National & World News Archive May 2009
US 'late Term' Abortion Doctor Shot Dead in Church
Mario Vargas Llosa's Debate Challenge Halts Hugo Chávez Marathon Broadcast
All the President's Emails: Robert Gibbs, Sonia Sotomayor, Joe Biden
Starwatch
British Scientists Ask Who to Condemn Homeopathy for Diseases Such As Hiv
Kidnapped Woman Saved From Captor By Pizza Delivery Man
British Supermarkets Accused Over Destruction of Amazon Rainforest
Police Urge Millionaire Ian Griffin to Give Himself Up As Murder Inquiry Shifts to Uk
Vauxhall Deal Leaves Uk Jobs in Limbo
Late-term Abortion Doctor Shot Dead Inside Us Church
Father Who Survived Death Plunge From Hotel Balcony Told Not to See Daughter
Creation of Cells From Hair Raises Hope of Treatments for Inherited Diseases
Elderly Women Charged With Running Profitable Drug Business From Their Home in Santiago
Homemade Bomb on Board Plane Intensifies Tensions Ahead of Iran Elections
How 'the Busy One' Ekes Out a Living From the Devastation of Gaza in Jabaliya Refugee Camp
Two British Soldiers Killed in Afghanistan Explosion
Tiananmen Victims in Public Plea for Justice
Berlusconi Slaps Veto on Paparazzi Party Shots
Gay Mayor's Illicit Love Shakes a Texas Town
Divided Poland Falls Out Over Solidarity
MPs May Not Act Like Silvio, But They Stink All the Same
Can a Husband Stoop Any Lower?
Ancient Hatreds, Gangs and Killings That Lurk Beneath a Fragile Peace
Suspect in Paris Hotel Murder 'planned to Flee Britain By Speedboat'
Exposed: Ugly Face of Bnp's Leaders
Police Alarm As Anti-gay Attacks Rise
Fears for Van Job Losses at Vauxhall
Case Studies: Civilians at War
Why Teachers, Nurses and Lawyers Go to War
Women Have Never Had It So Good at Work, Says M&s Chief
In India They Really Like Older People
Why the Wheels Fell Off Germany's Economic Model
Looking for Glimmers of Hope Amid Exodus
President's Gm Aid Plan Under Fire
The Bloody Truth of the Longest Day
The Raj, the Universe and Everything
800 Britons on Waiting List for Swiss Suicide Clinic
UDA Rebels Decommission and Condemn Mcdaid Killing
'Boyfriend' Held Over Knife Death
Fears for Vauxhall Jobs After Gm Takeover Deal
America: In the Beginning of Sorrows
Crete Hotel Balcony Death Leap Father John Hogan to Be Released From Greek Psychiatric Care
D-day, and the Myths That Refuse to Die
'We Know What to Do: Why Don't We Do It?'
Face to Faith
I Was in an Earthquake
'A Rigid Commitment to Impotence' - Former Diplomat's Verdict on Cameron in Europe
Caught After 30 Years: the Man Who Conned Springsteen and the Triads
Tragic, Unwise: Conservative Grandees Turn on David Cameron Over Plans for European Union
South Koreans 'remain Calm' in Face of Rhetoric From North
Conservatives Woo Far Right Ally in Spain
Phil Spector Sentenced for Murder of Lana Clarkson
Ration-book Chic Goes on Show in Paris
Death and Devastation in Gaza Neatly Filed and Documented
Haruki Murakami Fans Snap Up Latest Novel Iq84 After Five-year Wait
Weatherwatch
Hay Festival: Tutu Calls for Urgent Solution to Israel-palestine Conflict
Two British Soldiers Die After Separate Attacks in Afghanistan
White Actor Quits Play After Row Over Onstage Kiss With Black Man
British Man Accused of £4.4m Ponzi Scam in Us
Goodbye to Jay Leno As Tonight Show Host Calls Time
US-Israel Relations Hit Low After Jewish State Rejects White House Demand
German Town Powers Up for Biogas First
Split Among Captors Hits Hope of Freedom for British Hostages in Iraq
Dan Mathews of Peta: 'i've Always Been Drawn to Extremes'
Police Search for Millionaire Briton After Woman Found Dead at Paris Hotel
Suu Kyi Allowed Only One Witness at Trial
Sarkozy Pledges War on Crime to Woo Far-right Vote in European Elections
Haroubi's Tree is a Symbol of a People's Changing Fortunes
Israel Defies Us on Settlements Growth
Ex-Pinochet Army Conscript Charged With Folk Singer Victor Jara's Murder
South Korea Raises Alert Level Over North Korea's Threat to Attack
Amnesty Calls for New Deal on Human Rights
Mom and Daughter in Fake Abduction Arrested by Police in Florida
Lecturers Vote to Boycott Israel But Are Warned Off
The New Red List - a Birder's Perspective
Will He Be Back?
