National & World News Archive February 2006
50 Die As Maoists Blow Up Truck Returning From Rally
Road Bomb Kills Two British Soldiers
Peacekeeping Forces Face Deployment Crisis
Protest Over Opposition Leader's Assassination
Manila Stifles People Power
African Rebels Hail English Vicar
BBC to Scrap Radio Link After 62 Years
Surreal Bicycle Book Rides to Fame on Back of Cult Tv Show
Rescuers in Frantic Search for Survivors After Moscow Market Caves in
Sectarian Violence Explodes After Attack on Mosque
Woman, 62, Gives Birth to 12th Child
Poster Blunder Makes Waves in Moscow
City Goes to the Dogs for a New Source of Power
Three Years is Not Enough Say Irving's Accusers
CIA Withdraws 55,000 Pages From Open View
Townships in Revolt As Anc Fails to Live Up to Its Promises
Jewish Chronicle Appoints New Editor
Families of Trapped Miners Pray for Miracle
Fears Grow for 65 Miners Trapped After Explosion
President Leads the Faithful Awaiting Return of 12th Imam
Turkmen Ruler Coins Lasting Memento for 66th Birthday
Rescuers Try to Reach 66 Miners Trapped Underground
$365m Jackpot for Lottery Player
Turning Tables on the Casting Couch
Pirates Snatch Rose's Secrets
37 Million Poor Hidden in the Land of Plenty
EU to Welcome Migrant Workers - With Limitations
UK to Build Ties With Banned Islamist Group
Judge's Anger at Us Torture
Judge Backs Guantánamo Uk Residents
Antitrust Threat to Open Up Eu Energy Market
MEPs Approve Diluted Services Bill
UN Report Calls for Guantanamo Bay Closure
US Right Has Hijacked Religious Vote, Says Evangelist
Zuma Rape Trial Postponed After Claims Judge is Uncle of Defendant's Son
New 'abu Ghraib Abuse' Images Screened
Special Report: America's Long War
A Close Ally, But No Influence
Unions Protest As Eu Debates 'plumbers' Rule
America's Long War
Basra Cuts Off Relations With British
Thousands Support Zuma at Trial
UN Report Calls for Closure of Guantã¡namo
Tehran Threatens to Abandon Nuclear Treaty
Judge in Zuma Trial Stands Down
How to Make Lewd, Lazy Lads Pay
I'm Proud of My Son - Whatever's Said About Him
Footballer Invited to Meet Nazi Victims
Ruling Shia Coalition Won Election, Results Confirm
Brutal Divide: Fortified Town Plays on Middle Class Fear of Crime
Benatti Hits Wpp With Lawsuit
Kidnapped Journalist Says Time is Short
Resurrection at Last for Woman Killed By Red Tape
From Slough to Villepinte: It's Le Bureau
Election Marred By Low Turnout and Violence
EU Fears Huge Payout for Gm Export 'ban'
US Wins Wto Backing in War With Europe Over Gm Food
Royal Command Falls on Deaf Ears
Four Die in Attack on Nato Base
The Us Case Against 'real Deal' Hamza
Tourist Coach Plunges Into Ravine Killing 12
Shipyard Goes to Great Lengths to Woo Cruise-goers
Scotland Yard Sets Up Squad to Track Protesters
Relatives Torch Offices of Red Sea Ferry Firm
US Law Chief Defends Domestic Wiretapping
Danish Embassy in Tehran Attacked
Two Killed in Cartoon Protests
Danish Paper Rejected Jesus Cartoons
Anger Over Ferry Disaster Turns to Violence
International Cartoon Protests Spread
Rioting With Well-planned Spontaneity
50 Public Figures Named in Gay Witchhunt By Cameroon's Papers
US Women's Movement Mourns Author Friedan
Young, Rich, Black... and Driving an African Boom
Turkmenistan Despot Axes Pensions
Cost of Wars Soars to $440bn for Us
Cartoon Controversy Spreads Throughout Muslim World
