National & World News Archive July 2009



Ex-Philippines President Corazon Aquino Dies

Gary Mckinnon: Pentagon Hacker's Worst Nightmare Comes True

Post-racial America? Dream on

Skype Under Threat From Ebay Licence Row

Trials Over Riots That Left 197 Dead in Urumqi to Begin Soon

Gary Mckinnon Should Be Extradited, Court Rules

Cuba Suspends Communist Party Congress

Abuse of Drug Used By Michael Jackson Growing Among Medical Professionals

New Evidence in Binyam Mohamed 'torture' Case

Rape of 8-year-old Girl Tears Arizona's Liberian Immigrant Community Apart

Japanese Tourist Turns Down Free Holiday Offered By Italy As Apology

Nigeria Islamist Group Leader Killed in Police Custody

Aung San Suu Kyi Trial Verdict Delayed

Judge Orders Gitmo Detainee’s Release After 6 ½ Year Imprisonment

Barack Obama Meets Professor and the Policeman - Over a Beer

Intelligence Officer Claims Iraqi Officials May Have Colluded in Kidnap of Britons

Pope Benedict to Release an Album in Time for Christmas

Opposition Anger Over 2011 Date for Iraq War Report

Nigerian Army Storms Islamist Sect's Base

Travel Chaos After Mallorca Car Bomb Kills Two Police Officers

Supporters of Vestas Workers Break Into Factory to Deliver Food

British Army Surgeons Call in Us Help As Casualties Rise

Shadowy Gang Trading Captives for Acceptance in Iraq

US Should Declare Victory and Leave Iraq, Says Top Military Officer

No Room for Union Flag As Alan Johnson Unveils the British Identity Card

Iraqi Government Officials May Have Colluded in British Hostages' Kidnap

Stasi File Details Plans for Riot During 1988 Michael Jackson Concert

Herzog's Bad Lieutenant Joins Venice Film Festival Contenders

Baby Girl Cut From Mother's Womb Found Alive By Us Authorities

Bomb in Mallorca Kills Two Police Officers

Burmese Pro-democracy Leader Awaits Trial Verdict

Soldier Delivers Afghan War Protest to Gordon Brown

Moldova Votes Out Europe's Last Ruling Communists

Obama Concealment of Birth Certificate: Tainting His Presidency?

Motorbike School Stunt Banned in Tamil Nadu

Profile: Sir John Chilcot

The Scourge of Forgetfulness – The Dangers of Remembering

Mind the Gap: Uk Gender Pay Divide Widens

Gandhi's Former Home Up for Sale at £215,000

Arizona Considers Selling State Capitol Building to Solve Budget Deficit

China Blames Incompetent Bosses for Industrial Riots

New York City Funds Relocation for Homeless People

David Cameron Urged to Sever Links With Polish Mep

Jeans Mogul Marciano Must Pay $370m Damages to Five Ex-employees

Senate Judiciary Committee OKs Sotomayor for Supreme Court

Ireland Accepts Two Guantánamo Inmates

China to Restrict Death Penalty and Cut Executions

Chávez Freezes Ties With Colombia

Two More British Hostages in Iraq 'very Likely' Dead

Is This the End for Italy's Most Spectacular Horse Race?

Diego Garcia Rendition Victim Challenges Uk in Court

China's Army Launches Cupcakes Offensive at Media Display

Jackson Depended on Propofol Drip for Sleep, Official Says

US Sets Up Task Force to Stem Flow of Foreign Funds to Taliban

Profile: Anil Agarwal

Wootton Bassett Pauses Again to Honour Four More Fallen Soldiers

Militant Jewish Settlers Set Up 11 Outposts in the Occupied West Bank

Laos to Transfer Pregnant British Drug Smuggler to Uk Prison

Cambodian Government Accused of Creating 'aids Colony'

US Men Charged With Planning Overseas Terror Attacks

Mediation Urged to Stop Repeat of G20 Violence

The Us Peace Team Obama Sent to Israel

Britain and Us Prepared to Open Talks With the Taliban

Reconciliation: Splitting a Divided Enemy in Afghanistan

David Miliband: Give the Taliban Fighters Alternatives

Zimbabwe Minister Receives Bullet Threat in Post

Two British Soldiers Killed in Afghanistan

Nigerian 'taliban' Offensive Leaves 150 Dead

Obama Administration Officials in Israel to Demand End to Settlement Building

US Steps Up Efforts to Calm Israel's Fears Over Iran's Nuclear Aspirations

America it is very late; do you know where your Congressman is?

Barack Obama's Drive for Peace in the Middle East is a Complex Enterprise

Chinese and Taiwan Presidents Exchange First Messages in 60 Years

Fizzy Milk: Coca-cola's Previous Risks

Lessons That Can Be Learned From Talking to the Ira

MPs Attack Rail Firms for Raising Fares in Recession

Iran: Opposition Wants to Hold Memorial

When Health Becomes a State Secret

Obama Faces Long Hot Summer of Damaging Delay

Chinese State Steel Workers Beat Private Firm Boss to Death

Migrants to Get Bonus If They Live in Scotland

Palin Quits As Alaska Governor, But Stays Quiet on Plans for National Comeback

White House Steps Up Diplomatic Push to Revive Middle East Peace Process

Octomom Signs Up for Reality Tv Show

Nicolas Sarkozy Falls Ill During Exercise

Ousted Honduran Leader Vows to Stand Firm in Border Stand-off

Seven Bombers Killed As Taliban Switch Tactics With Attack in East

Rebellion in Provence at Paris Plan for National Park

Zuma Plea As Protests Sweep the Townships

Dying Boy Forced Out of Belfast Home By Racists

What's Cameron Doing With Europe's Lunatic Fringe?

