National & World News Archive December 2008
Food Shortages Send Prices Through Roof After Farmers Are Forced to Abandon Their Fields
Small Investors May Lose Out As Madoff Prepares to Reveal His Assets
New Year Nightmare Brings Spectre of 1930s-style Depression to Eurozone
Gas Still Under Threat in Ukraine Debt Row
50 Years of Castro
Sorry, Your Bag is in Afghanistan
As Hard Times Bite, Cubans Show Little Appetite for Celebration
Pound Buying Less Than a Euro
Fears As Czech Republic Takes Over Helm of Eu
Healer Helped Me Dance Again, Says Flatley
At Least 59 Killed in Fire at Bangkok Nightclub
Scores Dead in Thai Nightclub Fire
Two Men Accused of Murdering Uk Troops Handed Over to Iraq
Web Worldwide: Uk Housewives Love It, Chinese Use It Most, Danes Are Least Keen
'Eight Civilians Killed' in Surgical Strike on Truck
88-year-old Oregon Woman Fights off Naked Intruder
Bjork's Mission to Revive Icelandic Economy
In 2008 We All Started Living in Interesting Times
Judges Agree Transfer of Two Iraqis Accused of Killing British Soldiers
Revealed: How the Sex Pistols Shook Ireland
Chewing Through History
Welcome to America's Hall of Shame
Father Charged With Murder of Daughter Forced on 10-mile Snow Trek
Foreign Journalists Demand Gaza Access
British Missionaries Sentenced to Hard Labour in Gambia
Ghana's 'too Close to Call' Election Delayed By Vote-rigging Claims
Shortages Put Hospitals on the Brink of Collapse
Gaza Protests Planned for Weekend Across Uk
Al-Jazeera Sees Off Satellite Rivals
British Couple in Second Shark Scare Off Western Australia
New Thai Pm Warns of Shattered Economy
Malta: Where Hysteria is No Answer to the Plight of Refugees
Winds of Change Come to Country Plagued By Power Blackouts
Imperial Energy Set for Indian Oil and Gas Deal
Church Tries to Quell Dissent Over Female Bishops With New Role
Sterling Within a Whisker of Parity With the Euro
Homeless Shelter is Dubbed the Swankiest in the World - and It's Also a Work of Art
Sex on Beach Briton Rues 'costly Affair'
David Miliband Urges Gaza Ceasefire
Nearly 200 Killed As Rebel Militia Raids Villages in Congo
Elisabeth Fritzl Released From Psychiatric Hospital
Somali President Resigns Amid Power Struggle
'I Didn't See Any of My Girls, Just a Pile of Bricks'
Thousands More Migrants Reach Italy's Shores
Thai Parliament Under New Blockade
Bangladesh Votes Amid Festive Atmosphere
Medieval Warrior Overcomes Stalin in Poll to Name Greatest Russian
Hundreds of Migrants Feared Drowned in Bay of Bengal
Publisher Scraps Tale of Holocaust Love
Come Home, War's Grandchildren Are Told
'There's a Strong Likelihood That People Are Dying Needlessly'
Civilian Death Toll Rises After Second Day of Air Strikes
Bishops Attack 'immoral' Labour
Italian Youth Admits Hit-and-run Ski Death
To Be in Gaza is to Be Trapped
It's a Man's World and Look at the Mess
MLA Seeks Action After Racist Arson Attack
Cuba's Young Revolutionaries Fight for Their Art
Mexico Fears 'adoption' of Beauty Queens By Drug Cartels
'There is a Time for Calm ... Now is the Time to Fight'
Ugandans Cultivate the Savings and Loan Habit
Third of Britain's Mammals 'at Risk'
Three Weeks That Changed the World
Crunch Hikes Homelessness
Palestinians to Sell First Fair Trade Product
The Day Fox News Called
Police Hunt Hit-and-run Skier in Italy After Girl Sees Father Killed
Britons Find Better Value Outside the Eurozone
From Cotton Fields to Cabaret - Eartha Kitt Bows Out at 81
Spanish Townsfolk Awarded €3,000 for Their Tree of the Year
Police Accused of Torturing Jailed Activists
Foreign Security Teams to Lose Immunity From Prosecution in Iraq
MoD Names Marine Killed in Afghanistan
Man Dressed As Santa Kills Nine at Party
One Year After Massacre, the Dead Lie Unburied in Village Without Roofs
Breaking the Mould to Change Lives
"Santa Baby" Singer Eartha Kitt Dies on Christmas at Age 81
Foreign Office Advice to Travellers
Foreign Office Warns Holidaymakers Against Extramarital Sex in Muslim Countries
Monsieur, With These Rocher You Would Not Be Spoiling Us
Jewels Worth a King's Ransom for Rice From Middle East Rulers
Targeted Firm Forced to Hide Share Trading
Bail-outs? Can We Have Some Too?