Sunk Ferry 'may Have Been Short of Lifeboats'
Norwegian Editor Apologises
Jack Straw Praises Uk Media's 'sensitivity' Over Cartoons
British Muslims Protest Over Cartoons
Ferry Sinks With 1,300 on Board
European Elite Scrambles to Defuse Furore Over Caricatures of Muhammad
'I Was Convinced We Had Found a Solution to Living Together - Not Now'
Deutsche Profit Rise Takes Heat Off Ackermann
It Could Be You - But Don't Hold Your Breath
Armed Muslim Factions Vow to Kidnap Europeans As Cartoon Anger Grows
Spectator Makes Cartoon U-turn
BBC Joins Cartoon Controversy
Anger As Papers Reprint Cartoons of Muhammad
Khodorkovsky Faces Prison Sewing Exam
40m in Sub-saharan Africa Need Emergency Food Aid, Says Un
Cartoon Row Spreads Across Europe
Two British Soldiers Killed in Iraq Bombing
Glitter Could Face Seven Years in Military Prison, Says Lawyer
Sudan Leaders Face Un Sanctions
US Government to Pay £171,000 to Egyptian Man Held After 9/11
Hysterectomy Inquiry Reveals 25-year Scandal of Silence
England Fans Miss Out on Learning the German for Penalties
US Shifts Diplomatic Weight to Reflect New World Order
Germany Put on Alert As Cat Dies of Bird Flu
Deadly Bird Flu Strain Reaches Sweden
Saddam Trial Hears of Execution Orders
Kidnapped Journalist Still Alive, Say Iraqis
'1,300 Dead' in Iraq Sectarian Violence
EU to Pay £94.5m to Avert Collapse of Palestinian Authority
Worldwide Poll Shows 60% Fear Terror Threat is Worse After War
Chen Enrages Beijing By Axing Unification Council
Rickman Slams 'censorship' of Play About Us Gaza Activist
16 Charged Over Coup Plot As Arroyo Tightens Grip
Bush to Visit Afghanistan Despite Taliban Attacks
China Fights to Hold Back Sands
Secret Papers Reveal German Spies Passed Intelligence on Iraq to Us Before Invasion
UN Watchdog Refuses to Give Iran Clean Bill of Health in Nuclear Row
Blair Backs Jowell Over Berlusconi Claims
Saddam 'ends Hunger Strike'
Jowell Denies Fault Over Berlusconi Scandal
Protesters Storm Congress Over Coup Charges
Museveni Victorious in First Multi-party Election
Court Starts Hearing Bosnia's Genocide Claim
Explainer: President Benefits From Unpopular Opposition
Abbas 'will Quit' If Hamas Make Job Impossible
Iran and Russia Reach Tenuous Deal on Nuclear Programmes
French Premier Seals Merger to See Off Italians
30 Hurt As Taliban and Al-qaida Prisoners Lead Revolt at Afghan Prison
Sunni-Shia Schism 'threatening to Tear Iraq Apart'
Montenegro Fights to Change Rules for Independence Vote
Bad Luck Continues to Stalk Zambia's White Farmers, Hounded From Zimbabwe
Chirac Plots to Rekindle France's Love for Eu
Marines' Rebellion Loosens Arroyo's Grip on Power
Sarkozy Plans Piste Police to Halt 'hooligan Skiers'
Orange March Sparks Dublin Riots
Uganda Hit By Violence As Opposition Claims Election Fraud
Booming India Finds That America Wants to Be Its New Best Friend
Sunni Call for Deal to Avert Civil War
Government and Rebels in Sri Lanka Agree to New Peace Talks
State of Emergency As Arroyo Claims Coup is Foiled
Shell Told to Pay Nigerians $1.5bn Pollution Damages
China Activists 'vanish' Amid Protests
Friend or Foe? Uk Forces Enter Afganistan's Dark Zone
Business As Usual - Almost - As King of the Zulus Keeps Mardi Gras Alive
Saudis Foil Militant Attack on World's Largest Oil Plant
Iraq Curfew Cuts Violence As Religious Leaders Call for Calm
