National & World News Archive August 2008



'Big Bottle' Binges Shock Staid Swiss

The Week That Buried the New World Order

The Incredible Journey Taken By Our Genes

Families Sue Mod Over Air Victims' Right to Life

It's Party Time for Luanda's Elite As Angola Grows Rich on Oil and Gems

Race Against Time to Save Congo's Apes

Internet Leak Brings End to Us Cult Book Series

Police Chief in Antigua Murder Case Sacked

Miliband Gets Further Week Over Terror Case Disclosure

Anglicans Still Divided Over Homosexuality

Mexican Wave Goes on After Clash of Auteurs

Georgia: Moscow Accuses West of Double Standards

Thai Pm Threatens State of Emergency

South Ossetia Claims Georgian Spy Plane Shot Down

Top Asian Officer Sets Out Race Case and Directly Blames Met Police Chief

'I Always Knew I Was Different'

British Computer Hacker Faces Extradition to Us After Court Appeal Fails

South Ossetia 'downs Georgian Spy Plane'

Against All the Odds, the World is Becoming a Happier Place

Europe Must Stand Up to Russia Says Uk

From Papyrus to the Web: Photographs of Dead Sea Scrolls to Go Online

Services: Serco Gets a Lift From the Us Air Force

US Aid Ship Docks in Georgian Port of Batumi

Hijacked Plane Passengers Released

US Scraps Plan to Dock Aid Ship in Georgian Port of Poti

Europe of the Future: Germany Shrinks, France Grows, But Uk Population Booms

Fuel Price Rises 'saving Lives'

Anglicans: Lambeth Exceeded Expectations, Says Williams

Barbie Comes Out on Top in Bratz Battle

Media: English Civil War Drama to Be Filmed in Africa

The Man Who Saw the Future

Priest Lines Up Nuns for Online Beauty Pageant

Desire for Revenge Fuels Flames As Militiamen Destroy South Ossetia's 'cleansed' Villages

UN Calls for Georgia Refugees to Be Allowed Home

Police Link Honeymoon Killing Suspects to Similar Murders in Botched Robberies

MI5 Criticised for Role in Case of Torture, Rendition and Secrecy

Beijing Won't Beat London, Says Johnson

Gary Glitter Returns to Thailand

Europe's Worst Plane Crashes: Timeline

Newspapers: Mecom Profits Tumble Along With Ad Revenue

Georgia's Nato Membership on Track, Says David Miliband

The World's Dearest Pinch of Salt Taken in 54 Seconds

Glitter Evades Deportation By Refusing to Board Flight

Frankland Jail: Muslim Inmates Living in Fear for Their Safety at High-security Prison

Defence: Mod Names Medic Killed in Afghan Blast

Georgia: 'he Looked Out of His Window and They Killed Him'

UK Adds to Drain on Global Water Sources

Revealed: the Massive Scale of Uk's Water Consumption

One in Five Us Women Remain Childless in Life

German Envoy Attacks Mps for Bad Behaviour on Us Junket

US: Wanted: People to Sign Books for Lazy Authors

US Web Advert Requests Services of Fake Autograph Signers

'Official' Tube Buskers Fear They're on the Spot

Arias Strive to Break Through Station Announcement Blues

The Beauty of the Disregarded

Paraguay: Former Slave Gets Cabinet Position

Two Men Charged With Antigua Murders

Nato Meets As Us Demands Eu Allies Apply Sanctions

Schoolboy Extremist Faces Jail Over Terror Training Manuals

Two Men Charged With Murdering British Honeymoon Couple in Antigua

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

WTO Chief Says Time Running Out for Doha Deal to Ease Food Crisis

A beginners guide to the (French) Olympics

Britain Accused of Turning a Blind Eye to Child Sex Tourism

South Ossetia Holds Civilian Georgians Hostage

The American School Where Teachers Carry a Pen, a Ruler and ... a Gun

Tanks and Katyushas Bristle Round Isolated Tbilisi

Triad Gangsters and Britons Held in Police Crackdown on Ticket Touts

Harlem Fears Loss of Historic Identity Amid a Flood of Wealthy New Arrivals

Hunt for Explorers of Northwest Passage

'They Threw Bricks at Us. I Knew Then That They Didn't See Us As Liberators'

Where an Older Man Can Think He is Debonair

How Secret Talks Killed Off Apartheid

A Dirty Little War

Eight Arrested in Antigua Over Murder of Honeymoon Couple

Flower Power

Plucky Little Georgia: Saakashvili's Pr Agency Wins on Second Front

Crime: Sleepy Town Tries to Come to Terms With Mystery of Clark Rockefeller

Six Days That Broke One Country - and Reshaped the World Order

Poor Training, Confusion and Friendly Fire, the Real Story Behind Brave Apache Rescue

Antics on Crete Would Delight Dionysus But the Local Police Are Not Laughing

Ulster Police Chief Tells Bush Dissidents Are 'out of Touch'

Georgia Crisis: Medvedev Promises to Guarantee Any Vote By Rebel States to Break With Tbilisi

Two Women Charged in Connection With Antigua Honeymoon Murders

Medvedev Promises to Guarantee Any Vote By Rebel States to Break With Tbilisi

The Official British View of Basra: It's Absolutely Booming!

