National & World News Archive February 2008



Ancient Fault Lines That Crisscross Crust Beneath Britain

Ousting of Baa Chief Caps Months of Turmoil at Airport Operator

Cocaine Galore! £7m of Colombia's Finest Washes Up on Cornish Beaches

Sovereign Wealth Funds Likened to Gazprom As Brussels Calls for Rules

Airport Protesters Take to Parliament Roof

Notes From Beyond Grave Put Treasure Hunters on Amber Alert

Child's Rescue Reveals Boys' Bodies in Well

OECD Throws Its Weight Behind Campaign Against Tax Evasion

Guantánamo Guards Suffer Psychological Trauma

Clapton May Play Pyongyang

Feed the World? We Are Fighting a Losing Battle, Un Admits

UN Warns of New Face of Hunger As Global Prices Soar

The Last Supper - Now How About a Nice Game of Chess?

Divide and Rule

UK Farmers Forced to Ride Income Rollercoaster

Monica's Story: Rescued Victim of Child Traffickers or Kidnapped By Itn Crew?

Pilot Sacked After Fly-by Prank Ends Up on Internet

Clegg Calls for Eu Referendum to End 'crazy' Debate

TedFest Returns, This Time at a Neutral Venue

The Shape of Aircraft to Come

Burnt Diary Yields Horror of Warsaw Ghetto

Oil Giants Are Poised to Move Into Basra

Warning of Catastrophe From Mass of 'space Junk'

Government Wants Personal Details of Every Traveller

Monica's Story: Rescued Victim of Child Traffickers or Kidnapped By Itn Crew?

On Reflection Milan Spurns Sex Appeal

'There is Peace. We Have a New Airport. People Are Satisfied'

And Finally ... How the March of a Lone Cockroach Put 30 People Out of Work

Embarrassed Miliband Admits Two Us Rendition Flights Refuelled on British Soil

Extraordinary Admissions

Archbishop Orders Catholic Hospital Board to Resign in Ethics Dispute

Strike Threat By Ba Pilots to 100,000 Easter Travellers

Rude Awakening on the 6.30 From Paddington

Reed Elsevier Dithers Over Arms Fair Exit

SocGen Chief to Stay on Despite Record Loss

US Accused of Militarising Space As It Shoots Down Satellite

SocGen Report Finds Lax Controls of Rogue Trader's Activities

MI6 Rejected Proposal to Kill Balkan Leader, Diana Inquest Told

Inquiry As Tories Attack Dna Failure

Islamic Scholars to Hold Talks at Vatican

Renault Wins Race to Supply Sarkomobile

Bad Weather Threatens to Delay Us Shot at Satellite

Briton Held Over Illegal Mining

This Week We Want to Know All About ... That Suzuki Advert

International Aid Swells Road Deaths

Further Restrictions May Follow Five Years of Tough Measures

Rioting With Well-planned Spontaneity

Economy Moves to Forefront of Democratic Race

Short Rations and High Hopes

Stolen Art Found in Car Park

Return to Abu Ghraib

Oswald, Ruby and the Conversation That Never Was

A Country in Search of an Identity

'9/11 Ripped the Bandage Off Us Culture'

Anger and Fear in a City Still Divided

Do Pop Culture and Trends influence an Election?

Trafficked Children 'sent Back to Gangs'

'I Lost My Career, My Life and My Dignity'

Dublin Wants Right to Inspect Uk Nuclear Power Stations

Paris Splashes Out to Save Alsace Hamster

Media-Created Monsters

Hizbullah Joins Hunt for Mughniyeh's Killers

Illinois University Gunman Named

To the Village of Hate With an Olive Branch

Maria and Alec Ossowski

Gunman Shoots Five Dead at Illinois University Before Killing Himself

Four Students Shot Dead By Gunman in Illinois University

A Critical Eye

Death of a Madman Driven Sane By Chess

And Now, the Weather Forecast With Swans Dario and Dorcus

Could We Use Our Canals More?

Bird Brain - or Parrot Prodigy?

Christopher Hitchens - God's Gift to the World of Books

Was Saddam's Death Dignified?

