
All at Sea
Coroner Lauds Bravery of Beach Tragedy Three
British Minister Defends £825m Aid to Help India's Poor
Cocaine Users Are Destroying the Rainforest - at 4m Squared a Gram
Google Makes Life Magazine Photo Archives Available to the Public
Chinese Companies Ordered to Seek State Approval Before Mass Lay-offs
UK Announces ?825m Aid Package for India
Bregenz Opera Festival Shaken and Stirred By the 007 Connection
Iraqis Accused of Killing Soldiers at Risk of Torture, Court Told
Police Raid Farms in Human Trafficking Inquiry
For Men Who Pay for Sex With Trafficked Women, Ignorance is No Longer a Defence
Qantas Emergency Landing Jet in Second Accident
Did a French Cannonball Scupper the Mary Rose?
Top Judge: Us and Uk Acted As 'vigilantes' in Iraq Invasion
Volcker Blames 'alchemists' and Bloated Bonuses
Sopranos Actor Faces Jail Over Killing of New York Policeman
Mark Cuban Charged With Insider Dealing
Accused Appear in Russian Court As Politkovskaya Trial Opens Up
Suspected Eta Military Chief Arrested in France
Where Duran Duran Can Still Count on the Star Treatment
Still Hooked: Time Runs Out for Japan's Dangerous Obsession With the Bluefin
Sopranos Actor Brancato Goes on Trial for Killing of Police Officer
SEC Charges Us Investor Mark Cuban With Insider Dealing
Eta's 'military Leader' Arrested in France
Meeting Fixed to End Trade Stalemate
New Taps? Or Iraqi Security? East Europeans Answer the Call (cheaply)
Women Vie to Lead Socialists in France
Rebel Chief Agrees to Ceasefire in Congo
All Us Forces Will Leave By 2011, Baghdad Cabinet Agrees
Gurkha Killed in Afghanistan After Bomb Pierces Warrior
Duels, Debts and Love Affairs - the Real Daniel O'connell
Gangsters Who Killed Geoghegan 'have Already Fled the Country'
This Summit Signalled the Passing of the Exclusive Club of Wealthy Nations
Plan to Ban Refunds on Faulty Goods
Outcry Over 'delay' of Helicopters for Helmand
Catwalk Collection Will Mark Barbie's 50th
Fugitive Thaksin Heads for Dubai After Divorce From 'very Close' Wife
Knives Come Out As Socialists Meet to Search for a Leader
Nurse Handed Over $400,000 to Web Scam Despite Fbi Warning
Troops' Beer Allowance a Headache for Germans
Berlin Offers Paid Leave to Look After Grandchildren
Ten Days After the Poll, and Saturday Night Live Star's Senate Fight Still Too Close to Call
BBC is Unfair to Freelancers in Conflict Zones, Says Cameraman
Putin's Return a Step Closer After Vote to Extend Presidential Term
G20 Summit Marks Largest Such Gathering in a Decade
The G20: Who is There and How Desperate Are They?