Dubai Ports Agrees to Delay Takeover
Journalists 'must Resist Call to Carry Arms'
Iraqi Shia Leader Appeals for Unity
Iraq Curfew Imposed in Attempt to Halt Violence
Mandelson Under Attack As Brussels Plans Duties of 20% on Asian Shoe Imports
Drinks Query Revives Cheney Row
Bush Tries to Head Off Growing Row About Sale of Ports Control to Uae
EU Delivers Ultimatum on Mladic's Arrest to Serbia
Opposition Cries Foul As Uganda's Polls Close
Blogger Bares Rumsfeld's Post 9/11 Orders
More Than 130 Dead in Iraq Reprisals
V.P.Cheney Gets A Raw Deal
TV Journalists Killed in Iraq
EU Warns Serbia Over Mladic
At Least 78 Dead in Iraq Reprisals
Dozens of Bodies Discovered in Baghdad
Revenge Attacks Kill 20 Nigerian Muslims
Food Running Out As Ferry Strike Maroons Greek Islanders
Nato Will Be in Afghanistan for Years, Says Military Chief
Iraq Slips Towards Civil War After Attack on Shia Shrine
Exclusive Constant Gardener Premiere Raises Money for Kenya's Poor
Controversial Execution Called Off Again
Bush Insists Dubai Firm is Safe to Run Us Ports
First Lady Leads the Way As Women Make Their Mark on Ugandan Politics
Crunch Time for Serbia in Hunt for Mladic
Shia Shrine Blasts Spark Reprisal Attacks
Medics Refuse to Execute Condemned Man
Straw Denies Shrine Bombing Will Derail New Government
Serbian General Still 'at Large'
Sen: US nuke deal won’t stop India’s atomic arms program
Diana Crash Photographers Fined
China Delays Trial of New York Times Man
China Cracks Down on Junk Email
Blast Destroys Shia Shrine
Blast Kills 22 As Straw Calls for End to Sectarianism
Disagreement With Medical Staff Delays Execution
China Vows to Create a 'new Socialist Countryside' for Millions of Farmers
A Vision for Najaf: Milton Keynes of the Middle East
Hunt for Mladic
Mladic Arrest Operation 'under Way'
Ratko Mladic 'arrested'
Decision on Bird Flu Vaccination Programmes Delayed
Russian Paper Closes After Publishing Cartoons
Iraqi Pm Hits Out at Us Warnings
Baghdad Bomb Kills 22
City Bankers Lose Extradition Appeal
Google Embroiled in New Chinese Row
Straw Visits Baghdad for Iraqi Government Talks
The Resistible Rise of the Historian Who Rejected Plain Facts
Cult Leader Fit to Appeal Against Death Sentence
Moscow and Tehran Keep Talking on Nuclear Deal
Bin Laden Vows Never to Be Captured Alive
US Envoy Claims Iran is Stirring Iraqi Strife
Africa Needs More Courage, Says Mugabe
South African Author Accused of Plagiarism
Rescue Hopes Dashed in Philippines
Closed Archive Leads to Holocaust Denial Claim
Irving Jailed for Denying Holocaust
Nigerian Militants Step Up Sabotage of Oil Installations
David Irving Jailed for Holocaust Denial
Austrian Court Jails Holocaust Denier Irving
Mudslide Rescuers Keep Hopes Alive
Iranian Minister Calls for End to Cartoon Violence
Russia and Iran Hold Uranium Enrichment Talks
Chirac Denies Racism Charge Over Mittal
Reports of Philippines School Rescue Denied
Cartoon Protests Continue in Afghanistan and Indonesia
Irving Pleads Guilty to Holocaust Denial
Bin Laden: 'i Will Never Be Taken Alive'
Berlusconi Hits Out at Tessa Jowell's Husband
Veterans Called Upon to Serve Again
Tight Security As Trial of Holocaust Denier Begins
Threat to Oil Tankers After Nigerian Rebels Kidnap Foreigners
Serbia Threatens to Resist Kosovo Independence Plan
Crowds Demand Change in Ugandan Election
