National & World News Archive May 2008



Lorenzo Loses Battle for Life But Legacy of Hope Lives on

Inside the World of Uk Muslim Women

BBC Accused of Sexism on News Flagship

Bonjour Fran?oise: France in Thrall to Sagan

Former Airbus Boss Forgeard Faces Insider-dealing Charge

Watching Those Havens, the Treasury

Welcome to Zug: the Sleepy Swiss Town That Became a Global Economic Hub

Nuclear Bomb Blueprints for Sale on World Black Market, Experts Fear

Greener and Leaner - How the West Could Stave Off Disaster

Could Us Scientist's 'co2 Catcher' Help to Slow Warming?

Woman Found Living in Closet

Rush to Evacuate Quake Flood Zone

Kurdish Politician Calls for Dialogue With Pkk

Palestinian Students Have Us Scholarships Withdrawn

Couple Care for 'unwanted' Twins

MPs Get Veto on Nuclear Power, Motorway and Airport Schemes

The Healing Process

Kidnap Victim Hosts Talk Show

End of the Road for Bear Stearns

Reed Elsevier Makes Its Final Farewell to Arms

Sombre Bear Stearns Shareholders Consent to Bank's Sale to Jp Morgan for Bargain $1.4bn

Have Condom? Got Milk?

Police Question Ex-boss of Eads

What a Waste: Dream of Free Energy Turns Into £3bn-a-year Public Bill

Shutdowns and Plunging Profits Cast Doubt on Nuclear Future

Closed-door Arctic Deal Denounced As 'carve-up'

Exxon Shareholders Fail to Show Strong Support for Green Mandates

Monkey Uses Brainwaves to Control Prosthetic Arm

Food Diary: Surrey, Uk

Oil Prices Surge After Slide

Cluster Bomb Treaty Follows Uk Decision to Scrap Stockpiles

Cardinal Urges Muslim Leaders to Oppose Violent Jihad

Soaring Cost of Oil Felt at the Checkout

Families Struggling As Bills Begin to Bite

US Cluster Bombs to Be Banned From Uk

Spacemen Call Up Earth and Ask for a Plumber

A Global Crisis

Small Shocks Bring Big Consequences

Background: Royal Regimes

Fall of the House of Shah: End of an Era for the World's Last Hindu Monarchy

Falconio Murder Van to Be Destroyed on Girlfriend's Wishes

Timeline: Burma

Yahoo Delays Meeting to Avoid Showdown

Director Sydney Pollack Dies at 73

Crisis Talks on Global Food Prices

Siemens Boss Admits Setting Up Slush Funds

'We Have to Kill Tutsis Wherever They Are'

Billions Wasted on Un Climate Programme

Solicitor Accuses Regulator of Racial Bias in £10m Claim

America Hails Cricket Fan's Novel That Met 9/11 Challenge

Publishers Battle to Sign Up Europe's Sex Sensation

Hope for Release of Aung San Suu Kyi As Burma Donors Meet to Pledge Billions

Muslim Gangs 'are Taking Control of Prison'

Premiere League: Havel Returns to Theatre in Triumph

SocGen Rogue Trader May Have Had Accomplice, Says Internal Inquiry

SocGen Sacks Two Kerviel Supervisors

Nimrod Inquest: Bereaved Families' Long Quest for Answers

Nimrod Inquest: Fatal Flaws of the Ill-fated Plane

At Home With the General

Ireland's Business Heavyweight Who is Ready to Ko the Indie

Food Prices High for Foreseeable Future, Says Un

Food Prices to Stay High Despite Record Crops, Says Un

Georgia's Ruling Party Set to Win Parliamentary Poll

After the Boomers, Meet the Children Dubbed 'baby Losers'