Record Drop in High Street Sales
Lehman Administrators' Task Will Dwarf Enron, Creditors Told
Rwanda President Accuses Un of Betrayal and Denies Backing Tutsi Rebels in Congo
Diageo Talks Pave Way for More Johnnie Walker in India
Vegas Casinos Boss Steps Down After Cv Comes Under Scrutiny
'Number of Taxis Increased, As Customers Fell'
Annan to Lead Team on Humanitarian Mission to Harare
US Determined to Unlock Switzerland's Banking Secrets
Uproar As Top Police Cleared of Attack on Genoa G8 Protesters
US Rejects Kremlin's Call to Scrap Missile Shield
EU Unveils Plan to Weaken Russian Grip on Gas Supply
Austrian Incest Father Charged With Killing Baby Son
Gazprom Seeks 20% of Spanish Oil Group
Josef Fritzl Faces Murder, Rape and Slavery Charges
EU Unveils Energy Plan to Reduce Dependence on Russia
Suicide Bomber Hits Us Convoy in Afghanistan
Oil Prices Drop 5% on Demand Outlook
French travel delays expected as pilots strike and and train drivers threaten walkout
All the News That's Fit to Make Up - It's Not the New York Times
Irish Police Raid Dublin House of Republican
Commandos Kill Suspected Pirates
Abu Qatada Breached Bail Conditions, Tribunal Told
UK Slips Further Down Global Gender Equality League
UN to Send 3,000 More Troops to East Congo
Tequila Turned Into Diamonds
Sudan's President Announces Unilateral Ceasefire in Darfur
UN Ready to Send 3,000 More Peacekeepers to Congo
New York Times 'special Edition' Spoof Perplexes Readers
David Miliband to Visit Syria
UBS Executive Charged With Helping 20,000 Americans Avoid Taxes
Sales Slump Sees Best Buy Sound Alarm
Brussels Seeks Tougher Rules to Monitor Rating Agencies
Paulson Abandons Plans to Buy Up America's Toxic Mortgage Assets
Virtual Tourists Travel Back to Ancient Rome
Miliband Plans Visit to Syria
Former Taiwanese President Arrested Over Corruption Allegations
Secular Businessman Elected Mayor of Jerusalem
Vodafone Leads Round of Cuts With Plans to Save £1bn
British Tycoon Held in Florida Over Caretaker Murder
The Bright Side
Red Faces and Royal Farewell for Dubai-bound Qe2
Burmese Activists Jailed for 65 Years Over Protests
Shipwrecks Discovery Leads to Ownership Dispute
Better Late Than Never - Boyzone Break New Ground for Gay Pop Stars
Row Over Claims of Syrian Nuclear Find
Chinese Police Chief's Family on Wrong Side of Law
Spanish Judge Asks British Police to Arrest Former Eta Convict
Chinese Police Chief Arrests 48 Relatives
PM Appeals for World to Work Together
UK Accounting Watchdog Threatens to Quit Over Eu Rule Change
Battling with bureaucracy - one boy's struggle to learn a language in France
Indonesia Launches Tsunami Warning System
Chinese Security Officers Jailed for Fatal Beating of Man Who Filmed Them
Ten Hurt As Jet Hits Runway After Bird Strike
Campaign to Save Tin Pan Alley
Palestinian Couple Evicted From Home of 50 Years As Jerusalem Settlers Move in
Arizona Police Aim to Put Eight-year-old on Trial As an Adult for Shooting Deaths
The Last Days of Paradise
'Mama Africa' Makeba Dies at 76
Woman Abducted By North Korea is Alive, Says Brother
Boy, 8, Accused of Killing Father and Family Friend With Rifle
The Monks Who Keep Coming to Blows in Jerusalem
New York Block Once Known As Tin Pan Alley on the Market for $44m
The Power of Speech
Defence Chief Will Resist Any Us Call to Send More Troops to Afghanistan
Academics Balk at 'spying' on Students to Nail Migrant Scams
Thinktank Calls for Eu Laws to Curb Sovereign Wealth Funds
Mini Nuclear Plants to Power 20,000 Homes
Courageous Captain's Father Hits Out at Mod
No Investigation Into Uk Company Over Alleged Corruption in Lesotho
'The Soldiers Didn't Ask Any Questions. They Just Shot Him'
African Leaders Offer to Send Troops Into Kivu
Albarn's Monkey Returns to China
Boy, 14, in Court Over British Girl's Murder
Wish You Were Here? From Our Woman in the Seychelles
BBC's Russian Changes Under Fire
Tutsi Rebels in Congo Accused of Murdering Civilians
US Election: Republicans Gather in Virginia to Discuss Party's Brand
Record Opium Harvest in Afghanistan Threatens New Heroin Crisis in Britain
Taxpayers to Pay Legal Fees for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Executives
Army Interpreter Found Guilty of Spying for Iran
General's Interpreter Convicted on Spying Charge
TV Matters
Was Jesse Crying About What Might Have Been?