Activists Celebrate As Insurers Pull Plug on £1.1bn Turkish Dam
Evangelical Channel to Webcast Christmas Live From Bethlehem
Attempted Coup in Guinea After Dictator Dies
Hedge Fund Boss Who Was $1.4bn Madoff Investor is Found Dead
From a Hampshire Cottage, Animal Extremists Plotted Campaign of Violence
Britons Drop Spanish Holidays As Weak Pound Hurts Bookings
A Whiff of Hypocrisy in Pope's Pronouncement
Secrets of Survival
A Christmas Miracle: Woman Found Alive After Three Days Buried in a Snowdrift
Pope Angers Campaigners With Speech Seen As Attack on Homosexuality
From Mary Wollstonecraft to Queer Theory
Animal Rights Extremists Still Targeting Lab
Lansana Conté Profile: Death of an African 'big Man'
Pope Urges Defence of Heterosexuality
Coup in Guinea After Dictator Lansana Conte Dies
High Flyers: Bees on Cocaine 'behave Like Humans'
Boy, Five, Drowns in Disneyland Paris Hotel Pool While on Christmas Break
Problems Everywhere for Tata
Saudi Girl, Eight, Married Off to 58-year-old is Denied Divorce
From Alistair to Zero Interest Rates: the Business Year in Review
Intruder Jumps Into Knut the Polar Bear's Cage
Viktor Bout: Secretive and Successful 'merchant of Death'
Ukraine Crisis Heightens Fears Over European Gas Supplies
Dubai Stops Sex on Beach Briton Returning to Uk
Guantánamo Prisoner's Lawyers Accuse Us Defence Secretary
The New Iraq: The Bombing Goes On, But the Building Has Begun
Euro Invaders Help Lift High Street Gloom
Vote Delayed on Legality of British Troops
Iraqi Parliament to Vote on Letting Foreign Troops Stay
Bush Shoe-thrower 'will Sue for Police Beating'
Iraqi Mps Reject Draft Pact on British Troops
Heroin, Schools and the Heart of the Insurgency
War Continues to Create Ideal Conditions for Growth
Strut Your Monky Stuff
Poles to Pioneer Money Transfer By Mobile
Stampede for 'bush Shoe' Creates 100 New Jobs
Hundreds of Brazil's Eco-warriors at Risk of Assassination
Bull Breeder Looks to Cloning to Preserve Champion Cash Cow
Protesters Beaten As Anger Grows at Russian Car Import Tax
Inventor's 2020 Vision: to Help 1bn of the World's Poorest See Better
Ceremonies Mark 20th Anniversary of Lockerbie Attack
Internet Connection Cut Between Europe, Asia and Africa
Milan Buys Into Brand Beckham
Republic Shoppers Go North for Festive Bargains
Church Attendance 'to Fall By 90%'
Why Faith Can Survive an X Factor Xmas
Paris Outrage Over Qatar Royals' Plans to Alter Landmark
'Baghdad Clogger' Suffered Brutal Beating After Arrest
Villagers Seek New Ways to Export Mango Crop
US Will Send Up to 30,000 Troops in New Afghan Surge
Youngest Injured Soldier Ruled Unfit to Fight
Public Send Record Donation of Festive Gifts to Troops on Helmand Front Line
Bishop Hits Out at Adoption Agency Over Gay Couples Rule
Daughter in Fight Over Columbo Star's Alzheimer's
British Team Discovers Lost Eden Amid Forgotten Forest of Africa
Nationalists Triumph As 'grandfather Frost' Banned in Sarajevo Infant Schools
Only 15 of Brittany's Onion Johnnies Survive
Expats in Spain Look to Charity for Basics
Britons Who Fled in Search of French Idyll Feel the Pain of the Pound's Fall
The Comeback Kid: Peter Mandelson
Doctor Held Captive in Bangladesh Was Bound and Drugged, Court Told
Iraqi Shoe-thrower Was Beaten By Security, Says Judge
Octogenarian Forced to Seek Out Lost Father for Wedding Approval
Defeat for Victor Hugo's Family As Court Clears Les Mis Sequels
'We Got the Whole Truth Out. Isn't That What the Fbi Should Do?'
How Astronauts Went to the Moon and Ended Up Discovering Planet Earth
Brendel Bows Out: Master Quits Stage With Shrug and Smile
Tales From the Country Club
Brown Escapes From Blair's Shadow By Staking Out His Own Territory
Infallible Christmas Gifts: Pope's Courier Reveals Secrets
Reluctant Judges Rule Iraqis Accused of Killing British Soldiers Can Be Handed to Baghdad
Merkel Warning on German Funds Gap Stirs Old Divisions
Money, Money, Money for Greek Island As Mamma Mia! Draws Tourist Hordes
Christmas Appeal: Giving Birth in Africa
So Farewell Then, Deep Throat
Bush Shoe Protester Has Been Beaten, Iraqi Judge Says
Gibraltar Given Eu Court Approval for Cut-rate Business Taxes
Mary Schapiro: the Affable Fraud-buster
Pinochet Stirs Controversy From Grave As Home Becomes Visitor Attraction
Space Shuttles for Sale: One Careful Owner, Starting Price $42m
'If Tutsis Died It Was Because the People Were Angry With Them'
Veteran Fraud Fighter Faces Calls to Sweep the Sec Clean
The Berlin Phil - Live in Your Own Front Room
Fun-loving Toymaster Prepares to Dazzle With His Box of Tricks
Iraqi Officials Arrested Over Coup Plot Against Prime Minister