US Set for Dramatic Change As White America Becomes Minority By 2042

Two Charged in Connection With Honeymoon Murder Case

Georgia Conflict: Medvedev Pledges to Support Wishes of Breakaway Regions

Porn Claims Outrage German Kafka Scholars

Mauritania Parliament Backs Military Coup

Moscow Rejects West's Call to Preserve Georgia Borders As Us Aid Flights Begin

Brain Will Be Battlefield of Future, Warns Us Intelligence Report

Film of Fishermen Dumping Catch Causes Uproar

The Discussion of Religious Differences Online is Not a Game

Ethnic Minority Lawyers Discriminated Against, Report Finds

Amid Promise of Peace, Georgians Live in Terror

Education: Sats Results Reach Plateau As Boys Struggle With Reading

'I've Never Heard Anything So Monstrous As People Shelling a Hospital'

'I Don't Know Which Side to Blame'

Q&A: South Ossetia Dispute

'Snooper's Charter' to Check Texts and Emails

Onslaught Halted But Not Before a Fifth Day of Bombardment

Energy: Fall in Oil Price Comes With a Warning

'Stolen Art Uncovered, is It Yours?' Appeals Fbi

The End of the World Show

Disability Rights Groups Call for Boycott of Stiller Comedy

Archbishop Accepts £4.50 Charge to Visit York Minster

Former Thai Prime Minister and Wife Skip Bail and Flee to Britain Before Corruption Trial

Building Firm Says It May Have Breached Saddam Sanctions

'I Got My Children Out Minutes Before the Bombs Fell'

Colleagues Pay Tribute to Times Photographer Richard Mills

Bacterium Restores Glue-hidden Fresco

Military Aviation: Bidding War for Us Refuelling Tankers Creates Transatlantic Storm

Alcohol Linked to Rise in British Arrests Abroad

Pies in the Sky? Thumbs Down for Foster Design

America's Dream Captured in Voice and Song

Orchestra Opens Arms for Immigrant Children

Eaten Up

'Who Really Killed My Kirsty?' Asks Mother

South Ossetian Refugees Head North to Flee Ruins of War

Defiant Georgians: 'this is an Attack on Democracy'

Abkhazia: Moscow Sends Troops Into Second Enclave

MPs Urge More Rights for the Vulnerable and Marginalised

South Ossetian Refugees Flee 'living Hell'

Georgia Under All-out Attack in Breakaway Abkhazia

Georgia Says It Has Withdrawn Troops From Breakaway South Ossetia

West Side Story – still going strong after 50 years

How Right is Your Conservative Commentator

Mothers Are to Blame for This Child-obsessed Society of Ours

Family Pays Tribute to Climber, 19, Who Died After 150ft Fall in Alps

Novel on Prophet's Wife Pulled for Fear of Backlash

Optimists Unfazed By Fall in Property Values

Hu and Huw Outgunned

Chart-topping Lesbian Love Song Divides Gay Community

'After the First Break in the First Rehearsal We Knew This Young Man Was Extraordinary. He Has Great Charisma'

Murderer Swaps Guilty Plea for Fried Chicken Feast

Brazilian Accused of Cara Burke Murder Says He Cannot Remember Killing Her

Australia v Uk: the Squabbles Begin

Morales Awaits Verdict on His Revolution

Man Accused in Boston Kidnapping Now Investigated in Disappearance Case

Researchers Chart Fuel-rich Areas in Arctic for First Time

Dawkins Beaten in Bid for Einstein Letter

Delphic Oracle Was Ancient Glue-sniffer

The Little Sparrow Sings Again

Archbishop Accepts ?4.50 Charge to Visit York Minster

Rowan Williams: Gay Couples Reflect the Love of God

Clark Rockefeller: Kidnap Suspect Linked to 1985 Disappearance of Us Couple

US Military Convicts Bin Laden Driver

Gun Control Lobby 'infiltrated By Pro-rifle Movement Spy'

Secret Eu Security Draft Risks Uproar With Call to Pool Policing and Give Us Personal Data

Kafkaesque Rendition

Troops Hold Mauritanian President After Coup

Biometric Passport Chips Can Be Cloned in an Hour, Researcher Warns

Martin Bashir Sorry for 'asian Babes' Comment in Us Speech

Police: Amnesty Voices Concern As Use of Taser Guns Grows

Asia's Growing Wealth Gap Puts Children at Risk

Mystery of 'ghost of Bagram' - Victim of Torture or Captured in a Shootout?

