National & World News Archive September 2005
Man Jailed for Throwing Labourer to Lions
Trinidad Appeals to Met and Fbi Over Crime Wave
Mining Magnate Killed in Gangland-style Shooting
After a Long and Dirty War, Victims Offered Compensation But Not Justice
Kabul Suicide Bombing Kills Nine
US Agrees to Pull Out of Uzbek Airbase After Talks Collapse
Abu Ghraib Soldier Sentenced to Three Years in Jail
Concorde Engineer Under Investigation Over Crash
Schröder's Half-brother Calls for Him to Resign
Barroso Signals End of Europe's Red-tape Culture
Muscovites Pay to See Excesses of Super-rich
Gas Threat Grows From Cameroon's Lethal Lakes
Oil Prices Steady As Rita Spares Refineries
Hundreds of Abu Ghraib Prisoners Freed
Rockets, Bombs and Jet Fighters Break Gaza's Fragile Peace
How Ashes Triumph Could Save the 'last Brit' in Guantanamo
US Relieved As Rita Rolls Past
ABC Reporter Fights Sacking
Sistani Tells Followers to Support New Constitution
Rise of Islamic Militancy Casts Shadow of Chechnya Over Caucasus Villages
Basra Governor Threatens to End Uk Cooperation
Bomb Suspect Returned to Uk
Bishop Admits Church Has Received Drug Money
There Will Be No Constitution for Years, Says Eu President
Gentle Humming Can Give Aircraft a Lift
Uzbeks Accuse Foreign Media of Coup Attempt As Andijan 'show Trial' Opens
Survival Was Like Winning the Ashes, Divers Say
UK Pushes for Tehran Security Council Report
Former Tyco Chiefs Jailed for $150m Corporate Theft
First New Orleans Residents Return
Eleven Soldiers Shot Dead By Separatists
Alert as flood city lets people return
Legal battle rages around America's richest teenager
We can still win, says confident Schröder
UN summit: low marks on the final scorecard
Office cleaner dresses to shock
'Playboy' priest in fraud inquiry
Thief sells her story to pay back stolen cash
Politicians Are Voted the World's Least Trusted People
Revealed: Bae's Secret £1m to Pinochet
Debate Rages As Medium Finds Body in Lake
Tense Countdown to Eu Membership Talks
Unison Smile and the world smiles with you
Social Housing Raises Residents' Hackles in Chic Districts of Paris
Norwegian Pm Announces Resignation
Günter Grass Bangs Drum for Schröder
Utilities' Staff Fund Did Power of Good for Communists
Eta 'is Preparing to Announce Ceasefire After Secret Talks'
The Plight of the Island Children
Drained But Alive After Sewer Ride
State Media Hail Mubarak Victory
Oil Prices Rise Again After Us Warning
Hunger Strikers Pledge to Die in Guantã¡namo
Presidential Election Complaints 'baseless'
Mubarak Challenger Calls for New Presidential Poll
Flood Water 10 Times Over Toxic Limit
Refugees Turn Little Neighbour Into Big Boomtown
New Orleans Flood Waters 10 Times Over Toxic Limit
Koizumi Sends Out Political 'assassins'
'Everybody's Trying to Do Their Best - But There's Not a Lot of Answers'
New Mubarak Means Same Old Problems, Say Opponents
Oil-for-food Report Condemns 'corrupt' Un
Draining Begins Amid Levee Repairs
UK Changes Tack in Nuclear Talks
Chernobyl Death Toll Under 50
Workers Begin to Retrieve Bodies
Hospital Stops Gay Man Giving Blood
Frightened Victims Ponder Life in a New City
Why Did Help Take So Long to Arrive?
