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- Gaddafi in personal plea to Brown for return of MegrahiColonel Muammar Gaddafi personally urged Gordon Brown to allow the repatriation of the man convicted of the Lockerbie bombing as the two leaders met for the first time at the G8 summit yesterday.
- G8 surprises with pledge of $20bn farm aid for poorG8 leaders yesterday pledged $20bn in farm aid to help poor nations feed themselves, surpassing expectations on the final day of a summit that has yielded little progress on climate change and trade.
- Tories insist new group in Europe will have cloutThe Conservatives’ new “anti-federalist” political group in the European Parliament will be a powerful force for change, it has been claimed.
- First wives learn power of porridgeAs the G8 world leaders took steps to combat hunger yesterday, their wives got a taste of how a UN humanitarian agency feeds the poor.
- Diageo chiefs: closure decisions are finalDiageo sent two of its top brass to Scotland yesterday on an exercise in tough diplomacy, couching in sympathetic tones the clearest message yet that the drinks giant is convinced operations in Kilmarnock and at Port Dundas in Glasgow must close.
- Brown calls for ‘collective action’ and pledges on nuclear armsThe Prime Minister last night said he would set out within the next few days specific recommendations for a future deal on reducing Britain's nuclear arsenal that could be reached in 2010.
- Pause for reflection in the rubble on First Wives Club walkaboutIt was the day when The First Wives Club came face to face with the grisly aftermath of the L’Aquila earthquake.
- Council fined £10k over asbestos failingA council was fined £10,000 over an incident which saw six families evacuated from their homes and their belongings destroyed because of asbestos contamination.
- Minister promises action over sectarian flagsJustice secretary Kenny MacAskill has warned that action will be taken against anyone caught displaying flags that are likely to incite sectarian violence.
- Brown hails ‘historic’ deal as climate target is setGordon Brown last night hailed as “historic” an agreement by the G8 leaders to set a goal of keeping the rise in world temperatures to no more than 2C.
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- Public-sector pensions: Unsatisfactory state July 9, 2009As workers in the private sector are losing their final-salary pensions, public employees are being shielded from the true cost of provision for old agePENSIONS are expensive to provide. People are living longer, investment returns over the past decade have been dismal and interest rates are low. All this makes a given annual payment costlier to fund. In the […]
- The riots in Xinjiang: Is China fraying? July 9, 2009Racial killings and heavy-handed policing stir up a repressed and dangerous provinceIT BEGAN as a protest about a brawl at the other end of the country; it became China’s bloodiest incident of civil unrest since the massacre that ended the Tiananmen Square protests 20 years ago. The ethnic Uighurs in the far western city of Urumqi, the capital of Xinji […]
- Private schools in the recession: Staying on board July 2, 2009In both America and Britain recession has so far done little to dent the demand for private education“COMPARED with last year, applications are up 14%,” says Mark Stanek, the principal of Ethical Culture Fieldston, a private school in New York. All through the application season he and his board of governors had been on tenterhooks, waiting to se […]
- Russian-American relations: In search of détente, once again July 2, 2009When Barack Obama goes to Moscow, he will find a sulky former superpower that no longer wants to be part of Western clubsIN 1988, when the Soviet era was drawing to a close, a Russian rock band, Nautilus Pompilius, recorded a “Farewell Letter” that captured Russia’s love affair with America: As Russia was opening up to the world, it was bid […]
- Reforming American health care: Heading for the emergency room June 25, 2009America’s health care is the costliest in the world, yet quality is patchy and millions are uninsured. Incentives for both patients and suppliers need urgent treatmentNO ONE will be astonished to hear that health care costs more in Indiana than in India. However, a few might be surprised to learn that Americans spend more than twice as much per person […]
- Germany's chancellor: Merkel is the message June 25, 2009No other German politician comes close to matching her popularity. How does she do it? And what does her ascendancy say about her country?WHAT oratory is to Barack Obama, the photo-opportunity is to Angela Merkel. In a red parka before a receding iceberg in Greenland; among dark-suited world leaders, one of them yet distinctive in her signature trouser-suit; […]
- Coverage of the protests: Twitter 1, CNN 0 June 18, 2009But the real winner was an unusual hybrid of old and new mediaON SATURDAY June 13th, as protests began to flare on streets across Iran, 10.5m American TV-viewers naturally turned to CNN, a cable news channel founded in 1980. It was a vote of confidence in the traditional news media. Unfortunately, instead of protests many of them saw CNN’s veteran, Lar […]
