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- Police hunt missing teens November 8, 2009Police have launched a search for two teenagers who have gone missing.
- Bid to make people nicer on the net November 8, 2009Until the 21st century, etiquette was all about what knife to use with the fish course, how to curtsey in front of the Queen and not dropping your aitches.
- Police called in over university’s bitter academic war November 8, 2009One of Scotland’s leading universities is in turmoil over a bitter internal war which has now triggered a police investigation.
- Remembrance Sunday commemorations take place around Scotland November 8, 2009First Minister Alex Salmond led the Remembrance Sunday commemorations today as a range of events took place around the country.
- Opinion divided over new Forth road bridge November 8, 2009Just over a third of Scots support the £2.3 billion plan for a new Forth road bridge, while more than half say that the current bridge should be repaired instead.
- Two thirds of Scots support assisted suicide bill November 8, 2009More than two-thirds of people would back a change in the law to allow assisted suicide, polling evidence today shows.
- Armed forces chief Stirrup: more must be done to convince public that Afghanistan mission can succeed November 8, 2009The public is not convinced that British troops fighting in Afghanistan can succeed, the head of the armed forces admitted today.
- Police hunt missing teens November 8, 2009
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- Japan's technology champions: Invisible but indispensable November 5, 2009A host of medium-sized Japanese electronics firms have developed dominant positions in many areas of technology. Can they keep them?Correction to this articleABOUT 40 nuclear reactors are under construction around the world, designed by half a dozen companies from America, China, France, Japan and Russia. But to obtain a huge, solid-steel vessel to contain t […]
- Mikhail Gorbachev and the fall of the wall: The man who trusted his eyes November 5, 2009Why the Soviet Union’s leader did not send in the tanksTHE fall of the Berlin Wall was not big news in Russia. Neither was it a surprise. It was a logical consequence of the process that began in Moscow in 1985 when Mikhail Gorbachev came to power.By 1989 his perestroika, or reconstruction and opening, was in full swing. Andrei Sakharov, Russia’s […]
- After the Soviet collapse: A globe redrawn November 5, 2009Welcome to the new world disorderTO RUSSIA’s once and possibly future president, Vladimir Putin, the collapse of the Soviet Union—two years after the fall of the Berlin Wall—was “the greatest geopolitical catastrophe” of the 20th century. It set off shocks that were felt across the globe. Russians who lived through the ruinous i […]
- China's reaction to Communism's collapse: Keep calm and carry on November 5, 2009How Deng Xiaoping neutralised the country’s worst moment“THE East German people are now strengthening their unity under the leadership of the party.” So declared China’s Communist Party mouthpiece, the People’s Daily, in October 1989. A month later the Berlin Wall fell. Even today, China’s leaders find the memory painful. […]
- The world after 1989: Walls in the mind November 5, 2009The ex-communist countries of central Europe have fared well, mostly, since 1989. But they still have to shed their image as poor and troubled relationsPICTURE yourself in a smoky cafe somewhere in the middle of Europe—Prague, say—in late 1989. Sipping muddy coffee sweetened with gritty sugar, served by a sullen waiter at a greasy table, you are […]
- Berlin re-united: Not quite grown up November 5, 2009Still sparsely peopled, and still an islandUNTIL the Berlin Wall fell, Jutta Wrase photographed mostly in black and white. You could buy colour film in East Berlin, but the colours were bad and few shops would develop it. After the wall fell Ms Wrase was too shocked for a while to photograph much. Not that she mourned the old regime: she had photocopied forb […]
- Nestlé: The unrepentant chocolatier October 29, 2009The world’s biggest food company is betting on an emerging class of health and nutrition products to spur its growth. But risks aboundIT IS a curious blend of kitchen and laboratory. From one room wafts the bittersweet smell of chocolate being gently heated and stirred by chocolatiers. Around the corner it is all science. A double row of cubicles conta […]
- Low fertility : The rich are different October 29, 2009Rich nations are also reaching replacement fertility—by boosting their ratesWHAT happens in poor countries when they reach replacement fertility? The lesson of rich countries is that they stay there for decades. German fertility dipped below replacement in 1970 and is still low. America is the only rich country that, having fallen below the replacement […]
- Fertility and living standards: Go forth and multiply a lot less October 29, 2009Lower fertility is changing the world for the betterSOMETIME in the next few years (if it hasn’t happened already) the world will reach a milestone: half of humanity will be having only enough children to replace itself. That is, the fertility rate of half the world will be 2.1 or below. This is the “replacement level of fertility”, the mag […]
- California's water wars: Of farms, folks and fish October 22, 2009A truce in California’s long and bitter fight over water at last appears possibleIN 2007 Oliver Wanger, a federal judge in California, ordered the huge pumping stations of the Sacramento Delta, the largest estuary on the west coast of the Americas, to reduce by a third the water they delivered to two aqueducts that run south to the farms of the San Joa […]
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- The Observer debate: Should we bring our troops home from Afghanistan? November 8, 2009 Jason Burke, Peter Beaumont
- While we rail at MPs, the City gets away with murder November 8, 2009 Nick Cohen