Campaigning Us Father Finally Discovers Who Killed His Son
Court Puts Madoff Under Electronic Surveillance
Going Home: Brown Tells Troops They Will Be Out of Iraq By July
How Williams Changed Views on Splitting Church From State
Don't Neglect Aids Crisis, Warn Health Workers
Defeat for Brown As Meps Vote to End Opt-out on Working Hours
Helicopter Money - a Short Guide
Chilling Developments in Dubai
German Woman Appointed As Editor of Michelin Guide
Opec Surprises With Cut of 2.2m Barrels a Day
New York Hits Ipod Users With Tax on Downloads
Ryanair Welcomes Court Ruling on Subsidy
NHS Doctor 'was Forced to Marry' in Bangladesh
Bangladesh Army Ends Emergency Rule
Safer - But Dreaming of Electricity
Archbishop Backs Disestablishment (and the Muppets)
Desperate Times: How the Fed Plans to Save the World
Cool and Calm He May Be, But 'helicopter Ben' Likes to Spring Surprises
Apple Founder's Withdrawal From Key Trade Show Stokes Health Fears
30-year Journey From Mao to the Market
Alert Over Neo-nazi Numberplates
Amid Further Falling Prices, OPEC to Cut Oil Production Again
Mafia Suspect Found Hanged in Prison Cell
Brown: British Military to Withdraw From Iraq
Brown Visits Iraq to Seal Troops Withdrawal Pact
Film Boss on Fraud Charge
PartyGaming Up 27% As Founder Pleads Guilty in Us Court
UN Aid Agencies Facing Hunger Funding Crisis
Police Find Dynamite in Paris Department Store After Warning Letter
'We Are the Future'
With God's Army
South Africa: Anc Breakaway Party Unveils Leadership
US Representative Jesse Jackson Jr Reportedly Worked With Investigators
Rapist Guilty of Mutilating Lucie Blackman
Militant Links Sunni Muslim Groups in Iraq
Warning of 3m Jobless in Uk As Us Slashes Rates
Car Sales Slump Across Europe
99 Suspects Held in Orchestrated Mafia Raids Across Italy
Secretive North Korea Launches Restricted Mobile Phone Service
Paris Life Models Make Nude Protest to Demand Respect ... and Better Pay
Former Uk Guantánamo Inmates Win Appeal on Torture Lawsuit
Fed Expected to Cut Us Rates to 0.5%
Rebel Without a Pause
EU Fish Stocks at Risk of Collapse, Warns Leading Scientist
UK to Send 300 More Troops to Afghanistan
Thai Opposition Leader Elected Pm
Irish Minister Held Hostage at Gunpoint
Palestinian Pm Fayyad Says West Bank Settlement Must End for Peace
Iraq Shoe Protest: 'will There Be Socks-only Photo Opportunities?'
Q&A: Thailand's New Prime Minister
'I Was Still Holding My Grandson's Hand - the Rest Was Gone'
Highest Rate of Deaths and Injuries Since War Began
Record Us Fine Ends Siemens Bribery Scandal
Light Touch, Laissez-faire - or Simply 'anything Goes'?
Australia Pledges to Cut Emissions By Up to 15%
An Eye-popping Passage to India
Love, Labour and the Robot Armies of the Future
The Victims of Bernard Madoff's Fraud
Revealed: Desperate Final Hours of the World's Biggest Ever Financial Fraud
Besieged and Stressed Gazans Fall Victim to Black Market Painkiller
Divisions Deepen in Armenia As Country Braces for Mps' Trial
Vatican to Be Sued Over Sex Abuse Claims
MEPs Target Britain's Opt-out From 48-hour Week
Europe's Political Parties on Spending Spree After Budget Surplus
The Man Behind Wallander, the Swede We've All Fallen in Love With
EU Accused of Leaving Beleaguered Congo in the Lurch
A History of Violence: Five Decades of Eta
Britain Has Poor View of Itself, Says Williams
How Eta Went to War Over the Environment
When Death Calls in Afghan Killing Fields
Rwandan and Congolese Authorities Fuelling Humanitarian Disaster, Warns Major Un Report
A Mix of Rules and Markets, Held Together By Trade-offs
Vatican Condemns Ivf in Bio-ethics Review
Forgive Spouses Who Stray, Urges Archbishop
EU Leaders Claim Historic Agreement on Cutting Pollution
Wall St Dealer Charged Over $50bn Fraud
From Voyeur's Corner to My First Time: New Magazine Attempts to Lift Veil on Arab Taboos
Locals Rebel Over Naming Street After Solzhenitsyn
Explainer: Cash Guzzlers Go to the Wire
Les Bons Prix à Londres: As Pound Plunges, Parisians Head to Uk in Search of a Bargain
Signs of Dispute on Moscow's Solzhenitsyn Street
Chinese City to Trim Tall Buildings
UK Blocking European Congo Force
'He's Been Incredibly Brave to Take His Ideas From the Seminar Room and Try to Apply Them in Practice'
Second New Star Fund Suspended After Investors Rush to Pull Out Cash
UK Promises £100m to Help Reduce Tropical Deforestation
Mexico Leads the Way With Carbon Reduction Pledge
Giant Private Equity Deal Falls Through
'Internal Politics' is Behind German Criticism of Uk Policy, Brown Claims
MPs' Report Attacks British Council Over Low Staff Morale
