National & World News Archive March 2006
Artist, Playwright, Pm's Wife
If You Want to Get Better - Don't Say a Little Prayer
'These Are the Happiest Days of My Life' - the Long Goodbye of a Dying Art
Britons Feared Dead As Gulf Tourist Boat Sinks
Chirac to Address Nation As Jobs Law Reaches Final Stage
Thais Take to Streets As Country Prepares to Decide Pm's Fate
Pentagon Block on Move for Safer Water
Thai Paper Shuts Itself Down As 'punishment' for Error
Youth Contribute to Success of Group Promoting Rights of the Elderly
Pentagon Blocked Move to Make Water Safer
Olmert Seeks Partners After Indecisive Victory
Lukashenko No-show Fuels Speculation
Second Disappearance for Rescued Couple
EU Steps Up Attack on Mobile Roaming Charges
No Democracy or Phone Lines in Burma's New Jungle Capital
Olmert on Verge of Winning His Border Battle
Nepalese Rebels Abduct Four Everest Trekkers
Armed Gang Steals Record £9.5m From Jumbo Jet
Join Up - and Bring Your Zimmer
PM Reaps Eta Peace Dividend in Opinion Poll
UN Accused of Ignoring 500,000 Chernobyl Deaths
Dark Clouds Gather Over 'painter of Light'
Kember Flies Home
Kember Prepares to Return to Britain
Dazed But Free, Like Winning the Lottery, Only Better
Eta United on Truce, Says Mediator
Missing Girl Kept Locked Up for 10 Years
Family Stranded in Snowed-in Motor Home Found After 17 Days
Teacher Who Admitted Sex With Pupil Freed After Plea Deal Rejected
'Settlers Don't Know When the Knock on the Door Will Come and They Have to Leave'
Security Services Linked to Guantă¡namo 'injustice'
Eta Announces Plans for Permanent Ceasefire
Gunned Down: the Teenager Who Dared to Walk Across His Neighbour's Prized Lawn
Purple Pain for Prince's Landlord
Big Water Companies Quit Poor Countries
Hundreds Continue Belarus Election Protests
EU Threatens Sanctions Over Belarus Poll
Factions Back New National Security Council
UN Warns of Worst Mass Extinctions for 65m Years
Jewish Attacks Hint at Deep Malaise
US Calls for New Belarus Election
Ripper Hoaxer 'jack' Pleads Guilty
Belarus Vote Marred By 'climate of Intimidation'
Don't Pass Go, Go to Guantánamo
Belarus Braced for Backlash As Lukashenko Heads for Victory
The World in a Week
Tyrant Buried in His Garden
Californian Tries to Sue Himself
Belarus President Vows to 'wring the Necks' of His Election Opponents
Danish Paper Threatened With Legal Action
Dole Blues
Thai Pm Considers Resigning in Face of Protests
100,000 Mass Outside Thai Pm's Office
Milosevic's Blood 'bore Traces of Drug'
Heart Failure Blamed But Former Serb Leader Said Doctors Were Killing Him
Pressure Mounts to Try Remaining Suspects After Leader Escapes Justice
Divided and Exiled, Family Have Yet to Agree a Final Resting Place
Firms Fail on Pledge to Deliver Life-saving Drugs
Milosevic Letter: the Doctors Are Killing Me
One Fat Man Walks ... and America Makes Him a Counterculture Hero
Slobodan Milosevic Dies Alone With History Still Demanding Justice
A Guide to the Kremlin: Sex, Booze, Kidnap
Convict Father Absconds After Promising Kidney Donation to Son
Neverland No More As Reality Closes in on Jackson
Doctors Demand End to Guantánamo Force-feeding
Abu Ghraib, Symbol of America's Shame, to Close Within Three Months
Teenagers Held at Gunpoint at School
Ex-teacher Takes Pupils Hostage
House Republicans Torpedo Ports Deal
Lourdes Finds Cure for Lack of Miracles: a Less Strict Definition
First Wife Swap, Now Race Swap ...