Blasts Rock New Orleans As More Troops Ordered in
Mayor Issues Sos As Chaos Tightens Its Grip
Boys' Booty Turns Out to Be Viking Hoard
Evacuation Effort Halted
US Army Recruitment Slumps
'No End' to Chechnya Rights Abuses, Says Amnesty
Jailed Reporter Freed After Agreeing to Give Evidence
Reid in Afghanistan for Karzai Talks
US Accused of Protecting Cuban Militant
Turkey's Future Lies in Eu, Says Blair
African Migrants Die in Quest for New Life
African Exodus: Chaos and Hope As Hundreds of Thousands of Sudanese Return to Homeland
VW Manager Admits Supplying Colleagues With Viagra
Motorists Queue to Beat 50% Fuel Price Increase
US Demands Action on Burma's Military Junta
Chindia, Where the World's Workshop Meets Its Office
Iraqi Bombers Kill 60 While Us Senate Told of Troop Shortfalls
Turkey Furious As Eu Talks Stall
Palestinian Elections Marred As Israel Kills Three More Activists
9/11 'freedom Museum' Plan Scrapped
EU Set for Emergency Talks Over Turkey
Israel Kills Three Palestinian Gunmen
Outcry Over $236m Contract to House Hurricane Survivors in Cruise Liners
Zimbabwe's Economic Crisis Drives It Back Into Steam Age
Screen Test for America's First Woman President
German Rivals Hold Talks to Resolve Power Struggle
Troops Storm Ferry As Anger Grows Over Fate of Corsica Shipping Line
Kabul Attack Raises Fear of Al-qaida Link to Taliban
Fears Over Climate As Arctic Ice Melts at Record Level
Female Suicide Bomber Kills Six in Iraqi City Declared Free of Terrorists
Economics Expert Nominated As New Polish Pm
Military Action Against Iran 'inconceivable', Says Straw
Seven Killed in Iraq Suicide Bombing
Afghan Kidnap Suspect Arrested
Luxury Brands Face Dilemma
Sarkozy Attacked Over Comments on Terror Raid
Torture Claims Threaten Turkey's Bid to Join Eu
Iraqi Insurgents on the Back Foot After America Kills Zarqawi's Deputy
A Wilderness Overgrown With Dope and Danger
Putin Rejects Third Term and Leaves Legacy of Uncertainty
Go Easy on the Gas, Bush Tells America
Iran in Threat to Resume Uranium Enrichment
Zarqawi Aide Killed in Iraq
US Soldier Guilty of Abusing Iraqi Prisoners
Sharon Narrowly Survives Attempt to Oust Him As Likud Leader
President Urges World to Honour Tsunami Pledges
Lawyers Call for Release of Abortion Rights Activist
Koizumi Vows to Push on With Post Office Reform
Air Pollution Linked to Sperm Damage
Katrina Relief Contracts Come Under Investigation
Madrid Al-qaida Leader Jailed for 27 Years Over 9/11 Attacks
Teenage Double Suicide Shocks France
Parents Challenge Us 'intelligent Design' Teaching
The Great Submarine Hoax
Spain Jails 9/11-linked Al-qaida Suspect
Gunmen Kill Schoolteachers in Iraq
Poland Swings to the Right in General Election
After the Deluge, 2.5m Texans Prepare for Long Journey Home
Farmers Injured As More White-owned Land Seized
Iran Hits Back Over Un Nuclear Censure
Thousands Flee As Darfur Rebels Renew Attacks
Car Bomb Maims Top Lebanese Tv Journalist
Mother Who Denied Aids Link Faces Police Investigation After Death of Daughter
Turkish Protest Over Genocide Conference
Guantánamo Inmate Says Us Told Him to Spy on Al-jazeera
Britain Refuses Apology and Compensation for Iraqis Caught Up in Basra Riots
Ghaith Abdul-ahad on the Deadly Danger of Working As a Journalist in Iraq
Gaza Erupts As Israel Strikes Back at Hamas
Shanghai's Guide to Spotting Fake Beggars
Israeli Hostage's Family Offers $10 Million for His Freedom
Hurricane Rita slams into US coast
EU Troika Presses for Iran to Be Reported to Security Council
Khodorkovsky's Lawyer Ordered Out of Country
Ban on Genocide Talks Earns Rebuke From Eu