How Will the First Daughters Fare in the Limelight?
The Night I Was No Longer Embarrassed to Be American
Litvinenko Family Can Go Home
Mandelson Declares Interests and Does Not Mention Oligarch
Muslim and Vatican Leaders Hold Talks to Ease Religious Tensions
MPs Demand Debate on Us Missile Defence
GM Denied $10bn Government Aid to Ease Merger
Caring, Loving and a Decent Lady' - Millionaire Pleads for Woman Who Sent Hitman to Kill Him
Call for Facts on Uk Firms That Channel Cash to Us Politicians
Cabinet Revolt Over Straw's Rights and Responsibilities Plan
UN Appoints Nigerian to Mediate Peace Deal
Macabre Organ Harvesting Case Follows Halloween Weekend
UN Aid Convoy Leaves for Congo War Zone
Stop Killing in Congo or Else, Leaders Warned
Second Nature
Cross-party Attempt to Fight Extradition of British Hacker
Why Rwanda Holds Key to Ending Bloodshed
Turkish Delight at German Cult Series' New Hero
Deripaska in Montenegro - Between a Rock and a Hard Place
FAQ: Crisis in the Congo
Displaced Congolese Begin Returning Home
Deaths Fault of Mod, Says Sas Major
Banbridge Return for the Miami
MP Attempts to Stop Un Job for Iraq War Lawyer
Police Want to Hire Gurkhas As Crime Fighters
MoD 'can Be Sued' Over Sas Deaths
Gulf Petrodollars Help Uk Go Green
'While I Was Away, Five of Them Came to My House and Killed My Son'
Stories of Loss and Love From Families of Army's Fallen
The Baron Who Holds Burma's Purse Strings
Developing World Demands a Voice at Global Finance Summit
Lloyd's Chief Urged to Cut Burma Links With Total
At War Level: India Raises Security Status Amid Grief
Intelligence Services Look at Possible Threat to Uk Targets
'I Thought I Was Gone. It Was More Comfortable to Feel I Wouldn't Live'
Indian and Pakistani Tv Programmes and Newspapers Wage War of Words
Iran's Underground Rap Artists Take to Wearing Symbol of Islamic Revolution
Security Chief Resigns Amid Public Anger
Bleeding City Comes Out Again to Honour the Dead
Pakistan Warns West: We Cannot Fight Al-qaida If Crisis Escalates
Chávez Drive for Indefinite Re-election As President
Mike Terry
West's Pledge to Tackle Global Poverty Has Been Crowded Out By Our Own Crisis
Saddam's Palace May Help Restore Civic Pride to Basra
It Bag Returns - This Time With a Conscience
Sarkozy wins voodoo doll appeal - sort of
French reminded that charity really can begin at home
Why is the Media Silent on the Obama Birth Certificate Question?
Mumbai Terror Attacks: India Fury at Pakistan As Bloody Siege is Crushed
Mumbai: Behind the Attacks Lies a Story of Youth Twisted By Hate
Mumbai Attacks: In the Cafés, Fear Gives Way to Anger at Weakness of Warring Politicians
Mumbai Attacks: Overseas Terror Victims Could Get £500,000
Mumbai Terror Attacks: Thanks and Celebration Amid the Smell of Death
Chelsea's Bohemians Rage in Fight to Save New York Landmark's Soul
Controversial Ballet to Tell Mugabe's Story
India Counts the Cost of Global Terrorism
From Under Beds, Tables, and 'other People's Blood' - Tales of Survival
In Mumbai Hospital, Dying and Maimed Ask: Why Me?