100 Dublin Priests Accused of Abuse Since 1940
Pull Together on Power, Europe is Told
Clarke Criticises Danish 'mistake' Over Cartoons
WPP Exec Sues Sunday Times Over Benatti Story
Paul Cooke Will Continue Playing for Hull on Bail Until at Least April 19 a
Greetings Card Joker Finds a Captive Audience
Sobbing Witness Accuses Zuma of Rape
US Teenagers Warned As Boy Dies During 'choking Game'
OECD Upbeat About World Economy
Warlord Named As Chechen Pm
65,000 Protest As Thai Pm Refuses to Resign
Guantánamo Detainee Told Geneva Rights 'irrelevant'
Critics Savage Unlikely Tale of Love Among Dresden Raids
New Diplomatic Priorities Offer Snapshot of Changing World Order
Poland to Try Jaruzelski, 82, for Alleged Communist Crimes
Killing of Militant Commander Sparks Gun Battles in Gaza
Pentagon Plans Record-breaking Explosion in Nevada Desert
'I Saw People Trapped Inside Asking Me to Break the Glass. Most Suffocated and Died'
Iran Rejects Un Deadline for Halting Nuclear Programme
Suicide Bomber Claims Three Victims in West Bank Attack
American Hostage Released in Baghdad
Tokyo Goes for Clean Ears
House Arrest for Lewis, the Not-so-cool Cat
Migrant Workers Hammer Out Russian Revolution Paid for With Petrodollars
Blackburn Mosque Cancels Rice Invitation
HIV Infections Fall By a Third in Southern India
US Professors Accused of Being Liars and Bigots Over Essay on Pro-israeli Lobby
Iraqi Kidnappers Release Us Journalist
Iraq Overshadows Blair Visit to Indonesia
Muslim Man Jailed Over Plot to Kill Bush
UN Demands Iran Stops Uranium Enrichment
Settlers Issue May Prove Heavy Burden
Humiliation for Netanyahu
Europeans Greet Result With Hope, But Arabs Sceptical
Hamas Warns of Return to Violence
TV Jobs Face Indian Outsourcing Threat
Algerian Gets 10 Years for Helping Paris Bombers
Something to Chew Over ... the Health Benefits of Gum
Mayor Held in Corruption Investigation
Village Cries Foul Over Plans for Fans' Camp
Blair Criticised Over Jakarta Talks
Jailing of Indian Doctor Highlights Scandal of Aborted Girl Foetuses
Washington Sniper 'delusional and Paranoid'
Kadima Building Coalition After Victory
Blair Heads for Indonesia
Kadima Wins Israeli Election
Anti-Arab Hardliners Find Favour With Israel's Immigrants
Kadima Wins Israel's General Election As Likud Humiliated
Freed Christian Convert Offered Asylum in Italy
Last Days of Yukos As Bankruptcy Court Says Investors Have No Role
Revolt Stirs As Dubai Aims High
China Bans Buying and Selling of Human Organs
Guantánamo's Day of Reckoning in Supreme Court
Mass Protests on the Streets of France
French Protesters Rally Against Labour Law
Commuters Hit As French Strike Begins
Straw Rejects Military Action Against Iran
Kadima Still Favoured As Israel Goes to Polls
Kadima's Push for Separation Blurs the Old Political Dividing Lines Between Rival Cities
Straw Tilts Foreign Policy Towards China and India
Soldiers Flee to Canada to Avoid Iraq Duty
Schiavo Family Feud Reaches Bookshops
Rivals Weigh Up Options After Ukrainian Poll
Rival Shia Groups Unite Against Us After Mosque Raid
Bush Struggles for Compromise As 'illegals' Fight Bill to Outlaw Them
De Villepin Stands Firm on Law As France Heads Out on Strike
British Shoe Bomber 'part of Fifth 9/11 Plot'