German Politician Steps Up Row Over Brown's Policies
Irish to Vote Again If Concessions Agreed
All-clear for Irish Pork to Go Back on Shelves
Zimbabwe Border Declared 'disaster Area' By South Africa
Greek Riots Ease But Demonstrations Set to Continue
Jerusalem Postmen Delivering Mail to God? Must Be Christmas
Brown's Vat Cut Just Crass Keynesianism, Say Germans
Ex-minister Slates Uk Policy on Afghanistan
Brown Adviser: Labour's Rights Record Dismal
Musicians Condemn Use of Their Songs As Instruments of War
Police Investigate Smuggled Fuel Link to Tainted Pork
Beyond the Ice
EU Will Stick to Pledges on Emissions Cuts, Says Environment Commissioner
Environment Minister Calls for a 'food Kyoto' As a Billion People Face Starvation
Greek Protesters: We Feel Bleak and Hopeless
The Hills Are Alive With the Sound of Moaning
Magical and Real: García Márquez is Writing New Novel, Says Friend
Magazine Pulled Over Thai Story
Indigenous Rights Row Threatens Rainforest Protection Plan
Fears That Cholera Epidemic Could Infect 60,000 Zimbabweans
Filmmaker Builds Full-scale Replica of Taj Mahal in Bangladesh
Chinese Rights Activists Appeal for Democratic Reforms
Mourners and Police Clash at Greek Schoolboy Funeral
Dioxins Scare Spreads to Three Irish Beef Farms
Greek Opposition Calls for Election After Fourth Day of Riots
Greece Riots: People Have Lost Trust in Government, Says Opposition Leader
Out By June: Uk Plans Iraq Withdrawal
Council Leaders Offer Lake District As Nuclear Dump
A Perfect Storm of Grievance, Scandal and Rage
Charge of the Knights Tames Lawless Basra
Back to the Ussr
Nearly a Billion People Worldwide Are Starving, Un Agency Warns
Ministers Say Beef and Milk Are Safe As Pig Feed Alert Spreads to Cattle
Feed in Irish Pork Scare Given to Eight Northern Ireland Cattle Herds
Greek Pm in Emergency Talks After Third Night of Riots
Shell Horreur! French Oyster Farmers Face Miserable Festive Season As Rustlers Strike
Too Late? Why Scientists Say We Should Expect the Worst
Guantánamo 9/11 Suspects Plead Guilty
Chinese Petitioners Forced Into Mental Asylums, Claims Report
Ireland Expected to Rerun Referendum on Lisbon Treaty
Fiat Chief: We Can't Survive Alone
Disagreement Over 'car Tsar' Stalls $15bn Us Motor Industry Bail-out
Up to 100,000 Irish Pigs to Be Culled Because of Dioxin Scare
Greenpeace Launches Major Anti-whaling Campaign in Japan
Psychiatric Treatment Used to 'silence' Chinese Critics
Ruling Congress Party Wins Elections in Key Indian States
Police Shooting Catalyses Growing Greek Unrest
Irish Pork Recall
Greece Riots: Timeline
Planet Under Pressure
Analysis: Has the Kyoto Protocol Worked?
Road to Copenhagen
A Blessing for Vicars, a Curse for Residents: Church Invokes Archaic Tax to Fund Repairs
Cracks Appear in Brandenburg Gate Despite €4m Restoration
TV Adventurer Breaks Shoulder in Antarctic Fall
Blackwater Guards Ready to Surrender Over Iraq Killings
Dench Honoured at European Oscars
Opening Night Row As La Scala Switches Tenor
Amsterdam's Brothels and Cannabis Cafés Furious Over Mayor's 'clean-up'
Sales Scam Taints the 'teflon President'
Families Offer Shelter to Victims of Congo War
Mexico's War on Drugs Claims Another 30 Lives
Marmite Ads to Tempt Police Back to Uk
Sunny Von Bulow Dies After Years in Coma
No Room for Wishful Thinking - the Slump is Here With a Vengeance
Six Met Officers to Appear in Court Over Racial Abuse Allegations
BAE Accused of £100m Secret Payments to Seal South Africa Arms Deal
Anti-apartheid Campaigner Mike Terry Dies Aged 61
A Month Ago, the Hospitals Were Overflowing. Now They Lie Empty
OJ Simpson Sentenced to 15 Years for Las Vegas Robbery
Venice Flood Fails to Damp Down Fight Over Sea Walls
Footage Shows Settlers Shooting Two Palestinians
Karaoke Singer Killed After Hogging Mic
BAE Paid £100m to Secure South African Arms Deal, Police Files Allege
A Family Affair
Many Spaniards Found to Have Jewish or Muslim Ancestory
Malaysian Man Killed for Hogging Karaoke Microphone
Patriarch of Russian Orthodox Church Alexy Ii Dies
Retailers Accused of Ignoring Bangladeshi Workers' Plight
Tokyo Catch: Fish Market Bars Tourists
Attorney Urged to Hand Over Torture Evidence
After Serving Time, Hotel Staff to Serve Guests
Downturn Hits Dubai's Building Bonanza
'Tis the Season to Spend Free Lolly
US Businessman Hosts Inaugural Ball for Underprivileged
Tourists Banned From Tokyo Tuna Auctions
Sick Thai King Cancels Unity Speech Amid Fears of Political Vacuum
Canadian Pm Fights to Stay in Power
Hallé/elder
Inside the Villages Where Every Woman is Victim of Hidden War
Betraying the Student Body?