US Crime: Former Mob Boss Gotti Held After Fbi Swoop on Long Island Home

Airlines: Fuel Price Surge Plunges Iberia Into Deficit

Freddie Mac Boss Warned Four Years Ago

Media: Murdoch Delighted But Wary After News Corp's Profits Surge

US Chain Whole Foods Struggles in Uk

Children Still Dying in Booming Asian Economies

Judge Delays Decision on Zuma Corruption Charges

Daily Mail Makes Up With Poles

Crime: Four Questioned in Antigua Over Honeymoon Killings

Media: Daily Mail Makes Up With Poles

Nearly Half of All the World's Primates at Risk of Extinction

How the Bubble Burst - and Why 10 Bourses Have Bucked the Downturn

Death Toll on World's Most Treacherous Mountain Reaches 11

Cherie Blair's Sister Joins Battle to Break Gaza Blockade

Gorbachev Leads Tributes to Solzhenitsyn

'Indisputable Heir of Tolstoy Created By Soviet System'

Economics Notebook: Doha Resolution Begins at Home

Sake: Best Brew is Pure and Subtle

Apocalypse - But Not Right Now. How California Stays Cool About the Big One

Mother Reunited With Abducted Daughter After Fbi Sting

US Increases Estimate of Hiv Infections

Groom Shot on Antigua Honeymoon Dies in Hospital

Healing the Rift: How Williams Kept His Flock Together

Antigua Shootings: Honeymoon Groom Ben Mullany Dies in Hospital

Lambeth Conference: Archbishop Blames Liberals for Church Rift

Brazilian Addict Accused of Killing British Teenager to Plead Insanity

Antigua's Idyll Turns to Illusion

US 'held Suspects on British Territory in 2006'

Father Who Allegedly Abducted Child in Us is Arrested

Kidnapped Girl Freed in Fbi Sting

Brazilian Killing 'may Be Linked to Other Deaths'

Horribly Good Internet Plot to Kill Off Tv

Pride Marchers Mock Anti-gay Mp

Irish Climber Missing After Conquering K2

Shot Honeymooner Flown Home in Coma

Fresh Corruption Scandal Taints Mandela's Prison Museum

Display Ban for Beer But Not Wine is Unfair, Say Brewers

Gilligan Gets 24hr Protection Over Gang Death Threat Fears

Gay Bishop Led to Ridicule for Anglicans, Say Traditionalists

MI5 Misled Mps Over Briton's Secret Rendition, Court Told

No Chance of a Fair Trial, Karadzic Says in First Statement

Police Facing 'code of Silence' Over Antigua Murder

Windfall Tax: Ministers to Consider Action on Massive Energy Profits

Nuclear Group Loses Power As Edf Pulls Plug

Aral Sea Rescue Plan a 'partial Success'

That's My Recipe! Restaurant Owner Takes Ex-chef to Court

The Jonah Project – Evangelist Bill Keller Calls the U.S. to Repentance

Antigua Shooting Husband Flown Back to Uk

New Orleans Braced for Chaos As Hurricane Looms

Chinese Protesters Return to Streets After Olympics

Hurricane Gustav Hits Cuba

India Floods: 20 Die As Rescue Boat Capsizes

Energy: Oil and Gas Prices Rise As Operators Prepare for a Battering From Gustav

France: Canadian Student Raped at Migrant Camp in Calais

Mexico Crime: 11 Headless Corpses Found in Field

India: Up to 2,000 Feared Dead in Bihar Floods

Russia Accuses West of 'bias' Over Actions in Georgia

Karadzic Refuses to Enter War Crimes Pleas at Un Tribunal

2,000 Feared Dead in India Flood

New Orleans Disaster Warning As Gustav Death Toll Reaches 68

Ireland: Catholic Attacks on Eu Are Misplaced

Will Air France-KLM be tempted - again?