British Soldier Killed in Afghanistan Crash
Four Trekkers Abducted in Nepal
Blair: Anti-americanism is Madness
America Puts Talks With Tehran on Hold
Congress to See Play About Guantánamo
US Troops Accused After Crackdown on Iraqi Militia Leaves 20 Dead at Mosque
Ukraine's Orange Revolution Turns Blue
Arrests Fail to Deter Protesters
'Honour' Attack Leaves Woman Fighting for Life
Iranian Hawk Swoops on Universities to Crush Dissent
Washington Post's Left-baiting Blogger is Fired for Plagiarism
Israelis to Vote for Sharon Legacy
Migrants Take Protest to La Streets
Museum Cctv Focused on German Chancellor's Sofa Moments
Spanish Search for African Migrants Lost in Atlantic
Girl Aged Nine Stabbed in Face As Russian Race Tension Spreads
Jailed Afghan Christian Could Be Freed As Court Reviews Case
18 Killed As Us Troops Clash With Militia at Iraqi Mosque
US Gunman Massacres Six Partygoers
The World in a Week
Our Baby Joy, By Test-tube Tourists Who Flew to India
US-China Trade War Looms
Crisis Grows As Students Snub Pm
Nokiaphobia: the Fear of Greeks Bearing Phones
Belarus Protest Turns Bloody
Crunch Election Will Set Seal on the New Shape of Israel
EU and Us Ban Belarus President
Priest Sacked After Backing Khodorkovsky
American Gets Nine Years for Rapes in Okinawa
Chirac Vows to Fight Growing Use of English
Abbas Tells Hamas It Must Cooperate With Israel or Fail
Iraq Hostages 'were Saved By Rift Among Kidnappers'
Russia Spied for Saddam in War - Pentagon Report
EU Sanctions As Belarus Moves Against Protesters
Blair Claims Success at Eu Summit
Hundreds Detained As Police Storm Belarus Protest
Intelligence, Surveillance, and Then the Raid
Exiled Motorist Freed After Public Protest
Developer Sparks Anger Down on the Farm
41% of Israel's Jews Favour Segregation
Iran Speeds Up Nuclear Programme As Crisis Talks Bog Down
Radio Host Fired for 'slip of the Tongue' Racial Slur Against Rice
Heroes of Basra Riot Among 70 Honoured for Bravery in Iraq
Be Prepared for Violence, Us Warns Tourists Visiting Italy
Return of the Old Guard Feared As Orange Revolutionaries Fall Out
SAS Frees Kember and Canadian Hostages
Chirac Leaves Eu Summit As Frenchman Speaks English
EU Plans Immigrants' Contract
Riot Police Seal Off Paris Streets As Protests Escalate
Baghdad Bomb Attacks Kill 56
Spain's Press Welcomes Eta Ceasefire
Paris Court Can Hear Barclays v Times
China Clamps Down on Websites
EU's 'big Three' in Crisis, Says Third Way Guru
Zimbabwean Lawyer Honoured
Sex and Money Fail to Make Germans Happy
Iraqi Insurgents Kill 21 in Police Station Attacks
Riot By Migrant Workers Halts Construction of Dubai Skyscraper
Estrada Takes Stand to Deny Embezzling £45m While President of the Philippines
Spain Steps Up Patrols As 1,000 Migrants Die During Desperate Quest for Europe
EU Bans Almost 100 Airlines From Its Skies
Eta Declares Permanent Ceasefire
Sarkozy Suggests Labour Law 'experiment'
Huffington Admits Mistake Over Clooney Blog
Khamenei Backs Talks With Us Over Iraq
Woman, 33, Pleads Guilty to Murdering Four Babies
Blossom Puts Spring in Japan's Step
Russian Fury at Jailing of Man for Killing Speeding Politician
Gaza Rations Food As Israel Cuts Supplies
Cartoon Row Claims Swedish Minister's Job
French Mps Say Song Downloads Must Work on Any Player