Polish Right Heads for Election Landslide
Militants Threaten Nigerian Oil Stations After Leader's Arrest
No Avoiding the Rough As Golf Returns to Afghanistan
Germany's New Left Mps Accused of Collaborating With Stasi
Evacuees Burn to Death on Bus in Exodus Gridlock
Rita Evacuees Killed As Bus Explodes
Mass Evacuations As Rita Heads for Texas
Merkel's Party Attacks 'putsch' As Spd Plays Numbers Game
Bush: Troops Will Not Withdraw on My Watch
Bomb Suspect Charged With Attempted Murder
Arabic Channel Demands Reporter's Release
London Bomb Suspect Extradited
Italy Extraditing London Bomb Suspect
Mass Evacuation Ordered As Rita Approaches
Tens of Thousands Ordered Out of Texas As Rita Rivals Power of Katrina
Speaker Denies Link to Killing of Journalist
Presidential Favourite Vows to Legalise Coca
Iran to Rebuild Spectacular Tent City at Persepolis
Haitian Children Sold As Cheap Labourers and Prostitutes for Little More Than £50
Schröder to Meet Merkel, But a Meeting of Minds is Unlikely
Spain Heightens Fence at African Enclave
Ceasefire Will End If Israelis Block Elections, Says Hamas
Strange Case of De Villepin Fils and His Disappearing Files
War Declared on Designer Drugs As Chinese Middle Class Gets High
France Plans to Pay Cash for More Babies
Marchers Denounce 'british Aggression' in Basra
Help for Hurricane Katrina Survivors
Reid Defends Uk Troops' Role in Iraq
Indonesia 'facing Bird Flu Epidemic'
Merkel Wins Vote of Confidence From Mps As Coalition Talks Begin
MPs Reject Yushchenko's Choice of Prime Minister
Afghan Leader Calls for Tactical Shift in Battle Against Taliban
Nuclear Deal at Risk After North Korea Demands Reactor
Brussels Calls for Media Code to Avoid Aiding Terrorists
End Right to Citizenship By Birth, Says French Minister
Green Leader Resigns As Fallout From German Election Continues
Gulf Coast on Alert As Rita Roars in
Military Anger at Delay to Iraq Pull-out Plan
Reid Defends Basra Jail Raid
British Tanks Storm Basra Jail to Free Undercover Soldiers
Indian Airspace Buzzes With First-time Flyers As Budget Airlines Stage a Revolution
Residents Told to Leave As Storm Threatens
Bomb Injures British Embassy Worker
Pommie Backpackers Shun Hostels for Harbour Mansions
Four Bird Flu Cases As Zoo Closes
Uzbeks Accused of Torture in Wake of Massacre
North Korea Vows to Abandon Nuclear Weapons Project
Ex-Iraqi Defence Minister Wanted Over $1bn Fraud
EU Plans Frustrated
New Election Looms As Greens Reject Merkel
Parties Bicker Over German Power Struggle
Battle to Form German Government Begins
North Korea 'to End Nuclear Programmes'
Maori Could Hold Key to Cliffhanger Election
No Charges Over Death of 13 Israeli-arab Protesters
Minister Vows to Rid Zimbabwe of 'filth'
Rice Too Busy for Women Foreign Ministers' Dinner
Former Champion Boxer Killed for Mobile Phone
EU Hits Back Over Iran's Nuclear Defiance
Divers Survive Six Hours on Shark-infested Reef
Shattered Merkel Forced to Seek Coalition Partner
Afghans Ignore Taliban Threats to Go to the Polls
Confusion As Both Merkel and Schröder Claim Chancellorship
Iran raises stakes on nuclear plans
Summit failure blamed on US
Warriors of Bloody Afghan Past Fight for Votes
US conservatives round on Bush over Katrina aid pledges
Awkward squad gets a hearing
Fury over Musharraf's 'cry rape, get rich' claim
Young and female - a brave new face of Afghan politics
Gadafy's son sets up human rights hotline
Court says heiress can keep $3.5bn fortune
China Will Soon Be World's Biggest Exporter
Bush: Gulf Coast Inequality Should Be Ended
21 Killed As Iraq Violence Flares Again