All-action Che Epic Flawed But Compelling

Prague Elite Fights 'vulgar' Invaders

Judges in Sex Video Case Go Unpunished

MP Complains at Being 'warned Off' Meeting Envoy

The knives are out

Saakashvili Party Set to Win Parliamentary Poll

Fears of Supply Shortages Drive Oil Above $135

Survivors Look to Rebuild Their Homes and Lives

Peace is a Process, Not a Goal

Oil Hits a Record High of $132

Arrests As 400 Kangaroos Face Cull

You Can't Beat a Nice Glass of Chateau Ginola

Mandela's Story to Be Retold in Song, on Broadway

Berlusconi Clamps Down on Gypsies

School Aims to Seed the World With Business Sense

CPS Made Serious Errors Over Data on Dutch Criminal Suspects

The First Lady sings

Prime Suspect

Man Held Over Ira Killing of Abducted Army Captain

Burmese Junta Allows Neighbours to Provide Cyclone Aid

Cramped Monaco Plans New District - on Stilts

Nato Rifle May Have Killed Briton

Tiscali Founder Buys Former Party Paper

Military Chiefs Urge Uk to Ban Cluster Bombs

Asian Aid to Reach Burma Cyclone Victims

US Celebrities Rally to the Cause

To Pee Or Not To Pee

BAE Bosses Held in Us Over Corruption Allegations

Carey Plea for Hostages Alarms Foreign Office

Power, Intrigue and a Horse ... Curtain Goes Up on Catherine the Great, the Musical

Shifting Sands

US Housing Data Unexpectedly Strong

Burma Raises Official Cyclone Death Toll to 78,000

Phone Privatisation Protests

West is Urged to Cancel Further $400bn of Poor Countries' Debt

'We Have to Kill Tutsis Wherever They Are'

Revered Author Ba Jin Dies Aged 100

Andrea Dworkin, Embattled Feminist, Dies at 58

A Fighter Armed With a Pen

'World's Greatest Philosopher' Dies

Scholar Edward Said Dies

Diana Mosley, Hitler's Angel, Dies Unrepentant in Paris

'I Said to Klaus Barbie: I Want People to See Your Human Side'

Marines Who Lost Legs Step Up to Collect Service Medals

Spirit of the Wombles

US 'dumping Unsold Gm Food on Africa'

US Presses Africa to Take Gm Foods

A Rough Ride on the Tiger

US and Europe Boost Aid to Poorest Countries

Minister Makes Case to Africa

Now Us Debt Hits 7 Per Cent of Gdp

British Hopefuls Dominate Tony Awards

Desperate Rescue Effort at Bank That Dissolved Into Ground Like a Slab of Melting Butter

Storms Hamper Efforts to Rescue Quake Survivors

Boy, 13, Drove Stolen Vehicle at 110mph

Passenger Told to 'hang Out' in Toilet Sues Airline

Air Passenger's Toilet Trip Prompts Lawsuit

'We Are Almost Dead. We Have No Money, Nothing'

Airbus A380 Delayed Again

The Survivors' Stories Leave No Doubt: Guantánamo Makes Us All Less Safe

Smile, You're on Godtube

Hewlett-Packard Eyes Deal for Expansion Into Consulting

'People Do Stupid Things - That's What Spreads Hiv'

Families of Nimrod Crash Victims Hear Crew's Last Words at Inquest

Manna From Hedge Fund for Christian Site

Darling Tackles Cap Reform

Law Lords Hold Key to Islanders' Dream of Return to Paradise

Parents Plead to Bury Son in Britain

Dictators Only Save Their Skins - Never Their People

FAQ: Disaster Diplomacy

UN: Burma Junta is Seizing International Storm Aid

From the Un to Whitehall, With a Will to Change Our View of Africa

EDF Sole Bidder for British Energy

Hizbullah Takes Control of West Beirut

Another Record As Oil Passes $126

Burma Snubs Foreign Aid Workers

Wanted: Britons to Represent Europe in Space

Waterborne Diseases Biggest Risk

Agency Wants Access to Prisoners

Bypass Junta's Permission for Aid, Us and France Urge

Cardinal Says Britain Must Not Be a 'god-free Zone'

High Court Orders Release of Radical Preacher Qatada

Bosch Bemoans Lack of Skilled Engineers

UN Officials Urge Swift Passage of Aid to Sadr City

Environmental Groups Hail Deal for Californian Nature Reserve

Extremists Ahead As Serbs Go to the Polls

California Developer Seals Environmental Deal

'I Knew I Must Be Mad for Doing Such a Thing,' Says Dungeon Father

Fritzl Confesses to 'out-of-control Addiction'

New Bae Investigation Doomed to Failure, Claims Chairman

Main Aim 'must Be to Reduce Demand'

Scientists Warn Smith Over Cannabis Reclassification

Blame Game Starts Among Bear Stearns' Patriarchs

US Jail Body Splits Natwest Three

Inquest Hears Last Words of Nimrod Crew

I'm No Monster, Says Dungeon Father in Attack on 'biased' Media

Holiday Couple Insist They Were Not Drunk

Parents Get Chilling Phone Message From Soldier Son

100,000 Could Be Dead in Burma, Diplomat Says

Top Ubs Banker Detained in Us

Fritzl's Prison Cellar Protected By Eight Locked Doors

How the Experts Might Help the Family Start Leading a Normal Life

Emotional Scenes As Family Meets 'cellar Siblings' for First Time

Unmarried Sisters Lose Inheritance Tax Fight

Timeline

Father Confesses to Years of Abuse in 'house of Horrors'

