National & World News Archive December 2003
Mail Block to Catch Eu Book Bombs
Plea for Bam Rescuers Not to Fly Home
BSE-infected Beef Spreads to Eight Us States
BSE Scare Spreads to Six Us States
US Offers $1m Each for Dozen Most Wanted
Doctoring By Stealth in Burundi
Parmalat Goes Bankrupt As New Scandal Emerges
Tragedy Overwhelms Quake City
Mao Returns to Haunt and Comfort His People
US Towns Gather in Their Wounded
French Doctors Face Manslaughter Charges
Guinea's Ill Ruler Clings to Power
Unity Over Racist Senator's Illegitimate Daughter
UN 'snubbed Over Congo War Breaches'
Doctors Acting at Long Distance Across the Caucasian Frontiers
Schröder Survives Party Rebellion
EU Agrees to Give Air Passenger Data to Us
Chirac Calls on Mps to Ban Headscarves
Chirac and Schröder Agree to Debt Cuts
Guns for Cash Offer Swamped
Tribes Launch Headcount to Challenge Us Census
WTO Admits Trade Talks Relaunch is Scuppered
Tribes Unite to Challenge Us Census
Wesley Clark Testifies in Secret at Milosevic Trial
Greenpeace Activist Goes Missing in Amazon Waters
American Hope That Troops Will Return Home Soon
Crucial Talks Fail to Break Eu Summit Deadlock
Giscard Secures Immortal Honour
Washington Accepts Eu's Independent Military Plan
French Poll Says 22% Back Le Pen
Giscard Sticks in Académie's Craw
Cab Driver Elvis Makes a Comeback
Upstart Giscard Splits Académie
Green Radical in San Francisco Showdown
French Leader Pays Tribute to Tycoon Killed in Air Crash
Far-right Rise Threatens Swiss 'magic Formula'
Something Aggressive About Veils, Says Chirac
Shanghai on Nights to Avoid Blackout
Leaked Report Shows Rise in Anti-semitism
UN Names Forces in Struggle for Congo Gold Fields
Victim of Cannibal Agreed to Be Eaten
Call Goes Out on Canadian Crooks
EC Piles Pressure on Premier League
Diplomatic Corps Shows Esprit Over Cuts to Services
Rumsfeld Tries to Cool Row Over Eu Military Plan
EU Ministers Dodge Thorny Issues
Plan Your New Year Resolution
Israel Snubs Syria With Golan Plan
Talks to Reopen Kashmir Highway
US Has Got Wrong Men, Iraqi Families Claim
Five Killed and 25 Injured in Baghdad Suicide Bombing
Israeli Soldier Held on Shooting of Briton
Syria Was Conduit for Saddam Arms
EU Letter Bombs Linked to Anarchists
UK Closes Lima Embassy After Terror Alert
Killer Was Hired As Air France Guard
Lula's Dreams for Brazil Are Delayed
Bush Signals Softer Line on Iran
UN Nuclear Arms Inspectors See Libya's Secret Sites
Serb Democrats Urged to Join Forces
UK Rescue Team in Iran Finds Former Colleague Among Dead
Saddam 'spills the Beans' on Hidden Millions
Bush's $1m Bounties for Saddam Men
Italy Turns on Its Smokers With New Year Resolution
Doctors Fear Ebola May Have Reached Zimbabwe
Serbian Election Victory for War Crimes Suspect's Party
Canadian Cow 'sparked Bse' in Us
Prodi Escapes Uninjured As Bomb Explodes
Now China Joins the Sexual Revolution
Italy's Pm in Vatican Air Terror Mystery
Death Toll Mounts After Gas Disaster
War Crime Suspects Go for Win in Serb Poll
15,000 Feared Dead in Iran Earthquake
Italian Cabinet Steps in to Aid Berlusconi Channel
Artistic Merit of Martin Luther King Statue Splits Town
Judge Shot Dead in Northern Iraq
Pakistan Admits It May Be Source of Iran's Nuclear Expertise
America Deploys Missiles Around Airports
First Case of Mad Cow Disease in Us
Israeli Army Kills Eight Palestinians in Raid on Gaza Camp
New Theory for Iraq's Missing Wmd
China Takes Steps to Protect Private Ownership of Land
Soldiers and Mafia on Trial Over Serbian Leader's Murder
UN Watchdog to Scrap Libya's Nuclear Project