Boot Camp Video Shows Beating of Boy Who Died Next Day
Moqtada Al-sadr Throws Iraqi Unity Talks Into Disarray
Doctors in Ethics Row As Execution Nears
US Marines Join Landslide Rescue Effort
Church Ablaze As Cartoon Protests Continue Across Globe
Israel Halts Funds to Palestinian Authority
Torturers' Iraq Link
Secret Site of the World Cup Turf
UK Alert As Bird Flu Death Confirmed
Hope Fades for Villagers in Philippine Mudslide Horror
Palestine on Brink As Hamas Takes Over
Nigeria Cartoon Riots Kill 16
Hopes Fade for 1,800 Feared Dead in Mudslide
Al Qaeda has better PR: Rumsfeld
Bush defends Indo-US nuclear arrangement
Dalai Lama suggests unofficial contacts with Hamas
Hundreds feared dead in Philippine mudslide
Mudslide in Philippines
Women Mps Vow to Change Face of Hamas
Star Guilty of Poaching Antelope
Chávez Vows to Resist Us 'inoculation Strategy'
A Thoroughly Modern Indian Marriage
Iran Calls on Britain to Withdraw From Basra
Cheney Shooting Victim Says Sorry - to Cheney
At Least Nine Killed in Libya As Cartoon Protests Escalate
1,500 Feared Killed By Mudslide in Philippines
Iran Says Uk Must Withdraw Troops From Basra
Mac Users Face First Apple Virus
Cleric Offers Reward for Killing of Cartoonist
Bush Denies Secrecy Over Cheney Shooting
200 Feared Dead in Philippine Landslide
UN Condemns Ukraine's Return of Asylum Seekers
Zarqawi's Third Death Sentence
Préval Declared Haiti President
Abu Ghraib Leaked Report Reveals Full Extent of Abuse
Briton Pleads Not Guilty to Murdering Wife and Child
Legalise Organ Sales, Say Us Doctors
Iraqi Minister Calls for Us to Hand Over Prisoners
US Idea of Torture 'not Same As in Uk'
Briton to Deny Murdering Family in Us
Times Apologises to Al-jazeera
Pressure Grows for Préval to Be Named Haiti President
Mexico Admits Hostage Rescue Was Staged for Tv
Western Businesses Burn in Pakistan Riots
Two Shot Dead at Ugandan Opposition Rally
The Worst Day of My Life, Says Cheney
Poultry Taken Indoors As Germany Confirms Bird Flu
Microsoft Tells Brussels It Has Complied With Anti-monopoly Ruling
Batman Returns to Wage War on Al-qaida
Congress Accuses Google of Collusion
Civil Liberties Fear As Us Terror Suspect List Rises to 325,000
Ruthless Heirs of Cocaine Trade Tighten Their Grip on a Smugglers' Paradise
Bush Plans Huge Propaganda Campaign in Iran
Jail Term for Sharon's Son Over Illegal Fundraising
China's Old Guard Warns Censors of 'social Disaster'
Jack Straw Threatens Sudanese Government With Un Sanctions
Return of Migrating Birds Could Spread Avian Flu in Europe
Australians Face Death for Drug Smuggling
Cheney Shooting Victim Suffers Minor Heart Attack
Lebanese Mark Pm's Death With Anti-syria Demo
US and Israel 'trying to Destabilise Hamas'
Iran Demands Apology Over German Cartoon
Two More Held Over Iraq 'abuse' Video
Two Killed in Pakistan Cartoon Protests
Murder Accused 'searched Net for Information on Killing'
Iran Resumes Uranium Enrichment
Two Kenyan Ministers Resign Over Sleaze Claims
Saddam Trial at 'crucial Stage'
Australian Drug Mules Jailed for Life
Office Ladies Bitter About Keeping Bosses Sweet
Israel Excludes Palestinians From Fertile Valley
Greeks Protest As Poverty Deepens
Pirates and Bloggers Beat China's Great Wall of Propaganda
Three More Die From Bird Flu in Asia
Saddam Creates Uproar in Forced Court Appearance