Poisoned Legacy Left By the King of Thrillers

Secrets of Cia 'ghost Flights' to Be Revealed

Minister: Flu Panic is Danger to Nhs

Channel Flight Marks Blériot's Centenary

Sick Lockerbie Bomber Pleads for Release

Christian Nurses Speak Against Assisted Suicide

Lack of Helicopters 'puts Injured Troops at Risk'

Now It's the Husband's Turn to Tell All in Battle of the Ex-files

Wealthy Elderly Turn Backs on Seaside Havens

Revealed: the Secret Evidence of Global Warming Bush Tried to Hide

Row Over Tory Link to Polish Right Grows

Andrew Roberts: The History Man Who Loves to Party

Whistleblower Tells of America's Hidden Nightmare for Its Sick Poor

Deadlier Than the Male

Poisonous Gas From African Lake Poses Threat to Millions

Peach May Have Been Murdered, Says Ex-met Officer

Haredim Jews: Poor, Devout and Isolated

Obama Attempts to Defuse Growing Harvard Race Row

Free Taster Screenings for 3d Film By Titanic Director

Nappy Rush: Shanghai Ends One-child Rule

Police Unions Hit Back at Obama Over Comment on Professor's Arrest

Defence Chiefs Send Urgent Reinforcements to Afghanistan

New Jersey Scandal Highlights Cycle of Ongoing Corruption

Obama Moves to Grant Political Asylum to Women Who Suffer Domestic Abuse

Reformist Party in Strong Electoral Challenge to Iraq's Kurdish Elite

Angry Prez Gives Cambridge Cops the Old One, Two Three

Aung San Suu Kyi Trial to Resume Next Week

Honduras: Exiled President Manuel Zelaya Prepares to Return Home

Verdict From Former Chancellors: Painful Cuts Are Only Remedy

Women: Afghanistan Women Outraged at Proposed Family Planning Law

Expect More Afghanistan Casualties, Says Bob Ainsworth

Russia Says It Will Take 'concrete Steps' Over Any Us Attempt to Rearm Georgia

Home Office Reports Big Rise in Cocaine Use As Street Price Falls

Afghanistan Tv Debate Leaves Viewers Cold After Hamid Karzai Fails to Appear

East Africa Finally Joins Broadband Revolution

Goldman Sachs Pays Off Bailout Bill

Obama Wades Into Race Row Over Harvard Professor's Arrest

German Beer-hall Yodel Goes to Court in Munich

Bolivian Boy of 12 Becomes Youngest Professional Footballer

Who Shot Natalia Estemirova?

The Great Brazilian Moustache Revolution

Obama Shows He Doesn't Do the Casual Look

Meet Belcha – Europe's Biggest Carbon Polluter (and It's About to Get Even Bigger)

Success Brings Controversy for Afghan Network With Huge Audience

Hamid Karzai Pulls Out of Historic Tv Debate Just Hours Before Broadcast

Germany Accuses China of Industrial Espionage

Christian Right Aims to Change History Lessons in Texas Schools

Pakistani Supreme Court Summons Pervez Musharraf

Federal Agents Raid Clinic of Michael Jackson's Personal Doctor

France Mourns the Death of Topless Sunbathing

US Ready to Upgrade Defences of Gulf Allies If Iran Builds Nuclear Arms

Apple Factory Worker Kills Himself After Disappearance of Prototype

Soldier Killed in Afghanistan Was Experienced Bomb Disposal Expert

Earthquake Brings New Zealand Closer to Australia

Iran's Supreme Leader Tells Ahmadinejad to Sack Deputy

US Will Take 'crushing Action' If Iran Becomes Nuclear, Says Clinton

Lonesome George, the Last Galapagos Giant Tortoise, May Become a Dad

British Soldier Killed in Helmand As Row Over Support for Troops Continues

Asia Swathed in Darkness With the Longest Total Eclipse of the Century

Harvard Scholar Henry Louis Gates Outraged at Arrest for Entering Own Home

Che Guevara's Daughter Recalls Her Revolutionary Father

Huge Comet Punches an Earth-sized Hole in Jupiter – and an Amateur Discovers It

Gibraltar: Spanish Minister Drives History on to the Rock

Israel to Demolish 23 Illegal Settlements in One Day

Police Arrest Prominent Black History Scholar for Breaking Into Own Home

Amnesty Condemns Saudi Anti-terror Campaign

Burma Suspected of Forming Nuclear Link With North Korea

UN Short Nearly $5bn for Aid Projects As Global Recession Cuts Donations

Grandson of Ayatollah Khomeini 'leaves Iran to Avoid Presidential Inauguration'

Spanish Minister Ends 300-year Snub and Visits Gibraltar

South Africa's Answer to Slumdog Makes Stars of Poor Children

Woman 'detained' for Filming Police Search Launches High Court Challenge

Profile: Yukio Hatoyama

Japanese Pm Dissolves Parliament and Calls General Election

Letter From Africa: a Place for Theatre in Post-apartheid South Africa

Spanish Minister Visits Gibraltar Amid New Row Over British Rock

Han Chinese Revenge Attackers Should Be Punished, Says Beijing Official

Nicolas Sarkozy Resumes Fight Against Illegal Downloads

Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates Accuses Police of Racism Over Arrest