King's Illness Deepens Thai Crisis
America's Dispossessed Invited to $1m Inaugural Ball
Iconic Tortoise Lonesome George, 80, May Be Sterile
Protectionism Rears Its Head As Wto Tries to Wrap Up Doha
Big Fall in Russian Oil Firm's Shares After It Buys Shareholder's Hotel
Zimbabwe Moves to Tackle Cash Shortage As Soldiers Riot
Flights Resume Out of Bangkok As Protesters Lift Airport Siege
Harvard Fears Big Cuts After $8bn Fund Slump
Zimbabwe Tackles Cash Shortage Amid Riots and Looting
Chinese Wealth Fund Turns Back on Western Banks
First Flight Reaches Bangkok After Airport Blockade Ends
Forty Years On, Laos Reaps Bitter Harvest of the Secret War
Ford Chief Will Work for $1 If He Takes State Aid
Nato Snubs Us By Resuming Russia Contacts
100 Countries Join Clamour for Global Ban
Thai Protesters to End Airport Siege After Court Ruling
Another Mini Adventure, But This Time With the Sound Off. And No Back Seat
The Road to Ruin
No Expense Spared As Arab Nations Party Their Way to the Venice Biennale
Radical Preacher Sent Back to Prison As Judges Rule on Secret Evidence
EU Reaches Compromise Deal on Car Emission Caps
Stranded Britons Begin Returning From Thailand
Thai Pm Stripped of Power As Court Finds Government Guilty of Corruption
Abu Qatada Ordered to Return to Prison
Surgeon Carries Out Amputation By Text
England Want Presidential Security on Tour
Military Chief Urges Afghanistan Rethink
Thailand Pm Stripped of Power As Court Finds Government Guilty of Corruption
Thailand Prime Minister to Step Down After Court Strips Him of Office
Let There Be Light
Nato Allies Divided Over Ukraine and Georgia
$200m Suit Claims Discrimination By Compass in Philadelphia Complex
The Mafia's Very Own Minstrel Comes Clean
Leader Wanted Over 2006 Train Bombings
UK Plans 'to Join Euro' Dismissed
Officials Resign Over Failure to Act on Alleged Warnings
Sons of Mafia Boss Plead for Private Life
Storm Brews Over 'surprise' Flood
Irish Papers Gagged Over Corruption Reports
Study Finds Antarctic Seas Richer in Life Than Tropics
Thai Protesters Allow Planes to Leave Bangkok Airport
Samuel Huntington
Brown's New Year Message Hails End of 'free Market Dogma'
Builders Dig Up 17th-century Galleon in Argentina
Israel Rejects Gaza Ceasefire
Fireworks or Electrical Fault Blamed As 59 Killed in Bangkok Nightclub Blaze
Defiant Hamas Launches New Rockets Deeper Into Israel
Israel Rejects Ceasefire Move As Divisions Emerge in Leadership
Saudis Blame Hamas Amid Calls for Talks With Fatah
Pro-Palestinians Gather at Obama’s Hawaii House to Protest
Pakistan Launches Khyber Pass Offensive to Support Us-led Forces in Afghanistan
Israel Likely to Reject Pause in Gaza Bombing
UK Ministers Urge Israel to Agree Gaza Ceasefire
Israel Considers Pause in Gaza Bombing
Number of Britons Seeking New Life in Spain Rises By 12%
Rogue Illinois Governor to Name Obama's Successor
US to Harness Afghan Militias Against Taliban
Dinosaur Bones Find is World's Biggest, Says China
Mark Felt
Iranian Clerics Signing Up Volunteers to Fight Israelis in Gaza
Sarah Palin's Daughter Gives Birth to Baby Boy, Reports Say
Russia-Ukraine Crisis: Gazprom Awards Contract to Rolls-royce
Israel Pounds Hamas in Gaza
Former Bush Aides Say Katrina was Tipping Point for President
Building Worker Killed As Missile Hits Israeli Town
Briton Fights to Be Removed From Us Child Abuse Register
Palestinian Death Toll Rises to 325 As Israeli Strikes Continue
Western-backed Arab Governments Under Pressure As Israel Continues Gaza Strikes
Gaza Strategy Divides Israeli Military Analysts
Gaza Death Toll Tops 300 As Israel Vows to Fight to Bitter End
Islamists Urge Pro-western Regimes to Act
Oldest American Man Dies at 112
Israeli Airstrikes against Gaza Continue Through Weekend
Palestinian Rocket Kills One in Israel
Q&A: Israeli Strikes on Gaza
Gaza Death Toll Tops 300 As Israeli Air Strikes Continue
India Has Been Outmaneuvered By Pakistan
Israel Considers Ground Attack As It Mobilises More Troops
Eartha Kitt
Premarital Sex on Rise As Iranians Delay Marriage, Survey Finds
Republican Contest Marred By Obama Song
Thousands of Protesters in Streets
Defiant Leaders Dismiss Calls to Reinstate Ceasefire
Six Months of Secret Planning - Then Israel Moves Against Hamas
Soldier Turned Politician Who Spent His Life Fighting Arabs
Israel Mounts Pr Campaign to Blame Hamas for Gaza Destruction
Israeli Cabinet Calls Up Reservists As Gaza Strikes Continue
Israel Launches Fresh Strikes on Gaza
Air Strikes in Gaza Kill 225 As Israel Targets Hamas
'Little Rock Nine' Prepare to Celebrate Day of Victory