Horror in a Cellar: Woman Tells of 24 Years of Imprisonment and Rape By Her Father

The Devil's in the Details - Agencies Deal With the Junta

Parents Who Collapsed After Drinks on Holiday Return Home

Whole Towns Wiped Out As Burma Death Toll Soars

BAE Systems Admits to Ethical Failings As Investigations Into Corruption Continue

The Unanswered Questions

Drunk Parents Who Collapsed in Algarve Return Home

Woolf Commands Fact-free Zone With Aplomb

Public Asked to Aid Interpol Hunt for Suspected Paedophile

La Tribune Hit By Fresh Strike

Fuel Costs Push Aer Lingus to Raise Check-in Prices

Wreckage of Britons' Plane Found

What Lies Beneath

BAE Paid Too Little Heed to Ethics, Says Report

MEPs to Vote to Open Up Eu Energy Market

Of Monarchs and Magic

Disaster Strikes

Burma Seeks Emergency Aid As Cyclone Kills at Least 10,000

Possible Deal in Us Investigation Into Bae

Tributes for British Climber Who Fell to Her Death in the Alps

Fritzl Began Plans for Dungeon in 1978

Breeding Toxins From Dead Pcs

Explainer: Arsenic, Lead, Mercury ...

Relief Effort Begins As Burmese Cyclone Death Toll Reaches 10,000

Burmese Cyclone Death Toll Rises to 4,000, With 3,000 Missing

Acts of Faith

40 Years On, Congratulations May Be in Order

Children Put in Custody After Parents' Binge

Asda Backs Down Over Proposed Code of Conduct

Curry Houses Test Europe's Eastern Promise

Brown Needs Grassroots Help on Aid

A Monster From the Pages of a Grimm Tale

Infrastructure: Who'll Pay the Bills?

Tiger Economies Are Snapping at Us Heels

Thinking Big - A $30 Billion Check & A Golden Pram

Man Accused of Guerin Killing Jailed Over £10m Kidnap Plot

'Every Little Thing She Did, Her Father Would Hit Her'

Police Call Former Residents of Fritzl House

British Troops to Stay in Basra 'for the Long Term'

Regrown Finger is 'junk Science'

Did a Man Grow His Finger Back?