Desperately Seeking Wagner

One City, Two Protests - Beirut's Deady Divide

Deference to Multiculturalism Undermines Those Fighting Extremism, Generals Warn

Zapatero Tells Church to Stop Election Meddling

Doubts Do Not End With Darfur

Georgian Billionaire Died From 'natural Causes'

UK May Join Eu Border Security System

Former Dutch Mp Facing Death Threat Asks Eu to Fund Security

Ginsberg First Recording Found After 50 Years

Teacher Hid Illiteracy During 17-year Career

Worldwide Increase in Gm Crops, Report Shows

'I Don't Feel Safe Anywhere'

Les Echos Staff Go on Strike

EuroMillions Winner Says He Saw It Coming

Hail Mary

British Innocent of Poisoning Napoleon, Arsenic Study Finds

Archbishop Defends Sharia Law Remarks But Admits His Words May Have Lacked Clarity

EC Ready to Impose Price Cuts on Cross-border Texting

Ministers Confirm That Us Wants Armed Guards on Transatlantic Flights

Williams, Sharia and a Mea Culpa ... of Sorts

Archbishop Defends His Comments on Sharia Law

Auctioneers Bring Down Hammer on America's Broken Dreams

SocGen Shares Slide After Heavily Discounted Rights Issue

Q&A: East Timor Unrest

Advice for Travellers to America

US Security Measures

Women With the Future in Their Hands

Studio Deal is Likely to Close Book on Us Writers' Strike

No Country for Old Men

Archbishop Tears Up Script to Face Critics

Don't Believe Myths About Sharia Law

Bishop Condemns 'shameful' Sharia Outcry

The Violence Falls But the Sewage Continues to Rise

Kerviel Locked Up As Second Trader Questioned

Misjudgment That Made Martyrs of Others

Jewish Beth Din Could Be Archbishop's Model

Williams Defiant Over Islamic Law Speech

Super Bowl, Super Tuesday But Little Super Fashion

Tourism Miracle Has Turned Water Into Profits

City's Two-wheel Transformation

Aylesbury's Cycleways Leave Room for Improvement

Sharia Law Would Be 'catastrophic' for Britain, Says Blunkett

Shuttle Atlantis Blasts Off Carrying Europe's Space Hopes

Extradited Briton Faces Coup Trial

Tighten Those Belts

Kremlin Incensed By Watchdog Refusal to Monitor Elections

Uproar As Archbishop Says Sharia Law Inevitable in Uk

Jacobs Out to Make Up Lost Ground After Rude Awakening

Laying Down the Law: Ministers Cool on Archbishop's Sharia Suggestion

Archbishop Backs Sharia Law for British Muslims

Mercenary Mann to Be Tried for Equatorial Guinea Coup Plot

Atlantis Takes Europe's Hopes Into Space

US Diplomats Visit Briton in Equatorial Guinea Jail

'Who's to Blame? It Depends Where You Begin the Story'

Veteran British Rockers to Play for Putin's Heir

California Implications Unclear for Democrats

I Won't Be Made a Scapegoat - €5bn Rogue Trader Breaks Silence

France Threatens Military Action Against Chad Rebels

Kabbalah and Hemlines Dominate

Wilderness Under Threat As Visitors Stay Indoors

Halston Reborn ... Again

Bomber Shot Dead During Suicide Attack in Town Housing Nuclear Reactor

Scotsman Kicks for Glory in Super Bowl

Chad Rebels Pull Back From Capital

DKNY Swings Into the 70s

Chad Rebels Besiege Presidential Palace

Alone on the Left Wing

Internet Gene Tests Provoke Alarm

The Glass Ceiling Isn't Broken - in Fact, It's Getting Thicker

This Week We Want to Know All About ... Finger Vein Scans

Call to Seize Secret Church Abuse Files

Illegal Migrants Caught in a Fight for the Headlines

Heavy Gunfire As Rebels Enter N'djamena

The Players

Throughout the 90s Yahoo Was King of the Net. Then Came Google

Tip Your Hat

Spanish Owner of Scottish Power Files Complaint to Fend Off Edf Takeover

The True Cost of War

Biggest Quake in 24 Years Shakes and Stirs Uk

EU Fines Microsoft Record £680m 'to Close Dark Chapter' in Fight Against Monopoly