Putin Claims Georgian Crisis is Us Ploy As Russia's Isolation Grows

US Claims 100 Militants Killed in Four-day Afghanistan Battle

Two Chinese Police Killed in Renewed Xinjiang Violence

Pakistan Rocked By Renewed Violence and Angry Demonstrations

China's Lead in Race for New Nuclear Plants Could Create Uk Skills Famine

Turkish Military Will Defend Secular State, Government Warned

Cuba Puts Dissident Punk Rocker on Trial

Putin Accuses Us of Starting Georgia Crisis As Election Ploy

Anbar Back in Iraqi Hands As Al-qaida Ousted

1m Displaced By Floods in Northern India

Police Search for Child Feared Killed By Grandfather

Dalai Lama in Hospital After Suffering Stomach Pain

China: Shanghai's Jaywalkers Face Tv Shame

EU Threatens Sanctions Against Russia

Protesters Defy Court Order to Continue Occupation of Thai Government Zone

Court Backs Mexico City's Free Abortion Law

UK Rejects Russia Over Throwback to Spheres of Influence

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Bolivia's Landlocked Sailors Pine for the High Seas

Hostage Drama Sparks Shootout Between Kashmir Police and Rebels

Iraq Claims Success in Push for Early Us Troop Withdrawal

India's Bollywood Bandit Shot Dead By Police After Shooting, Stabbing and Robbing His Way to Infamy

Mugabe Starts Forming Government Without Mdc Consent

Cambodians Eat Rats to Beat Global Food Crisis

Delanoe throws his hat into the ring in the race to lead France's Socialists

Ryanair Emergency Landing Sparks Oxygen Mask Row

Russia Defies West By Recognising Georgian Rebel Regions

Chinese Skyscraper Builders to Put Up Equivalent of 10 New Yorks, Says Rio Tinto

Final Straw for Afghan Leader After Child Death Toll in Air Strike Hits 60

Venice Denies 'passageway of Light' Any Glitter

Israel Accelerates West Bank Settlements Despite Peace Talks

Israel Releases 198 Palestinian Prisoners

Thai Pm's Compound Stormed As Anti-government Protests Grow

Ryanair Emergency Landing Puts 16 in Hospital

Iraqi Police Disarm Girl Sent on Suicide Mission

Russian Vote Sets Up Clash With West Over Georgia

Taverna Invasion Threatens Athenian Idyll

Free at Last: Israel Releases 198 Palestinian Prisoners

Dick Roche: Irish Minister Calls for Repeat of Lisbon Treaty Referendum

Turkish Court Lifts Youtube Ban After Online Censorship Protest

South Asia: Four Killed As Indian Troops Fire on Protesters in Kashmir

Battle Against Al-qaida Brand Highlighted in Secret Paper

French aren't buying Sarkozy's purchasing power promise

Eight Feared Dead in Mont Blanc Avalanche

Muslim Areas of Kashmir Under Curfew Ahead of Protest Rally

Russia Accused of Violating Ceasefire Deal

French nun with a past full of naughty habits declares she's "no saint"

The Proof That Russia is Digging in Deep in the Heart of Georgia

British Tourists Hurt After Gun Attack at Spanish Nightclub

Russia Digs in As It Defies Calls to Pull Troops Out of Georgia

Bolivia Split in Two As the Wealthy Aim to Defy the Morales Revolution

Terror in Spanish Nightclub As Holidaymakers Flee Gunman

Partial Russian Pullout Angers West

Middle East: Israel Declares Gaza Protest Boats Will Not Reach Their Destination

Israel Says It Will Prevent Peace Protest Boats Reaching Gaza Strip

PPP Nominates Bhutto's Widower Zardari for Next President of Pakistan

Russia Begins Troop Withdrawal From Georgia

Relief As Russia's Army Pulls Back

Pakistan Announces Presidential Election Date

This Enemy is Media Friendly and Has a Bewildering Array of Allies and Rivals

Middle East: Israel's Chief Negotiator Rules Out Peace With Palestinians in 2008

Beyond the Bright Lights, Japan's Biggest Slum is Nation's Dark Secret

Love Bus to Take Passengers Across Divided Cyprus

No Deal Reached Over Future of Us Troops in Iraq

Russia Suspends Military Cooperation With Nato

Pakistan Suicide Bombers Strike Arms Factory

Madrid Plane Disaster Plunges Spain Into Three Days of Mourning

Rice Denies Date for American Troop Withdrawal From Iraq Has Been Agreed

Saakashvili Doubts Russian Withdrawal From Georgia

Japan: Marxist Book Turns Bestseller 79 Years on

Bolivia: Awakening a 'mountain That Eats Men'

