National & World News Archive September 2003
The Case of the Disappearing Rhine
Chirac in the wings at Juppé trial
Chechen leader critically ill after poison attempt
Gust of Wind and Uprooted Tree Puts 57m in Darkness
Peres at 80: peace can be grasped
Take Two: Top-up Fees
English Duke Takes 'feudal' Action Over Spanish Road
Blix book to detail run-up to war
Budget Drags Raffarin's Popularity to Record Low
Prodi Clears His Team in Latest Fraud Scandal
Toxic Fleet Heading for Uk to Die is Unfit for Voyage
The Hunt for Weapons of Mass Destruction Yields - Nothing
UN loses patience with the American way
Brussels Offers Three Ways to Start Cap Reform
Immunity for Arms Suspect
UK Backs Down on European Defence
Even the Tory party can die
Basque Ball Sparks Bitter Debate
Depardieu: the Son, the Father and the Mother of All Spats
Bavarian Poll Knocks Schröder
30,000 to protest at Dublin's EU meetings
Red faces all round as UK's 'madame' goes on trial
Lazy social chameleon with razor claws
Latvian Vote Expected to Endorse Eu Membership Application
Chirac wants power change 'in months'
I'm proud of my work, Briton tells escort trial
Fears as Suu Kyi has surgery
Row as TV host feeds baby on air
Le Pen in Sight of a Regional Triumph
Disease Control 'hit By Red Tape'
Family of Five Killed for a Few Days' Pay
Brussels Urges Shakeup of 'medieval' Wto
Soap stars join 50,000 in rainy Rio to demand guns crackdown
Siege warfare versus art of gentle protest
Army seizes power in Guinea-Bissau
100 Koreans Feared Dead After Typhoon
Estonia Poll Set to Back Eu Membership
Strike Exposes Poverty Behind Scenes at Yale
Woman Beaten By Nuns Attacks Probe Into Abuse
Mafia's Eircom Card Scam Cracked
America's Hidden Battlefield Toll
European Ruling Halts Drugs Trial
Euro Vote Too Close to Call As Swedes Grieve
Crisis Talks As Poor Nations Stand Firm
Plus ça Change ...
West meets tough opposition to farm subsidies
World leaders pay tribute to the 'exemplary face of European politics'
Leakey Puts Wildife at Top of Tree
Press Review: The View From ... Paris
Farmer Who Got a Hearing By Paying the Ultimate Price
Mourning a Politician, a Mother and a Wound to Democracy
Big Apple awash with Snapple
CIA weapons expert to quit after uranium scandal
Father and daughter buried on day she was to marry
Dutchman in Line to Head Nato
World's Poor Take on the West
Peasant farmers show strength in cauldron of grassroots politics
Ring of steel security costs $6m
Developing Countries Square Up to West at Talks
Straw: Eu Reform Essential
Staff leave blamed for heat deaths
Chechen Bodyguard Tells of Torture
Sham Demobilisation Hides Rise in Congo's Child Armies
Evicted Fight Back Against Nature Parks
African Cleric Breaks Ranks on Gay Issue
UN to close London base after government refuses to help with soaring costs
Kirov sets lost in storage fire
Schröder plea to Czechs
Red faces at American base as Korean crooks' booze tunnel comes to light
Europe-US Gulf Widens
EU Farm Chief Slams Poor Nations' Demands
Swedes Divided in Countdown to E-day
Reconstruction Hinges on Security, Say Donors
Poles Bring Relief As Us Tries to Shed Burden
Brussels Raids Channel Ferry Firms
Paris Threatens to Break Eu Budget Rules
Shia Mourners Demand End to Us Occupation
Death of the President: Bodyguard Relives Coup
Death Wish Star Bronson Dies at 81
Suu Kyi 'hunger Strike' Denied
Inside Europe
Aznar Names His Successor
Best Case Scenario for Spanish Smokers
Morocco Jails Twin Girls for Plotting to Assassinate King
Israeli Pilot Rebels Accused of Mutiny
Third Guantanamo Staff Member Held
'Free Staters' Pick New Hampshire to Liberate for Sex, Guns and Drugs
Bin Laden Disciple Jailed for 10 Years in Belgium
Bush Aide Accused of Cia Leak