All the Jam's a Stage for Romanian Traffic Police

Turkey to Pull Out of Iraq in Days As Us Calls for Swift End to Conflict

Groin Turns Into No-go Zone for Luckless Italians

Pakistani Military 'misspent Up to 70% of American Aid'

Chávez Wins Release of Hostages Held By Colombian Rebels

US 'ready for Emissions Targets'

Racist Video Sparks Outrage in South Africa

City Employees Learn Language of the Aztecs

Surgeon Accused of Hastening Death to Harvest Organs

China Cracks Down on Water Polluters As River Foams Red

Uncertain Future for a Controversial Database

Oil Price Jumps to Record Levels

Dissident's Letter Calls on West to Hold Beijing to Its Olympic Promises

UK and Iraq Voice Anger at Hostage Video

The Eu's Frustration With Microsoft

Annan's Plea Sees Kenyan Protests Cancelled

European Commission Fines Microsoft Record £680m

Turkey Refuses Timetable on Iraq Incursion

Q&A: the Russian Presidential Election

'Promising' Tests on Fbi Software to Put Faces on Skulls

British Hostage Pleads for Release of Militants

Turkey Strives for 21st Century Form of Islam

China's Biggest Plastic Bag Maker Closes After Ban

Putin Rolling Back Civil Rights, Warns Amnesty

As Talks Break Down, Army is Kenya's Best Hope

British Hostage Pleads for Release of Iraqi Shia Militants

Video Shows British Hostage Held in Iraq

Sumatran Deforestation Driving Climate Change and Species Extinction, Report Warns

Annan Suspends Kenya Crisis Talks

Spanish Candidates Clash on Key Election Issues

Q&A: the Spanish Elections

Iraq Demands Turkey Withdraw From Border Conflict With Kurds

Ugandan Anglicans in Ultimatum to Us Church Over Gay Marriages

We Can Persuade Taliban to Be Peaceful - Expelled Eu Man

Three Killed As Armed Men Storm British Aid Agency in Pakistan

2.5 Million Lack Water in China

New Marxist President Seeks to Quell Cypriots' Economic Fears

Land Dispute Enters Holy Ground As Sacked Bishop Seizes Cathedral

Former Sas Man Condemns British Role in Torture Tactics

New President of Cyprus Signals Desire to Unite Island

Three Killed in Attack on British Aid Office in Pakistan

Pakistani General Killed As Suicide Bomber Strikes Convoy

Gazans Form Human Chain Along Israeli Border in Protest at Blockade

Kosovo Police Injured in Serb Protest

Monsters of the Deep

For an Impoverished Beauty Queen, a Stark Choice: Sex Work or No Work

British Museum and Army Team Up in Move to Rescue Iraq's Heritage

Police on Trial for Wedding Day Shooting

Promised Green Revolution Still Seems a Long Way Off

Whistle While You Work

Pakistani Army General Killed in Suicide Blast

Sound Principles

Three Dead in Pakistan Suicide Bombing

Fighting in Northern Iraq Enters Fifth Day

Eco-friendly French to Ship Their Wine Under Sail

The 'french Chernobyl' That Has Poisoned the Rhône's Fish

Controversial Anne Frank Musical Hits the Right Note With Spanish Audiences

Fighting in Iraqi Kurdistan Enters Fifth Day

India At The Crossroads

After 49 Years of Fidel, Cuba Ushers in the Era of Raúl

Cyprus Elects Its First Communist President

Branson's Coconut Airways - But Jet is on a Flight to Nowhere, Say Critics

Families Feel Pinch As Inflation Threatens Economic Miracle

Turks Send More Tanks Into Iraq Against Pkk

Obamas All New and Impregnable Firewall – It’s About America

Godfather's Arrest Fuels Fear of Bloody Conflict

Turkish Onslaught Paves Way for Major Assault on Iraq Kurds

Eco-friendly French to Ship Their Wine Under Sail

Hopes of Uk Troop Cuts in Basra Dashed

Turkish Barrage Paves Way for Major Assault on Iraqi Kurds

Police Fear Bloody War of Succession After Seizing Mafia Boss in Calabria

Cyprus Gets Ready for a Communist 'takeover'