Religion: Iran Bars Spy Film Actor From Travelling Abroad

Russia: Miliband Backs Georgia and Widens Nato Split

153 Killed After Spanish Holiday Jet Crashes During Takeoff

Tory Outrage at Off-message Blog

Scores Feared Dead in Madrid Plane Crash

Hong Kong and Thailand Shut Doors to Disgraced Glitter

Afghanistan: Sarkozy Fends Off Critics With Visit to French Troops in Kabul

Beijing Olympics 2008: Elderly Evicted Women Given Labour Sentence

German Government Seeks Power to Veto Takeovers By Sovereign Wealth Funds

Nepal: Goddess Has Right to Go to School

Hua Guofeng

Religion: Saudi Mosques Open 24 Hours for Ramadan

Elderly Women Sentenced to Year's Labour Over Olympics Protest

Freddie Mac Boss Had Been Warned Four Years Ago

Fannie Sounds a Warning After $2.3bn Quarterly Loss

Tough Questions for Japan Ahead of G8 Summit

Terrorist Opera Set to Storm the Theatre World

Georgia: Cold War Map Will Not Be Redrawn, Us Warns Russia

Russian Tanks Begin Withdrawal From Gori

French Soldiers Killed in Taliban Gun Battle

Russia and Georgia Exchange Prisoners of War

Germany: Undertakers 'killed' Parlour Boss

Ten French Soldiers Killed in Afghanistan As Taliban Attacks Grow More Audacious

Animal Rights: Sun, Sand, Sea and Now Spaniels

Nato Rebukes Russia and Signals Support for Georgia

US Urges Nato to Punish Russia for Operations in Georgia

Grand Canyon Tourists Rescued

What Next for the Lost Ally of the West?

Military Strongman, Reluctant Politician

Beijing Olympics: Bad Advert for China? Poster Boy Liu Limps Out of Games

Pervez Musharraf: An Ignominious End for Pakistan's Military Strongman

No Sign of Military Withdrawal As Russian Armour Stays Put

Flooding in Grand Canyon Prompts Evacuation

British Climbers Robbed in Peru

Troops Show No Signs of Leaving Gori Despite Russian Promises

Pope Warns Italy in Danger of Returning to Fascism

Creel Killings: Massacre of Family Escalates Mexican Drug Wars

Shares: Slower, Lower, Weaker: China Leaves Stockmarket to Wallow During the Games

Pakistan: The Key Players in Pervez Musharraf's Downfall

Pervez Musharraf: Did the Pakistani President Have to Go?

Georgia Urges Moscow Not to 'sow Discord'

Japan Seeks to Arrest Sea Shepherd Anti-whaling Activists

Olympics: American Christians Protest Over Confiscated Bibles

Army's Rejection Spelled End for Musharraf

Pervez Musharraf Resigns As President of Pakistan

France – drunk, drugged and behind the wheel

Weather: Florida Keys Evacuated As Deadly Fay Builds to Hurricane Strength

Russia Warned: Withdraw From Georgia, or Else

Human Rights: Growing Clamour to Remove the Hague Prosecutor Who Wants Sudanese President Arrested

Brown Sends Miliband to Georgia After Cameron's Surprise Visit

Sarkozy Threatens 'consequences' As Russia Stalls on Georgia Pullout

Russia Denies South Ossetia Pullout Under Way

McCain Sweeps Saddleback Forum

Welcome to Texas, Where Men Are Men and Teachers Are Armed

Resurgent India Buys More Rivals Than West

Fear of Russian 'protection' Spreads to Ukraine and the Baltic

Russia Signs Ceasefire Deal But Troops Stay in Georgia

Pakistan Looks to Life Without the General

Georgia and Russia Declare Ceasefire

History Does Not Always Favour a Hero

Georgia Agrees to Ceasefire With Russia

Moscow Warns It Could Strike Poland Over Us Missile Shield

Mugabe Trying to Bribe Opposition Mps to Join Government

Olympics: Briton to Be Deported Over Tibet Protests

Labour Warned Over Limits to Free Expression

Sichuan Quake: China's Earthquake Reconstruction to Cost $150bn

Suicide Bomber Strikes Shia Pilgrims in Iraq

Georgia Conflict Could Set Back Russia's Us Relations 'for Years'

Turkey Pulls Out of Deal to Buy Iranian Gas Under Pressure From Us

US Sailors Charged With Abusing Inmates at Iraq Detention Centre

US and Russia in War of Words Over Georgia Conflict

Economy: Eurozone Teeters on Brink of Recession After Output Drops for the First Time

Georgia Claims Russia Sending More Troops to Gori

Gary Glitter to Be Deported Back to Uk Next Week

Olympics Organisers Face Down Challenge From Channel 4 News Over Human Rights in China

