National & World News Archive July 2005



Suburban Jungles' Call of the Wild Sets New Cultural Trend for French Youth

Son's Antics Vex Yushchenko

Fearful Europe Steps Up Security

Young, Patriotic and Bullied to Death

Long wait for relatives as hopes fade for missing Britons

Migration leaves man drought

US Unions to Break Away From National Movement

Short Walk and the No2 Bus - a Very Ordinary Journey to Death

Inter Milan Reverse Decision to Call Off Tour

Brothers' Feud Ends in Death

Food Aid Starts to Reach Niger

Caustic Soda Served in Place of Liqueur

Britons Among Worldwide Victims of £70m a Year Spanish Fraud

Double Blow for Settlers in Gaza Protest

Up to 150,000 Face Starvation in Niger

Tourist Fears After Bus Bombing

Three Days of Suicide Bombs Leave 150 Dead

EC Proposes Tougher Curbs on Suv Emissions

Former WorldCom Boss Ebbers Sentenced to 25 Years

French a Failure, Says Tokyo Chief

Push to Enlarge Security Council Looks Doomed

French ready for a new revolution

Guantánamo Abuse 'allowable'

Pressure Mounts As 30,000 Call on Arroyo to Resign

Albert takes the Monaco crown

Vatican urges jail for kerb crawlers

Muslims regain Srebrenica - for one day

US Bans Military Staff From Travelling to London

Straw: World's Shame Over Srebrenica Massacre

Interim Leader Wins Kyrgyz Poll

Luxembourg Says Yes to European Constitution

Serbs Turn Their Backs on Their Past

Monaco Tantalised By Prince's Love Child

Filipinos Recoil From Mass Protest

Parents Torn Off a Strip Over Dancer

G8: Hope for Africa But Gloom Over Climate

G8 Leaders Agree $50bn Africa Package

Resolute but wary, commuters return to London

Plastic explosives seen as most likely material

Capitals put on high alert

Romans Find Gold on Top of St Peter's

Thousands March on Gleneagles

G8 Protesters to March on Gleneagles

Woman Gives Birth to Triplet 13 Years After Siblings Born

Schröder Woos Middle Class

Pranksters Hijack 'banal' Tv News

Extremists Win If Eu Reform Fails, Says Pm

Schröder Takes Chance on Early Poll

Schröder Loses No Confidence Vote

Droughts, Twisters, Floods: What on Earth Has Happened to Our Weather?

Two Britons Die in Iraq As Bomb Blasts Convoy

The World Has Turned Away - But Darfur's Misery Goes on

Grief, Anger and Questions at Funeral of Brazilian Wrongly Shot By Police

Ugandans Vote for Multi-party State

Godfather of Japanese Underworld Steps Aside

Briton on Terror Charge

Pakistan to Expel Foreign Students in Crackdown

Australia Deports Paedophile to Uk

'Apartheid' at Italian Hospital

Australian Smokers Will Be Extinct By 2030, Researchers Say

Fourth Suspect Arrested in Rome

Saddam Questioned Over Gulf War Uprising

Vatican in Terror Dispute With Israel

Foreign Students Ordered Out of Pakistan Madrassas

The Euro Has Screwed Everybody - Berlusconi

India Flood Death Toll Rises to 500

World Bank Rebuked Over Water Deal

Poland Gets Tough With Europe's Last Dictator

Israelis Quit Gaza for Mobile Village

Village Courts Left to Unearth the True Story of Rwanda's Killing Fields

Chinese Villagers Seize Party Chief

Mubarak to Seek Further Term As Egyptian President

Six-country Pact on Clean Energy 'not Meant to Undermine Kyoto'

Vital Marine Species Under Threat

Give Up, Wife Urges Karadzic

Gang Kills Owner of Safari Lodge

Father Despairs at 'parading of Diaries'