Thirty Years on Argentina Still Tries to Come to Terms With Its 'dirty War'
US Troops in Iraq for Another Three Years
Dozens Killed As Rebels Storm Iraqi Jail
Pakistani Taliban Take Control of Unruly Tribal Belt
Iraqi Police Claim Us Troops Executed Family
Supreme Court to Rule on Patent for Your Thoughts
Men Barred From Selling Women's Lingerie
FBI Agents Told: You Can't Have Emails
French Unions Call for National Strike As Pm Refuses to Yield
BBC Japan Under Threat
Iraq Civil War 'not Inevitable'
World Marks Three Years for Iraq
Rumsfeld Singled Out As Crisis Deepens in Iraq
Charity Urges Donor Action As Aids Leaves 9m African Children Without Mothers
De Villepin Faces Strike Threat After Weekend of Riots
British Couples Desperate for Children Travel to India in Search of Surrogates
Coke 'drinks India Dry'
Iran Releases Dissident Journalist After Six Years
U-turn on Abu Ghraib Torture Image
International Pressure Grows As Hamas Unveils Its New Cabinet
France's Global Warning
Sky Falls in on Bush the Outcast
Mothers Sue Over Gender Test That Promised 99.9% Accuracy
Nazi Jibe Over Ban on Gay Marchers Dampens St Patrick's Day Parade
Israel's Colonisation of Palestine Blocking Peace, Says Jimmy Carter
Liberia Takes First Step to Bringing Taylor to Justice Over War Crimes
Iran Links Britain to Shooting of 21 Officials
Police Fire Rubber Bullets at Crowds As Paris Labour Law Protest Turns Into Riot
US Launches Biggest Iraq Air Assault Since 2003
US Signals Shift to Diplomacy and Working With Allies
Freezer Failure Ends Couple's Hopes of Life After Death
Row Threatens to Derail Ground Zero Project
Hospital Kept New-born Baby Over Unpaid Bill
Allies Turn on Berlusconi After Tv Debate Fails to Lift Campaign
Assad Pledges Support for Un Hariri Inquiry
America Still Ready to Strike First, Confirms Bush
Enron Whistleblower's Media Career Under Scrutiny
Enron Wanted to Sack Whistleblower, Court Told
Want a German Passport? Then Get Revising, Says State Minister
Fight the Invaders, Saddam Urges Iraqis From Dock
Charges in Kenya Corruption Scandal
We Warned of Prison Attack, Says Israel
Blair's Credibility Suffers Body Blow Among Arabs
53 Killed in Most Deadly Ski Season for Decades
Fears of a Lost Generation of Afghan Pupils As Taliban Targets Schools
'I Am Still the Head of State'
A Sudden Exit, a Jail is Stormed - and Israel's Long Wait is Over
Death Penalty Urged for Aryan Brotherhood Gang
Prodi Deemed Winner in Italy Election Debate
Milosevic's Body to Be Allowed 'dignity' of Belgrade Burial
Hollywood Stars Join Campaign to Close Prison
New Migration Fills British Pulpits
South Africa Shocked By Child Murder
Mexico Shows World Water Forum What Not to Do
Berlusconi and Prodi Square Off in Tv Debate
German Birth Rate Falls to Lowest in Europe
Milosevic's Body to Be Flown Out As Row Over Death Goes on
Police Find 85 Bodies in 24 Hours of People 'executed' in Baghdad
Britain Accused After Day of Chaos and Kidnaps in Gaza
Israel Captures Jailed Palestinian Militants
Benn Calls for Reform of World Bank and Imf
Police Find Dozens of Bodies in Baghdad
Artist's Homemade Gas Chamber Angers Jewish Groups
Pakistani Society Looks Other Way As Gay Men Party
Vietnam War Deserter Arrested 38 Years on