Musharraf Appeals for Unity As Calls for Impeachment Grow

Russians Pulling Out of Gori, Says Georgian Foreign Ministry

Sarkozy to meet Dalai Lama - in December

Civil Liberties: Outrage at New York Police Plan to Track Vehicles

Religion: Turkish Pm Appeases Critics By Disowning Anti-porn Bill

Zimbabwe: Mugabe Set to Keep Power Amid Rumours of Breakaway Deal

Crime: German Town Shaken By Ice-cream Shop Killings

Lebanon Bomb Mars Landmark Summit in Syria

Gaza: Israel Clears Tank Crew Over Killing of Reuters Cameraman

Taliban Kills Three Aid Workers in Afghanistan

Mugabe Set to Keep Power Amid Rumours of Breakaway Deal

Russia Exaggerating South Ossetian Death Toll, Says Human Rights Group

Lebanon Rush-hour Bombing Kills 18

Credit Suisse Hit By ?5.6m Fsa Fine After Sub-prime Rogue Trading

Three Western Aid Workers Killed in Afghanistan Ambush

Russian Billionaire in Talks to Buy Hummer Brand

US Election: Cindy Mccain Taken to Detroit Hospital

'My Body is Wrong'

Rights Group: Russia Inflating Casualty Figures

Sub-prime Crisis: Property Crash Pushes Third of Us Homebuyers Into Negative Equity

Afghanistan Ambush Kills Three Aid Workers

Georgian Villages Burned and Looted As Russian Tanks Advance

Russian Tanks Enter Gori, Says Georgia

Miliband Criticises Russian 'aggression' in Georgia

Georgia Retreats From Abkhazia As Russia Dictates Truce Terms

Lebanon Roadside Bomb Kills Soldiers and Civilians

British Journalist Detained By Beijing Police After Covering Free Tibet Protest

France's Olympic silver lining

Mugabe Hopes to Cling to Power By Agreeing Coalition Deal With Breakaway Mdc Faction

Georgian Conflict Leaves West Reeling and Russia Walking Tall

Beijing Olympics Diary

Defiant Georgia Refuses to 'surrender to Russian Occupiers'

Amazon Rainforest Threatened By New Wave of Oil and Gas Exploration

Soaring Fertiliser Prices Threaten World's Poorest Farmers

Explained: India's ?185bn Grocery Market

Olympics: Child Singer Revealed As Fake

Attacks on Georgia Continue Despite Russian President's Calls to Halt

Chinese Police Officers Stabbed to Death at Checkpoint

Indian Soldiers Shoot Dead 14 Protesters in Kashmir

What Al-qaida Did to Us - Part Three

Staff Revolt at Baghdad Museum

Surrender or Else, Russia Tells Georgia

Mugabe Clings to Power After Reaching Coalition Deal With Breakaway Mdc Faction

Soldier Killed, Two Wounded in Kabul Attack

Supporters Cheer Pledge By President to Punish Russia

Mexico Fights Back Against Kidnappers

Coney Island Gets Torture Stall

Iranian Minister Flaunts Bogus Oxford Degree

Vivisection Study Finds 115 Million Animals Used in Tests Worldwide

Zimbabwe Talks Reach Deadlock As Mugabe Refuses to Cede Power

Explainer: The Partnership

Tesco Hopes Cash-and-carry Deal Will Provide Springboard Into Indian Market

Indian Security Forces Shoot Dead Kashmir Demonstrators As Thousands Defy Curfew

Obama Adviser Compares Putin to Hitler

Enter Sarkozy the Peacemaker

President Orders End to Russian Military Operations in Georgia

Georgian President Says Country is Split As Russian Troops Advance

Mourners Killed As Indian Soldiers Fire Into Kashmiri Funeral Crowd

Three Killed As Soldiers Fire Into Indian Kashmir Funeral Crowd

French Extreme Right looks to Shanghai for financial bail out

Russians March Into Georgia As Full-scale War Looms

Conservation: Humpback Whales Make a Comeback

Putin's Second War Can Have Only One Victor

The Curse of Yemen

Russia Has Taken Over Half the Country, Georgia Claims

US Elections: Obama Has Online Edge in 2008, Conference Emphasises

Performers Threaten to Halt 650 French Festivals in Support of Unemployed

Moscow Accused of Planning Invasion But Remains Deaf to Critics

Retail: Zara Bridges Gap to Become World's Biggest Fashion Retailer

Bolivia Remains Bitterly Divided Despite Poll Win By President Morales

Thaksin: Former Thai Prime Minister and Wife Skip Bail and Flee to Britain Before Corruption Trial