Princess Joins Fight to Save Jaipur

Eco-friendly French Ship Their Wine on Wind Power

Jakarta Ends Stand-off on Bird Flu Vaccines

Pakistanis Dream of a Peaceful Life As Hardliners Routed in Peshawar

Controversial Anne Frank Musical Hits the Right Note With Spanish Audiences

Whistle While You Work

Jowell's Husband Criticised for Absence From Court Hearing

Don't Forget Your Passport ... or Your Credit Card

The Lawyers

British Soldiers Accused of Executing Civilians

Judge Quashes Restrictions on Muslim Convert

Explainer: What Happens Next

Clouds Gather As 'sulky' Musharraf Retreats to Bunker

Turkish Forces Stage Raid Into Iraq

The 'french Chernobyl' That Has Poisoned the Rhône's Fish

Warnings of Further Violence in Kenya

Q&A: Turkey and the Kurds

Protests Over Beijing Games 'will Grow'

Embassy Attack Could Just Be the Start, Serb Politicians Warn

We Can Persuade Taliban to Be Peaceful - Expelled Eu Man

'Promising' Tests on Fbi Software to Put Faces on Skulls

Opposition to Unite Against Musharraf

Serb Rioters Invade Us Embassy

Brown Goes to Brussels to Repair Bridges and Launch Charm Offensive

Morocco Says Terror Group Was Plotting to Kill Ministers

US Rushes to Get Slice of $45bn Indian Arms Pie

Serb Protesters Set Us Embassy Ablaze in Belgrade

Channel 4 Unveils Happy Birthday Iraq Plans

The Thorn in Musharraf's Side

BAE Systems Profits From 'urgent Orders' From Iraq and Afghanistan

Deposed Pakistan Judge Demands Crisis Measures Overturned

China Accuses Us of Double Standards Over Satellite Strike

Cubans Cling to Socialist Dream

How Labour Used the Law to Keep Criticism of Israel Secret

Merkel Challenges Liechtenstein Over Tax Evasion

Israel's Weapons - a Diplomatic No-go Area

Kosovo Border Secured As Serbs Turn Up Heat

Sarkozy Struggles to Contain Worker Unrest

Musharraf Pushes Swiss to Prosecute Zardari

Druze Defiance

Sound Principles

Alarm Over New Oil-from-coal Plans

Kenyan Opposition Threatens to Restart Protests

Moscow Condemns Eu Plans for Kosovo Police Mission

Chinese Authorities Put Squeeze on Spongebob Squarepants

Chinese Authorities Stamp Down on Spongebob Squarepants

Musharraf Vows Not to Resign

Disney Foothold in India

DJ Grooverider Jailed for Four Years in Dubai

Vitamin Promoter in Hiv Row Drops Libel Suit

Opec Worries Drive Oil Price to $100 Close

Oil Closes Above $100 Per Barrel

Stop Blair: Ambition to Lead Europe Hits Fierce Opposition

Soldier Killed in Afghanistan Blast is Named

Illness Forces Castro to Quit After Half a Century in Power

Celebration Tempered By Caution

Protests Over Beijing Games 'will Grow'

Media Giants Harmonise Over Online Copyright

Google Earth Allows Computer Users to Join Hunt for Fossett

Apple Faithful Queue for an Act of Techo-worship in New York

Global Flu Pandemic Would Probably Kill 62m, Study Says

Move to Britain? They're All Drunks and Psychos

Kidnappers Threaten to Kill Us Hostage

Thousands Gather on Beaches to Mourn the Day the Wave Came

ABC Reporter Fights Sacking

Broken Promises Leave Three Million Children to Die in Africa

Discredited Doctor's 'cure' for Aids Ignites Life-and-death Struggle in South Africa