Former New York Police Officers Accused of Killing for Mafia
800 Uk Troops to Leave Iraq But Start of Full Pullout Denied
US Prosecutors' Errors Force Judge to Suspend Moussaoui Hearing
Russia Casts Doubt on Postmortem Results As Serbs Argue Over Funeral Arrangements
US Postwar Iraq Strategy a Mess, Blair Was Told
Colombian Elections Bolster President
Straw: Iran Nuclear Negotiations Still Open
More Than 40 Die As Car Bombs and Mortar Attacks Cause Havoc in Baghdad
'Serbians Will Use This to Revive Their Sense of Victimhood'
Street Protests to Follow Occupation of Sorbonne
Peace Activists Stage Memorial for Kidnapped American Quaker Found Murdered
Hamas Falters in Effort to Achieve Unity
California Weighs Up Cost of Electing First Lesbian Bishop
Former Top Judge Says Us Risks Edging Near to Dictatorship
The World in a Week
Fury in India at Justice to 'benefit Rich'
Ski Deaths Hit Record High As Avalanches Sweep Alps
Darfur Terror Chief Slips Into Britain
Closure Perhaps, But No Justice
Eek! Baltic Goldrush As Britons Make Estonia Europe's Property Hotspot
America-UAE Trade Talks Cancelled After Dubai Ports Row
Statue of Liberty Torch to Be Lit By Wind Power
Pakistan Bans 'killer Kites' From Ancient Spring Festival
Nine Bodies Found As Japan Fails to Curb Internet Suicide Pacts
US Religious Charities Win $2.15bn in State Grants
Vatican Accused of Helping Radicals By Backing Islamic Hour in Schools
UN Calls for Major International Force to Go to Darfur
Prosecutors Call for Mills and Berlusconi to Face Trial
Islamophobia Worse in America Now Than After 9/11, Survey Finds
Washington's Man in Baghdad is Pulling Off a High-risk Balancing Act
Jewish Leaders Approve Rogers' Project
UN Launches $500m Disaster Relief Fund
Spain Tries to Stop Sale of Că³rdoba Beams
Iran is Only Months From Bomb Technology, Says Britain
French Students Revive Spirit of 68
Japan's Domestic Abuse Cases Rise
Arab-owned Firm Bows to Pressure to Sell Off Us Port Operations
Israel Sets Four Year Deadline to Draw Final Borders
Mullahs and Americans Mingle in Afghan Cafe Culture
Obsessive Tennis Dad Sentenced to Eight Years
Brazil Trade Talks Overshadowed By Menezes Shooting
Government to Crack Down on World Cup Hooligans
Retailers Spread the Word with Environmentally Friendly Products
I Was Very Greedy, Says Enron Trial's Star Witness
Quake Survivors Beat the Winter
Baghdad Rocked By Kidnappings and Mass Killings
Special Forces Assigned to Us Embassies
China's Leftwing Scuppers Property Reform Legislation
Palestinian Plea to Floyd's Waters
Israel-Palestine Conflict Engulfs Rogers's $1.7bn New York Project
Terror Threat to Supply Lines As British Gear Risks Pakistani Roads
US Demands Drastic Action As Iran Nuclear Row Escalates
Gunmen Abduct 50 Baghdad Security Workers
Iran Threatens Us With 'harm and Pain'
23 Bodies Found in Baghdad
White House Increases Pressure on Iran
Christopher Reeve's Widow, Dana, Dies Aged 44
Just Work Harder, Italian Pm Tells Poor
At Least 15 Killed in Bomb Blasts Across Indian Holy City
Hamas Leader Accuses West of Hypocrisy Over Threat to Withhold Cash
State's Abortion Ban Fires First Shot in a Long War Over Women's Rights
World Warned It Must Do Better As 20m Face Threat of Famine in Africa