Champions League Final: As Gladiators Clash, Messi is the Champion
Miliband Downbeat on Iran's Presidential Election
Ireland Set to Say Yes to Europe As Change is in the Air
Mandelson Given Assurances Over Vauxhall's Future
Songs and Sackings Expected on Four-day Chávez Talkshow
Pakistani Militants in Bomb Attack on Offices of Police Chief and Spy Agency
Louvre Faces Legal Complaint Over 'discriminatory' Free Admissions Policy
The Sky's the Limit for Extreme Sports Fan Who Aims to Be Iraq's First Man in Space
Arab Favourite for Unesco's Top Job Apologises for 'book Burning' Remarks
Hardin, Montana Bids to Be New Guantánamo Bay
Israelis Get Four-fifths of Scarce West Bank Water, Says World Bank
Lecturers Vote to Boycott Israeli Universities
Briton's Drug Trial in Laos May Be Delayed Until Her Baby's Birth
Gazans Look for a Place to Breathe By the Sea
China Enters Race to Buy Gm's European Operations
Chequered History: Shell in Nigeria
Polluted Land: in the Oil Zone of Nigeria's Ogoniland
14 Years After Ken Saro-wiwa's Death, Family Points Finger at Shell in Court
Man Without Fingerprints Detained at Airport
The Real Con Air
Iraqi Intelligence Sues Guardian
Recession Forces Rap's Kings of Bling to Tone It Down
Ticketless Manchester United Legion Sets Up Camp on Outskirts of Rome
MI5 Faces Fresh Torture Allegations Over Jamil Rahman
Tortured While Mi5 Left the Room: Briton's Claim After 7/7 Attacks
The View From Campo De' Fiori
California's Supreme Court Upholds Gay Marriage Ban
Pakistan Lifts Election Ban on Nawaz Sharif
Letter From Africa: Awkward Insights on the Soweto Tourist Trail
Chinese Police Shoot Six Women During Dam Protest, Tibetan Government Says
France Opens Military Base in Uae Despite Iranian Concerns
British 'naughty Nuns' Arrested in Crete 'will Never Forget' Experience
Israel to Propose Removing Some West Bank Settlements
British 'naughty Nuns' Arrested in Crete Were Members of Football Club
Burmese Opposition Leader Aung San Suu Kyi to Testify at Trial
What the Future Looks Like
Axe That Clove Creationism Found at Museum After 150 Years
Pink Floyd Star David Gilmour Joins Fight to Halt Extradition to Us of Hacker Gary Mckinnon
New York Diary
Church of Scientology Goes on Trial in France
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is Third Rate, Says Daughter's Father-in-law
Chinese Academic Wins Court Fight Over Website Closed By Censors
Church of Scientology on Trial in France Accused of Defrauding the Vulnerable
Watergate Under the Bridge: How the New York Times Missed the Scoop of the Century
Korth Korea: World Leaders Condemn Nuclear Test
Secrets and Ties
Where Have All Our Birds Gone?
Catholic Aide Says Gay Men Commit Most Paedophilia
Pakistani Army Fights Street By Street to Banish Taliban From Swat Valley
Silvio Berlusconi Faces New Questions Over Relationship With Model Noemi Letizia
Powell Attacks 'rightwing Diktats' Over Republican Party's Decline
Netanyahu: Israel Will Still Build on Jewish Settlements
White House Intern Involved With Jfk in 1960s to Write About Affair
BBC Plans to Send Poet to Afghanistan Battlefields
Dubya, Condi, Paul, Rummy and Colin: Where Are They Now?