Iraqi Drivers Queue for Country's Greatest Resource
Palestinians Attack Egyptian Foreign Minister at Holy Site
Three Die in California Earthquake
UK Plan to Pressure Syria on Weapons
Relief for Briton Held By Colombian Rebels for 102 Days
Ambassador Promoted Cause of Enron Boss
Oil Deal Puts Sudan a Step Closer to Peace
Mystery Figure From Tv and Film Aided Eta Murder
Aids Activist Murdered in Gang Rape
Moi to Escape Corruption Charges
New Statesman: Gadafy Turns Reformer
200 Seized Thanks to Saddam Documents
US Moves to High Terror Alert
Author Claims Aids Figures Based on False Surveys
Australia 'as Bad As Taliban,' Say Hunger Strikers
Afghan Deadlock Weakens Karzai
Saddam Faces Months of Interrogation Before Trial
Libya Spies' Secret Deal to Reveal Terrorists
Pakistan Keeps India Guessing
Bhutan King Leads Army Into Battle
Videos Prove Guards Abused 9/11 Prisoners
Amazon May Be Levelled By the Humble Soya
Bremer Survived Baghdad Convoy Attack
Berlusconi Kicks Up a Storm Over Plan to Curb Tv Access
Blair Hails Libya Deal on Arms
Christmas Shopping in Bratislava
14 Hunger Strikers in Hospital
Milosevic's 'warning' on Massacre
France: Ex-minister Accused of Art Fraud Trial
Iran Acepts Nuclear Inspections
Mbeki Visits Mugabe - and His Sworn Rival
Michael Jackson on Abuse Charge
Teen Convicted of Us Sniper Killings
Coca-Cola Plant Must Stop Draining Water
US 'need Not Have Suffered' Attacks of 9/11
Iraq Weapons Hunter to Quit Early As Hopes of Finding Arsenal Dwindle
Sharon: Act Now or We Go It Alone
Taiwan Sars Case Brings New Jitters
Get Wife's Permission for Harem, Ugandan Men Told
Genocide Witnesses 'killed to Stop Testimony'
Security Device Saved Pakistan's President
How Rice Farming Brought Malaria to Burundi
Leaders of Greek Terrorist Group Jailed for Life
Chinese Get Life for Arranging Sex Tour for Japanese
Saddam's Arrest Fuels Insurgency
UN Looks Into Plight of Refugees
Berlusconi Stirs Media Bill Row
Saddam Should Die, Says Bush
Cypriot Hung Poll Causes Turmoil
Morocco Losing Forests to Cannabis
Italian President Refuses to Sign Controversial Media Bill
Blair Backs Move to Punish Spain and Poland
Coalition Fears Confirmed As Blasts Kill Eight
Seizure Fuels Fight Within Democratic Party
Bush: Saddam's Fate in Iraqis' Hands
Conciliation Hopes Fade in Tied Turkish Cypriot Elections
Turkish Cypriots in Crucial Poll for Divided Island
Tourists' Money is Needed, But Boosts Mugabe Regime
Spain and Morocco Plan Tunnel Link
Pakistan's Leader Escapes Murder 'by a Minute'
Disarray in the Eu Gives Blair a Respite
Saddam: Disbelief Turns to Quiet Satisfaction
Saddam the Prisoner
Saddam Hussein Captured
Saddam Hussein 'captured in Iraq'
Turkish Cypriots Vote on Partition
Terror Suspect Admits Yemen Plot
Army Shells Pose Cancer Risk in Iraq
UN Agencies Threaten to Quit War-torn Afghanistan
Roman Friars Unnerved By Nun's Live-in Protest
China in Uproar As 14 Are Tried for Organising Orgy
Plunder Goes on Across Afghanistan
Belgian Police Guilty of Deportation Death
Be Happy, Mugabe Tells the Starving
Iraqi Army's Mass Walkout
Arab Waiter Barred From Bush Dinner
Pacific Student's Bottled Up Plea Drifts Ashore in Spain
Italy Faces Its First Nationwide Tv Viewers' Strike
UN Finds 3,000 Children in Indonesian Adult Jails
Iraqi Army Walkout Over Pay
German Trial of 9/11 Suspect Collapses
Global Warming Kills 150,000 a Year
Move to Evict Danish Hippies
Europe War Slated By Nobel Winner
East Asian Press Review
17 Years for Srebrenica Massacre
Hippies Are 'borrowing' Danish Land
Nobel Prize Winner Attacks West