CBS Newsman's $70m Lawsuit Likely to Deal Bush Legacy a New Blow
Pakistan Remembers Bhutto As Tension With India Mounts
Attacks Are Only Going to Strengthen Hand of Hamas
The Hollywood Recession ... It Still Has a Happy Ending
Thanks to Obama, Americans Over Here Now Feel Like a Million Dollars
Israel's Hammer Blow in Gaza
Russia Renews Tax Bill to Ousted British Offices
Trials Begin Over Contaminated Milk in China
Pakistan 'deploys Soldiers to Indian Border'
Israeli Far Right Gains Ground As Gaza Rockets Fuel Tension
Russian State's Plans for Soviet Bubbly Get Up Noses of Producers
Japan Suffers Record Fall in Industrial Output
2008: The Year in Review
Retailers Offer New Black Friday Deals in Last Gasp of Shopping Season
Israel Failed Policy Of Self-Defense
Wal-Mart Settles 63 Lawsuits for Up to $640 Million
President Bush Pardons Man Who Assisted Israel in Wartime
Russia to Raise Nuclear Missile Output Fourfold
China to Hear Sound of Musicals at 32-theatre 'broadway' Complex
General Lansana Conté
U.S. Automakers Not Alone – Toyota Facing First Loss in 70 Years
Obama to Be Sworn in with Bible from Lincoln Inauguration
China Cuts Rates in Face of Record Slowdown
Sales Slump Puts Toyota on Track for First Loss in 70 Years
Yes He Can ... President's Favourite to Win Over Cynical Festival-goers
French Letter Has Times in a Spin
El Gordo Brings £2bn Sparkle to Spain
Robert Mulligan
Russia Warns Europe It Could Face Gas Shortages
China Cuts Interest Rates to Protect Jobs
Spanish Lottery Awards 3 Billion to Thousands of Lucky Winners
Corporate Jets Still En Vogue Among Battered Wall Street Chiefs
IMF Chief Warns of 'even Darker' Times Unless Governments Spend More
Life in Helmand, Where Rich Rewards Are Reaped By Poppy Farmers, Police and the Taliban
Edgy But Defiant, Mumbai Inches Towards Normality As Hotels Scarred By Terror Reopen
Just What Every President Needs ? His Own Personal Rapper
Warner Stops the Music on Youtube
Obama Team Plans Biggest Boost in History to Save American Economy
Turn Screw on Mugabe, Us Urges
Nasa Hunts for Its Rubber Ducks
Gaza Near to Collapse As Israel Tightens Grip, Says Bank
Obama's Favourite Fundamentalist
Israeli Blockade 'forces Palestinians to Search Rubbish Dumps for Food'
Obama's Revolution on Climate Change
US to Send 30,000 Extra Troops to Afghanistan As War Hits Setbacks
Life Sentence for 'tortured' Briton Convicted of Directing Terror Attacks
George Bush Hands Car Manufacturers $17.4bn Lifeline
Man Convicted of Terrorism 'was Tortured By Pakistani Troops on Behalf of Mi5'
Violence Along Gaza Border Marks Official End of Hamas-israel Truce
Man Convicted of Directing Terror Activities Sentenced to Life
Cats on the Menu in China, Drawing the Ire of Pet Lovers
Watergate's 'deep Throat', Mark Felt, Dies
Watergate Source, Deep Throat, Dies at 95
Spain Removes Last Franco Statue From Mainland
Caroline Kennedy: Born Survivor Makes Senate Bid
Hamas Ends Israel Truce Early
Obama Blames Laissez-faire Regulators for $50bn Madoff Scandal
Cartoon Symbols of the Israeli-palestinian Conflict
Indian Tv Agrees Code on Covering Terrorism After Mumbai Attacks
Cardinal Avery Dulles
Mamma Mia! Has the Financial Crisis Really Made Us Poorer Than the Italians?
Obama in Row Over Anti-gay Pastor's Inauguration Role
Foreign Donors to Clinton Charity Could Prompt Hillary Debate
'Enemies of Humanity' Jailed for War Crimes
Hamas Answers Israeli Air Raid With Rockets As Truce Ends Early
Obama Promises 'adult Supervision' for Wall Street
What Terror Jury Was Not Told: 'they Tore My Nails Out. Then I Was Interrogated By Mi5'
Russians Getting Feisty, Plan on Testing Obama on Arms Issues
Homeowners Find Some Relief in Fed Rate Cuts
UN Tribunal Jails Rwanda Genocide Mastermind for Life
China Sends Naval Fleet to Somalia to Battle Pirates
Sarkozy Declares War on Elitism and Offers Return to Liberty, Equality and Fraternity
Conservatives and Lib Dems Add to Pressure for Timetable
South Korean Court Convicts Actor Who Challenged Adultery Ban
Russia Offers Fighter Jets to Lebanon As Gifts
Turkish Pm Dismisses Apology for Alleged Armenian Genocide
New York Governor Wants Tax on Soft Drinks and Music Downloads
Americans Increasingly Obese, Hooked on Plastic Surgery and Living By the Sea, Census Shows
Mugabe Turns 'assassin's Plot' Against Mdc
President-elect Obama Names Arne Duncan As Education Secretary
Israeli Bus Crash Kills Russian Tourists
Shoe-throwing Iraqi Journalist Could Face Prison Sentence
Ali Alatas
Prophecy 2009 – What is Ahead for America
Iraq Sees Journalist, Shoe Thrower as a National Hero
Mumbai Terrorist Attacks: Rebuilding the Taj!