Mbeki's Former Deputy on Trial for Rape
Berlusconi's Boundless Modesty: First It's Napoleon, Now He's Jesus
Cheney Shoots Lawyer in Hunt Accident
Russia Under Pressure to Guarantee Gas Supplies
Danes Told to Leave Indonesia After Terrorist Threat Reported
Italy Sounds Alarm Over Avian Flu
Rumsfeld Vows to Strengthen North African Military Ties
Hariri's Son Calls for Street Rally
How Kenya is Caught on the Thorns of Britain's Love Affair With the Rose
Russian Horror Flick Hopes to Challenge Hollywood
Moscow Under Pressure to Ratify Energy Supply Charter After Ukraine Scare
First Picture of Abramoff With Bush Surfaces
Danes Urged to Leave Indonesia
Berlusconi Narrows Gap in Polls As Election Campaign Starts
Music and Dancing As the Harlem of South Africa Gets Its Name Back
Legal Rights for Aids Patients
Jaafari Wins Narrow Vote to Head Iraq's New Government
Thousands Would Die in Us Strikes on Iran, Says Study
Italy Sounds Alarm Over Deadly Avian Flu
Army's Image in Iraq Under the Spotlight
Taiwan Talks Are Not Business As Usual
The World in a Week
Russians Are Big Fans of English Hooligans
Cutting-edge Spain Seizes Design Crown
Bell Tolls for Hemingway's Fake Comrade
France is Gripped By Poison Plot
Sharon 'near Death' After Blood Clot
Bird Flu Hits Western Europe
Sharon Critical After Emergency Surgery
Sharon Close to Death After Emergency Surgery
Hope Grows for Haiti Peace As Preval Nears Election Victory
Vatican Abortion Treaty Brings Down Government
Moscow Invitation to Hamas Angers Israel
Flash Flood Threat to Pakistan Quake Survivors
Call to Reinstate Papers Closed in Cartoon Row
Bush Ignored Cia Advice on Iraq, Says Former Spy
Protesters at Olympics Face 'zero Tolerance'
White House Knew Scale of Katrina Disaster From Start, Official Reveals
Malaysia Bans Muhammad Cartoons
Briton Agrees to Us Extradition Over Killing of Wife and Baby
Yahoo! Accused Over Jailing of Chinese Dissident
Record Number of Internet Suicide Pacts
Chávez Hits Back at 'pawn of Imperialism' Blair
Building Scams Soar in Japan
Mystery After Dark in Wpp's Italian Job
Buy a Brick Scheme to Foil Great Wall Scrawl
Bird Flu Discovered in Two More Nigerian States
Sectarian Battles Kill 32 in Pakistan and Afghanistan
China's Powerhouse Vision for 2050
Force-feeding Breaks Protest at Guantã¡namo
Bush Tells of Al-qaida Plot to Fly Jet Into Tallest Building in Los Angeles
Thieving Maid Spares Some Star Bosses
Diver Adrift for Three Days Survives Thirst and Hallucinations
Planners Warn of Danger From Growing Income Gap
Pregnancy May Force Rethink on Female Heirs for Japan Throne
UN and Kenya Appeal for Aid in Worst Drought for 22 Years
Migrant Workers From East Helping to Boost Eu's Fortunes, Says Report
Evangelicals Launch Green Action Plan
Lack of Legal Wood Leaves Tsunami Survivors in Rotting Tents
Israelis May Regret Saddam Ousting, Says Security Chief
US Says Iran and Syria Stoking Cartoon Protests
Nigeria Scrambles to Halt Spread of Deadly Bird Flu
Danish Paper Pursues Holocaust Cartoons
Four Killed in Afghanistan Cartoons Protest
French Weekly Prints More Cartoons
Two Killed in Afghanistan Cartoons Protest
Israel Unveils Plan to Encircle Palestinian State
Royal Baby News May Halt Change to Succession Law
German Nurse Accused of Killing 29 Patients
Hollywood Private Eye to Stand Trial