Bishops Fight for Right to Criticise Gay Lifestyle
America's New Green Guru Sparks Anger Over Climate Change U-turns
'Innocent People Are Branded As Criminals'
Film Reveals Soft Side to Vogue's Icy Style Queen Anna Wintour
A War Poet for Today's Afghanistan Battlefields
Angry Islanders Accuse Uk of Stalling Over £200m Airport
Former South Korea President Leaps to Death in Ravine
How One Newspaper's 'shameful' Questions Have Rattled Silvio Berlusconi
Joanna Lumley's Win is a National Embarrassment
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Tries to Silence Rivals in the Run-up to Elections in Iran
Barcelona Split Over Campaign to Banish Sleaze From Ramblas
The World Through a Lens: the Korengal Valley, Afghanistan
Europe Might Be a Better Place Without the Contemptuous, Indifferent British
Childless is Not a Synonym for Weird
Rise in Gadgets Hits Plan to Cut Emissions
Secrets of Satchmo Up for Sale
They Were Consumed By a Quest. Then They Were Consumed
"When I Hear of Girls Working in London Who Swallow Acid, I Know It Could Have Been Me"
Sunday's Last Stand on Lewis and Harris
Female Truckers in South Africa Brave the Night Shift
Role of British Diplomats in Tamil Leaders' Failed Surrender Bid
Pakistani Army Claims Taliban's Elimination in Swat Valley Imminent
Mississippi Town Breaks With Its Past to Elect First Black Mayor
Zimbabwe Opening Up for Journalists and Donors, Claims Morgan Tsvangirai
Timeline: Madeleine Mccann
US Troop Surge in Afghanistan 'could Push Taliban Into Pakistan'
Madeleine Investigation: Man Denies Link to Abduction
Palin v Mccain: Rowdy Republican Daughters Go to War
New Zealand Couple Flee With £4m: What Would Robin Hood Do?
David or Goliath? China's Battle to Win the War of Perception
China Voices: the Construction Worker
China Voices: the Petitioner
China Voices: the Environmental Activist
Discrepancy Delays Italy Earthquake Payouts
Surveillance of Protesters Ruled Illegal
Gurkha Row: Iraqi Treatment
Iran Arrests 'agatha Christie Serial Killer'
Police: Men Planned Terror Attack in New York to Avenge Deaths of Muslims
Recession-era Movie Drag Me to Hell Marks Revenge of the Repossessed
Burma Junta Bars Media and Diplomats From Aung San Suu Kyi Trial Again
Purged Chinese Censor Behind Memoirs of Zhao Ziyang
New Zealand Couple Go on Run After £3.8m Bank Error
Chinese Regulators Admit Chemical Leak After Workers Fall Sick
Four Arrested Over Alleged New York Terrorist Bomb Plot
Archbishop Tries to Defuse Abuse Remarks Row
Thousands Raped and Abused in Catholic Schools in Ireland
Binyam Mohamed: Torture Collusion Claims Silenced for Legal Reasons
Iran Test Fires Missile Capable of Reaching Us Bases or Israel
Visitors Allowed to Return to Statue of Liberty's Crown in July
Samantha Was Not Raped in Laotian Jail, Says Mother of Pregnant British Prisoner
'Endemic' Rape and Abuse of Irish Children in Catholic Care, Inquiry Finds
Irish Catholic Church Child Abuse: 'a Cruel and Wicked System'
Report on Claims of Child Abuse in Irish Catholic Schools to Be Published
Scores Die in Indonesian Plane Crash
Japan Suffers Record Fall in Gdp
How Modo Lost Her Mojo
'changellujah!'
China Voices: the Nationalist Activist
China's Gender Imbalance 'likely to Get Worse'
To Get a Glimpse of the Ida Fossil, the Media Make Monkeys of Themselves
European Election: Brussels Braces for Big Protest Vote
Hit-and-run Driver Who Sold Car on Ebay Sentenced to Jail
Extraordinary Fossil is 'missing Link' Between Humans and Mammals
Astronaut Tests Flying Carpet in Space
Zoos in Court Battle Over Knut the Polar Bear
Drew Peterson Pleads Not Guilty to Murdering his Wife
Our Man at Bilderberg: Let's Salt the Slug in 2010
Letter From Africa: America's Cousin on the Continent
New York Trial Hears of 'mistress' Attack on Camilla
Swat Valley Could Be Worst Refugee Crisis Since Rwanda, Un Warns
David Cameron Calls for Dissolution of Parliament
'We Have Taken Every Measure We Can Think of to Stop the Desert Moving Closer and Submerging Our Crops and Villages'
New York Times Columnist Caught in Plagiarism Row
Our Man in Bilderberg: Six Days to Lost Innocence
Islamist Insurgents Close in on Somali Capital
Gunmen Ambush Police in Paris Estate
Woody Allen Reaches $5m Settlement With Head of American Apparel
Manuka Honey Costing £50 a Jar Creates a Buzz
Peru Army Moves Into Amazon After Tribes Blockade Rivers and Roads
Poll Boost for Japan Opposition Party
China's First Sex Theme Park Closes Before It Opens
Co-op Donation Creates Buzz Around British Black Bees
UK's Games Industry Demands Action to Stop Brain Drain
Cannes 2009: Francis Ford Coppola on His Most Personal Film Yet
The Bnp Represents Britain's Workers? They Don't Even Represent Basic British Craftsmanship
Unemployment Forces Chinese Migrants Back to the Countryside
David Miliband: China Ready to Join Us As World Power
A Return to Magnificence for British Diplomats?