Gunmen Not From Uk, Says Foreign Office
Britain and Us Urge India and Pakistan to Keep Talking
Ethiopia Says Its Troops Will Leave Somalia
Militant Suspects Have Roots in Kashmir Conflict
Glitter-covered Reindeer Poo in Your Stocking This Christmas
Japan Workers Told to Go Home and Procreate
Rabbi Among Hostages Killed at Mumbai Jewish Centre
Mumbai Will Never Be the Same Again
British Crew Dive Overboard to Escape Somali Pirates
Commandos Storm Besieged Building in India, 5 Hostages Dead
Mumbai Attacks: Live
Mumbai Terror Attacks: Indian Troops Storm Last Militant Hideouts
New Commercial Mortgage Crisis on the Horizon
Massacre in Mumbai: 24 Hours of Carnage Leave 120 Dead
Crisis Casts Fresh Shadow Over Holiday Hotspot
Thanksgiving Day: Economy Rains on Us Parade
Israeli Pm Olmert Faces Fresh Calls to Quit Ahead of Election
First Hand Accounts of the Mumbai Attacks
British 'curry King' Tycoon Noon Describes Terror Inside Mumbai Hotel
Mumbai Will Bear Terrorist Scars for Many Years
Mumbai Attacks Put Pressure on Pakistan Talks
Home-grown Militants Are Prime Suspects
Guns, Grenades, Then a Battle to the Death in 105-year-old Hotel
They Were in No Hurry. Cool and Composed, They Killed and Killed
Twitter Comes of Age With Fast Reports From the Ground
Attacks Draw Worldwide Condemnation
Western Agencies Had No Warning
With Obama to Take Office, World Looks to U.S. on Environment
Mumbai Attacks Have Al-qaida Echoes, But Tactics Differ
Mumbai Attacks: Domestic Indian Terrorism With a Global Twist
Britons Among Mumbai Injured, Says Foreign Office
Gordon Brown Condemns Mumbai Terror Attacks
Gunmen Run Amok in Mumbai Terror Attack Killing and Injuring Hundreds
Thanksgiving Terror Threat Emerges in NYC
Serial Blasts Put Mumbai on High Alert
Series of Bomb Blasts across India's Business Hub - Mumbai
Dozens Reported Dead As Gunmen Run Amok in Mumbai
Tutu and De Klerk Plead With Eu Leaders to Send Force to Congo
16 Feared Dead in Shootings Across Mumbai
Daughter Despairs As China Prepares to Execute Researcher for Spying
Sri Lankan Troops 'to Capture' Tamil Tiger Headquarters
Pirate Ship Sunk By Indian Navy Was Hijacked Thai Trawler
Hutton to Tell Germany: Take Bigger Nato Role
Millionaire Accused of Propping Up Mugabe
Latitude 4.595n, Longitude 48.085e: We Find the Hijacked Sirius Star
Brussels Proposes £170bn Spending Plan
Woman Urges Beijing Not to Execute Father
China Cancels Eu Summit Over Dalai Lama Visit
Russian Leader Follows Warships to Venezuela in Boost to Alliance
Judge in Miami Rules Against State Gay Adoption Ban
China Forced Into Fourth Interest Rate Cut of the Year
Industrial Chemical Melamine Found in U.S. Infant Formula
Colombian Drug Lord's Ranch Becomes Dinosaur Park - But Trade is Far From Extinct
The New Cicero
Consumers Rank Climate Concerns Ahead of Economy
One-third of China's Yellow River 'unfit for Drinking or Agriculture'
UN Reports Murder, Rape and Torture By Congo Troops and Rebels
Indian City Living Worse Than in Us Jails, Survey Reveals
Israeli Policeman Headbutts Woman in Palestinian Demolition Clashes
Reports Detail Congo Atrocities
India's Urban Poor Are Being Squeezed for Living Space
Chinese Won’t Leave Dalai Lama Alone – Maintain Hold on Tibet
Bin Laden Driver to Be Freed From Guantánamo Bay Within 48 Hours
Sirius Star Hostages Are Well Looked After, Say Pirates
Osama bin Laden's Driver Released from Guantanamo Bay Prison
BBC Journalist Shot Dead in Somalia Felt Under Pressure to Go, Family Say
Record Poll Loosens Chávez Hold
Iran Claims Israel Spy Ring Broken
Breast Cancer Can Regress Without Treatment, Says Study
At Family Farm, Grim Claims of Organ Culling From Captured Serb Soldiers
Record Poll Loosens Chávez Hold
Forest Protection Plan Could Displace Millions, Say Campaigners
China Taxi Drivers Strike As Economic Unrest Spreads