- Iran's election: Demanding to be counted June 18, 2009An apparently rigged election is shaking the fragile pillars on which the Iranian republic restsIRANIANS voted in record numbers on June 12th. Analysts had predicted a close race; hope of change was in the air. So for many, the official result—with a claimed margin of 63% for the incumbent president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad—was a preposterous sham. A […]
- Fund management: Wasting assets June 18, 2009Revenues have tumbled, profits have been squeezed and some owners are keen to sell. Fund management is set for a wave of mergersBLACKROCK is on a roll. With the purchase of Barclays Global Investors (BGI), finalised on June 16th, a firm founded a mere 21 years ago has become the biggest asset manager in the world. The deal unites BlackRock’s expertise […]
- Oil and land rights in Peru: Blood in the jungle June 11, 2009Alan Garcia’s high-handed government faces a violent protestFOR seven weeks tens of thousands of Amazonian Indians blocked roads and rivers across eastern Peru. They seized hydroelectric plants and pumping stations on oil and gas pipelines to try to force the repeal of decrees facilitating oil exploration, commercial farming and logging in parts of the […]
- Public-sector pensions: Unsatisfactory state July 9, 2009
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- Murdoch's malign influence demeans British politics July 10, 2009 Polly Toynbee
- Do let's stop sneering at Italy, like some global Lady Muck July 10, 2009 Marina Hyde
- Strictly Come Sexism July 10, 2009 Mark Lawson
- A pass-mark to protest July 10, 2009 Jonathan Myerson
- More than mafia and spaghetti July 10, 2009 Anna Masera
- We need a European defence plan July 9, 2009 Menzies Campbell
- From AA to Alpha July 10, 2009 Adam Rutherford
- Netanyahu turns to Nazi language July 10, 2009 Peter Beaumont
- The subtext of the university brochure July 10, 2009 Ian Jack
- Face to faith July 10, 2009 Array
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- Deborah Orr: Why is it so hard to prove the obvious? July 10, 2009It's a weird old society indeed when the huge stories that are hardest to break are the ones that everybody knows are true anyway. First, it was the bankers.
- Andrew Grice: Clegg has to shout to be heard, but voters may be ready to listen July 10, 2009When Nick Clegg agreed to do one of his regular meet-the-people meetings at the Glastonbury Festival, he got more than he bargained for. He was introduced by Merrick, from a radical group called Corporate Watch, who ended his finely-honed poem with a tirade of abuse about the Liberal Democrats, and how they were ****ing s***.
- Howard Jacobson: I never did see my function as supplier of the wherewithal to feed women's neuroses July 10, 2009It isn't often we call for direct political action in this column. But we call for it today. Boycott Strictly Come Dancing. Keep your televisions off when the new season of the programme starts. Do something else with your Saturday nights. Don't buy tickets for the show. Don't vote for your favourite celebrity dancer. Just say "No!".
- Robert Fisk’s World: You won't find any lessons in unity in the Dead Sea Scrolls July 10, 2009At last, I have seen the Dead Sea Scrolls. There they were, under their protective, cool-heated screens, the very words penned on to leather and papyrus 2,000 years ago, the world's most significant record of the Old Testament.
- Christina Patterson: Here's why nice work pays much better July 10, 2009"You know what," said a banker to me the other day, "I think they should pay me about half what I earn." For a moment, he had the thunderstruck expression of someone whose casual yawn has turned into a giant burp, and who's not quite sure how to handle the ensuing embarrassment. "Oh dear," he said, "is that irritating? […]
- Tim Collins: Afghanistan remains a worthy cause July 10, 2009With 184 men dead as a result of our involvement in the campaign in Afghanistan, many will now be asking: is it worth the effort? The bland riposte is always: "If we don't win the fight there we will have to fight it here." Unlike most spin that flows like a mighty river from the Government, this bit is actually true.
- Major-General Julian Thompson: This is a deadly phase but we must keep the pressure up July 10, 2009This is very sad and sobering news and of course it is heartbreaking for the families and friends of those who have died. But we are at war and we as a nation have to accept that there will be more losses to come.
- Jeremy Laurance: The decision to end a life is never easy July 10, 2009Predicting the outcome for a patient in a coma is one of the hardest judgments in medicine. Some recover, some die and some remain halfway between, in a persistent vegetative state.
- Jerome Starkey: The deadly task of fighting against an invisible enemy July 10, 2009The grim toll of soldiers coming home from Afghanistan in coffins is testimony to the brutal contest being waged in the poppy fields of Helmand. For three years, British troops have been massively undermanned, underequipped and overstretched as they have tried to convince a deeply cynical population that they are safe from the Taliban.