Italy Battles to Save the Last of Its Wild Bears

US Prosecutes Greenpeace Under 1872 Law

Zimbabwe Delays Bill to Curb Press

Coroner Urges Action on Armoured Vehicles

Rivals Close in As Musharraf Suffers Pakistan Poll Rout

Papers Reveal How Alleged War Criminal Escaped Uk Arrest

China Faces Renewed Criticism As Dissident's Subversion Trial Starts

Bush Shaken By Memorial to 800,000 Rwanda Dead

Democrat Rivals Tackle Ailing Us Economy - and Each Other

Serbian Convoy Enters Kosovo Amid Fears Over Partition of New State

Fear That China Will Push Up World Inflation After Prices Rise 7%

Tokyo's Advice to Us Should Be Saved for Home Consumption

Wal-Mart Gets British Boost

Elite Chinese Thinktank Urges Political Reform and Press Freedoms

Al-Jazeera Head Attacks Arab League

Serb Protesters Attack Kosovan Outposts

Bush Invokes Rwanda in Call to Stop Darfur

Growing Discontent

Musharraf's Party Admits Defeat

London Bombs Justify 'torture', Says Bush

Castro Resigns As Cuban President

Sarkozy Accused of Raids 'stunt'

Iraq Weapons Dossier Draft Reveals Role of 'spin Doctor'

Abortion Libel Claim By Cardinal's Former Aide

Billionaires Boom As Putin Puts Oligarchs at No 2 in Global Rich List

Votes Cast in the Shadow of Violence

Rivals Court President Ousted in Cypriot Poll

Sarkozy Accused of Election Stunt After 1,000 Officers Raid Estates

Tax Swindle Police Raid Companies Across Germany

Spain Exposes Eu Split As Us Leads Recognition

Angry But Pragmatic, Protestors Fly the Flag for Nationalism

Clinton Accuses Obama of Plagiarism Before Wisconsin Contest

Full-scale Replica of Imperial Palace Planned for 'chinese Hollywood'

Veneer of Normality

JFK Murder Transcript Most Likely Fake

On the Campaign Trail in Pakistan

The View From Food Street

US and Eu Powers to Recognise Kosovan Statehood

Phil Spector Breaks His Silence Before Second Trial for Murder

French Police Arrest 33 in Paris Riot Raids

Kosovo: the Key Figures

French Police Arrest 20 in Paris Riot Raids

Pakistan Polling Begins Amid Fears of Violence

Why Pakistan Is A Mess

Who Is To Blame?

Man Who Disappeared on Venice Trip Found Dead

Mexicans Refuse to Call Time on Historic Bar

Questions Remain Over Eu's Role

Albanian Celebrations Leave Serbs Defiant

'Cycle Wallahs' Win the Hearts of City's Poor in Contest of Shifting Loyalties

Shark Species Face Extinction Amid Overfishing and Appetite for Fins

Father Who Killed Son, Six, May Return to Uk Soon

Government Fights to Keep Ban on Main Iranian Opposition Group

George and Laura's African Safari

Kidney Drug Could Save Children From Malaria Brain Damage

Kosovo: the Vital Questions

Joy and Defiance on Kosovo's Greatest Day

Violence Flares As Poll Nears in Fearful Pakistan

Suicide Bomb in Pakistan Kills 37

New Beginning, Old Fears - Kosovo at the Crossroads

Kostunica, the Main Loser Over Kosovo

Serbia Threatens to Recall Envoys From States Backing Independent Kosovo

India Tells Bangladeshi Writer to Stay Hidden or Leave

Kenyan Rivals Agree to Independent Poll Review

Anita Lasker Wallfisch

Leon Greenman

Barbara Stimler

Democrat Plans Will Not Work, Says Iraq Envoy

MoD Betrayed Troops in Afghanistan, Says Coroner

Britain Powerless in Face of Saudi Threats, Court Told

President Warns Against Partition

Japan Proposes 'peace' Tunnel to South Korea

Annan to Unveil Deal to End Kenyan Violence

US to Remotely Destroy Malfunctioning Satellite

Beirut Divided in Mourning for Fallen Leaders

Putin: I've Been Working My Back Off

Kenya Leadership Rivals Sign Peace Deal

Hizbullah Leader Vows to Wage 'open War' on Israel

Serbia Refuses to Accept Kosovo's Imminent Secession

'This is Like a Fantasy'

Decision Time for Us Over Iran Threat

Are We in for a Good June?