Mia Farrow Warned Against Oiympic Torch Protest

Swimmer, 66, Dies in Shark Attack Off California Beach

DNA Explodes Greek Myth About Women

Chinese Bloggers Slip Censors' Net to Attack Smiling Party Boss

Al-Qaeda Chief Dies in Missile Air Strike

Basra: A Harsh and Conservative City

Space Probe Uncovers Signs of Ice on Mars

Students Urged to Challenge Extremists

Divorces Inflict Home Front Damage on Us Troops As Iraq War Drags on

Girl Geeks Find Manga Haven

French Elite Declare the Bobo Extinct

Vote Mugabe or Else, Army Chief Tells His Soldiers

Gaza Students Lose Scholarships After Israel Refuses Visas

Beijing Athletes Urged to Speak Out on Human Rights

Oops, We Didn't Mean Malaysians Are Terrorists - Marines in Retreat After Gaffe

Another 'pastor Disaster' Upsets Obama Campaign

CIA Chief Claims Al-qaida Essentially Defeated in Iraq and Saudi Arabia

Obama Campaign Tries to Quell New Pastor Controversy

China Earthquake: 200,000 Flee From Growing Sichuan Lake

Bin Laden Turns His Mind to Israel

Food Diary: Shenzhen, China

Japan Drops Plans to Use Military to Deliver Aid to China

Food Diary: Hangzhou, China

Pleas for Iraq Hostages Mark Year in Captivity

World Bank's $1.2bn Fund to Feed the Poor

From Poverty and Hunger to Fast-food Outlets in Two Generations

More Wealth, More Meat. How China's Rise Spells Trouble

Blair Does God in Interview to Launch Inter-faith Foundation

Call for Three Seal Species to Join Endangered List

Act on Climate Change, Top Scientists Warn Us

Disgraced Atomic Scientist Disowns Confession

Dairy Farmers' Strike Spreads Across Eu

Tutu Calls for End to Blockade of Gaza

Caste Protesters Seeking to Be Downgraded Blockade Delhi

Scientists Call on Us to Heavily Cut Carbon Emissions

Iraq Calls for Debt Relief From Neighbours

Dior Drops Stone From Chinese Marketing After 'karma' Comments

Indian Tribesmen Bring Delhi to Standstill

Opera Tribute Not Too Inconvenient for Gore

Hamilton Jordan

The Road to Peace in Iraq Runs Directly Through Tehran

Time to Talk to Al-qaida, Senior Police Chief Urges

France's "virgin obsessed" serial killer gets life

Aid Mission to See First Japanese Troops in China for 60 Years

Olmert Told to Go After Court Testimony

Secular Turks Attack Religious Council's Code for Women

French Couple Given Life for Rape and Murders

German Utility Rwe May Sell Off Pipelines to Beat Eu Fines

US South-west Warned of Dire Climate Challenges

Former Bush Press Secretary Claims Iraq War Fuelled By Propaganda

RWE Bids to Settle Anti-trust Case

French Court Jails Serial Killer and Wife

Japan Pledges $1.9bn in Aid to Africa

Ehud Olmert Corruption Inquiry: Barak Calls for Pm to Quit

Exxon to Cut Funding to Climate Change Denial Groups

Campaigner Fails to Arrest Ex-bush Official Over 'war Crimes'

Islam's Holiest City Set for 130-skyscraper Redevelopment

Climate Change Threat to Us Crops and Water

Fifa Suspends Ban on High-altitude Football

In Beit Hanoun, Tutu Visits a Family Torn Apart By Shells

A Nouvel skyscraper for Paris

UK Fund Tries New Tactic in Face of Japanese Ban

What Do French Fishermen Want?

Tutu Enters Gaza to Start Investigation Into Deaths

Minister Quits Over Security Lapse

US Businessman Says He Gave Olmert $150,000 in Cash-stuffed Envelopes

Germany Remembers Gay Victims of the Nazis

Poland Threatens to Hold Out Over Us Missile Defence Shield

Ehud Olmert Took Thousands of Dollars, Us Businessman Tells Court

Food Diary: Banaue, Philippines

Harry Potter Actor Death: Man Charged With Six Knifings

MoD Names Marine Killed By Mine

Russian Billionaires Fall Out With Bp

A taxing day as Sarkozy goes walkabout among the fruit and veg

UK Hedge Fund Increases Pressure on Japanese Utility

Soldiers Battle to Ease Flood Risk for Chinese Earthquake Survivors

UN Watchdog Accuses Iran of Refusing to Reveal Nuclear Aims

Egypt: Bread Shortages, Hunger and Unrest

Triumphant Return to the Red Planet - Now Nasa Will Probe What Lies Beneath

Minister Admits Cluster Bomb Tally Unknown

Muslim Tv Channel to Stage Interfaith Game Show

French Socialists Locked in Battle

EU Ministers Back Plan for Talks to Rebuild Relationship With Russia

'Quake Lake' Flood Fears for 1.3m People

Tensions Rise As Un Says Russian Air Force Downed Georgian Drone

Personal Data Fears After German Phone Giant Says It Spied on Staff

Cat Gives Station New Lease of Life

UK's Special Relationship With Us Needs to Be Recalibrated, Obama Tells Ex-pats in Britain

French triumph at Cannes but flop at Eurovision

French Classroom Drama Wins Top Prize at Cannes Film Festival

Mayor Scraps Fuel Deal With Venezuela

Mbeki Condemns Violence As a 'disgrace'

Leader of Colombia's Biggest Rebel Group Has Died, Guerrillas Confirm

Phoenix City Tangshan Wins Battle for Life After Devastation

Tremor Injures 400 As Flood Risk Grows

Independence Day May Go With Less of a Bang After Accident in China

Germans Aghast at All Being Alike

Refugees in New Afghan Drugs Crisis

Is This the End of the Rainbow Nation?