Disks Missing From Us Nuclear Lab 'pose No Threat'
Switzerland Swings Right As Nationalist Joins Cabinet
Global Warming is Killing Us Too, Say Inuit
US Bans Anti-war Countries From Iraq Deals
Human Rights Award for Zimbabwe Lawyer
Germany Raises the Stakes on Eve of Eu Talks
Santa's Coming to Town. Big Deal
Lawyer to Visit Camp Delta Man
WTO Admits Hope of Reviving Cancun Talks is Fading
North Korea Offers Arms for Aid Deal
French Anti-terror Squad Arrests Key Eta Leaders
Oasis of Medical Care in Desert of Destruction
New Boy Poland Flexes Its Muscles
Zimbabwe Threatens to Cut Uk Ties
Bombs Shatter Iraq's Brief Calm
Moscow Suicide Attack Kills at Least Five
At Least Five Killed in Moscow Blast
Italian Alert Over Water Saboteur
Money No Longer Talks in Mugabe's Empire
Four Eu States Fight to Guard Neutrality
Defendant Part of Big Cannibal Scene
Ranks Close to Save Commonwealth
Greek Trial Ends November 17's Reign of Terror
Israel Trains Us Assassination Squads in Iraq
US Apologises After Children Die in Bombing Meant for Taliban Chief
Saudi Raids Net Expat Teachers
Police Shut Highway in Sniper Hunt
Germany Immovable in Row Over Eu Voting Rights
Iraqi Says He Was Source for 45-minute Claim
Taiwan's President Steps Up Tension With Beijing
US Military Apologises After Nine Children Die in Bombing
Mugabe Quits Commonwealth
Saudi Security Forces Arrest British Man
NHS in Crisis? Patients in France Also Wait on Trolleys
Comic Fo Exposes Berlusconi's Flaws
North Korea is Slowly Starving. Yet It Won't Reveal All Its Pain
Schröder Suffers Political Fallout From Plutonium Plant Deal
Prodi Aide Hits Out at 'ignorant' British Minister
Shanghai Struggles to Cope As Millions Move in
Powell Meets Authors of New Peace Blueprint
Torn Summit Leaders Delay Decision on Defiant Mugabe
Suspected Suicide Bomb Kills at Least 40 in Russia
Cheap Drugs Give Hope to Aids Patients in War Zone
US Jobs Market Continues Steady Pick-up
Allies at Odds Over How to Fight Afghan Drugs Boom
Quit Now, Britain Tells Prodi
Powell Calls on Nato to Send Troops to Iraq
Blair Digs in His Heels on Zimbabwe
Bush Lifts Steel Tariffs to Avert Trade War
Concern Over Berlusconi's Health
Widespread Flooding in Southern France
Homicide Ruling on Beating
Life for Inciting Rwanda Killings
Polish Threat to Block Eu Vote on Constitution
Security Unit to Be Run By Iraqi Parties
German Internet Cannibal Begins Murder Trial
Migrants Lost As Boat Capsizes
TV Overhaul Favours Berlusconi
Lithuanian President Hangs on
Cyprus Starts Mine Clearance
Rainforest Dam Row Goes Before Law Lords
Nigeria Accused of Oppression
US Soldier Left Patrol Duty to Marry Iraqi
Bosnian Muslim Officers Face War Crimes Tribunal
Iraqi 'big Fish' Eludes Us Forces
How North Korea is Embracing Capitalism By Any Other Name
We'll Overcome Woes and Build a Rival World Power, Mugabe Tells Zimbabwe
'We're Air Force Pilots, Not Mafia. We Don't Take Revenge'
EU Nowhere Near Meeting Kyoto Targets
US Fires Guantanamo Defence Team
US Forces Deny Capturing Key Saddam Aide
US Forces 'target Key Saddam Aide'
Rotterdam Plans to Ban Poor Immigrants From Moving in
Police Use Batons and Black Man Dies
Intervention is the Cure for Colombia
Iraqis Challenge Us Account of Battle
Bush 'set to Repeal Us Steel Tariffs'
Turkish Man 'admits' Terror Blast
Charities Shun Jackson
Palestinian Pm Says Security Fence a Bar to Meeting Sharon
Italian Fashion Queen in Graveyard Scandal
Spain Torn on Tribute to Victims of Franco
Free Drugs Offer Some Hope Against Aids in Africa
Troops Kill 46 in Iraq As Violence Spreads