Indian Voters Back Congress to Push Through Reforms
Our Man at Bilderberg: 'you Are Not Allowed to Take Pictures of Policemen!'
As Charlie's Angels Star Lies Dying, She Begs for Camera to Keep Rolling
Colombian Cocaine Ring Targeted By Uk
Supporters Call for Rahul to Be Pm
How Britain is Coming to Terms With Growing Old
How Neanderthals Met a Grisly Fate: Devoured By Humans
If You're Not a Mother, You Won't Get on
Landmines Hero Honoured in Burns' Name
US Congress May Hold Uvf Killing Inquiry
Fear Grips Venezuela As Even the Poor Are Seized By Kidnap Gangs
The Acid-tongued Blonde Who is Taking on America's Chat Kings
Guatemala in Uproar After Lawyer Predicts Own Murder
Cameron Can't Run Away From Europe Much Longer
Arms Firm Bids to Buy Ambulances
The View From the Ground
The Lady Thrillers
Rory Stewart, I Presume
Indians Boost Power of Congress Party
India's Congress Party Heads for Surprise Election Victory
Horror and Stresses of Iraq Duty Led Us Sergeant to Kill Comrades
David Miliband Presses for Gag on Cia Memo
'Tesco Should Give Us Some of Those Billions'
Guatemala Police Arrest Twitter User for 'inciting Financial Panic'
Pakistani Commander Urges Residents to Return to Buner As Taliban Loses Grip on District
Berlin Draws Breath As The Producers Comes to Theatre Loved By Hitler
Uruguay and Peru Diverge on Gay Rights
Indian Mynah Bird Next to Face Australian Cull
Hollywood Beckons for Somali Pirate Negotiator
Indian Political Leaders Search for Allies on Eve of Election Results
China to Open First Sex Theme Park
Our Man at Bilderberg: They're Watching and Following Me, I Tell You
Brazilian Gets 21 Years for Dismembering Uk Teenager
Brazilian Gets 21 Years for Dismembering Uk Teen
Student Activists Try to Save Wildlife on China's Menu
New Treatments Raise Hope of Cutting Sleeping Sickness Deaths
A Very Avoidable Death
The Viennese Whirl
Sex and God Do Mix – According to 'catholic Kama Sutra'
US Women Discover They Were Switched at Birth
Iraq Inquiry: Military Police Chief Ordered Before Judges
Spuds of Wrath: Potatoes-for-votes Protest Blights Iranian Election
All-female Madrasas Boom in Pakistan
Europe Launches Herschel and Planck Space Telescopes
Eschatology Speaks to Progressive Liberalism
Bilderberg: One Mention of Sylvester Mccoy and It All Kicks Off
Secret Tiananmen Square Memoirs of Chinese Party Leader to Be Published
Lake Swimmer Could Cost Suu Kyi Her Freedom
Cholmondeley Gets Eight Months Over Kenyan Poacher's Manslaughter
Thomas Cholmondeley Sentenced to Eight Months' Jail Over Kenyan Poacher's Manslaughter
Burma's Suu Kyi to Face Trial for 'violating House Arrest'
Aung San Suu Kyi to Be Put on Trial
Cannes Film Festival: Glamour, the Great and the Good – and 3d Specs
Papers Prove Trafigura Ship Dumped Toxic Waste in Ivory Coast
Day of the Lentil Burghers: Ghent Goes Veggie to Lose Weight and Save Planet
In Bethlehem, Pope Benedict Xvi Makes Strongest Call Yet for a Palestinian Homeland
New Vehicles Let British Army Down in Afghanistan
Texas Museum Acquires Work Believed to Be Michelangelo's First Painting
Opposition Leader Accuses South African President Jacob Zuma of Sexism
Energy Conflicts Could Bring Military Clashes, Russian Security Strategy Warns
India Exit Poll Gives Congress Slim Lead
Pope Calls for 'sovereign Palestinian Homeland'
'You're Not Safe in Moscow', Gay Eurovision Fans Told Ahead of March
'Hallucination' Fish Netted in English Channel
Banned Jihadi Group is Running Aid Programme for Swat Refugees
Tiananmen Square Leader Arrested, Family Says
Pope Calls for 'sovereign Palestinian Homeland' in Speech in Bethlehem
Pope Visits Bethlehem After Nazi Row
US Soldier Charged Over Killing of Five Comrades at Baghdad Base
British Soldier Dies in Hospital After Being Shot in Afghanistan