Somali Pirates to Reduce Ransom for Sirius Star
Chavez Party Dominates in Venezuela Regional Elections
Seven Reasons Why Barack Obama Should make the Birth Certificate Controversy go Away
Colombian Shoppers Lament Shutdown of Crooked Shopping Club
Government Announces New Bailout for Citigroup
YouTube Live: Stars of Online Video Take a Real World Bow
Deadly Pilotless Aircraft That Have Helped Fuel Anti-american Feeling in Tribal Belt
Power in the Desert: Solar Towers Will Harness Sunshine of Southern Spain
Fugitive Kills Himself on Argentinian Tv
Generations Fail to Agree on Tibet's Future
Dalai Lama Tells Tibetans to Pursue Talks With China
Gurkhas Brave Hail of Fire for Comrade's Body
Top British Terror Suspect Killed in Us Missile Strike
A Wanted Man Whose Death Seemed Only a Matter of Time
Somalia Sinks Deeper Into a State of Total Disintegration
Foster's Russia Tower Falls Victim to Credit Crisis
China's Snow is Like Water - and Now It's Bigger Than Bud
Soil Erosion to Cut Harvests in China's Breadbasket By 40%
Vietnam Plans Return to Two-child Law
Russian Mps Vote to Extend Presidential Term
Vietnam Plans Return to Two-child Policy to Tackle Population Growth
Soil Erosion Threatens Land of 100m Chinese, Survey Finds
Jailed Fraudster Conrad Black Asks for Clemency From Bush
Why Obama Has to Find Answer to the Worst Economic Mess Since Fdr's Day
'We Consider Ourselves Heroes' - a Somali Pirate Speaks
Chávez Faces Test in Regional Elections
Shipping Industry Urges Eu Governments to Take Up Arms Against Somali Pirates
French Socialists get their maths wrong in leadership battle
Simone Veil - a truly exceptional woman
Obama Planning to Nominate Hillary Clinton as Top Diplomat
President Bush Extends Jobless Benefits for Millions
Nobel Prize Winners Call for Education in War Zones
Violence After Nicaragua Poll
Iran Feeling the Pain of Plunging Oil Prices
Gulf States Prepare to Weather Economic Storm After Drop in Oil Prices
China Winning Cyber War, Congress Warned
Russia Close to Economic Collapse As Oil Price Falls, Experts Predict
Cross-country Comeback Chills China's Schoolchildren As Winter Looms
China Tells State Media to Report Bad News
Piracy 'will Worsen Unless Yemen and Somalia Are Made Stable'
Rahul Gandhi Rejects Father's Justification of Anti-sikh Riots
China's Hackers Stealing Us Defence Secrets, Says Congressional Panel
Europe Joins International Contest for Arctic's Resources
Details Emerge in Story of Indian Navy Sinking Pirate Ship
Detroit Automakers take Private Jets to Beg for $25 Billion
Rolls-Royce, Astrazeneca and Bae Join List of Job-cutting Giants
Media Organisations Complain to Israel Over Gaza Press Blockade
Fears Over Us Economy Weaken World Markets
Indian Frigate Destroys 'mothership' As Raids Off Somalia Continue
President for 60 More Days, Bush Tearing Apart Protection for America's Wilderness
Immigration Falls and Set to Decline Further in Recession
The Truth About Hitler's Genitals
De Villepin to Go on Trial Over Alleged Plot to Smear Sarkozy
Parties Go All Out in Fight for Senate Seats in Minnesota and Georgia
Indian Navy Destroys Pirate Ship After Coming Under Fire
De Villepin to Stand Trial Over Alleged Plot to Smear Sarkozy
Sixteen Year Old Japanese Girl Makes the Baseball Big Leagues
Navy Destroys Pirate Ship in Gulf of Aden
China to Close 6,000 Coal Mines in Safety Push
Indian Warship Fends Off Pirate Attack
France - a "working" week in the life of a country
As Captured Supertanker Anchors Off Somalia, Pirates Strike Again
China Seeks to Cement Trade Clout With Latin America
Russia to Build Nuclear Reactor for Chávez
Somali Pirates Take a Massive Haul of Saudi Oil
Bush Offering Plan to Help Ease Holiday Air Travel Delays
Supertanker Hijacked By Pirates Fully Loaded With Crude
Are Indians Victims, Or Purveyors, Of Racism?