Cyprus Issue Stalls Eu Talks

Minister Criticises Sluggish Response to Crisis in Niger

Grandparents to Get Their Own Day in Italy

Demolitions Go on As Mugabe Defies Un

Egyptian Police Narrow Focus of Search for Hotel Attackers to Local Militants

Tehran Accuses Us of Nuclear Double Standard

Record Rainfall Brings Chaos in India

America Hints at Early Start to Iraq Withdrawal

65 Convicted in French Child Abuse Trial

US in Plan to Bypass Kyoto Protocol

100 killed as monsoon hits India

Mugabe finds succour in Beijing deals

Britain may be left to hold the fort in Afghanistan

Honda workers riot in New Delhi

Mine clearance teams move in after first world war grenades found in French park

New York apologises after Britons seized in security scare

Way paved for empress of Japan

Good start to North Korea talks

Lebanese warlord released

Iraqi Pm Urges Speedy Withdrawal of Us Troops

Unrepentant Killer of Dutch Film-maker Jailed for Life

Musharraf 's Terrorist Claims Are Dismissed

Brazilians Protest Over London Killing

Dutch Film-maker's Killer Gets Life

11 Britons Feared Dead in Red Sea Resort

Nepal's Children Suffer in Civil War

Hopes Grow for North Korea Talks

Suicide Blights China's Young Adults

Iraqi Police Recruits Not Up to Scratch, Says Us Report

Hanoi Jane Takes on Iraq War With Us Bus Tour

Arroyo Calls for Constitutional Reform

One Briton Dead and 10 Missing in Egypt

Red Cross Joins Aid Effort in Niger

Terror Attacks: Holidays to Go Ahead After Foreign Office Advice

Mbeki Hints at Cash for Crisis-torn Zimbabwe

Freedom at Heart of New Iraq, Says Talabani

Police Step Up Hunt for Terror Network

Powerful Earthquake Strikes Nicobar Islands

Baghdad Truck Bomb Kills 40

How the world clamped down on the threat of more violence

Baghdad Truck Bomb Kills 22

Egypt Holds 70 After Red Sea Bombings

Iran Militant is Now Hero of Us Right

Britons Lost in Egypt Horror

Bombers Kill 88 at Egyptian Resort

Car Bombs Kill 36, Injure 120 at Egyptian Resort

Kenyan Mps Back President

36 Die in Riots After Yemen Fuel Price Hikes

Spy Loses Appeal in Us

Tower Bridge 9/11 Plotter Jailed

France May Order Language Tests for Migrants

UN Report Damns Mugabe Slum Clearance Catastrophic

UN Condemns Zimbabwe Demolitions

£70m-a-year Scam Smashed in Spain

Portuguese Villages Evacuated After Forest Fires

Cost of Bribes Soars As Russia's Millionaire Bureaucrats Rake in Profits

Chinese Relent and Revalue the Yuan

Sudan Apologises After Scuffles Mar Rice Visit

250 Arrested As Three-day Gaza Settler Protest Ends

Iranian Reformists Fear Era of Repression

Iraqi Forces Nowhere Near Being Able to Fight Insurgency on Their Own, Senate Told

Indonesia to Cull Chickens in Fight Against Bird Flu

Grenade Attack Suspect Arrested

Pakistan Questions Briton on 'key Role' in Bombings

No Nocturnal Honking Please, Indians Told

Pakistan Denies Arrest of British Bombing Suspect

Myth of the "Stretched Thin" Military

America to Aid India's Nuclear Power Project

Review of Executed Man's Conviction Boosts Anti-death Penalty Lobby

25,000 Iraqi Civilians Killed Since Invasion

Bush to Aid India's Nuclear Power Project

Israeli Police Halt 40,000 Marchers

Pakistan Arrests Militants in Bombs Hunt

Putin Vows to Bolster Border

Ukraine Sacks All Traffic Police

25,000 Civilians Killed Since Iraq Invasion, Says Report

North Korea to Resume Nuclear Talks

Europeans Reject Turkey, Poll Shows

Pakistan Militants Linked to London Attacks

Mugabe Asks South Africa to Bail Him Out

Israeli Protesters Defy Police Ban on March

UK Court Convicts Afghan Warlord

Millwall v Iran Match Likely to Be Called Off Amid Fears of Racist Attacks

Mentally-ill Man Fears Ira Attack

Amnesty in Call for Civil War Justice

Australia Recruits British Squaddies While Army Remains Short-staffed

Germany Blocks Extradition of Al-qaida Suspect

Suicide Bombing Ruled Out in Turkish Bus Blast

Israel Masses Troops Along Gaza Border

Bush Tried to Aid Iraqi Parties

Saddam Trial Date to Be Set 'in Days'

Poaching Leads to More Tuskless Elephants

Indonesia and Aceh Rebels Agree Peace

Israel Poised to Unleash Gaza Offensive

Jailing of Irish Villagers Sparks Anger As Farmers Defy Shell in Battle of the Bog

Ambassador Denies Pakistan Linked to Bombs

Egyptian Officials Urge Caution Over Arrested Biochemist

Top White House Advisers Named As Cia Leak Sources

Parents Try to Reverse Tsunami Legacy

Sarkozy Puts the Boot in As Chirac Falters

Activist 'cut Down By the Evil He Defied'

Abbas in Tv Peace Plea As Violence Puts Israel's Gaza Withdrawal at Risk

British Tourists Hit in Suicide Blast

Huge Tanker Bomb Kills 60 Iraqi Shias

Gaza Missiles and Airstrikes Shatter Ceasefire

US Appeals Court Opens Way for Trial By Military Tribunal of Guantã¡namo Inmate

LAPD Under Fire After Girl Killed in Shootout

European Countries Seek to Dilute G8 Debt Relief Deal

Madrasas Mix Football With Support for Jihad

Chinese General Warns of Nuclear Risk to Us

Rove 'discussed Outed Cia Agent With Journalists'