Africa: Talks in Zimbabwe Falter As Tsvangirai Refuses to Concede Power to Mugabe

Jordan's King in Flying Visit to Iraq

Exodus Gathers Pace As the Funerals Begin

Power to the People

Russia Says Conflict With Georgia Over South Ossetia Nearly Over

Barenboim Saves Berlin Opera at Cost of 300 Jobs

Credit Crunch: Live the Crisis, See the Movie, Iousa

French Politicians Accused of Assisting Rwandan Genocide

Evo Morales Wins Bolivian Presidential Referendum

Climate Change: How Quest for Zero Waste Community Means Sorting the Rubbish 34 Ways

French politicians give Dalai Lama’s visit the cold shoulder

A quick look at the weather and time for a happy ending

This is No Pipeline War But an Assault on Russian Influence

Mahmoud Darwish

Russia Brushes Aside Ceasefire Calls After Georgia Withdraws

Zimbabwe Elections: Power-sharing Talks Between Mugabe and Tsvangirai Reach Critical Stage

Morales Heads for Win in Tense Bolivian Poll

Gettysburg: Us Civil War 'witness Tree' Toppled

California: Marijuana Law Goes Up in Smoke As Federal Agents Raid Dispensaries

US Condemns 'dangerous' Russian Response in South Ossetia

Russia Takes Control of South Ossetian Capital After Georgian Retreat

Eight Dead After Bombings in Western China Mars Olympic Opening Weekend

Eight Dead After Bombing in Western China Mars Olympic Opening Weekend

Sarkozy spin or a cave in to Chinese pressure?

Russia Widens Attacks As World Pleads for Peace in South Ossetia

Prada Sets Fashion for New Art Movies

Meltdown in the Arctic is Speeding Up

Russian Tanks Roll Into Georgia As Cities Burn

Murder Casts Shadow Over Olympic Party

First Day of Olympics Marred By Street Killing in Beijing

Russia Claims Control of South Ossetian Capital

Bank Boardrooms: 'curious' Bank Balance Sheet: Profits Lost, £13bn; Bosses' Jobs Lost, Zero

Greece Cracks Down on Dangerous Cocktails

German Woman Spends Decade in Palma's Airport

Feuding Leaves Bp's Russian Venture Facing Debt Rating Reduction

Analysis: Georgia's Decision to Shell Tskhinvali Could Prove 'reckless'