Chávez Airs Wiretaps of Political Rivals
Miliband Tries to Coax Syria in From the Cold
Adrian Kantrowitz
Can Barack Obama Live Without His Blackberry?
Songwriting Sheikh Sues Michael Jackson for £4.7m
Warships Sent in As Attacks Increase
Somali Pirates Seize Tanker Carrying Oil Worth $100m
Citigroup Cutting 53,000 Jobs Worldwide
California Wildfires Hitting Southern California Hard
French Socialist party at sixes and sevens
Author Hopes to Pull Israel to the Left With New Party
President-elect 'to Give Up His Blackberry'
Government Near to Collapse, Says Somalia Leader
China's Huge Poverty Gap Slowing Growth, Un Says
Tibetan Exiles Gather to Discuss New Strategy
Thousands Ordered to Flee Homes As Wildfires Sweep Into Los Angeles
On the Front Line in War on Pakistan's Taliban
California Wildfire Chars Montecito Luxury Belt
Love Turns to Loathing After Carla Snubs Italy
China to Make Mime a Crime for Performers
Hamas Militants Fire Rockets Into Southern Israel
It's a Crime to Mime, China Warns Performers
Doubts Raised Over Prospects of Success for 'hasty Summit'
Marine Was Killed By Fire From Us Jet During Taliban Ambush
Attacks Leave Gaza Ceasefire Near Collapse
Barack Obama Meets Secretly with Hillary Clinton, May Tap Her for Secretary of State
U.N. Expresses Grave Concern over Recent Pollution Evidence
US 'launched Air Strike on Militants in Pakistan'
Sarkozy's voodoo doll back in court
Huge Losses, Closures and Job Cuts Rip Soul Out of City
Riots Break Out Across Colombia After Investment Scam Collapses
Shaping the World: Bretton Woods 1944
Germany Officially in Recession As Oecd Expects Us to Lead Recovery
British Death Toll in Afghanistan and Iraq Reaches 300 After Two Marines Die in Blast
From Blog Posts to Mortgage Rate, Obama Jobseekers Must Reveal All
Sarah Palin Calls for a Return to Republican Values
Blair Urges Obama to Take the Lead on World Stage
Israeli Blockade Forces Un to Suspend Food Distribution in Gaza
Colombians Riot in Anger at Pyramid Scam
Iranian Diplomat Kidnapped in Pakistan Ambush
Royal keeps everyone guessing in the battle to lead France's Socialist party
US Aid Worker Assassinated in Pakistan
Sudanese President Calls Ceasefire in Darfur
Japanese Governor Says Tokyo Earthquake Would Benefit His Region
US Aid Worker Killed in Pakistan Ambush
Google Predicts Spread of Flu Using Huge Search Data
Amidst Iraq Violence, Iraqi Soldier Kills Two American Allies
Sarkozy remembers France's forgotten WWI "heroes"
McCain Says Palin Not at Fault for Campaign Loss
Dear Mr President-elect: Europe Puts Middle East at Top of Wish-list for New Us Foreign Policy
Afghanistan 'vital to Uk Security'
'Anti-women' Cabinet Riles Pakistan Activists
A Delayed Silence Descends on Verdun
Auto Industry’s Best Chance for Corporate Welfare is Congress
Colombian Army Stands Accused Over Civilian Deaths
Palin Addresses Wardrobe, Blames Bush for Election Defeat
I Don't Want Morphine. Let Me Out There - Captain Mortally Wounded By the Taliban
Japanese Woman Abducted By North Korea 'still Alive'
US Forces Staged More Than a Dozen Foreign Raids Against Al-qaida
BA Humbug - or the Best Way of Doing Good?