Tough Talks With Iran's Leaders Fail to End Nuclear Standoff
Bush Vows New Orleans 'will Rise Again'
Princess in Court Over €122,000 Hotel Bill
Putin: Un Must Coordinate Anti-terror Fight
'Security Fence' is Legal, Says Israeli Court
European Leaders Hold Nuclear Talks With Iran
31 Killed in New Iraq Violence
Residents in Ophelia's Path Urged to Get Out
The Taliban's Rocket Man Adopts a Gentler Image to Woo Voters
Opposition Attacks Plan to Change Election Rules
US Steps Up Pressure to Isolate Iran
Fuel Price Rise Heralds a New Breed of Rustler
Bush Unrepentant As Annan Laments Reform Failure
Blair Calls on Un to Unite Against Terrorism
Bush Calls on Un to Unite Against Terror
Nursing Home Charged Over Katrina Deaths
Scores Killed in Baghdad Blasts
Poor Nations Lose in Watered-down Un Document
US Backs Pakistani-afghan Border Fence
Centenarians Double to 25,000 in Five Years
Bush Threatens Syria Over Iraq Policy
Brussels Wins Right to Force Eu Countries to Jail Polluters
Austria Blocks Turkey's Road to Eu Membership
Merkel's Own Goals Give Her Rival a Sporting Chance
Katrina Failings Were My Fault, Bush Admits for First Time
Police Put the Brakes on Drunk Back-seat Driver
Anaesthetist Charged With Murdering Patients
Crosstown Traffic: Jimi Hendrix's House on Move
Investigation Urged After Israeli Officer Avoids Arrest
Hundreds of Freed Prisoners Cross Indo-pakistani Border
Glittering Sea is the Most Precious Treasure for Many in Regained Land
Race Not an Issue in Katrina Disaster, Says Bush
Jubilant Palestinians Return to Gaza
Palestinian Shot Dead at Gaza-egypt Border
Jubilant Palestinians Enter Gaza Settlements
Landslide Election Victory Gives Koizumi Go-ahead for Reform
Israeli Evades Arrest at Heathrow Over Army War Crime Allegations
Israel Hands Settlements to Palestinians
Schröder in Surprise Comeback to Close Poll Gap With Merkel
Nato Prepares for Afghan Deployment of Uk Troops
Mugabe Says He Will Step Down in Three Years
Dozens Killed As Iraqi and Us Forces Capture Insurgent Stronghold
Don't Pay Me Lip-service, Saudi King Tells Subjects
Blair to Ask Un for Crackdown on Incitement
Belgian Missionary Denies Terror Charge
11 Migrants Drown, 143 Captured After Boat Discovered Off Sicily
Low Death Rate Among Chinese Puzzles Milan
Bush Summons Spirit of 9/11 to Help Repair His Hurricane-damaged Ratings
Prescott Links Global Warming to Katrina
Iraqi Troops Storm Into Insurgent Stronghold
Diseases of Rich Deprive Poor of Drugs
Tibetan Poachers Target Bhutan's 'miracle' Fungus
Right Falters in German Poll
Koizumi Set for Strong Win in Japan Poll
Beleaguered Bush Tries to Evoke Spirit of 9/11
Ukraine Faces Crisis As Orange Leaders Split
Disaster Chief Loses Hurricane Relief Role After Cv Allegations
Disaster Chief Taken Off Katrina Job
Troops Sent in As Pay Row Shuts Baghdad Airport
Pay Row Closes Baghdad Airport
France Hints at Tax on Oil Firms
Former Malaysian Pm Calls Britain 'state Terrorist'
Katrina: Political Row Grows
UK Under Pressure to Stem Afghan Opium Growth
New Orleans Survivors Face Forced Removal
Doctors Disagree on Death of Arafat
Ukraine's President Sacks Squabbling Government
Britain Pushes for Turkey Eu Talks to Go Ahead
Iraq Rebuilding Under Threat As Us Runs Out of Money
German Jobs the Focus of Tight Poll Race
Bush Names Day of Mourning for Katrina Victims
Cheney Promises to Rebuild Disaster Zone
Yushchenko Dismisses Ukraine Cabinet
200 Suspected Insurgents Arrested in Iraq
Louisiana Ready With 25,000 Body Bags
Mubarak Party Out in Force in Egypt Poll
Schröder's Wife Targets Merkel
Russo-German Pipeline Deal Raises Tension