Police Chief Rejects G20 Protest 'trial By Press'
Justice System a 'sexist Operation', Study Finds
Dozen Wavering Democrats Hold Key to Fate of Crucial Climate Change Bill
Commando Attack on Taliban Stronghold Leaves 800,000 Homeless
John Lennon Exhibit Opens in New York
'Nazi Guard' John Demjanjuk Arrives in Germany to Face War Crimes Charges
Judge 'minded' to Make Journalist Reveal Real Ira Material
Baggage Container Sucked Into Boeing 747 Engine at La Airport
Cargo Firms Delivering Aid Also Involved in Arms Trafficking, Says Report
'Nazi Guard' Demjanjuk Deported to Germany
Chris Broad Relishes Prospect of Stuart Broad Taking on Australia
Roxana Saberi's Release May Shift Hurdle to Rapprochement With White House
Five Dead at Us Base in Baghdad After Soldier Opens Fire
A Year on From the Chinese Earthquake, Love Flourishes Amid Ruins of Sichuan
US Soldier in Custody After Allegedly Killing Five Fellow Troops
Austrian Guesthouse Sparks Antisemitism Row
UK Stakes Claim to Huge Area of South Atlantic Seabed
Chavez Launches $15 Mobile Phone With a Name to Make His Mother Blush
Ground Zero Wrangles Could Scupper New Skyscraper Plans
Japan's Main Opposition Leader Ichiro Ozawa Resigns Over Funding Scandal
US Soldier Shoots and Kills Five Fellow Troops at Baghdad Base
Man Seeks to Unravel the Mystery of His Mother's Murder in 1926
Somali Pirates Can Locate Ships Without Need for London Mole
Britain May Be Over Worst of Recession, Oecd Predicts
Japan Under Pressure to Clamp Down on Child Pornography
Somali Pirates Guided By London Intelligence Team, Report Says
Iran Ready to Free Jailed Us Journalist
Muslim Nations 'would Recognise Israel' in Peace Deal
Pope Arrives in Israel
Pakistan Claims 700 Taliban Killed in Swat
Gas Deal Between Turkey and European Union Breaks Russian Stranglehold
Car Wars: How Alan Mulally Kept Ford Ahead of Its Rivals
Starwatch
Shontelle: 'the Army Brought Out My Tough Side - But I Wanted to Be Fabulous'
All the President's Emails: Sesame Street Production Office, David Axelrod, Joe Biden
Beijing's Capital Ideas
Pakistani Civilians Flee Swat Valley As Major Ground Offensive Draws Closer
Lottery Officials Continue Search for Owner of £110m Ticket
Heard the One About the President Who Cracks Jokes About Race and 9/11?
South African Health Minister Sacked As Jacob Zuma Names First Cabinet
Tsvangirai Insists Mugabe is 'part of Zimbabwe's Solution'
Adelaide Zoo Evacuated After 'ingenious' Orang-utan Escapes
Khartoum Blocks Darfur Peace Project
Joanna Lumley: Never Mess With an Old Avenger
Yes Jacqui, Let's Keep Out Those Dangerous Homeopaths
The Other Side of the Universe
British Victim of Mumbai Terror Tells of Official Neglect Back in Uk
Gurkha Among Four British Soldiers Killed
Two Years on – Bruni, Bling and Barricades
India Begins Reckoning With Accused Killer
Terror Victim in Mumbai, Now Abandoned in Britain
Binge Drinking 'increases Risk' of Dementia
G20 Police 'used Undercover Men to Incite Crowds'
She's Israeli, He's an Arab. War Has Made Them Like Mother and Son
Revealed: Cruel Fate of Miners Who Found Perfect Blue Diamond
Inside the Taliban's Besieged Swat Fortress As Battle Rages
Troops Seize Oil Firms' Property After Cashflow Worries Threaten to Derail Chávez Revolution
Pakistan Faces Full Scale War Against the Taliban
Army Names Four British Soldiers Killed in Afghanistan
Heads of Comedy
Shock Jocks: Voice of America or Voice of Hate?
From the Archive: Republicans and Sinners
30,000 Evacute As Wildfire Threatens California Town
Former Us Soldier Convicted of Iraqi Girl's Murder Could Get Death Sentence
Swat Residents Flee As Army Declares Full-scale Offensive Against Taliban
Calls for Racially Segregated Public Transport in Milan Sparks Row
Jon Stewart to Jacqui Smith: What's With the List?