UK Police Open Calvi Murder Inquiry
Bush dispatches his wife to unruffle Gallic feathers
Intifada Leader Uses Courtroom to Point to One-state Solution
Italy's Blackout Raises Questions
EU Alarmed As Putin Backtracks on Kyoto
US Responds in Strength to Latest Ambushes
Iraqi Defectors' Weapons Claims Were 'false'
Why the lights go out: free-market frugality, freakish weather, no standby power
Unions in Bolivia go on strike
Milly Police Investigate Possible Link to Costa Sex Attacker
Iran Stands Defiant Over Nuclear Programme
Croatian Pm Lobbies Blair for Softer Line on Wanted War Crimes Suspect
Mongolians Join Multinational Force
Japanese 'orgy' Claims Spark Outrage in China
US Intelligence on Iraqi Weapons 'flawed'
UK troops in Iraq warned of 'inevitable' terror attack
Terror reigns as Putin tries to force peace on Chechnya
Pakistan Stokes Feud With India
Call for 'dishonest' Mbeki to Apologise for Aids Gaffe
Powell vows to speed up US handover to Iraqis
Hundreds hurt in Japanese quakes
Reports detailing rapes of Kenyan women were faked, say British investigators
Zimbabwe arrests 'banned' journalists
Lindh killing suspect 'has record'
Suu Kyi faces house arrest again
Iran Woman Awaits Execution
US Anger at Putin Over Iran
Britons Held in Global Child Porn Swoop
Pursuit of Harry Strains Pact
British Investigators Claim Kenyan Rape Reports Are Fake
'You Lied, They Died,' Us Parents Tell Bush
Woman Claims She Was Victim of 'costa Killer'
Former Gdr Assassin Arrested
Family's Joy As Kidnap Tourist Phones Home
Nigerian Woman Escapes Death By Stoning
South African Farm Attacks 'not Racial'
New Iran Uranium Find Reinforces Bomb Fears
Scholar Edward Said Dies
Iraq Slips Further Into Turmoil
Swedes Release Lindh Suspect
Schröder and Bush mend rift over Iraq
Israeli pilots refuse to fly assassination missions
Syria Denies Us Spy Ring
Al-Qaida Suspect Dies in Saudi Raid
Fighters Now Hold Their Punches in Muhammad Ali's Congo Hotel
Prodi Prepares for Eu Fraud Grilling
Chaos As Trial of Rhodes Medics Begins
Condom Supply to Africa Hit By Us Abortion Policy
Becker Quits Germany for Swiss Tax Haven
Briton Escapes From Captors
Swedes Release Murder Suspect
Bush and Schröder Hold Key Iraq Talks
Baghdad bans Arab TV for broadcasting 'poison'
Police Bust Huge Italian Call-girl Ring
200 Held in Yemen 'to Placate Us'
Military Interpreter Faces Spying Charge
UK Recalls Mi6 Link to Palestinian Militants
Bush Isolated As Speech to Un Falls Flat
Putin fails to bring out voters
Plagiarism Rows Rock South African Newspapers
'Super Region' Plan to Revive Empire
UN Envoy Berates West for Funding War on Terror But Ignoring Aids Pandemic
Prisoner Swap May See Potential Arafat Successor Freed
Bush Demands Un Help in Iraq
Chirac Softens Stance on Iraq
Attack on Iraq council member spurs tighter security call
Guantanamo Bay chaplain held on suspicion of spying
Kremlin denies poison pen plot
Original 9/11 plan 'involved 10 planes'
British Police Volunteers Sought to Train Iraqis
Prodi in Trouble As Eu 'fraud' Scandal Grows
Foreign Firms to Bid in Huge Iraqi Sale
Mugabe Seals Fate of Free Press
Italy's Uglies Fancy Their Chances
Blood Feuds Trap Albania in the Past
Senior Iraqi Official Gunned Down
Blair Gets the Cold Shoulder at Berlin Summit
Shia militia arrest top Ba'athist
Dirty tricks alleged in St Petersburg poll
Europeans fail to end Iranian nuclear crisis
No evidence of smallpox
Isabel's fury leaves 17 dead on US east coast
Israel fears growing terror threat by settlers
Man held over 1970s murders
Zimbabwe Paper Shut Despite Court Order
UN Surges to Arafat's Defence
Police Get More Time to Hold Suspect
Saddam's Defence Minister Gives Himself Up After Talks
100mph Winds Batter Us East Coast