Tsvangirai Flies Into Harare

Hearts, Minds ... and Muscle

Barrier Reef Divers Rescued After 20 Hours Stranded in Ocean

China Earthquake: Un Chief Visits Disaster Zone As Toll Reaches 60,000

Quake Patients Face Transfer As Hospitals Struggle to Cope

Japan Pledges Record Aid to Fight Disease

Hunted By Gangs, Migrants Flee the Flames

Cuban Sting Shows Us Diplomat Handing Over Cash to Dissidents

Brown Meets Dalai Lama for 'warm' Talks

Israeli Jets Threaten to Shoot Down Tony Blair's Plane

Pesticides: Germany Bans Chemicals Linked to Honeybee Devastation

Confessions on a Tv Show: Oprah Hears Madonna's Side of the Story

Sarkozy outs himself as Céline fan

Violence in South Africa Spreads to Cape Town

China Earthquake Death Toll Tops 55,000

Nuclear Power: Suez Pulls Out of Race for British Energy

A New Cold War? We're Yet to Adjust to the Old One Ending

Strikes Over Pension Reforms Grip France

The New Lords of the Dance

Afghan Anti-us Protest Leaves Three Dead

Panama Tribe Exiles Its King Over Power Plant Deal

Chinese Quake Forced 3m Children From Homes

China Earthquake 'biggest Disaster for Children in Seven Years'

Dalai Lama Tells Mps to Do More for Tibet

Tsvangirai Vows to Return to Zimbabwe

Acclaim for Madonna's Malawi Documentary

Edward Kennedy May Be a Great Public Servant, But He Was Lucky to Survive the Shame of Chappaquiddick

Iran Calls for Uranium Enrichment on Its Soil, With the World's Help

French Unions Challenge Sarkozy in Strike Over Pension Changes

BA's Paris-new York Service Opens for Business

China Earthquake Deaths Top 50,000

Peace Delayed

Drive to Clean Up Tv Leaves Soap Fans Fearing for Their One Respite From Reality

Oil Price Forces American Airlines to Scrap 75 Planes

Pakistan Signs Deal With Taliban Militants

Japan's Banks Count Cost of Us Sub-prime Crisis

Diplomacy Prevails to End 12-month Deadlock

Japan to Allow Military Use of Space

Timeline: Israel, Syria and the Golan Heights

China Dissident Held 'for Criticising Quake Response'

Dalai Lama Calls for End to Anti-olympic Protests

Carla Bruni's New Album: Songs About 'dope' and the Pyramids

Court is Asked to Quash Order to Supply Notes on Islamist Book

History Does Not Always Favour a Hero

Dalai Lama to Visit Olympics If China Talks Are Constructive

American Airlines to Cut Planes and Jobs

Hizbullah Deal Ends Lebanon Deadlock

Israel and Syria Admit the Start of Formal Peace Talks in Istanbul

Health Fears As Rubbish Piles Up Again

Pakistan Makes Peace Deal to End Pro-taliban Violence

Waste Not, Want Not

Tumours Threaten Tasmanian Devil Population

Indiana Jones and the Wax Crusade

Moscow Placed on an Invasion Footing As United Fans Plant Red Flags in Red Square

South Africa Under Pressure to Send in Army As Anti-immigrant Violence Claims More Lives

Pupils Saved After One School Stands Firm in Quake

Middle East in Nuclear Race to Match Iran

Survey Puts Iceland at Top of Peace League

Baghdad Predicts Blue Skies Ahead for Struggling Inshallah Airways

Carbon Nanotubes May Be As Hazardous to Health As Asbestos

UK's Climate Aid Plans 'undermine' Global Deal

Microsoft's Ballmer Pelted With Eggs

New Taiwanese President Reaches Out to China

World 'more Peaceful' in 2008

Foreign Aid Arrives As Quake Region's Death Toll Nears 40,000

Blaze Breaks Out at Berlin Philharmonie

Musicians Flee Philharmonic Fire in Berlin

Murdoch Tightens Control of Journal

Miliband Backs Tribal Talks to Halt Taliban

Health Threat of Nanotubes May Be Similar to Asbestos, Study Warns

Earlier Spring in Arctic Could Hit Caribou Diet

Three Strikes and Out

Thousands Seek Sanctuary As South Africans Turn on Refugees

Buffett Has $35bn to Spend in Four-city Shopping Spree

Demolished By the Pakistan Army: the Frontier Village Punished for Harbouring the Taliban

One Week On, Focus Shifts Towards Preventing Disease

Back to School for Orphans of Sichuan

Blow to Farc As Top Female Commander Surrenders

France Admits Contacts With Hamas in Breach of Boycott

MDC Claims Plot to Kill Tsvangirai

Campaigners Attack Uk Government Over Climate Change 'loans'

Struggle for Meagre Resources Fuels Terror in the Townships

Weak Dollar and Supply Worries Push Oil to Fresh High of $128

SAS Soldier Killed in Afghan Blast

Zimbabwe Opposition Alleges Sniper Plot to Kill Leader

Buffett Starts European Shopping Spree

China Mourns As Death Toll Rises

As 'indy' Mania Sweeps Cannes, Harrison Ford Resigns Himself to a Critical Lashing