Life in the 'triangle of Death'

Green, But Not Peaceful

Extend Performers' Copyright to 95 Years, Says Eu Commissioner

Bush References London Attacks to Defend Waterboarding

A Cover-up Laid Bare: Court Hears How Sfo Inquiry Was Halted

BAE: Secret Papers Reveal Threats From Saudi Prince

US to Replace Animals With Robots in Toxic Chemical Tests

Valentine Couple on New York Holiday Killed By Dustcart

Huge Study Gives Wake-up Call on State of World's Oceans

Kosovo Breakaway Illegal, Says Putin

Airbus Seeks Backers for Superjumbo Flying Casino

Bookies Allowed to Open Shops in Madrid

George Bush: a Good Man in Africa

Bhutto Ghost Dominates Pakistan Election

World's Fattest Man Wins Dieting Title

China Hits Back After Spielberg Quits Games

Badri Patarkatsishvili

Is a Worldwide Common Language just over the Horizon?

The Great Green Land Grab

Beijing Condemns Olympic Row 'ulterior Motives'

Human Rights Group Accuses Bangladesh of Torture

Five Freed After Terror Convictions Quashed

Murdoch Rescue Bid for Yahoo Sets Up Showdown With Gates

A Tangled Tale of Politics and Extreme Wealth

What is China Doing in Darfur?

Serbia Appeals to Security Council As Kosovo Prepares to Go It Alone

Foetus Seized in Abortion Inquiry

China Feels Heat As Activists Take Their Cue From Spielberg

Car Bomb Ends Life of Hizbullah Chief Wanted for String of Kidnappings and Mass Murders

Clinton Struggles to Convince Party She's Still in It

Alarm As Indian Tiger Numbers Fall to 1,400

Hamas Shows Off Gunmen in Glossy Magazine

Frontier Electioneering in Pakistan

China Calls Spielberg's Resignation From Olympic Role 'unfair'

Indian Wild Tiger Numbers Almost Halve

Murdoch's News Corp Negotiating Alliance With Yahoo

Kidnapped Reporter to Be Released 'within Hours'

Freedom at a Price

Sumatran Tigers Being Sold Into Extinction, Report Reveals

True Scale of C02 Emissions From Shipping Revealed

Putin Issues Nuclear Threat to Ukraine Over Plan to Host Us Shield

Shipping Boom Fuels Rising Tide of Global Co2 Emissions

Afghanistan's Refugee Crisis 'ignored'

General Motors to Axe 70% of American Workforce

Legal Challenges to Military Tribunals Could Tie Up Trial of 9/11 Suspects for Years