For Coretta Scott King, a Funeral Fit for a Leader in Her Own Right
Polish Woman Denied an Abortion Takes Fight to Europe
Jordan Editors Face Lawsuit
13 Killed in Afghanistan Bombing
Cartoons 'part of Zionist Plot'
Cartoons Part of 'zionist Conspiracy', Says Iran's Supreme Leader
One Dead, Scores Wounded in Afghan Cartoon Protests
12 Killed in Afghanistan Bombing
Media Points Finger at Syria for Violent Rallies As Lebanon Fears for Its Fragile Sectarian Peace
Alleged 9/11 Conspirator Evicted From Court
Israeli Missile Strike Incinerates Two Militants
Goodbye, Farewell and Amen to the Last Us Mash Unit
US General Maps Out Strategic Refit for Iraq, Middle East and Asia
Iranian Paper to Run Holocaust Cartoons
Lebanon Seeks to Defuse Tensions Over Cartoons
US Condemns Cartoon Violence
Costa Ricans Split in Presidential Vote
Interpol Alert for Al-qaida Militants Who Tunnelled Out of Prison in Yemen
Crew Accused Over Egypt Ferry Disaster
A Steady First Step Forward
Iran Taunts West on Security Council Move
Violence, Fatwas and Online Anti-jew Images: a World of Protests
A Consumer Society Not Ready for Sanctions
Sudan Urged to Accept Un Force As Talks Falter
Afghan Fighting Escalates As Uk Deployment Looms
Haiti Voters to Elect President After Four Delays
Palestinian Authority 'may Have Lost Billions'
Suicide Adds to Phone-tap Mystery
Iran Faces Un Nuclear Crisis
Ferry Families Demand Answers As Last Hopes Fade
Embassies Ablaze As Muslim Anger Spreads
Smart Dart May Stop Lapd's Staple Pursuit
Tehran Rejects Russian Offer to Diffuse Nuclear Confrontation
Mandela Misses Parliament Opening
Former Kenyan Leader Should Face Corruption Inquiry, Says Report
US Crops Left to Rot As Mexicans Leave the Fields for Better-paid Jobs
British Soldier Killed in Iraq Road Accident
Iran Threatens to Abandon Russian Compromise
Jordanian Editor Sacked Over Cartoons
Cruise Ship Vanishes With 1,300 on Board
Russia's Gazprom Considers Bid for British Gas Owner Centrica
Pentagon Sets Up Robot Unit to Identify Source of Nuclear Attacks
Millionaires Without the Price of a Loaf
Athens Olympics Phone Tapping Revealed
Under House Arrest: Blind Activist Who Exposed Forced Abortions
Don't Work With Men, Muslim Clerics Tell Indian Women
Israel and Allies Urge Hamas to Renounce Past
Russian Officer Hired Out Troops for Slave Labour
Dramatic Fall in Zimbabwe Hiv Infections
Tehran Urged to Agree to 10-year Nuclear Freeze
Blair-Bush Deal Before Iraq War Revealed in Secret Memo
Bush Told Blair We're Going to War, Memo Reveals
Cartoons Published in Jordan
Blair to Hail 'new Consensus' in Europe
Iran Nuclear Row Nears 'critical Phase'
Saddam Trial Hears of Cigarette-burn Torture
More European Papers Defy Muslim Protests
US Media at 'all-time Low'
Nuclear Agency Debates Iran Referral
Riots Fail to Stop Settlement Demolition
Enron Boss 'tried to Stifle Critical Voices'
Iran's Message to the West: Back Off or We Retaliate
At 75, Boris Yeltsin Proves He Still Knows How to Party
Netherlands Votes on Troops for Afghanistan
Kenyan Finance Minister Quits Over Corruption Claims
Bush Hits the Road to Take a Green Message to His Nation of Oil Addicts
'America Wants Iran to Be Dependent on It and Iranians Don't Want That'
Straw: Iran Has Last Chance to Comply
'Western Media Biased Against Arabs'
Bush Sets Goal for Us of 75% Cut in Middle East Oil Imports