Experts Fall Out Over Van Gogh's 'last Painting'

The Last Photo of Zhou Yao, 14 - One of Thousands of Children Killed at Their Desks

Deadly Aftershock Jolts Sichuan As Mourning Begins

Light Fades for Victims in Town Hit By Apocalypse

Clegg Warning Over Britain's Afghan Mission

Candidates Among Ailing Kennedy's Well-wishers

Bush Urges More Freedom in Arab States

Reluctant Turks Prepare for Smoking Ban

South Africa Gangs Kill Foreigners

Videogamers Vie for Place in $1m Global Competition

Senator Edward Kennedy Rushed to Hospital After Suffering Seizure

EU Treaty Opponents Eye Irish Vote

China Quake Boy Found Alive

Brown Hints at Aid Drops for Burma

Murdered: the War Veteran Who Stood Up to Mugabe

Ted Kennedy Rushed to Hospital

Assassination Threat Delays Tsvangirai Return to Zimbabwe

Flooding Fears Disrupt China Quake Rescue Efforts

Brown Condemns 'inhuman' Burma Leaders Over Aid

Flood Fears Spark Evacuation From Quake-hit City

Beijing Open to Foreign Aid and Scrutiny in Wake of Tragedy

In Overflowing Refugee Camp, Anger, Fear and a Few Rays of Hope

Frustration for Bush As Pledge to Saudis Fails to Win Oil Concession

Zimbabwe Sets Date for Runoff

Dawkins Beaten in Bid for Einstein Letter

US Marine Jailed for Abusing 14-year-old Japanese Girl

Travellers to Rome Stranded As Police Impound Airport Buses

Bank Robbers Kill Nine in Philippines

Helicopter Inventor Pays Tribute to Da Vinci

'Bin Laden' Message Condemns Israeli Anniversary

Bush Denounces Democratic Negotiation Offers During Israel Visit

New York Diary

In the Rubble of a School, Bodies Everywhere - Too Many to Count

Moscow's Plan to Avert Manchester-style Chaos

'Boulders and Rocks Were Flying Overhead'

Lebanon Crisis Defused After Climbdown By Pm

Islamist Group Claims It Planted Jaipur Bombs

New Alcohol Law Prompts Fears for Turkish Bar Trade

Sarkozy Hit By Further Strikes

China Appeals for Heavy Lifting Equipment As Time Runs Out to Find Earthquake Survivors

Le Monde Staff Back Revised Cuts Plan

Gaza's Children Suffer As Conflict Enters the Classroom

US Loophole Puts Polar Bears at Risk

Chinese Earthquake Toll May Soar to 50,000

The Long Slide

Survivors of Quake Urged to Hang on As Troops Arrive

Irish Leader Who Inspired and Repelled Dies at 80

Ligeti, Musical Pioneer, Dies at 83

Composer Gyorgy Ligeti Dies at 83

Brown Leads Tributes to Jk Galbraith

Indian Bureaucracy Is Biggest Ally Of Terrorists

Chinese Earthquake Toll Tops 19,500

Indian Mujahideen Claims Responsibility for Jaipur Blasts

World's Wildlife and Environment Already Hit By Climate Change, Major Study Shows

Ancient Bust of Caesar Found in French River

Bush in Israel for Anniversary Amid Little Hope for Peace Talks

Troops Sent to Repair Quake-hit Chinese Dam

China Says 26,000 Buried in Quake Rubble

MySpace Wins $230m Payout From Spammers

120 Britons Believed to Be in Quake Zone

For Desperate Mountain Survivors, a Kind of Haven

MoD Agrees Public Inquiry Into Death of Iraqi

'The Mountains Are Sliding Down'

Warning Over Fake Fundraising Emails

US Property Foreclosures Up 65%

'Everyone is Thinking for Themselves'

Quake-damaged Dam Could Flood City

Jaipur Curfew Imposed As Bombings Toll Passes 80

Terror is Ingredient Binding Us and China

Jakarta Gets $50m to Fight Terrorism

Survivors Plead for Aid As Quake Toll Hits 20,000

More Than 12,000 Dead in China Quake As Rescuers Struggle to Reach Injured

EC Reprimands Brown Over Uk Deficit

US Apologises After Children Die in Bombing Meant for Taliban Chief

Bush Flies in to Fortress London

US Pins Hopes on Un to Bolster Iraq Force

Palestinian Pm's Leadership at Stake When He Pleads With Bush to Help Free Detainees