Three Arrested in Denmark Over Plot to Kill Muhammad Cartoonist

China Riveted By Stolen Sex Photos of Hong Kong Stars

CBS Journalists Kidnapped By Gang of Masked Men in Basra

Offensive in Northern Sri Lanka Results in at Least 52 Deaths

Nerves Frayed on Anniversary of Lebanon's Valentine's Day Massacre

British Reporter Kidnapped in Basra

Kenyan Opposition Offers Power-sharing Plan

Synod Calls on Minister to Scrap Planned Casinos

Dozens Die in Sri Lanka As Government Targets Rebels

Guantánamo Six Will Have Fair Trials, Insists Chertoff

CBS Staff Kidnapped in Iraq

US Charges Two With Spying for Chinese

Mothers Ask Lords to Order Iraq Inquiry

The Sandalistas Who Never Left

US Seeks the Death Penalty As Six Detained in Guantánamo Are Charged Over 9/11

Turmoil As 'sarkoville' Turns Against French President in Mayoral Race

Taliban Commander Captured

On the Campaign Trail the President's Men Steer Clear of Mentioning the M-word

Man Accused of Giving China Shuttle Secrets

Armed Gang Flee Museum With Paintings Worth £80m Hanging Out of Car Boot

Miliband: Uk Has Moral Duty to Intervene

Russia Shuts University That Displeased Putin

Games Hopeful Criticises China Over Darfur

The Route of Riches in Putin's Moscow

Biofuel Demand Leading to Human Rights Abuses, Report Claims

Six Killed in Pakistan Suicide Bomb Blast

Fire Destroys South Korea's Best Known Monument

Gordon Brown Backs Archbishop in Sharia Law Row

Back on the Trail for the Italian Job

US to Delay Iraq Troops Reductions

Doctor Arrested Over Indian Kidney Racket

Leading Indians Campaign for Exiled Writer

Officials to Review Gag on Olympic Athletes

Attacks in Iraq As Arrest Made

Snowstorms in China Wreck an Area of Forest Larger Than England

Allies' Refusal to Boost Afghanistan Troops a Threat to Nato, Gates Says

Proper Sizing to End Spanish Jeans Quandary

Can the 2008 Election be won by a Slogan?

Kosovo to Declare Independence, Serbia Claims

Picasso Paintings Stolen From Swiss Gallery

Indian Doctor Held in Nepal Over Kidney Snatching Racket

Patrolling Al-qaida's Last Baghdad Stronghold

Cholera Crisis Hits Baghdad

US Troops Surge Ends As Violence in Iraq Falls

Murder Trial Sniper Says Us Used 'bait' for Suspect Iraqis

Iraqi Fighters 'grilled for Evidence on Iran'

Darling Says G7 Will Not Coordinate Action to Increase Growth

Soros Spends $100m on a Slice of Indian Entertainment

Israel Reduces Power Supply in Move to 'disengage' From Gaza

Kenyan Rivals Close to Deal, Says Annan

Behind the Great Firewall

Claims of Cultural Shift in Deep South Put to Test

Two Children Die As Iraqi Poison Plot Recalls Saddam's Assassination Method of Choice

Forget the Beheadings, and Think of Settling Marital Disputes

EU Gas Supplies at Risk If Ukraine Does Not Settle Bill With Russia

Bhutto Killed By Blast, Not a Bullet, Scotland Yard Concludes

'Terrorist' Group Who Turned Out to Be the President's Men

£47,000 for Gay Youth Worker Bishop Rejected

The Kosovo Tug-of-war

UK Names New Counter-terrorism Chief

Bhutto Report Stirs Political Hornets' Nest

Bhutto Died From Head Injury in Blast, Scotland Yard Says

Tobacco Could Kill 1bn People Over Course of Century, Says Un

Japanese Sumo Trainer Arrested Over Death of Pupil

Madonna Hosts Controversial Un Fundraiser

Dozens Arrested in Major Transatlantic Mafia Crackdown

Monitors to Boycott Russian Election in Row Over Restrictions

Baby Found Alive in Field As Us Tornado Death Toll Rises to 55

Smoking Could Kill 1bn in Century, Who Warns

Gates Demands More Troops Willing to 'fight and Die' in Afghanistan

Jailed Preacher Faces Us Extradition

House Arrest: Judge's Daughter Tells of Family's Plight

French Court Freezes Sale of Saddam's £17m Yacht

Nato Crisis Grows Over Afghan Troops

Scores Arrested in Transatlantic Mafia Crackdown

Sumo Trainer Arrested Over Death

Who's That on the Un Lawn? Madonna Fundraiser Runs Into Trouble

Final Frontier for Origami Paper Planes

Whether You Think He's Gone Too Far or Not Far Enough, He Has Made an Honest, Brave and Thoughtful Contribution

UK Orders Hamza's Extradition to Us

US Bans Kenyan Politicians Accused of Inciting Violence

Miliband and Rice Arrive in Afghanistan

Rice Calls for More Nato Help in Afghanistan

Greek Doctor Guilty Over Death of Briton Left on Trolley

Snowboarder Falls to His Death After Taking Wrong Turn

Extra Troops Could Help Hold Musa Qala

Nato's Afghan Force Needs Help, Says Rice

Captured Videos Show 'al-qaida Children' Training to Kidnap and Assassinate, Says Us

Tornadoes Leave Trail of Death and Devastation

French Doctors on Trial for Cjd Deaths After Hormone 'misuse'