Letter to Santa Leads to Molestation Charges in Texas
IMF Chief Issues Stark Warning on Economic Crisis
Japanese Rapist Guilty of Lucie Blackman Kidnap
Russian Skinhead Gang Jailed for Murder of 20 Migrants
Brown Urges Israel to Stop Settlers Blocking Peace
How to Insult George Bush, Wherever You Are in the World
Climate Change May Make Humboldt Squid Easy Prey
Israel Deports American Academic
Russian Court Jails Murderous Racist Skinhead Gang
Iraqi Officials Interrogate Bush Shoe Protest Man
Israeli Settlements Are Blockage to Middle East Peace, Says Gordon Brown
Journalist Emerges As Hero of Resistance
Electrolux Blames Recession for 3,000 Job Losses
President Bush Goes on Farewell Tour, Has to Dodge Flying Shoes
Atheists in Washington State Provide a True Meaning of Christmas Story
Bush Promises Help for Auto Industry
Bangladeshi 'forced Marriage' Gp Due Back in Britain Tomorrow
Gordon Brown Welcomes Palestinian Investment Conference
Shoes and Insults Hurled at Bush on Iraq Visit
PM Offers Pact to Stop Pakistan Exporting Terror
Global Oil Supply Will Peak in 2020, Says Energy Agency
Wall Street Titan Who Fell to Earth
The Mumbai Terror Attacks Prove the Partitioning of India and Pakistan Was a Tragic Mistake
Q&A: The Taliban
Shoes Thrown at Bush During Iraq Visit
Gordon Brown Demands Greater Action From Pakistan in Fighting Terror
Obama Eligibility Question - Nonsense or a Possible Reprieve?
Brown Tells of Horror at Killing of Four Soldiers
Record Crowds for China Art Show
Key Mugabe Ally is Free to Live in London
Ruling Frees Asylum Seekers to Work
Israeli Poll Favourite Netanyahu Reins in Right
Eta and Islamist Militants: How the Extremist Movements Work
Brown Horror After Four Marines Killed in Afghanistan Ambush
Parties Earn Vast Sums From Illegal Trade in Minerals
Hollywood Film Accused of Insulting Iran
Founder of Japan's Red Army in Final Appeal for Freedom
Bush Sanctions Last-ditch Rescue of Us Car Makers
British Ambassador Protests Over German Remarks
Pound Hits New Low Against Euro
Two Years of Leading Battle on Climate Change End in Two Days of Hard Haggling
Bush Sanctions Last-ditch Rescue Plan for General Motors and Chrysler
Climate Change: Eu Leaders Reach Compromise Deal on Emissions
Wall Street Insider Proves the World is Ripe for a Ponzi Scheme
Climate Change: Eu Leaders Close to Emissions Deal
World Markets Plunge as Auto Bailout Collapses
US Asks Un to Allow Pirate Hunters Into Somalia
Cholera Crisis is Over, Says Mugabe, As Disaster Area Declared in South Africa's Border Region
Brown All Talk and No Action on Congo, Say Critics
Aid for Afghan Troops As £4bn Aircraft Carrier Plan Delayed
Concessions to Republican Senators Hold Key to Us Car Bail-out
India Unveils Plans for New Fbi-style Security Service
14 Al-qaida Suspects Held As Europe's Leaders Gather in Brussels
EU Giant Isolated As Merkel Puts Germany First
Sweden Sets Out £2bn Crisis Plan
Pakistan Arrests Cleric Linked to Mumbai Terrorist Attacks
Barack Obama Hopes to Reposition the U.S. in Muslim Eyes
Obama Aims to 'reboot Us Image' in the Muslim World
Recession Will Be Longer and Deeper Than Previously Thought, Says Oecd
Bodies Pile Up As Mugabe Wages War on Diamond Miners
Pentagon Sending Thousands More Soldiers to Bolster Uk Forces in Afghanistan
Farc Defector Starts New Life in France After Asylum Deal
Obama Calls for Disgraced Governor's Resignation
GM and Chrysler Must Convince Bush 'car Tsar' in Order to Survive
Rio Tinto Sheds 14,000 Jobs to Cut $40bn Debt
India Calls on Un to Ban Charity It Claims is Front for Terror Group
Dating Site 'prostitution', Says Iran
Obama Seeks to 'reboot America's Image in the Muslim World'
India Calls for Un Ban on Pakistan Charity Over Mumbai
Fifth of World's Coral Reefs Dead, Say Marine Scientists
Recession Could Last Long Into 2010
Academics 'have Abandoned Israeli Boycott', Say Opponents
Wal-Mart Agrees to Pay $54 Million to Settle Lawsuit
Unrest and Rioting in Greece Reaches a Crescendo
Sarkozy on ice - a law suit in the offing?
Bangladeshi Director to Build Mini-taj Mahal
India Releases Pictures of Mumbai Bombers in Effort to Keep Pressure on Pakistan
Russian Firms Most Likely to Use Bribery, Says Report
EU Must Work With Us to Combat Recession, Says Barroso
Food Prices Add 40 Million People to Number of Malnournished in Year
India Releases Details of Nine Dead Mumbai Gunmen
Climate Change Experts 'lose Faith' in Renewable Technology
Sony to Cut 8,000 Jobs Worldwide
Rich Nations Must Plan for Floods, Heat and Drought Now, Warns Panel
Leaders Agree 20% 2020 Renewable Energy Target
Want to Be Senator? Governor Tried to Auction Obama's Old Seat, Says Fbi
Governor of Illinois Faces 'staggering' Charges of Corruption
Sony Raises Axe Over 8,000 Jobs As Economy Worsens
Why must it come Down to Popular V. Patriotic: The Obama Eligibility Question?