US Economy: General Motors Shares Plunge to 62-year Low
Brown Envisages 'global Society'
Brown's Foreign Policy Agenda for Obama
US Authorised Forces to Carry Out Raids in Middle East, Asia and Africa
China Snubs Dalia Lama Call for High Level of Autonomy for Tibet
Closing Down Detention Centre 'not So Easy'
New Eu Talks Bring Russia in From Cold After Georgia Protest
China Stamps on Dalai Lama's Call for Tibetan Autonomy
Israeli Police Evict Palestinian Couple From Home of 52 Years
Top Aide to Rwandan President Agrees to Stand Trial in France Over Genocide Claims
First Up for Obama – How About Missile Defense?
Obama to Meet with President Bush in Oval Office
Report suggests "remembrance overload" in France
Hope - the Image That is Already an American Classic
'We Feel About Her the Way You Feel About the Queen'
China's Online Vigilantes Hunt Human Flesh
Beijing to Pump 4tn Yuan Into Economy to Offset Fall in Exports
Gore Urges Us to Try for 100% Renewable Energy Within a Decade
Paradise Almost Lost: Maldives Seek to Buy a New Homeland
Warning to British Travellers As Bali Bombers Are Buried
Auschwitz Blueprints Emerge on 70th Anniversary of Kristallnacht
Killing of Civilians in Congolese Town is War Crime, Warns Un
Opposition Gloomy As Regional Leaders Discuss Harare Impasse
Ultra-Orthodox Pitted Against Secular Jews in Jerusalem's Mayoral Election
Remembrance Sunday 90 Years On, New Veterans Keep Coming
Around the World in About 100 Days
How the Us Played a Vital Role to Assist Powersharing
Reprisals Fear As Bali Bombers Executed
Haiti School Collapse: 200 Feared Missing
Seized Cocaine Was Bound for Birmingham
My 35-year Fight to Find Pinochet Torturers Who Killed My Brother
Ousted Thai Leader's British Visa Cancelled
Voters End Labour's Rule in New Zealand
Royal upset in battle to lead French Socialist party
Billionaire Takes Tate Works to Moscow
'We Are Going to Disappear One Day'
Sarkozy Claims Eu Agreement on Policies to Tackle Recession
Judge Orders Exhumations From Franco Basilica
BBC Under Fire Over Hip-hop Slant on Obama Win
Yacht Held at Port After Record Drug Haul
Puppies and Economy Fill Winner's First Day
Sarah Palin Returns to Alaska to Mend Image at Home
California Gay Marriage Ban Spawns Spate of Legal Actions
Free Gas and Mortgage Payments says Obama Supporter
Palin Returns to Alaska Amid Criticism From Disgruntled Mccain Aides
China Truck Driver Kills 5 After Deliberately Running Them Down
Creationism Should Be Taught As Science, Say 29% of Teachers
Fatah and Hamas in Unity Government Talks
Bhutan's New Monarch
Will We Ever See a British Obama?