Serbia's Pm Blocks Eu Pact in Protest Over Kosovo Declaration

As the Rat Replaces the Pig, China Enters a Year That Defines Its Future

Russia Seeks Extradition of Shipping Magnate in Uk

McCain Announces Himself As Republican Frontrunner

Extra Firepower Sent to Afghanistan As Uk Digs in

One of Bin Laden's Top Six Aides is Killed in Suspected Us Strike

Crushed Aboard, Four to a Bunk, the Lucky Few Head Home

New Iraqi Flag Hailed As Symbolic Break With Past

Berlusconi Poised for Comeback in General Election

Cramped But Content, China's Migrant Workers Head Home

Japan Dumpling Mystery Deepens With Poisoning Claim

Pakistan-based Taliban Pose Global Risk, Thinktank Warns

CIA Admit 'waterboarding' Al-qaida Suspects

Former Finance Chief to Stand Against Mugabe

Opium Economy Will Take 20 Years and £1bn to Remove

Problems on All Fronts As Afghan Mission Reaches Turning Point

British Girl, 2, in Hospital in Cyprus After Drink Blunder

Diamonds Fail to Take Shine Off India's Political Champion of the Poor As Earnings Reach £7.7m

Hamas Says It Was Behind Suicide Blast in Israel

Sarkozy Wins Ryanair Ad Case

Talkshow Hosts Urged to Halt In-fighting Over Mccain's 'neoliberal' Values

Kenya Rivals to Discuss Power-sharing Proposals

Prince Andrew Rebukes Us Over Iraq War

Q&A: the Kenya Crisis

Top Internet Evangelist says Romney Vote is a Vote for Satan

Iran Signals Space Ambitions With Rocket Launch

Spain May Lose Formula One Grand Prix After Fans Racially Abuse Lewis Hamilton

Zimbabwe Accused As Briton Sent to Equatorial Guinea Jail

Migrant Workers Bear the Brunt of China's Transport Chaos As Cold Snap Continues

Bush Unveils Record $3.1 Trillion Budget

Iran Claims Launch Into 'space' of Rocket Capable of Taking Satellites

Serbian Election Result Muddies Waters for Kosovo's Independence

Dozen Killed As Sri Lanka Marks Independence

Israel Faces Constant War, Says Olmert

Tamil Tigers Kill 12 in Sri Lanka

Kenya Talks Resume As Violence Continues

One Killed As Suicide Bomber Strikes Israeli Town

Suicide Bomber Strikes Israeli Town

Detectives Turn Attention to Northern Cyprus As Search for Missing Securitas Millions Continues

EU's Favoured Candidate Wins Serbia Poll

Sarkozy Marries Royally With Versailles Wedding Night

Google Cries Foul Over Microsoft's Yahoo Bid

Egyptian Soldiers Seal Gaza Border After Two Weeks of Traffic

Nine British Soldiers Charged After Bar Brawl in Cyprus

After a Lifetime With Bush, Only the Hippest Candidate Will Do

Kikuyu Flee Rift Valley in Terror As Homes Are Burned to the Ground

Bono and Hirst Head Art Sale to Fight Aids

Serial Killer's Trial Haunted By Unsolved Murder Cases

Taliban Attacks on Allied Troops Soar By Up to a Third

Europe Should Put a Brake on Beijing's Excesses

Obama Catching Up With Clinton But Pair Adopt Polite Approach in Televised Debate

Bombs Strapped to Down's Syndrome Women Kill Scores in Baghdad Markets

Microsoft Launches $45bn Bid for Yahoo

'Undertaker' Close to Power in Serbia

Court Takes Control of Estate Away From Troubled Spears

I'll Be President of Europe If You Give Me the Power - Blair

Rice Heads for London As Afghan Crisis Looms

'Coup Plotter' Mann Extradited From Zimbabwe, Says Lawyer

Arrest of Chinese Dissident Threatens to Cast Shadow Over Beijing Olympics

Train in Spain Sets Out to Beat the Plane

Female Suicide Bombers Kill 72 People at Baghdad Markets

'Undertaker' Has Serbia Within His Grasp

Irish Cardinal Attempts to Block Publication of Child Abuse Files

Beatles to Be Beamed Across the Universe

China Arrests Leading Rights Activist