The Sisters Who Faced Deportation From the Uk

National Interest Would Dominate Tory Foreign Policy, Says Hague

UN Panel to Study Impact of Climate Change on Poor Countries

The Job From Hell Made Harder By Trevor Phillips's Autocratic Style

Trying War Criminals in the Balkans

Census Bureau: Immigrants and Miserly Pensions May Save Britain

German Jobs Matter More Than British in Opel/vauxhall Bidding

Gunman's Blow-by-blow Account of Mumbai Attack After Shock Change of Plea

Berlin Leads the Way on Cycle-friendliness

Japan: Towns Face Extinction As Young People Desert Roots and Head for Cities

Population of Older People Set to Surpass Number of Children, Report Finds

Obama's Approval Rating Drops Below 50% on Key Issues Such As Healthcare

Campaigners for Evicted Palestinians Call on Barack Obama to Intervene

US Teen Pregancy and Syphilis Rates Rose Sharply Under Bush, Agency Finds

Serbian Warlord Gets Life for Crimes Against Humanity

Honduras Crisis Talks Break Down

Auditors Hit at 'unacceptable' Use of Money at Equalities and Human Rights Commission

Campbell Relative Goes for Steam World Record

UK to Spend £100m on Supporting Gm Crops for World's Poor

Metropolitan Police's 'kettling' Tactic Challenged in European Court

Fawcett, McMahon, Jackson, and Cronkite: Did they ask the Question?

Jihadists at the Hilton: Are Man Made Disasters Next?

Dublin Braced for More Killing As Feuds Take a Grotesque Twist

Greens' Vote Gives Boost to Lisbon Treaty

MoD Rejected Three Deals to Buy Black Hawk Helicopters

Chechen President Faces Court Fight on Murder Claim

Daughter of Arrested Falun Gong Couple in Plea to Downing Street Over China's Persecution

How a Homicidal Baby and a Drunk Dog Made Family Guy the King of Comedy

Bush's Key Men Face Grilling on Torture and Death Squads

US Salutes Walter Cronkite, Giant of Tv Journalism's Golden Age

Bitter Fallout As Brown and the Generals Caught in War Games

Drugs 'taliban' Declares War on Mexican State

You're Yesterday's Woman, Bridget

Gun Culture Sweeps Through Sheffield Estates As Postcode Gangs Do Battle

Al-Qaida Prisoners Living in Hostels After Early Release

Tchigirinski Case Accuses Russia's Female Billionaire of Secret Deal

Row Grows Over Bill to Boost Us-pakistan Trade

Swiss Call for Tax Watchdog

"It Was Impossible to Have a Revolution in Romania. So It Had to Be Staged."

A Life of Rhyme

Starbucks Founder Spreads Gospel of Hope in Rwanda

Chinese Security Forces Admit Shooting Dead 12 Uighur Rioters

Madonna Stage Collapse Police Launch Manslaughter Inquiry

Malaysian Suspected in Jakarta Hotel Bombings

Henry Allingham in His Own Words

China Officials Shut Legal Aid Centre

Walter Cronkite

The Myth of Heroes' Highway

Fridge Magnets and Russian Dolls. Rise and Rise of Nelson Mandela Industry

A Peek at the Diary of ... Silvio Berlusconi

New York Police Department Still Budgeting Money for Typewriters

Tonnes of British Hazardous Waste Found in Brazilian Ports

Turkmenistan Tries to Green Its Desert With Manmade Lake

US-educated Scientist to Lead Iranian Atomic Energy Drive

Rafsanjani Speech Provides Another Electrifying Moment in Iran's History

British Backpacker Jamie Neale Leaves Hospital

Nine Dead As Bombers Target Western-owned Jakarta Hotels

Toyota Picks Uk to Make New Hybrid Hatchback Car

Timeline: Attacks in the Indonesian Capital

At Least Six Dead As Bombs Hit Hotels in Jakarta

Straight Backs and Stiff Salutes at Funeral of Colonel Rupert Thorneloe

Dimitry Medvedev Rejects Claim Chechen Leader Ordered Killing

Cambodia Genocide: Trial Gives Killing Fields Survivors A chance of Justice

Tina Fey's 30 Rock Grabs 22 Emmy Nominations

Palestinians and Jerry Seinfeld

Surprise Rebound Shows China Stocks Are Still a Good Long-term Bet

Venezulean Oil Workers Told to Embrace Chavez's Politics or Be Fired

Father Denies Claims Backpacker Faked Ordeal in Order to Make Money

Iran's Nuclear Chief Resigns, With Links to Mousavi Cited

JP Morgan Achieves 36% Surge in Quarterly Profits

Helicopter Shortage Seriously Undermines Uk Operations in Afghanistan, Report Says

UN Team Arrives in Pakistan for Inquiry Into Benazir Bhutto's Death

Mexican Gang Leader Offers Drug War Truce

Africans Protest in China After Nigerian Dies in Immigration Raid

US Refusal to Bail Out Lender Cit Leaves Retailers in Jeopardy

Is Richard Cass the World's Coolest Dad?

After the Tributes, the Twist: Was Michael Jackson's Death Murder?