Convert to Islam gets life sentence
Bali bomb builder gets life in jail
Briton Held in Spain Murder Hunt
Nato Plans Wider Role for Afghan Security Force
German Green Leader Divorces for Fourth Time
EU Commissioner Plans New York Style Smoking Ban
Eye of the Storm Hurricane Isabel Hits Eastern Us
Iraq dumped WMDs years ago, says Blix
US blacklists Russian arms firm selling to Iran
Leaders, hopefuls, stragglers and also-rans in the nuclear arms race
Muslim Cleric Faces Extradition
Slow Shore Exit As Hurricane Isabel Flies in
Prodi Pushes for Firmer Brussels Hand on Eu Purse
'King' Berlusconi Plans Prime Ministerial Revolution
Swedish Police Explore Neo-nazi Links of Lindh Murder Suspect
Saudis Consider Nuclear Bomb
Police Arrest Suspect for Lindh Murder
Gunned down in the line of duty
Israeli army forced to share in budget cuts
Blast kills three in Japanese siege
Refugees Die After Being Thrown in Sea
Patients Turn Up Their Noses at Marijuana
Italian Boycott Over Euro Price Rises
Mugabe Throws Cloud Over Summit
Iraqi Police Chief Murdered
Police Arrest 'far-right' Lindh Murder Suspect
US Coast Battens Down for Isabel
Schröder and Bush Meet After Iraq Row
US Vetoes Un Call to Protect Arafat
Bomb wrecks Russian security service base
Iran says it will stick to nuclear treaty
Big Issue goes Japanese to help the new homeless
Cancun raises five crucial questions
Algerian Pilot Sues Us Over Terror Charges
Baseball Victory Lifts Osaka's Depression
Dumbing Down Row at La Scala
Recriminations Erupt Over Sweden's Anti-euro Vote
Help Delayed for Tennis Stars' Dying Sister
Raid Foils Neo-nazi 'kristallnacht' Plot
Death Threat Rebuke for Israel
Tennis stars' eldest sister shot dead
Putin greets Bush Sr to bolster US visit
Iran to keep calm over ultimatum
Alliance of the poor unites against west
Extradition Case Becomes Disaster for Russia
Civil Libertarians Prepare to Fight Bush Over Tougher Anti-terror Laws
Islamists Target Morocco's Jews
Powell Flies in to Iraqi Anger at Deaths
Israel May Kill Arafat, Deputy Pm Says
Blair Euro Poll Hopes Dashed By Swedes
Gaza shifts to a new solution
France gripped as a showbusiness story of doomed love unravels
Mugabe Closes Down Critical Newspaper
Berlusconi's Nemesis Closes in
Ali Star Shines for Turks
Drug Craze is Fuelling Murder on Streets of Iraqi Capital
America Set to Torpedo Trade Talks
US Renews French Feud Over Iraq
Poll Shows Mourning Swedes Tipping to Euro
Minister had ignored referendum hate mail
Hewitt joins angels on farm visit
France Looks Forward to a Rural Rebirth
Court Told of Plot to Murder Tycoon
Rwanda Genocide Prosecutor Sacking Claim
Lockerbie Relatives See Un End Libya Sanctions
Immigrants Sue Spanish Pm for Claiming Terror Groups Link
Israeli Threat of Exile Strengthens Arafat's Hand
US Killing of Eight Iraqi Police Fuels Anger in Troubled Town
Iran's Nuclear Deadline
Perhaps now Sweden will wake up to the new realities
Developing Nations Keep Up Pressure
Cornered: but will he end up as exiled martyr or deal maker?
America remembers in subdued silence
Marking the tragedy around the world
Battering ram used in mass jailbreak
Blow to fair elections in Chechnya
Deadline for Iran to Prove It is Not Building N-bomb Programme
UN Cleared to End Libya Sanctions
Al-Jazeera Man Faces Terror Trial
Bin Laden Video is Compilation of Repeats, Says Expert
Mussolini Wasn't That Bad, Says Berlusconi
Israelis Threaten to Exile Arafat
There is a dark cabal around Blair
Africa Calls for End to Cotton Subsidies
Suicide Bomber Attacks Us Base in Northern Iraq
Israeli jet targets Hamas leader as Sharon flies home
The road to peace seems to stretch for generations
At Ground Zero, normality starts to return
Who has been arrested?