Five suicide car bombings kill civilians and troops

Chemistry student held in Cairo

Chirac silent on third term

More Deaths Threaten Uneasy Truce in Israel

US Muslim to Appeal Life Sentence for Inciting Jihad

Civilians Bear Brunt of Iraqi Insurgency

Beleaguered Jackson Faces Fresh Court Battles - and Comparisons to Willy Wonka

UN Arms Trade Deal Toothless, Say Critics

Sharon Orders Reprisals for Bombing

Triple Train Crash Kills 128 in Remote Town in Southern Pakistan

Dutch Hold Bomb Suspect, 17

Children Are Main Victims of Iraq Blast

Australia to Send Troops to Afghanistan

Protesters Put Pressure on Arroyo

Ten Iraqis Suffocate in Police Lorry

Sack Rove Over Spy Leak, Say Democrats

Suicide Bomber Shatters Ceasefire in Israel

Settlers rally at Sa Nur in last stand against Sharon's disengagement plan

Navy Seal's body found after failed Afghan mission

Florida breathes sigh of relief as it avoids the worst of Dennis

Row over integration rocks Indian province

Forget the games - think fertility, French are told

Italian librarian cycled home with bomb under saddle

19 die in Siberian shop blaze

Merkel Unveils Tax-raising Manifesto

Mandela in Hiv Plea to Youth

Man on Trial for Dutch Film-maker's Murder

Terror Suspects Escape Us Afghan Base

Reid Plays Down Iraq Troop Withdrawal Report

Fear of Prosecution Prompts Us Paper to Pull Stories

Putin Critic Investigated

Hurricane Dennis Pounds Florida

North Korea to Rejoin Nuclear Talks

Hamas Promises Not to Disrupt Pullout

Bishops Allow Arroyo Reprieve

UK Plans to Slash Iraq Force Over the Next Year

At Least 20 Injured in Turkey Explosion

200 Feared Drowned in Indonesia

'Britain Sent Me Back to Mugabe. Now I'm in Hiding'

US Braced for Storms As Hurricane Lashes Cuba

Man Cuts Feet Off 'promiscuous' Wife

Fox News Slammed Over 'callous' Line

US Jobless Total Lowest for 4 Years

Moral Ties Attached to Us Aids Cash

Schröder Adviser Resigns From Vw in Sex Scandal

For Once, Families in Baghdad Phone to Check on Loved Ones in Britain

Italy Sets Date to Pull Troops Out of Iraq

Leaders Deplore 'barbaric' Act

More than 50 killed in blasts

22 bomb attack victims on critical list

Following their lead

Muslim leaders fear backlash

Madrid remembers its own dark day

City puts emergency plans into action

Egyptian envoy to Iraq killed, says al-Qaida

G8 Set to Agree on Climate Change and Aid Deal

G8 Defies Bombers As Summit Continues

Blair: No Going Back to Kyoto

Iran's Nuclear Talks in Doubt

Seven Arrested in Pakistan for 'honour Crime' Rape

Violent Protests Across India After Attack on Holy Site

Al-Qaida Threatens to Kill Captured Egyptian Diplomat

Few Rules, No Referee and the Wildest Polo Anywhere As Pakistan Towns Battle It Out

New York Times Journalist Jailed

Building Blight on Spanish Coastline

Militants Target Barbers of Baghdad

Darfur Rebels Sign Peace Agreement

G8 Protest Banned After Violence Flares

UK Seeks to Free Troops for Afghanistan

Iraq Insurgency Forces Pentagon Rethink on Ability to Fight Two Wars at Once

Missing Girl Suspects Released

Israel to Deploy Huge Force During Gaza Evacuation

Call for Us Date to Leave Central Asia

Gunmen Storm Disputed Religious Site in India

Court Hears How Teenage Introvert Created Devastating Computer Virus in His Bedroom

Protest Fails to Halt End of Berlin Tribute

Mexico's Forgotten Race Steps Into Spotlight

Franco-German Axis Obsolete, Says Sarkozy

Chirac's Reheated Food Jokes Bring Blair to the Boil

Salmonella Warning Over Spanish Lettuce

US Bombing Kills Afghan Villagers As Search Continues for Soldiers

Missing Girl Found With Sex Offender

Bush Goes With Flow of Rightwing Tide

US Close to Climate Change Concessions

No Favours on Climate Change, Says Bush

Bjorn Blows It at European Opent Festival

Greeks Fight to Stop Ultra-right Festival

US Soldier Rescued After Big Losses in Afghanistan

US Accused of Excessive Secrecy

Israeli Ministers Don Body Armour As Unrest Grows

Conservatives Seek Appointment of One of Their Own to Supreme Court

Kurd Murder Claim Against Iran Leader

Key Bush Aide Named in Row Over Cia Leak

One Woman's Death Brings Iraq War Home to Small-town America

Bush Says: I Put Us Interests First

West Bank Settlers Left Under Siege

Ukraine's Iron Lady Provokes Rift

UK Aid Funds Iraqi Torture Units

Microsoft Pays Out $775m to Settle Ibm Claim

Corrupt Practices Cost Indian Citizens £2.7bn, Says Watchdog

Abuse Trial Ends in France

A Humble Beginning Helped to Form Iran's New Hard Man

CIA Methods Exposed By Kidnap Inquiry

Retirement Sparks Us Judiciary Fight

Mixed Reviews for Bush Offer to Double African Aid

Pirates Hijack Tsunami Aid Ship

Israeli Forces Oust 150 Gaza Rebels From Hotel