MPs' Report to Say Helicopter Shortage Puts Troops at Risk in Afghanistan

Spanish Woman Who Gave Birth Through Ivf at 66 Dies

Tony Blair is Our Man for Eu President, Says Europe Minister Lady Kinnock

France Eases Sunday Shop Ban

Neo-Nazi Convicted of Planning Terrorist Bombing Campaign

'It Was Like Saving Private Ryan': British Soldier Recalls Helmand Rocket Grenade

US Lawyer Faces Investigation After Battling Corporations on Workers' Behalf

Tories Give Up Eu Parliamentary Leadership of Eurosceptic Group

Nick Griffin Alleges Rights Violations Against Uk 'nationalist Dissidents'

President Blair? Former Pm in Frame to Become First Head of Eu, Says Kinnock

Blair in Frame to Become First Eu President, Says Glenys Kinnock

Cameron Tells Brown to Provide More Leadership on Afghanistan

Bin Laden Deputy Warns Pakistan the Us Wants to Seize Its Nuclear Arsenal

Sonia Sotomayor Denies Bias in her "Wise Latina" Remark

Israeli Soldiers Speak Out Over Gaza Strip Offensive

169 Feared Dead in Iran Plane Crash

Tories to Force Commons Vote on Gary Mckinnon Case

150 Feared Dead in Iranian Plane Crash

China Urges Its Companies and Workers to Be on Guard After Al-qaida Threat

Israeli Tourism Posters Banned By Watchdog Over Controversial Map

Sir Richard Dannatt's Views on Military Policy in Afghanistan

David Cameron Link-up to Eurosceptic Fringes Claims Tory Casualty

The Medical Uses of Electric Shock Treatment

Iranian Consumers Boycott Nokia for 'collaboration'

China Bans Electric Shock Treatment Used to 'cure' Young Internet Addicts

UK Troops Subjected Iraqi to 'illegal' Interrogation

CIA Faces Hostile Scrutiny As Details of 'dark' Programmes Are Revealed

US Gun Debate Fires Up As States Allow Weapons in Bars

'A Sad Day for Britain' As Bnp Members Take European Parliament Seats

West Bank Cancels Leonard Cohen Concert in Protest Against Israel

Somali Gunmen Kidnap French Advisers Training Security Forces

Goldman Sachs Staff Set for Bumper Bonuses As Bank Earns $38m Per Day

Paris Gang Members Who Tortured and Killed Jewish Man to Be Retried

Charles Taylor Denies War Crimes Charges

China Bans Electric Shock Treatment to Cure Internet 'addiction'

Al-Qaida Threatens to Target Chinese Over Muslim Deaths in Urumqi

British Conductor Dies With Wife at Assisted Suicide Clinic

Florida Couple Murdered at Home By the Men in Black

The Next Generation Will Speak Spanish

Baptism of Fire for the New Defence Secretary

Bob Ainsworth Forced on Defensive Over British Strategy in Afghanistan

'Get Up You Ape' – Video Reveals Abuse of Iraqi Prisoners By British Soldier

We Will Protect Air Travel for the Masses, Says Ed Miliband

Youths Attack Police in Ardoyne Over Orange Order Parade

The Invisible Victims: Dvd Piracy

Home Office Officials Accused of Aiding Smugglers in Official Report

Vote on Gay Bishops Threatens Archbishop With Another Schism

Cuba Invites Royal Ballet and New York Philharmonic to Perform in Havana

British Academics Protest After Russia Closes Down History Website

Snipers to Protect Sydney's Penguins From Fox Attacks

Brown Defends Afghan Policy As Cross-party Consensus Frays

Festival Ban on 'french Eminem' Sparks Censorship Row

Better Equipment for Soldiers in Afghanistan 'will Not Stop Risk to Lives'

Hispanic Rights Group Front and Center in Sotomayor Hearings

Swat Valley Refugees Return Amid Safety Fears

Yemen Sentences Six to Death As Al-qaida Members

Archbishop of Canterbury 'regrets' Move to Ordain Gay Bishops

Baha Mousa Death Could Have Rallied Extremists, Inquiry Told

Cameron Unveils Myaid Plan to Let Public Vote on Development Priorities

Liberia's Charles Taylor to Plead Innocent at War Crimes Trial

Kim Jong-il 'has Pancreatic Cancer'

Afghanistan Conflict Making Britain Safer, Says Miliband

British Teenager Killed in Thai Water Park Accident

More Bishops Needed, Says General Synod

Invaded! How One Small Town Became Overrun With Vampires

Survey of Public Opinion on Afghan Conflict Finds Support, and Doubt

UBS Tax Trial is Delayed As Talks Continue

Teenage Soldiers in Afghanistan Died Helping Wounded Comrades to Safety

Public Support for War in Afghanistan is Firm, Despite Deaths

International Development Minister Urges Firms to Pool Hiv Patents

Tories Plan to Reduce Aid to Non-commonwealth Countries

California Poised to Shut Gates on Great Outdoors As Parks Struggle With Budgets

Republicans Set to Challenge Sonia Sotomayor at Congressional Hearing

Spanish Nobles Rebel Over Inheritance Law

Pepper-spray Defence Means South Africa Robbers Face Loss of Balance at Cash Machines

Mandela Artworks Are 'fakes', London Gallery Told

Penniless California Issues Ious

Inquiry Into Iraqi Civilian's Death to Hear of Plot to Keep Ministers in Dark Over Interrogation Methods

Wave of Deaths Leads to Government Rethink on Afghan Troop Numbers

Brussels Casts Doubt on £1.2bn Border Controls

Equality Watchdog Hired Too Many Staff

Cruel Human Toll of Fight to Win Afghan Peace

They Call It 'the Visit'. It Means Your Loved One Has Been Killed

Western Leaders Sceptical As Iran Offers Olive Branch on Nuclear Programme

India Prays for Rain As Water Wars Break Out

Washington Post Sorry for 'ethical Lapse'

Young Bride Whose Life Was Torn Apart By Hatred in Urumqi Riots

Tour De France: French Brace for 24th Year of Hurt

Publishers Unearth Bestsellers From Beyond the Literary Grave

I'm Free - But Only If You Agree With Me

When It Comes to Fawning, Our Politicians Are in Pole Position

Wild Weather in the Year Ahead, Scientists Predict

And the Kids Came Too ... the Obama Roadshow Becomes a Family Affair

The First Earthling to Journey to Mars - Conan the Bacterium

Hundreds Flee As Smoke Fills Ba Jet

Schools Launch Drive to Recruit Male Teachers

Hair Test Can Spot Terrorist

Hundreds Die in 'hidden World' of Mental Hospitals

Goldman Grabs Hi-tech Hacker

As Britain Falls Sick, Will the Economy Fail?