Three British Men Jailed in Ireland Over €400m Cocaine Seizure
Alcohol Vote Tests Thirst for Change in Lubbock, Texas
Four British Soldiers Killed in Afghanistan Attacks
500,000 Fleeing Pakistan Fighting, Un Reports
Ireland's Robert Peston Abandons Journalism to Fight Key Byelection for Opposition
Pakistan Air Strikes Target Swat Taliban
Stress Tests: 10 Us Banks Told to Raise Capital Cushion By Further $65bn
Schwarzenegger Declares State of Emergency in California Over Fires
Pope in the Middle East: Three Cars, 80,000 Guards
Kenyan Aristocrat Found Guilty of Killing Poacher
The Day Joanna Lumley Shamed the Minister
Pakistan Slams Door on Taliban
DNA Pioneer Condemns Plan to Keep Details on Database for 12 Years
Is This Nefertiti – or a 100-year-old Fake?
UK and Laos Make Deal Over Pregnant Woman Accused of Drug Trafficking
New York Cow Granted Clemency Following Slaughterhouse Escape
Court Clears Ba Passenger Over Screams Complaint
African Leaders to Be Investigated Over French Personal Fortunes
'The Kennedys of Kenya' and the Shooting That Reignited Land Ownership Tensions
Old Etonian Guilty of Manslaughter of Black Man on Kenyan Estate
California Residents Flee Mansions After Wildfires
UN Warns of Crisis As Thousands Flee Fighting in Swat Valley
Muslims in Britain Have Zero Tolerance of Homosexuality, Says Poll
Court Overturns Inquest Ruling on Balcony Fall Death of Liam Hogan
Burmese Police Enter Aung San Suu Kyi Compound
Kenya Awaits Verdict in Murder Trial of Old Etonian
Volkswagen and Porsche to Merge
Stress Tests on Us Banks Don't Worry the Market
Ministers Keep Innocent on Dna Database
The Trouble With Tamiflu
How Face Transplant Taboo Was Lifted
Life in Nu'man Land
Pakistan Launches Assault on Taliban in Swat Valley
Washington Negotiator Calls on Israel to Sign Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty
Airline Wants to Resume Flights From Uk to Baghdad
China Ready for Post-kyoto Deal on Climate Change
US Face Transplant Recipient Makes Public Appearance
Russia Expels Nato Envoys As Rift Over War Game Worsens
MEPs Deny Jean-marie Le Pen Parliamentary Honour
US Pro-israeli Group Attempts to Stop Shift in White House Middle East Policy
What Ever Happened to Dignity: The Itching of America
Russia Expels Two Diplomats As Nato Begins Military Exercises in Georgia
US Teacher Broke Law By Describing Creationism As 'superstitious Nonsense'
Up to 100 Civilians Feared Killed in Us Air Raids in Afghanistan
Report: Bush Lawyers Unlikely to Face Charges for Approving Harsh Techniques
No Così Relationship: Visa Row Scuppers Eno's Bid to Secure Abbas Kiarostami
Report: Bush Lawyers Won't Face Charges for Approving Harsh Techniques
People Trafficking: a Phone Call, a Car Door Opens - and Another Child Vanishes
Death Penalty Reprieve for Pregnant Briton Held in Laos
Pentagon Vows Us-afghan Investigation of Civilian Deaths From Bombing
UN Chief Rejects Further Inquiry in Gaza
Heir to Gandhi Dynasty Claims Power Now Rests With the Poor
Pakistan Braces for Flood of Refugees After Fresh Taliban Violence
UN Report Accuses Israeli Military of Negligence in Gaza War
MEPs Back Ban on Seal Products Trade
Afghanistan: Kabul Shoppers Offered Us Goods in the Bush Bazaar
Pakistan Urges Evacuation of Taliban-controlled Town
Israel Dismisses Un Accusation of 'grave Offences' in Gaza War
German Woman Loses Triple-barrelled Surname Battle
Zimbabwe Court Revokes Bail on Terror Charges Activist
Concern Grows for Pregnant Briton Facing Possible Death Penalty in Laos
British Polar Yacht Crew Rescued After Storm Ordeal
Letter From Africa: Paradise on the Zambezi
Dozens Killed in 'blood Feud' Gun Attack on Turkish Wedding
Pakistan Urges Evacuation of Taliban-controlled Swat Valley Town
Army Base Revolt in Georgia Denounced As 'attempted Coup'
Pakistani Taliban Seize Control of Key Swat Valley Town
Dozens Killed As Gunmen Open Fire at Wedding Reception in Turkey
A Most Radical Writer
Madonna Appeals Over Adoption
Art Historians Claim Van Gogh's Ear 'cut Off By Gauguin'
5,000 Uk Jobs at Risk As Carmaker Fiat Closes in on Gm Europe
Briton Held in Laos on Drug Charge Has No Access to Lawyer