'Rock-bottom' Republicans Begin Inquest
Socialists Seek New Leader to End Feuding and Challenge Sarkozy
French Happiest at 65, Says Study
Poland Forced to Sell Off Shipyards and Pay Back €2.3bn in Subsidies
Bhutan Crowns New King
Russia Not Sharing in Obama Celebration, Tests Missiles
Medvedev Moves to Tighten Russian Leadership's Grip on Power
Chinese Rights Activists Reported Missing
Critics Alarmed As Medvedev Reveals Plan to Extend Russian Presidential Term to Six Years
Marbella Holiday Homes Saved From Demolition
Bus Fire in Germany Kills 20 People
Croatia Given Timetable for Eu Entry
Gaza Truce Broken As Israeli Raid Kills Six Hamas Gunmen
Chinese Girls Die After Eating School Dinners
ArcelorMittal Slashes Production By 35% As Recession Bites
20 People Die After Germany Bus Fire
'I Don't Know If I Will Die of Happiness' - Mama Sarah
Moving Experience: a Puppy for the Girls and a Transition Council for the Parents
The Bright Side: Now Sarah Palin's Daughter Doesn't Even Need to Get Married
Ceasefire Under Threat As Six Die in Gaza Raid
Gurkha Soldier Killed in Search for Taliban Near Musa Qala
Overwhelming Hope of a Global Turning Point
'I've Been in This Country for 35 Years and Know Prejudice. I Doubt It Could Happen in England'
Renewable Energy: Obama's Cruise to the White House Puts the Wind Back in Green Sails
Election Diary
Journey of Generations That Passed in a Moment
World Watches U.S. Elections, Waits for a Different America
World Rejoices as Barack Obama Wins Presidential Election
British Soldier Killed in Southern Afghanistan
Barack Obama Becomes the First African-American President
India Voted for Obama
Mandelson Praises Pm's £1bn Trade Role
Lloyds Offers Sidelined Hbos Chief £60,000-a-month Consultancy Role
Chinese Official Sacked Over Attack on Girl, 11
Beijing and Taipei Ignore Politics to Sign Trade Deal
Bangladesh Sends Warship to Burma in Gas Row
UN Chief to Visit Congo Amid New Rebel Threats
Iranian Mps Sack Ahmadinejad Ally Over Fake Oxford Degree
Japan's Pop King Held for Fraud
Faked Degree Could Devalue Iranian President
Atlanta Voters Sense Fulfilment of Martin Luther King Jr's Dream
Voters in Joe the Plumber's Hometown Have Their Say
Japanese Pop Producer Arrested for Fraud
China and Taiwan Sign Landmark Deal
Bangladesh and Burma Send Warships Into Bay of Bengal
Iran Awaits More Than Just a Change of Face in the White House
Obama’s Influential Grandmother Dies at the Age of 86
Barack Obama and Michelle Obama Cast Their Votes in Chicago
Pakistan Warns Us General to Stop Attacks on Its Soil
Decked Out for a Dictator
World Losing Aids Battle, Minister Warns As £220m Fund Launched
Security Tight As Chinese Negotiator Visits Taiwan to Cement Closer Ties
Schmidt Releases Piano Cd to Mark 90th Birthday
Democrats Aim to Extend Majority in Congress on Election Day
Scotland Gives Donald Trump Go Ahead for 'world's Greatest Golf Course'
Indonesia Mud Volcano Caused By Gas Well Drilling
Chinese Police Told to Go Easy on Protesters
Japan Frets Over Growing Marijuana Problem
George Bush Trying to Squeeze in Last-minute Environmental Legislation
Confusion over Sarkozy's December meeting with Dalai Lama
Panasonic Ready for Sanyo Takeover
Gunmen Kidnap French Aid Worker in Kabul
Flaunting It: Court Papers Detail the Trappings of Roman Abramovich's Wealth
Brown Confident of Middle East Cash for Bail-out Fund
PM Talks to Reformed Al-qaida Pair
Somalian Rape Victim, 13, Stoned to Death
Beijing Keeps Its Interest - and Its Distance
Chinese Fury at Sale of Plundered Treasures
Rape Victim, 13, Stoned to Death in Somalia
Dublin in Rendition Plea to Us
Drought Land 'will Be Abandoned'
Tijuana Streets Flow With the Blood of Rival Drug Cartels
Christmas is Axed in Oxford
Obama: 600 Million Dollars Later Is the Question Still Above Your Pay Grade?