Meet the Newest Literary Stars of America

'I Asked Them to Find My Husband, But No One Dared to Go Outside'

British Airways Jet Evacuated As Smoke Fills Cabin

Face to Faith

From the Archive: Kremlin Bows to Capitalist Craze for Jeans

The Secret Servants

Design Nightmares: V&a Takes Look at Dark Side

Parisian Gang Leader Receives Life Sentence for Racial Killing

Old Suspicions Magnified Mistrust Into Ethnic Riots in Urumqi

Ministers Indecisive As Public Opinion Shifts After Deaths of Soldiers in Afghanistan

Worse Than Iraq: 184 Uk Soldiers Dead in 'the Longest Campaign'

Eight British Soldiers Killed in Bloodiest Day of Afghan Mission

Wootton Bassett Residents Pay Their Respects to Soldiers Killed in Afghanistan

G8 Leaders Want to Help Africa Feed Itself

Church of England Could Cut Number of Bishops Amid Funding Crisis

British Extremists Who Fled to Us Jailed for Inciting Racial Hatred Online

Mabey and Johnson Admits Bribing Officials Abroad to Secure Contracts

Third British Soldier Killed in Southern Afghanistan

Venezuela Cracks Down on 'media Terrorism'

General Motors' New Chairman 'knows Nothing About Making or Selling Cars'

Met Launches Pakistan Torture Inquiry

US Deports 'minister for Cocaine' Luis Arce-gómez to Bolivia

Developing Countries Urge G8 to Impose 40% Emissions Cut By 2020

Mother of Soldier Killed in Iraq Wins Review of Snatch Land Rovers

Downdrafts in Sierra Nevada Mountains May Have Caused Fossett Crash

Uighur Crowds Force Opening of Urumqi Mosques

In the Middle of War, a Game of Polo Breaks Out in Pakistan

General Motors Emerges From Bankruptcy After 40 Days

Oil Prices Dip Below $60 a Barrel

Three Nights of Riots in French Town After 21-year-old Dies in Police Custody

US Troops in Afghanistan Safe But Slow in More Heavily Protected Vehicles

Two More British Soldiers Killed in Afghanistan

G8: Gadafy Demands Return of Lockerbie Bomber in First Meeting With Brown

Two British Soldiers Killed in Afghanistan

G8 Leaders Under Pressure to Honour Promises As Africa Takes Centre Stage

Bull Kills Man at Pamplona Festival

New York Police Search for Woman Missing in Skyscraper for Two Days

G8 to Set Aside $15bn African Farming Fund to Reduce Need for Food Aid

Senate Democrats Push Back Deadline on Obama Climate Change Agenda

Annan Hands Icc List of Perpetrators of Post-election Violence in Kenya

Spouses of G8 Leaders Tour L'aquila Earthquake Rubble

G8 Summit: Forget Famine, Here's the Lamb

Most Americans Don't Believe Humans Responsible for Climate Change, Study Finds

Karzai Victory May Trigger Afghan Violence, Us Commander Warns

Montana and Idaho Plan Open-season Public Wolf Hunt

Commander in Afghanistan Delivers Upbeat Address

UK Envoy Quits After Sex Video Surfaces on Russia Website

UN Warns G8: Help the Hungry, As Well As the Poor Farmers

Merriam-Webster Releases List of New Words to Be Included in Dictionary

UK Diplomats Shun Bnp Officials in Europe

US Cemetery Workers Charged After Allegedly Dumping Corpses

CIA Admits 'concealing Significant Actions' From Congress Under Bush

Bomb Kills at Least 25 in Central Afghanistan

EU Governments Back Barroso for Second Term in Challenge to Meps

G8: World Leaders Fail to Agree Specific Target for Climate Cuts

G8: Brown Preparing for Climate Change Talks Chaired By Obama

Fear of Further Mob Violence Prompts Uighurs to Leave Urumqi

Brown Hails G8 Step to Make Rich Countries Accountable for Aid Pledges

BNP Leader: Sink Boats With African Migrants on Board

Silvio Berlusconi Has Been Railing Against This 'small Newspaper'. What is His Problem With the Guardian?