As the Ftse 100 Begins to Stir, Economic Optimism Grows
Palestinian Patients 'interrogated Before Leaving Gaza for Treatment'
President Hamid Karzai Selects Former Warlord As Afghan Election Running Mate
Silvio Berlusconi's Wife Announces Divorce Plans
Silvio Berlusconi Divorce - When World Leaders Go Astray
Lenders Push for Profits From Insolvency
Islamic Games Suspended Over Gulf Row
Maoists Lose Majority After Nepal Army Chief Sacked
Afghanistan Un Chief Urges Taliban to Contest Presidential Poll
Pregnant Briton Samantha Orobator to Face Drug Smuggling Trial on Monday
Slash Fees to Save Education, Zimbabwe Minister Tells Schools
Legal Battle Over Anti-abortion Number Plates
Britain to Help China on Carbon Capture
Europe's Missing Children
Six Dead in Austrian Avalanche
Police to Destroy Dna Profiles of 800,000 Innocent People
Burma Worst for Blogger Bans
Torture-tape Gulf Prince Accused of 25 Other Attacks
Pakistan Opposition Chief Nawaz Sharif Wooed By Us
Fears of Rat Plague in Uk Grow
Labour 'has Abandoned the Northern Left', Says Councillor
Atheists Fight to Keep God Out of Irish Law
Heathrow Cutbacks 'increase Risk of Diseases Entering Uk'
Paddy Ashdown Upbeat on Bosnia's Future - But Wants Help From Us
Bosnia Lurches Into a New Crisis
The Mccann Case: Madeleine Was Taken By Somebody Who Lived Nearby, Says Detective
Euthanasia Advocate Philip Nitschke Allowed to Enter Uk
Outcry As Iran Executes Artist Over Juvenile Conviction
Ancient Law of Millstones vs. New House Bill H.R. 1913
'The Future is Going to Be Very Exciting'
Hunger Strike Goes On, Says Journalist's Father
Miliband's Lawyers Try to Block Cia Report on Torture Claims
Ripping Canapés From Wealthy Mouths
Come the Pandemic, the Drugs Do Work
US Government to Drop Espionage Charges Against Aipac Officials
Afghans Beat English Side As Village Cricket Comes to Kabul
May Day Protesters Clash With Police in Turkey, Greece and Germany
French Unions Plan Record May Day Marches
Dame Heather Begg
Swine Flu Pandemic Likely to Hit Uk in Early Autumn Before Vaccine is Ready
Six Killed As Palestinian Police Clash With Hamas in West Bank
'I'm Only 16. They Gave Me a Rifle. It Was Heavy. They Said We Had to Go Forward. If We Came Back, They Would Shoot Us'
Cartoonists Prepare to Strip Obama for Action
North Korea's Nuclear Test Puts China in a Tight Spot
George W. Bush Reminisces About Days as President
Recession May be Coming to a Close, But Rough Waters Ahead
Conan O'brien Lands His Dream Job As New Host of The Tonight Show
Relations With Us Plunge As Israel Snubs Barack Obama Over Settlements
UN Praise for Sri Lanka Criticised
Swine Flu Shuts Eton As Uk Cases Pass 200
North Korea Antagonizing World Powers, Threatens U.S. Ships
UN Rejects Calls for Sri Lanka War Crimes Inquiry
North Korea Withdraws From 1953 Armistice and Escalates Nuclear Tensions
Bondholders Reject General Motors, Bankruptcy Likely
California Court Upholds State Ban on Gay Marriage
North Korea Restarts Nuclear Reactor and Threatens to Attack South
Frank Costigan
Sri Lankans Divided By War: Tamils Trapped in Internment Camps Tell of Desperate Hunt for Loved Ones
China Puts Its Faith in Solar Power With Huge Renewable Energy Investment
Digital Sky Technologies Takes $200m Stake in Facebook
Swine Flu Outbreak at Birmingham School Infects 44
Dubai Suffers Biggest House Price Slump
North Korea Ignores World Powers, Conducts Nuclear Weapons Test
Coast Guard Searching Gulf of Mexico for Teen Who Fell from Cruise Ship
North Korea Fires Two More Missiles After Nuclear Test
North Korea Tests Nuclear Weapon 'as Powerful As Hiroshima Bomb'
North Korea Conducts Nuclear Test
Aubrey Mayhew
Sri Lanka: Child Victims of the Battle to End a Bloody Civil War
Dick Cheney: Washington Trembles at the Return of 'darth Vader'
UN Chief Flies Into Sri Lanka As Tamils' Tales of Terror Emerge
Even in Victory, Secrecy and Evasion Prevail
UK Children to Name Maldives Coral Reef
How Obama Set the Tone for a Quiet Revolution in Gay Rights
Oleg Yankovsky
Why Infertility Treatment is Booming in Ukraine
Obama Promises Naval Academy Grads They Will Only Fight if Absolutely Necessary