Russia Volunteers Poised to Join Battle for Separatists' Capital Tskhinvali

Bush Keeps Freedom in Spotlight During Speech in China

Wall Street Shaken As Home Price Index Drops to 20-year Low

Stronger, Faster and Better - a People's Pride in Its Power

Dangerous Proxy War Gains an International Dimension

Armed Cossacks Pour in to Fight Georgians

Patriot Games: China Makes Its Point With Greatest Show

France is already working

Whatever the Result, Sharif is Likely to Win

Nasty Surprise for Children As Germans Plan Kinder Egg Ban

Rome's Mayor Forced to Rethink Ban on Taking Food From Bins

Petrol Coupons Traded As Cash in Zimbabwe

Toyota Takes a Bump in Sluggish Motor Market

Documentary on Us Debt Crisis Set to Open This Month

New Yorker Agrees to Life Sentence in Exchange for Fast Food Feast

Sharif the Likely Winner of Pakistan's Power Play

Chinese Government Unlikely to Be Involved in Hacking Pro-tibet Blog

Olympic Athletes Sign Letter Urging China to Respect Tibet Freedoms

Instability in Pakistan

Bottoms Up As Barcelona Celebrates Record-breaking Photo Shoot

Al-Qaida: Bin Laden's Driver is Given Light Sentence

Stadium Designer Attacks Autocratic China

Olympics Scene Set for Spectacle and Controversy

Playing With Fire

Christian Protesters Dragged From Tiananmen Square

Musharraf Faces Impeachment

Paradise and Razor Wire: Luxury Resort Helps Haiti Cling on to Tourist Trade

Matthew Bruccoli

Texas Causes Row With Execution of Mexican National

Olympics: Tensions Mount As Bush Speaks Out on Human Rights

Indian Pm in Emergency Talks to End Kashmir Rioting

Harry Paints His Way Into Outback Row

Size Does Matter, Jamaicans Decide

Cambodia's Forgotten Temples Fall Prey to Looters

Texas Ignores Treaty to Execute Mexican Killer

Clashes in Bolivia Halt Talks Before Morales Referendum

Mystery of the Bowdlerised Blog As Beijing Frees Four After Tibet Protest

Pakistan: Impeaching Rumours Dog Musharraf's Olympic Trip

Mugabe and Tsvangirai to Discuss Powersharing

US Seeks Tougher Action in Iran Nuclear Standoff

US Economy: Financial Group Suggests Reforms for Banking Industry

Identity Theft: 11 Charged in Biggest Us Case

Olympics: Britons and Americans Held Over Tibet Protests

Murdoch Delighted But Wary After News Corp's Profits Surge

Just three minutes to wreck a town - Now the long clear up begins

East German Pub Beer, Spies and Videotape: Stasi Drinking Den Angers Berliners

Former Us Mafia Boss John Gotti Jr Arrested in New York

Olympics: Pollution Over Beijing? Don't Worry, It's Only Mist, Say Officials

Jihadists Intent on Year of Mourning, Chinese Say

Turkey Plays Down Ahmadinejad Snub to State's Founding Father

'Freeze-for-freeze' Package Ignored As Iran Stalls for Time on Nuclear Demands

Iraqi Militia Leader to Order Followers to Lay Down Their Arms

Terrorism in China

Mahdi Army Deal: Iraq Deployment Was Not Affected, Says Mod

Bulletproof Bras Issued to German Police

Arnold Schwarzenegger Lays Off 10,000 California Workers to Ease Budget Crisis

Morgan Freeman in Good Spirits With Broken Arm After Crash, Says Publicist

France's top 50 favourites "French" of course. What else did you expect?

Texas Execution Plan Defies Hague Order

'Anti-Semitic' Satire Divides Liberal Paris

Texas May Defy Hague With Execution

Big Crowds Back Zuma at Corruption Charges Hearing

Turkey Appoints Anti-islamist Army Chief

South Africa: Jacob Zuma Asks High Court to Scrap Fraud Charges

China on Olympic Terror Alert After Border Attack

Beijing Residents Stage Protest Over Olympic Eviction

BP's Russian Venture Rocked By Financial Chief's Resignation

Man Shot By Greek Police After 'decapitating Girlfriend'

Eleven Dead in K-2 Climbing Disaster

Echoes of Home Alone As Family Leave Girl at Airport

Middle East: Top Assad Aide Assassinated at Syrian Resort

Gorbachev and Putin Lead Tributes to Solzhenitsyn

Bangladesh Holds First Elections Since State of Emergency

Grenade Attack Kills 16 Policemen on Chinese Border

There's nothing like good neighbours

Yah-oops: Yahoo! News Site in Olympic Mix-up

Drink: Sake is Not So Hot in Tokyo - But Now It's Cool With Trendy New Yorkers

Energy: Centrica May Reactivate Plans to Bid for Nuclear Power Generator

Chinese Join Imperial Pursuit

At Least 145 Killed in India Temple Stampede

Truth, Lies and Berlusconi: Italy's Playboy Premier Accused of Nudity Cover-up

Middle East: Israel's Secret Police Pressuring Sick Gazans to Spy for Them, Says Report

Italy: Silvio Berlusconi Puts Troops on Patrol in Rome

Al-Qaida Confirms Death of Poisons Expert in Pakistan

RAF Helicopter Rescue Teams to Be Sent to Afghanistan

Nobel Prize Winner Alexander Solzhenitsyn Dies Aged 89

Warning on Al-qaeda's New Female Recruits

How Ex-cop Could Take Down New York's Elite Food Dynasty

US 'held Terrorist Suspects on Uk Territory'

'Anti-Semitic' Satire Divides Literary Paris

New-style Malaria Vaccine Could Save Millions

Israel: Power Struggle Leads to Netanyahu, Hard Man in a Tough Neighbourhood

Pakistan to 'weed Out' Taliban Sympathisers

Killer Left Victim's Body in Bathroom, Showered, Then Went Out to Party

Beijing Olympics: Government U-turn Ends Ban on Human Rights Websites

Beijing Olympics: China Using Games As 'warfare,' Says Stadium Designer

Nuclear Energy: Pressure on Government to Act As It Ponders Its Options

Car Industry: Bmw Sneezes But General Motors Catches Cold

Energy Policy in Disarray As £12bn Takeover Rejected

Radovan Karadzic Claims in Lengthy Statement That He Will Not Get a Fair Trial

Britons Limber Up for the Main Event - the Long Lunch

Armed Forces: Jury Clears Soldiers of Cyprus Bar Brawl

Iraq Abuse Claims: British Troops 'made Muslim Commander Hear Porn Videos'

GM Results Add to Motor Industry Woes

Brazil's Lula Targets Time-wasting Call Centres

Bright Future for China's Solar Billionaire

Sarkozy takes a holiday