Silvio Berlusconi Makes Playboy's G8

China Lets Foreign Media in Xinjiang But Controls Local Coverage

We're Not Out of the Woods – G8 Leaders Fear Double Dip Slump

Paramilitaries and Water Cannon Deployed to Quell Ethnic Violence

Malia Obama's T-shirt Does the Talking at G8 Summit in Italy

Cyber Attacks Paralyse Government Computers in Us and South Korea

Khamenei's Son Takes Control of Iran's Anti-protest Militia

Troops Flood Urumqi As Chinese President Quits G8 Summit

Obama Pushes for Climate Change Deal Between G8 and Developing Countries

Brussels Hits Gas Pact Pair With €1.1bn Fine

Fears Global Economy is Sinking Back Into Recession As G8 Leaders Meet

Cyber Attackers Target South Korea

China President Hu Jintao Leaves G8 Summit Over Xinjiang Riots

Ousted Honduras President and Coup Leaders Agree to Talks

Texas Tycoon Pickens Scraps $10bn Windfarm Plan

Dmitry Medvedev's Denim Debate

The Truth About Torture

China Lockdown As Decades of Suspicion Boil Over

Israel Criticised for Thwarting Medical Mission to Palestinian Territories

The Headscarf Martyr: Murder in German Court Sparks Egyptian Fury

G20 Police Authorised to Use Force Minutes Before Ian Tomlinson Died

Armed Han Residents Take to Streets of Urumqi Seeking Revenge

Escaped Child Prostitutes Say Councils Left Them in Danger

Fighting Forces 204,000 to Flee Mogadishu

Jersualem Braces for Protests Over Car Park Open on Saturdays

Lacroix Puts on Show of Pride Before Looming Fall

Author Alleges Jackie and Bobby Kennedy Began Affair After Jfk Assassination

Fears Grow for Detained Rio Tinto Staff

Woman's Lone Protest Calms Tempers As Uighurs Confront Chinese Police

What the Pope's Encyclical Says

Russia Won't Swallow Obama's Bitterest Pill

Pope Calls for Ethical Dimension to Global Capitalism

Han Chinese Launch Revenge Attacks on Uighurs

Barroso's Campaign for Second Term Hits Obstacles

Chinese Riot Police Break Up Fresh Ethnic Protests

Letter From Africa: Land of Opportunity Turns Out to Be Another Dead End

Fresh Protests Flare in China As Hundreds Confront Police

'These Steps Are Covered With Blood'

Obama Family's Holiday Destination, Martha's Vineyard: Chic, Calming and Costly

No Fanfare in Russian Media for Barack Obama's 'working Visit'

Death and Debris on Urumqi's Streets, But in Beijing the Blame Game Begins

Uighurs Cling to Life in People's Hospital As China's Wounds Weep

Tortured With Pliers: Fingernail Evidence and the British Link

Calls Grow Within G8 to Expel Italy As Summit Plans Descend Into Chaos

Scientists Warn Carbon Dioxide May Soon Make Coral Reefs Extinct

Honduras Coup Leaders Shut Main Airport

Inquiry Agreed Into Alleged Torture of Iraqis By Uk Soldiers

Robert Mcnamara

Obama and Medvedev Offer to Cut Nuclear Arsenals

China Locks Down Western Province After Ethnic Riots Kill 140

Vietnam War Architect Robert Mcnamara Dies

Two Soldiers Killed in Afghanistan Named

MoD Drops Opposition to Basra Deaths Inquiry

Honduras Coup Leaders Block Ousted President's Return

China Ethnic Violence Leaves 140 Dead

Army Foils Zelaya's Bid to Return

United Effort Wins Seat for Socialist Mayor

15-year-old Girl Becomes Fifth Victim of South Carolina Serial Killer in a Week

Devastation in Zambia As Climate Change Brings Early Flooding

All the President's Emails: Sasha Obama, Vladimir Putin, Rahm Emanuel, Michelle Obama

Can More Men Be Persuaded to Buy Tampax?

Slow Loris: the Eyes May Be Cute, But the Elbows Are Absolutely Lethal

US v Russia: the Results of Past Summits

Binyam Mohamed Launches Legal Fight to Stop Us Destroying Torture Images

Two British Soldiers Die in Southern Afghanistan

Honduras President Zelaya Flies Out From Washington

Senior Iranian Clerics Reject Re-election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Honduras Holds Breath Over Manuel Zelaya's Homecoming Pledge

DC Comics' Superheroes Join Forces With Characters Inspired By Allah

LA Police Face Crowd Control Challenge at Michael Jackson Memorial

Poor Face More Hunger As Climate Change Leads to Crop Failure, Says Oxfam

Two British Soldiers Killed in Afghanistan Attacks

Honduran Military Regime Threatens Reprisals As President Plans Return

Fear for Cancer Patients As Vital Drugs Are Exported

Father Ted Creators Back Challenge to the Blasphemy Bill

Irish Charity Worker is Kidnapped in Darfur

UDA Leader: Loyalists Have a Duty to Inform If They Know Racist Attackers

'When I Saw the Girl, I Wasn't Afraid to Dive In'

Global Blacklist Plan to Ground Unsafe Planes

Mousavi Labelled 'us Agent' As Iran Charges Uk Official

America to Remove Hiv Visa Ban After Briton's Protest

Le Pen's Daughter Scents Victory for Resurgent Far Right

'Lost Boy' Who Fled Sudan Tells of His 4,000-mile Trek

Taliban Kill Two Us Soldiers in Attack on Base

Now Whatever Became of the Great British Sex Scandal?

Village Where Monsieur Hulot Took His Holiday Fights to Stop Council Wiping It Off the Map

Burnt Bangers and Other Summer Charms

Liam Donaldson: The Nation's Own Flu Fighter

G8 Summit Venue Shaken By Tremors

Boys, Let's Focus on the Balls, Not the Belles

The Soldiers Give All, While the Politicians Starve Them of Cash

Parents Alarmed Over Sex Assault in Children's Novel

Wimbledon Dressmaker on Path to Sainthood

Fiancée Pays Tribute to Her Fallen Afghan Hero

Have We Reached the End of the Line for Privatisation?