US Unveils Plan to End North Korean Nuclear Ambitions

Authorities Coping With Disaster Without Need for Outside Help

Searching the Rubble of a Chinese School, Parents' Grief Turns to Fury

Euro 2008: Sun Takes a Shine to Poland

Series of Six Bomb Blasts Kills Dozens in Centre of Jaipur

Washington Pledges to Support Lebanese Army

Dozens Killed in Indian Market Blasts

Northern Ireland Policeman Survives Car Bomb Attack

'This is Not a Natural Disaster - This is Done By Humans'

Give Iraqis Control of Security, Leader Tells Us

Security Council Backs Us on Iraq

Japan's Teenage Smokers Face Wrinkle Test

Free Barefoot Doctor, Say Nobel Winners

Villagers Tell of Fight to Survive - and Desperate Search for Food

Ministers Quit Pakistan Cabinet

Siege of Gaza Squeezes Life Out of the Land

Hacker Posts Data of 6 Million Chileans

World Co2 Levels at Record High, Scientists Warn

Serbian Nationalists Aim to Block Pro-eu Government

China Earthquake Kills Thousands

Blair Tells Bush: Take Rest of World Into Account

Jordan Agrees to Us Missile Deployment

US Equips Israel With Patriot Missile Batteries

Childish Superstition: Einstein's Letter Makes View of Religion Relatively Clear

Thousands Die in China Quake

Massive Collision's Deadly Results

Surrounded By Death, Survivors Fear More Shocks

Sharif Quits Pakistan Coalition Over Judges Dispute

Tamil Guerrilla Avoids War Crimes Charges

Earthquake Hits Western China

What Is Mom Really Worth?

UK Palm Oil Consumption Fuels Colombia Violence, Says Report

Egyptian Mediator to Meet Israelis After Hamas Agrees Ceasefire Plan

Murdoch Concedes in the Fight for Newsday

Tsvangirai Plans Return to Zimbabwe for Runoff Vote

'A Disaster for Everybody'

Sea Blockade Sees Dry Patch for Gaza's Fishermen

Extraordinary Final Odyssey Ends for Ireland's Finest Woman Writer

Tsvangirai Ready to Take on Mugabe in Election Run-off

Lame-duck Bush Back in the Limelight

Kremlin Bids for High Finance

Dem’s Divas Destiny and Darkness

Russia Rolls Out the Big Guns for V-day Parade

It's Hand of God v Iron Mike - Sporting Documentaries Are Talk of Film Festival

Is This Climate Change?

Big Guns Roll Through Red Square Once More

Hizbullah Success in West Beirut Replaces Impasse With Uncertainty

Stalled Morales Puts Faith in Referendum

Chinese Crowds Delay Torch Relay

Bush Clan Forgets Its Troubles As Jenna Prepares for Big Day on the Family Ranch

Realism From Riyadh

Study Warns of Sexual Health Crisis Due to Drug Use

Q&A: Serbian Elections

Key Dates in Zimbabwe's Recent History

Did John Edwards Admit He Voted for Obama?

Scam Alert: Beware of Fake IRS Email

Nepal Reopens Everest After Torch Relay

The Eu is About to Land in Kosovo. But Will It Take Off?

Rightwingers and Ex-model in Italian Cabinet

China Carries Olympic Flame to Everest Peak

Reuters Photographer Held in Zimbabwe

Al-Qaida Leader in Iraq Captured During Mosul Raid

Mbeki Will Fly to Zimbabwe in Mediation Bid

Al-Qaida in Iraq Leader 'arrested'

Chateau China, a Taste of Wines to Come With Climate Change

Half a Million Computers Infected With 'malware' in Just Seven Days

Lebanon on the Brink As Violence Erupts

Sarkozy sees sense on Blair presidency

Putin Sworn in As Pm - and Russia's Real Ruler

Olympic Torch Reaches Everest Peak

As It Turns 60, the Fear is Israel Has Decided It Can Get By Without Peace

The Holiday That Was, Then Wasn’t And Now Is

MySpace to Miss Revenue Target

'I Wanted to Report on Where the Silence Was'

Platypus Proves Even Odder Than Scientists Thought

Iran Offers Nuclear Deal But Refuses to Stop Enrichment

Ex-Guantánamo Prisoner Took Part in Iraq Bombing, Says Us

Minister Loses Fight to Retain Ban on Iranian Dissident Group

Parents Get Message From the Front: 'we Need More Ammo'