Activist on Hunger Strike in Jail
American Freed in Raid on Baghdad Farmhouse
French Flunk Labour Reforms
Annan Call for Reform in Wake of Report
Killing of Arafat's Cousin Triggers Turmoil
Fraud Claims Mar Egyptian Presidential Poll
Former Palestinian Security Chief Assassinated
Egyptian Polls Open in First Competitive Presidential Election
Mayor Orders New Orleans Evacuation
Merkel Aides Admit Plagiarising Reagan Speech
Spain Tops Table of Cocaine Use
Iran Could Acquire the Bomb in Five Years, Say British Researchers
Amnesty Accuses Oil Firms of Overriding Human Rights
Cheney Called in As Bush Says He Will Lead His Own Inquiry Into Katrina
Bush Failed to Charm Eu, Says Survey
Al-Qaida in Iraq Seizes Border Town As It Mobilises Against Poll
Rebuilding May Cost As Much As War in Iraq
Iran Could Make Nuclear Bomb 'within Five Years'
End Eu Secrecy, Meps Urge Blair
Damage Exposure Will 'wake America Up'
British Soldier Cleared Over Checkpoint Shooting
Blair Raises 'question Mark' on China's Human Rights
Nine Die As Concrete Block Hits Cable Car Line
Annan Rues Iraq Oil-for-food Plan
Two Soldiers Killed By Iraq Bomb
Brutal Attack By Soldiers Left Innocent Iraqi Dead, Court Told
Indonesian Jet Ploughs Into Houses Killing 147
Bush Fails to Stem Anger
Bush Plays Safe in Appointing Chief Justice
Spain Searches for Nazi Camp Doctor, 91
Putin Still Bitter Over Orange Revolution
Police Find Bones in Hunt for Briton
EU and China in 'bra Wars' Deal
Israeli Troops Say They Were Given Shoot-to-kill Order
China and Eu Reach Textile Imports Deal
Cheesed-off Tokyo Politician Boosts Sales
Sarkozy Wishes Ailing Chirac Well But Steps Up Poll Challenge
Police Detain Three Teenage Girls After Fire Kills 15 in Flats Near Paris
Empty, Ruined and Desperate
Marketing Power of Unpopular Politicians
Chirac Illness Puts Re-election at Risk
Arson Blamed As 14 Die in Third Big Fire in Paris Area
Rich Countries Row Over Cash to Fight Disease
Homes Razed in Mob Fury at Couple's 'affair'
Blair Hopes to Unravel Textile Row at Eu-china Summit
Schröder Falters in Tv Clash With Rival
Sunni Teenager Who Died Saving Shias Hailed As Hero
Brotherhood Forged in the Carnage of the Twin Towers
Sick Chirac in Hospital for a Week
Flood Took Disaster Agency's Experts By Surprise
Germans Buy Merkel's Miracle
Bush Sends Marines As Flood Fury Grows
Iran Under Growing Pressure to Halt Nuclear Projects
Muslim Socialite Splits Italian Right
Thai Villagers Join Bird Flu Rapid Reaction Force
Estonian Troops Relish Iraqi Patrols
We Can't Guarantee Security, Putin Tells Beslan Mothers
Israel Freezes Jerusalem Link Project Under Us Pressure
New Left Strikes Chord in Disillusioned East
Turkey Says It's All or Nothing on Eu Proposal
Criticism of Bush Mounts As More Than 10,000 Feared Dead
Bush Under Fire Over Hurricane Aid
World War 3 | Nostradamus Prediction when shall it be
Theory Ties Vcjd to Indian Funerals
Life Jail for Wife in Hong Kong Sex and Drugs Murder
Parched Spain Plans to Ship Water to Coastal Areas
Annan Seeks Support for Reform
Barroso's Last Rites for Eu Charter
Afghan Gunmen Kidnap Briton in Roadside Ambush
Petrol to Hit £1 a Litre After Us Buys Up Supplies
Clinton and Bush Snr to Lead Aid Appeal
Pilgrims Buried As Death Toll Grows
Fury and Grief As Beslan Remembers
Baghdad's Shias Start Burying Their Dead
Bush Pledges Historic Relief Effort
Hundreds Gather to Mourn Beslan Dead
Last Gasp for a Gallic Symbol: French Kick the Gauloise Habit
Bush Tries to Cap Surge in Global Energy Prices
A Cry of Suicide Bomber, and 700 Perish in Iraq Stampede
Thousands Feared Lost in Us Storm