California's Pot Clubs Offer to Pay More Tax in Fiscal Crisis

A Life in Ruins

Equality Watchdog Faces Discrimination Lawsuit From Pregnant Employee

Sarah Palin: The Media’s Un-acknowledged Shame

Gay Community Split Over 'depoliticised' London Pride

Margaret Thatcher's European Rebate Demand Was Defeat - Mitterand Aide

Black Family Wrongly Accused Outside West End Theatre Wins Police Damages

The Man Who Fell to Earth

Spotlight Back on Viking Vulnerability

Babies in China Seized Then Sold for Overseas Adoption

Despite the Risk, Site is a Lure for the Desperate

Fears for the World's Poor Countries As the Rich Grab Land to Grow Food

Iran Brings Formal Charges Against Uk Embassy Official

Ruling Brands Judaism Racist – Chief Rabbi

LA Officials Scramble to Arrange Crowd Control for Jackson Memorial

Top Cia Officials Appear Before Jury Over Destruction of Al-qaida Tapes

Fact and Fiction in Michael Jackson's Death

Secret Agents Force Spanish Spy Chief to Quit

Georgia Freemasons at Loggerheads Over Admission of Black Man to Lodge

Obama Interview With Putin Critics Risks Russian Backlash

Diplomats Deliver Ultimatum on Honduras Coup

Those Chimps Have a Wild Story to Tell

Queens of New York

For Weddings and a Funeral

Jackson Memorial Set for Tuesday in Los Angeles

Legacy of the Chernobyl Disaster

Lead Found in Michelle Obama's White House Vegetable Garden

Legal Challenge to Web Child Abuse Inquiry

US Forces Hunt for Soldier Believed to Have Been Kidnapped By Taliban

Washington Post Offers Access to Obama Officials at Paid Dinners

Israelis Hold Activists Over Attempt to Reach Gaza Strip By Boat

Iran Still Holding Two Uk Embassy Staff

Honduran Coup Leaders Curb Civil Liberties to Tamp Down Zelaya Support

Air France Plane Crashed Vertically Into Ocean

Karl Malden

Afghan Insurgents Capture Us Soldier, Pentagon Says

Air France Plane Did Not Break Up In Flight

Streets of San Francisco Star Karl Malden Dies Aged 97

Dublin Floods Cause Traffic Chaos

'Daddy, I Couldn't See Anything' – Yemenia Airbus Crash Survivor Speaks

China's Green Dam Internet Filtering System Will Go Ahead, Official Says

Streets of San Francisco Star Karl Malden Dies Aged 97

MoD Pays Out for Afghan Deaths

Public React to National Express Row: 'anything the Government Handles Fails'

Mir Hossein Mousavi Calls Iranian Government Illegitimate

Mayor of Nicaragua Capital Found Dead

Honduras Coup Leaders Defy Calls to Reinstate President

Iran Releases Three More British Embassy Employees

Vandals Arrested After Attacking Statue of Lenin

Discovery of Fertility 'fingerprints' Could Answer Ivf Questions

Al Franken Wins Disputed Minnesota Senate Race

We Have Terrorists on the Run, Says Pakistani Foreign Minister

Teenage Survivor of Yemeni Plane Crash 'doing Well'

British Skydiver Dies in Spain Parachute Accident

Fox CEO Angry at Nielsen

Corazón Aquino

Harvard Professor and Arresting Officer to Continue Dialogue

Swine Flu Cases in Britain Could Be Reaching a Plateau

Hydroponic Pot from Florida is Potent and Difficult to Stop

Organic Food Not Healthier than "Regular" Food According to Study

Microsoft and Yahoo! Agree to Online Search Partnership

Britain Unprepared for Next Wave of Swine Flu – Peers

Peers Question Readiness for Next Stage of Swine Flu Pandemic

Alabama Police Taser Deaf and Mentally Disabled Man

Soft Toys Could Spread Swine Flu in Children, Schools Warned

Israel Will Stop at Nothing to Keep Nuclear Weapons from Iran

Obama Invites Harvard Professor, Arresting Officer to White House for a Beer

Alleged Talks Between U.S. and Iraq Insurgents Being Investigated

British Embassy 'refused to Bring Food to Isolated Child' in China

Town Halls and Libraries to Hand Out Swine Flu Pills

Travellers Stuck in Pandemic Exclusion Zone

Britain Signals Unease With Sri Lanka By Abstaining on Imf Loan Vote

Pregnant Woman With Swine Flu Flown to Sweden for Treatment Named

Calcutta Hit By Transport Strike

Fellow Officers, Officials Defend Cop Obama Claims Acted Stupidly

President Calls Senate Delay on Health Care Bill "OK"

Pregnant Woman With Swine Flu Airlifted to Sweden

9.3m Hits an Hour for Swine Flu Website – But We Can Cope, Government Insists

Three New Jersey Mayors, Other Officials Arrested on Corruption Charges

Massachusetts Officer Disappointed by Obama "Stupidly" Comment

North Korea Calls Clinton 'a Pensioner Going Shopping'

Osama Bin Laden Son 'probably Killed in Us Drone Attack'

Tamil Tiger Leader Vows to Abandon Armed Struggle

Change That No One Can Believe In - Is it Politics or Prophecy

Weatherwatch

Gordon Brown Insists British Troops in Afghanistan Have Enough Helicopters

Drugs Giant Glaxosmithkline Predicts Swine Flu Gold Rush

Obama and Healthcare P.r.