Military Leaders Did Nothing about Known Bomb Threats in Iraq
Sony to Cut 8,000 Jobs
Supreme Court Rejects Lawsuit Claiming Obama Ineligible to be President
Terror In Mumbai
People Power
Ice Sheet at Risk
Brown and Sarkozy Nudge Germans Towards Fresh Economic Measures
Convoy Attacks Trigger Race to Open New Afghan Supply Lines
Wall Street Bank Chiefs Waive Bonuses
Egypt Says No to Use of Gps on Iphone
Guantánamo 9/11 Accused: Planner, Paymaster and Aides
Malaria Vaccine Trial Offers Hope
Israel Pilots Electric Car Network
Pakistan Arrests 'mastermind' of Mumbai Terror Attacks
Wall Street Bank Chief Requests $10m Payout
Chicago Media Powerhouse Faces Bankruptcy
Apple Kills Gps Function to Get Iphone on Sale in Egypt
The 9/11 Accused
Gordon Brown and Nicolas Sarkozy Meet to Discuss World Economy
Pakistan Arrests Suspected Mastermind of Mumbai Attacks
Puppies Save Toddler Lost in Woods
Gitmo Prisoners Ask to Confess at War-Crimes Tribunal
China Waits for Us Climate Signal
Voices From Pakistan
Botched Biofuel Legislation Stalls Climate Change Initiative
Mysterious Phone Call Brought Nuclear Rivals to the Brink After Mumbai
Shin Bet Vetoed Arab Israeli's Job As Mosque Imam
Obama Recruits Critic of Bush's Iraq Strategy
Armada Against Somali Pirates is Eu's First Naval Operation
Writers Risk Backlash With Apology for Armenian Genocide
Taliban Destroy 100 Trucks in Biggest Raid on Nato Supplies Bound for Afghanistan
Revealed: Home of Mumbai's Gunman in Pakistan Village
France Fears Death of Village Life As Cafés Call Last Orders
Genes Reveal Spain's Forced Conversions
Mumbai Terrorist Came From Pakistan, Local Villagers Confirm
Mugabe Must Be Toppled Now - Archbishop of York
Army Cracks Down on Dissent After Anti-mugabe Rampage
Army Starts Negotiations in Helmand
From Berlin to Beijing, Chancellors and Presidents Feel the Strain
Harper Under Pressure to Deliver Economic Relief to Canada
Saudis Deny Barring Gazans From Mecca
Bushes to Swap White House for Dallas Pad
Police Violence Soaring, Says Report on Turkey
Turkish Police Violence Rises Amid 'culture of Impunity', Say Campaigners
Solar Car Goes Around the World, Sans Fossil Fuel
Cuba Eager to Explore Possibilities with Obama
Condoleezza Rice: South Africa Must Pressure Mugabe to Quit
Jewish Settlers in Hebron Shoot Palestinian Men
India Admits Intelligence Failures in Run-up to Mumbai Attacks
Canada's Pm Clings on to Power As Parliament Suspended
Israeli Riot Police Evict Settlers in Hebron
EU Trio Press Germany for Bigger Contribution to Stimulus Plan
'Lost Decade' a Warning to West
Thousands of American Job Losses Announced After Worst Month for Employment Since 1980
Canada Suspends Parliament in Reprieve for Under-fire Pm
Israeli Forces Evict Settlers From Disputed Hebron Home
Putin: Obama May Ease Russia-us Relations
Horror Revisited for Genocide Survivor
Security Scare at Delhi Airport
Zimbabwe Declares Cholera Emergency
School Accused of Mumbai Terror Role Opens Its Doors
AT&T Announces Cuts of Over 12,000 Jobs
Indian Airports in Near Lockdown Mode after New Warnings
Pakistan Snubs India Over Terrorist 'suspects'
Millions of Chinese Graduates Out of Work After Fivefold Rise in University Places
Terrorists Could Mount Nuclear or Biological Attack Within 5 Years, Warns Congress Inquiry
Fossil Provides Glimpse of Giant Flying Reptile
A Toxic Legacy
Hawaii Goes Electric
Roman Polanski and That Night in 1977: a Reminder
US Report Predicts Nuclear or Biological Attack By 2013
Who's behind SarkObama?
General Motors President Says Bankruptcy Not an Option
U.S. Official Claims India was Warned of Potential Plot
Two Most Wanted Fugitives Named
US Warned India of Attack By Islamist Militants, Say Officials
Rice Warns Nato Against Closer Ties With Moscow ? for Now
Bill Clinton Praises Obama as His Cabinet Rounds into Shape
French prepare to go to the polls
China Revises Figures of Babies Affected By Contaminated Milk Powder
Iraq's 'chemical Ali' Gets Second Death Sentence for Shia Massacre
Mumbai Attacks: India Demands Pakistan Hand Over Terror Suspects
Somali Pirates Attack U.S. Cruise Ship
Iraq War My Biggest Regret, Bush Admits
Sleepy Village Baffled By Link to Captured Terrorist
Rice Urges Pakistan to Cooperate Fully With Investigation
Merkel Resists Party Calls to Spend More to Tackle Recession
Mugabe's Power Under Threat As Troops Riot Over Pay
Israel Blocks Aid Ship Bound for Gaza
Credit Card Industry May Cut $2 Trillion of Outstanding Credit
Mumbai Terror Attacks: Rice Calls for 'transparency' From Pakistan
Suspects Sought in Trampling Death of Wal-Mart Employee
Where in France does petrol cost almost €US 10 a gallon?