Bali bombing 'brains' to face firing squad
Blair talks of 'terrible virus'
Fourth Hamas leader under fire
China Bans Police Torture of Suspects
Asylum Granted to Putin Adversary
Swedish Minister Stabbed
Suicide Bombing at Us Spy Base in Northern Iraq
Poor Farmers' Mass Show of Strength
New 'bin Laden' Videotape Warns of Real Battle to Come
Protesters March on Cancun
Gunfire at embassy in Iran
Families of 9/11 Victims Win Right to Sue Airlines
Belgium Fights Slick From Wreck
Botswana Erects 300-mile Electrified Fence
France and Germany Seek Full Un Control Over Iraq
Leni Riefenstahl, Hitler's Favourite Film Propagandist, Dies at 101
Libya Sanctions Lifting Delayed
Bombers Hit Back at Israel
Britain Rebukes Iran Over Embassy Gunfire
Annan: UN needs postwar reform
Half-hearted welcome from White House
Seasoned politico who can stand his ground
Putin puts 'Soviet' bar on poll coverage
Successful Us Commissioner Earns Home Office Brief to Reform Police
UN Nuclear Chief Hits Out at Iran
Arafat's Nominee Sets Out His Demands
UK to Send 1,000 More Troops to Iraq
Powell attacks Israel, but clings to road map
Rebels clash with Macedonian troops
Old Guard Join Fray in Taiwan Identity Crisis
EU to Ban Hamas Political Wing
Protests at Arrest of Al-jazeera Reporter
Baghdad's Mean Streets Stretch New Police Force
Rumsfeld Presses for Wider Nato Action in Afghanistan
Fear of $80bn Iraq Bill Moves Bush to Address Nation
Iran 'has Nuclear Bomb Project'
Al-Qaida Issues a Chilling Warning
Arafat Backs New Palestine Leader
Britons tell of Saudi torture
Fury at Muslim talks in memory of 9/11 hijackers
Pressure breaks Abbas as road map leads only to more violence
Road map to peace in crisis as Palestinian leader quits
US must concede more on Iraq says Europe
China's new cultural revolutionaries: they wave not Mao's book but eviction orders
Hong Kong leader backs down on bill
Mugabe's thugs admit their crimes
Amsterdam's key stoned cops face drug cafe ban
Spain extradites exile to Peru on terrorism charge
British charity worker killed in Iraq gun attack
Two Die in Israeli Raid on West Bank
Iraq's fresh start may be another false dawn
Judges are crazy, says Berlusconi
Olympic Star Held Over Casino Scam
European Roundup
Farmers Raise Stink Over New Zealand 'fart Tax'
Back Me or Lose Me, Warns Abbas
Saudi Missile Haul Raises Fears of Air Attack
Fresh Row Over Un Role in Iraq
France buries its unclaimed dead
Six killed by Russian train bomb
Florida Executes Anti-abortionist Killer
Italian Cops Frown on Farmstays
Berlusconi Goes From Sad to Verse
CBI Sees Franco-german Plot
Sow Flowers, Stop Spitting - and Score High on Beijing's Morality Index
China Holds to a Strong Line Over Its Weak Currency
Iraq Sets Up Civil Defence Unit to Support Police
'Wake-up' Call for Mugabe
Shots Fired at Uk Embassy As Iranian Row Worsens
Bush Asks Un for Help in Iraq
Day of Decision in Abbas Feud With Arafat
DNA Find Could Free Lesbian
Hong Kong Braced for Typhoon
Two Generals, Two Children - and Two Views of Chile's Coup
Hero of 'pro-life' Militants Due to Die
Indonesian Cleric Cleared of Terrorism
Unease at Plan to Alter Doctors' Ethical Code
Iran's Ambassador Quits London
Indonesian Cleric Found Guilty of Treason
Cabinet is finally named in Iraq
MoD Reveals Aid to Colombian Army
China Trims Its Army By 200,000
Missile Kills Hamas Activist
Tape Said to Be By Saddam Denies Role in Najaf Bombing
Saudi Pact Paves Way to Wto
Last Chance to Clear the Slate of the Pinochet Era
Deal Reached Over Cheap Drugs for Poor Nations
US Troops Die in Week-long Fight With Taliban
Indignant Activists Demand Names Go on Police List
Grief and Anger on the Streets As Funeral of Murdered Cleric Begins
Solidarity's words saved for the world
Minister blames carelessness for Russian submarine disaster
Libya strikes deal on French jet bomb
Kickback claims hit Italian left
Fires return to French Riviera
Most 9/11 families fail to file claims