Terror Plot Launched in NYC by Bumbling Americans
'Clash of the Titans' Pits Obama Against Cheney on Guantánamo Closure
American Airlines Pilot Fails Breathalyzer Before Take-off
Biden, Obama and the Media Have Fun with Joe’s "Top Secret" Slip
Obama and Cheney Clash Over Guantánamo Torture
Gurkha Campaigner Joanna Lumley 'optimistic' About Uk Settlement U-turn
Obama Urged to Confront China Over Yuan Valuation
Obama Allows Transfer of Technology to Make Uae First Arab Nuclear State
Gurkhas to Get Right to Settle in the Uk
Obama Picks Financial Backer for Uk Ambassador Post
Profile: Louis Susman, Obama's Pick for Ambassador to the Uk
Doctor in Australia Performs Emergency Surgery with Household Drill
Bill Clinton Welcomed as First-Ever U.N. Envoy to Haiti
Spacewatch
Death in Mexico
Obama Sets Strict Limits on Car Exhaust Emissions
The Fight for Survival Goes on in Sri Lanka Amid Reports of 15,000 Killed
Obama Sets New Fuel and Emissions Standards
Sri Lankans Celebrate End of Conflict
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Sri Lanka Declares End to War With Tamil Tigers
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Tamil Tigers' Last Retreat Cut Off As Sri Lankan Army Takes Coastline
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Obama to Continue Military Tribunals at Guantánamo
Government Secures 90m Doses of Swine Flu Vaccine
Pelosi Backpedals Furiously, Claims CIA Misled Her
Four Young U.S. Citizens Found Murdered in Tijuana
Sri Lankan Army 'encircling' Last Refuge of Tamil Rebels
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King of Jordan Calls for Israel to Accept a Palestinian State
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Pakistan’s Army Sends Thousands of Taliban Militants Fleeing
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Pentagon Removes Top U.S. Military Commander in Afghanistan
Even the Pope Has Begun Calling for a Palestinian State
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Pope Benedict Xvi Visits Holiest Sites of Judaism and Islam
Dozens Dead As Sri Lankan Hospital Hit By Shelling
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Pope Benedict's Holocaust Speech to Israel Deemed Inadequate
Obama Replaces Top General in Afghanistan
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China Confirms First Swine Flu Case
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Tough Powers Urged to Curb Global Warming
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Electric Fences to Stop Invasion of Kenya Nature Parks
Obama to Deliver Speech to the Muslim World in Cairo
Obama to Scrap Funding for Abstinence-only Programmes
British Scientists Crack Swine Flu Code As World Tally Rises to 2,384
Chaos in Pakistan as Hundreds of Thousands Flee Fighting
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WHO: Swine Flu Could Infect 2 Billion Worldwide
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Hillary Clinton Apologizes to for Afghan Bombing that Killed Civilians
Britain Publishes Blacklist of Those Not Welcome in UK
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Barack Obama's $1.8bn Vision of Greener Biofuel
Pope Benedict Must Be a 'penitent Pilgrim' on Jerusalem Visit
Obama Plans to Give Millions to Fight Terror Threat in Pakistan
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Mexico Slowly Emerging from Flu Scare to Celebrate Cinco de Mayo
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Mexican Citizens Flown Back From China Amid Swine Flu Scare
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Another School Shuts As Uk Swine Flu Toll Rises
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Swine Flu: Egyptian Police Clash With Protesters Over Pig Slaughter
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Sri Lanka Admits Bombing Safe Haven
Judge David Souter's Retirement Gives Barack Obama Early Chance to Make Appointment to Supreme Court
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Mexico Goes Into Economic Lockdown to Break Swine Flu Cycle
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