Paris Diary

Olmert Under Pressure to Quit Over Link to Millionaire in Bribery Probe

Putin Ever Present As Medvedev Becomes President

Olmert Under Renewed Pressure to Resign

Taiwanese Ministers Quit Over Missing Millions

Medvedev Sworn in As Russian President

Keep Praying, Say the Mccanns

Ping-pong Diplomacy Back on Table As Chinese Premier Visits Japan

DNA Results Prove Fritzl Fathered All Imprisoned Daughter's Children

DNA Tests Confirm Austrian Man Fathered Daughter's Children

Austria's Hidden Nightmare

Closer Encounter: Nasa Plans Landing on 40m-wide Asteroid Travelling at 28,000mph

Met Defends Behaviour of Chinese Torch Guards Branded Thugs By Coe

Plus ça Change

Ahern Observes History on Last Day As Pm

China's Hu Hails Diplomatic Thaw on Japan Visit

Somali Refugees Speak of Horrific War Crimes

'Magic' Number Plates Save Speeding Chinese Drivers

Broadcast of Execution Forces Japan to Debate Death Penalty

Beijing Fears Spread of Child Virus

Sarkozy’s First Year In Office

UBS to Axe 5,500 Jobs

Bolivia: Where Rioting is a Way of Life

Authors Launch Literary Festival in Cities of the West Bank

Children Put in Care After Drunk Holiday Couple Collapse

China Employs Sing-song Diplomacy

Babies Found in Freezer of German Family

The Old Dream of a Nation, Like All Nations, Remains Just That: a Dream

One Home, Two Histories

Luxury Hotels and Golf: Welcome to the Green Zone

Crisis in Bolivia After Vote for Autonomy

French Railway Buys British Baguettes

In Ghost Town Where Afghan War Begins, Uk Fights Losing Battle

French Bid May Secure Nuclear Firm

New York's Mayor Flies in to Give Advice and Credibility

Zimbabwe Run-off Vote May Face Year Delay

Health Warning in China As Fears Grow Over Child Virus

BBC to Resume Unvetted News in Pakistan

Concern Over Racing Ethics As Horse Dies at Kentucky Derby

Search Continues for Britons Missing in Brazil

Those Gluttonous Indians

China's Olympic Riding Hope is Eton Schoolboy

Revolt Against the Peasant President

The Boy Who Took Karzai's Bullet

Computer-age Comes to Cuba, But the Real Revolution is on the Land

Zimbabwe's Opposition Divided Over Boycott of Election Re-run

Ireland's Immigrants Return Home As Slump Sharpens Fear of Racism

PM Will Call on Firms to Help Africa

Services to Mark Year Since Madeleine Vanished

Operation Pet Rescue By Warzone Cat Woman

Pressure Grows on Israel at London Peace Talks

Olympic Torch Reaches Hong Kong

Election Body Confirms Mugabe Lost the Vote

Marine Died in 'unsuitable' Vehicle

Police Foil £400,000 Kidnap Plot By Gang in Pakistan

Autonomy Poll Threatens to Derail Bolivia's Revolution

Mugabe Will Take Part in Run-off, Party Officials Say

Middle East Quartet Urges All Sides to Commit to Talks

Hong Kong Rolls Out Red Carpet for Olympic Torch

Outsourcing Torture

Unholy Sanctuary

100 Days Until the Olympics - But One Family Awaits Only Bulldozers and Eviction

Police Remove Hong Kong Torch Protesters 'for Own Protection'

Expelled the Movie – Ben Stein Exposes Flat World Academics

Israel Urged to End Blockade of Gaza As Talks Begin in London

Funeral Held for Raf Reservist, Killed in Afghanistan Aged 51

Nine Die As Egypt Tourist Bus Bursts Into Flames

In Praise of ... Lesbians

Lessons From History

War-torn Sri Lanka is the Last Sick Man of the Region

Time Hails Blair As Hero

China Opens Longest Sea Bridge

Chinese Factory to Supply One in Four Bibles

Cleaning Fluid Link to Gas Suicides

Mugabe Invents Coup Plot As Poll Chaos Continues

China Critic Mia Farrow Allowed Into Hong Kong

Timeline: Austria Cellar Case

The Great Contender

Is Handwriting Dead? Not Quite

Police Warn Against Suicide Gas That Can Kill Neighbours

Sexes Face Separate Dementia Risks - Study

Mia Farrow Questioned Over Hong Kong Torch Protests