Enron Finance Chief Takes Stand Against Former Boss
Man Held Over Killing of Boys in China
US Envoy to Iraq: 'we Have Opened the Pandora's Box'
Israel 'could Target Hamas Leaders'
Kember Shown in New Video
Pakistan Puts Rebel Town Under Curfew After Fighting
Death Penalty Call for Man Who 'could Have Stopped 9/11'
Lord Rogers Fights to Save Us Project in Jewish Row
A Woman's Guide to Success in the Kremlin
Pope's Meeting With Berlusconi Sparks Row
New Fears As Chinese Man Dies of Bird Flu
German Politicians Claim Free Tickets for Entire World Cup
Search for Elusive Deal Begins As Un Agency Meets on Iran
Israel Adviser Switches to Top Fo Job
Serbian War Criminal Kills Himself in Hague Prison
Crash Plus Cash Equals Oscar
Three British Climbers Die on Spanish Mountain After Son's Rescue Bid Fails
ElBaradei Hopeful Over Iran Solution
US Envoy Hints at Strike to Stop Iran
Army Orders New Inquiry Into Shooting of Nfl Star
Pressure Grows to Oust Iraq's Prime Minister
Wal-Mart Bows to Pressure to Sell Morning-after Pill in Us
Plans Ready for Limited West Bank Withdrawal
Pakistani Soldiers Battle With Tribal Rebels As Bush Visits
Leaders Tackle China's Great Divide
Venice for Sale to Highest Bidder
Iran's Own Eminem Raps for Islam
Hollywood Dream for Township's First Star
Bush Seals Key Terror Pact
Russian Student 'forced to Behead Man' in Kidnap Plot
Bush Calls India Ally in 'cause of Human Liberty'
Dubai Ports Takeover of P&O Delayed Again
Illegal Fishing Worth $9bn a Year, Says Report
Hamas Says Peace Possible at Moscow Talks
Glitter Gets Three Years for 'sick' Sexual Abuse of Vietnamese Girls
Vehicles Banned in Baghdad After Night of Violence
Laura Lines Up With Bhoombah and Chamki on Sesame Street
Glitter Protests Innocence As Child Abuse Trial Starts
Inflation Fears Make Ecb Raise Rates
Bush Was Given Katrina Warning, Tapes Reveal
Saudi Driving Ban on Women Extends to Golf Carts
Forecast Shows Africa to Face River Crisis
How Spin the Bottle Sealed Macho Putin's First Kiss
UK to Lend World Treasures to China
Abbas Claims Al-qaida is Operating in Gaza
Explosion at Us Consulate in Karachi Kills Diplomat
Kenya Clamps Down on Media Freedom
Bush Woos India With Nuclear Deal and Trade Pacts
Government Publishes Bird Flu Advice
Gary Glitter Abuse Trial Opens
Pakistan Bomb Kills American Diplomat
Pat Howard, the Leicester Coach, Has Said Englan
Olympic City Wages Hi-tech War on Spitting
Baghdad Official Who Exposed Executions Flees
Portugal Powers Ahead As Wind Champion
Cat Owners Ordered to Keep Pets Indoors
New York Library Buys Personal Archives of Naked Lunch Author
Teenagers Steal Parents' Plane and Crash-land in National Park
Afghan Leader's Power Barely Extends Beyond the Capital
Protesters Try to Disrupt President's Passage to India
Foreign Agents 'free to Hunt' in Europe
Japanese Grab Girdles As Obesity Crisis Looms
Bomb Victims' Parents Petition Academy to Reject Movie
Carjacking: the Everyday Ordeal Testing South Africa
US President Uses Kabul Visit to Renew Bin Laden Pledge
Saddam Admits Link to Killings of Shia Villagers
Katrina, The Aftermath 6 Months Plus
UN Warns of Crystal Meth Pandemic
Word Power
Bush Makes First Visit to Afghanistan
German Pet Owners Advised to Take Precautions After Cat Dies of Bird Flu