A Spectacle That Inspired Awe and Fear

Missing Mental Records Found for Virginia Tech Gunman

Palin Sought Money for Legal Fees, May have Broken Ethics Rules

First Human Trials of Swine Flu Vaccine Begin in Australia

Churches Stop Offering Communion Wine to Halt Spread of Swine Flu

Apple Bucks Recession With Some of Best Financial Results in Its History, Thanks to New Iphone 3gs

Britain's Swine Flu Death Toll Reaches 30

Obama Launches Campaign Urging Congress to Pass Healthcare Reform

Popular iPhone Application Actually Does Nothing

U.S. Bailouts Reach $4.7 Trillion, No End in Sight

Facebook Couple With Same Name to Marry

Swine Flu Helpline Readied As Government Denies Confusion

Doctors Warn Over Swine Flu Vaccine for Vulnerable Patients

Shut Schools to Limit Number of Swine Flu Deaths, Ministers Told

China Gears Up for Longest Solar Eclipse of the Century

School Closures Urged to Prevent Spread of Swine Flu

Captured US Soldier's Identity Kept Secret by Hometown

Israel Breaks with U.S., Rejects Call to Stop Jerusalem Project

Have Confidence in Nhs Handling of Swine Flu, Says Health Secretary

Henry Allingham

Row Over Swine Flu Advice to Women Wanting Babies

Vital Swine Flu Hotline Delayed for Months By Whitehall Arguments

Veteran of Jutland and Ypres Never Forgot Fallen Comrades

Old Soldier Who Was 'truly a Gentleman'

Obama Urges Black Americans to Aim for Higher Goals

California Tax Officials Talking Marijuana Revenues

Obama Challenges African Americans to Aim Higher

Gordon Brown Says Extra Troops Will Need to Stay in Afghanistan

Swine Flu Could Kill 65,000 in Uk, Warns Chief Medical Officer

Internet Crowd-sourcing Used to Create Animated Film

Houston, We Have a Problem: Original Moon Walk Footage Erased

Israeli Soldiers Admit to Improper Use of Military Force

Watergate Hotel on Auction Block

Edward Kenna Vc

Swine Flu Will Be Biggest Pandemic Ever, Warns World Health Chief

Vasily Aksyonov

Swine Flu Cases Soared Sixfold Last Week, Nhs Figures Reveal

Obama's First Pitch As President Falls Flat

Iranian Plane Crash Kills 168 People

Firms, Schools and Churches Rush to Cope With Outbreak

iPhone Launches 'purity Ring' Application

Airliner Lands Safely with Hole in Cabin

U.S. Budget Deficit Moves Over $1 Trillion, First Time Ever

Frank Devine

Gordon Brown Issues Demand for More Afghan Troops in Helmand Province

Sarah Palin will Campaign for Democrats

Alick Bearn

Gordon Brown Set to Reinforce Troops in Afghanistan

Swine Flu Could Paralyse Country, Whitehall is Told

Obama Deeply Moved By 'evil' Slave Fortress

Swine Flu Victim Had No Other Health Issues

Gordon Brown in His Element at G8 Summit As Tories Face the Heat

First Uk Swine Flu Death in Person Without Underlying Health Problems

'Obama is Like the Messiah': Africans React to Obama's Visit to Ghana

Gujurat State Leader Faces Calls to Quit As Bootleg Alcohol Poisoning Kills 107 in India

Levi Johnston's Theory on Why Sarah Palin Resigned

White House Health Care Overhaul Facing More Hurdles in Congress

Obama Plans Democratic Push in Africa

Swine Flu Death Toll Rises

US Reporter Held Captive in North Korea Calls Sister

Iran Warns of Crackdown Against Protests Marking 1999 Student Riots

President Obama, Hospitals Agree to Deal on Health Care

Barack Obama Pushes for Climate Change Deal Between G8 and Developing Countries

Violence Escalates in China

Palin Happy with Her Decision to Resign as Governor of Alaska

Michael Jackson Memorial: Moments to Remember

Michael Jackson Takes His Final Bow

Michael Jackson's Last Show

Michael Jackson's Body Transported to Staples Centre Following Family Service

Barack Obama Urges Russia Not to Interfere in Neighbouring States

Robert McNamara, Vietnam War "Architect," Dies at Age 93

Serial Killer Shot and Killed by Police in South Carolina

Michael Jackson Fans Descend on Los Angeles for Memorial Service

Michael Jackson to Be Buried at Private Ceremony, Say La Officials

North Korea Fires Missiles, Continues to Antagonize the World

Obama in Russia Amid Fading Hopes of Nuclear Arms Deal

Obama Heads to Russia Facing Nuclear Arms Impasse

Walt Disney World Monorail Crash Leaves One Dead

Allen Klein

Swine Flu's at My Gate. But I'm Not Afraid

Hollywood Gets Hitched to Booming Bollywood

CBI Issues Swine Flu Alert

Speculation Rife As Sarah Palin Quits As Alaska Governor

Alexis Argüello

Sarah Palin Resigns As Alaska's Governor, Raising Speculation on 2012

British Embassy Staff to go on Trial in Iran

Obama Chides Putin, Notes That its Time to Move on From Cold War

Government Warns Public Not to Buy Anti-swine Flu Drugs on Internet

Michael Jackson Video Shows Glimpses of the Old Magic

The Scottish Connection: How Swine Flu Spread North of the Border

So What Happens Next?

David Pears

Swine Flu: 100,000 Uk Cases a Day By August

U.S. Military Operations Ramping Up in Afghanistan

UK Swine Flu Can No Longer Be Contained

Swine Flu: Government Set to Abandon Daily Recording of New Cases

Michael Jackson Named Diana Ross As Possible Guardian of His Children in His Will

Hajj Officials Confront Swine Flu Threat

Setback for Tony Blair's Ambition to Be President of Europe

FDA Calls for Reduced Dosages of Acetaminophen

Obama Administration Restricts Executive Pay