- Jonathan Brown: How I took on Pamplona's raging bulls – and lived to tell the tale July 10, 2009I would never claim that I was the bravest or most daring runner on the day I took to the Cuesta de Santo Domingo to try my luck against the huge beasts whose charge has turned the capital of Navarre into a magnet for international thrillseekers each summer. Nor, as the years have passed, do I feel necessarily proud that I took part in what culminates in the […]
- Deborah Orr: Why is it so hard to prove the obvious? July 10, 2009
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- Barack Obama arrives in Ghana on first African trip July 11, 2009In his first visit to subSaharan Africa since taking office President Barack Obama is seeking to lift up the continent of his ancestors - while keeping its emotions in check.
- Rare colour photograph of Jewish boys during Holocaust July 10, 2009Colour photo shows Jewish boys huddled outside soup kitchen.
- Sarah Brown says no to veal meal at G8 July 10, 2009In an act of conscience unlikely to endear her to a nation of avid meateaters Sarah Brown twice refused to eat veal during official receptions at the G8 summit in Italy.
- Swedish press to boycott Britney Spears over photo restrictions July 10, 2009Swedish top newspapers have threatened to boycott a Britney Spears concert in Stockholm because of restrictions the pop star has imposed on their photographers.
- Islamist insurgents behead 7 Somalis for 'spying on government and abandoning Islam' July 10, 2009Islamist fighters beheaded seven Somalis accused of renouncing their Muslim faith and spying for the government.
- Dresden zoo forced to rename primate called 'Obama' July 10, 2009The Dresden Zoo has been forced to rename a baby baboon called Obama after facing accusations of racial insensitivity according to a report.
- Barack Obama tells Pope he will try to limit abortions in US July 10, 2009President Barack Obama promised Pope Benedict XVI on Friday that he would try to reduce the number of abortions in the United States the Vatican said.
- Pennsylvania investigates alleged racial discrimination at country club pool July 10, 2009A private country club is to be investigated over racial discrimination claims after it told a group of 65 visiting black and Hispanic children not to come back to its swimming pool.
- California 'due for big earthquake' after tremors near San Adreas fault signal increased stress July 10, 2009There is a 70 per cent probability that a devastating earthquake will strike California in the next 30 years scientists have said after recording an increase in tremors along the San Andreas fault.
- Russian channel cuts Vladimir Putin scene on 'South Park' July 10, 2009A segment of the US cartoon "South Park" that appeared to mock Vladimir Putin was cut by a Russian TV channel a spokesman said Friday.
- Barack Obama arrives in Ghana on first African trip July 11, 2009
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- Addicted to shopping July 11, 2009This is a story about modern consumerism; it is being written inside a mall. From my vantage point on a wooden bench purposely designed to be uncomfortable and placed alongside a digital screen pulsing ever-changing adverts selling other outlets, other products, other ways here to spend, spend, spend, I can watch shoals of people hurrying in and out of store […]
- Afghanistan: 7 years, 9 months, 184 lives July 11, 2009In the most devastating day for British ground troops in Afghanistan, the death toll rose above the 179 killed in the six-year Iraq campaign.
- Swine flu claims life of first victim without other health problems July 11, 2009A previously healthy man has died in hospital after contracting swine flu, bringing to 15 the total number of deaths in Britain linked to the virus.
- Low-carbon strategy will raise household energy bills by £200 a year July 11, 2009Household energy bills will rise by more than £200 a year under the Government’s low-carbon strategy being announced next week.
- Poorest pupils may be guaranteed a university place by age of 15 July 11, 2009Bright but poor teenagers living close to elite universities would have a place there guaranteed from the age of 15 under a new scheme.
- Queen Michelle arrives in triumph as Africa welcomes Obama home July 11, 2009Barack Obama and his family flew into Ghana last night to a rapturous welcome as the African nation rejoiced in the arrival of America’s first black President.
- Obama meets Pope for talk on abortions and stem-cell research July 10, 2009President Obama met the Pope for the first time today in a groundbreaking encounter which should help repair the US leader’s relations with America’s Catholic hierarchy.
- Police to investigate Binyam Mohamed's torture claims July 10, 2009The Metropolitan Police are to investigate claims that British agents colluded in torture, Scotland Yard said today.
- Firefighters battle blaze in London's Soho July 10, 2009Clouds of thick black smoke rose above central London today as fire fighters fought a blaze in the bustling Soho area of the capital.
- Gordon Brown defends UK mission in Afghanistan July 10, 2009A sombre Gordon Brown issued a passionate defence of UK involvement in Afghanistan today, declaring that the people of Britain were safer because of the sacrifices of their soldiers.
- Addicted to shopping July 11, 2009
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