- Booze, bad behaviour and Brighton – it's carnage but I love it November 8, 2009 Eva Wiseman
- You'll find nothing but pure logic in my retrained brain November 8, 2009 Victoria Coren
- Welcome to the age of the eco-martyr. God help us November 8, 2009 Catherine Bennett
- I love Europe, but I despair of the EU November 8, 2009 Henry Porter
- Discarded mobiles, wire-taps and Mr Bigs. Welcome to Wall Street November 8, 2009 Will Hutton
- Two cheers for the world after the fall of the Berlin Wall November 8, 2009 Andrew Rawnsley
- No more edgy humour? You must be joking November 8, 2009 David Mitchell
- That's enough slap and tickle, Sir Nick November 8, 2009 Barbara Ellen
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- Sarah Sands: Why it takes a mother to make the male of the species blush November 8, 2009The New York racketeering trial of John "Junior" Gotti, son of the late mafia boss, so far suggests a man who knows his own mind. Gotti is accused of gutting a man in a Queen's bar fight. A witness who talked to the cops was found hanging from a low tree. Eighteen jurors in this trial have made last-minute appeals to be dismissed. Charges incl […]
- Editor-At-Large: What a bunch of whingers, and the women are worst November 8, 2009They still don't get it, do they? MPs and their lucky relatives on the public payroll insist they're a special case. Thousands of families are facing a bleak Christmas with factories closing, shops going bust and factories operating on short time. But MPs live and breathe in a bubble where hardship is something they quantify differently from the re […]
- Alan Watkins: Mr Cameron's plausibility stops at Dover November 8, 2009Considering his wealth of inexperience, we may wonder at Mr David Cameron's sure-footedness as Leader of the Opposition. Having Mr Gordon Brown against him certainly helps matters along. And, on the whole, he has been lucky. Sometimes, however, a row will blow up out of nowhere. The fuss about grammar schools was a case in point.
- Rupert Cornwell: Why can't the US learn to love its government? November 8, 2009What is it about Americans and government? The tea-party crowd were back in town the other day – more than 5,000 of them, gathered on the West Lawn of the Capitol to rail against the historic healthcare reform bill that the House of Representatives is expected to pass this weekend.
- Katy Guest: Can't sing, really annoying... Jedward are bound to win November 8, 2009For every trash culture format in our post-postmodern, multimedia world, there are at least two ways in which one can choose to view it. One group of over-analytical people, for instance, still insists on seeing Big Brother as a unique and fascinating insight into the fragile human psyche long after the rest of the world has noticed that it's just a 21s […]
- Matthew Bell: The IoS Diary November 8, 2009Once tutor to Princes William and Harry, Rory Stewart, in his latest incarnation as Conservative prospective candidate for Penrith, has found himself the unlikely subject of intrigue. Craig Murray, renegade former ambassador to Uzbekistan, claims in his blog that Stewart worked as an MI6 officer in Afghanistan. While it's true Stewart was educated at Et […]
- Liam Fox: Why the Conservatives say we must stay on in Afghanistan November 8, 2009It has not been an easy week for British troops in Afghanistan. Two soldiers were killed by improvised explosive devices, which cause more than 80 per cent of our fatalities in Afghanistan. Five more were killed when an Afghan policeman opened fire on his British mentors.
- Alison Shepherd: Money buys the best state education November 8, 2009An education system that produces record-breaking GCSE and A-level results year after year ought to instil pride both in children and parents. And yet last month the Government that has presided over this incredible rise in achievement released figures showing that the number of children skipping school, preferring to hang listlessly around shopping precinct […]
- John Rentoul: Cameron is the new Blair November 8, 2009"What are Cameron's 10 Bills for his first Queen's Speech?" a Cabinet minister asked me recently in disbelieving frustration. "The Swedish Schools Bill, and what else?" This could be a consistent theme of Labour attacks on the Conservatives, if Labour attacks on the opposition were sustained and coherent enough to have a consist […]
- Joan Smith: How can religion not have played a part? November 8, 2009When Marx described religion as the opium of the people, he was expressing a 19th-century view of the effects of Christianity on the working class. Like many secularists, Marx believed that turning to religion for consolation was both an expression of real suffering and a self-defeating protest against it: hence his analogy with a sedative. In the 21st centu […]
- Sarah Sands: Why it takes a mother to make the male of the species blush November 8, 2009
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- Fake Brazilian president fooled radio Portuguese stations before being uncovered in Australia November 8, 2009A hoaxer posing as Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva fooled Portugueselanguage radio stations around the world for several days before being outed by an Australian broadcaster.
- Obama's US health care bill backed by House of Representative November 8, 2009The US House of Representatives has approved the broadest domestic health care overhaul in a halfcentury.
- David Cameron's plan to save Britain from the EU's clutches: will it work? November 7, 2009Conservative leader David Cameron has set out a six point plan to preserve British sovereignty within the European Union. What are his prospects of success?
- India's Scottish heritage remembered in renovation of Calcutta's Raj architecture November 7, 2009Imperial India is best remembered as a place whose rulers sipped gin and tonic at sunset rather than whisky. But the land traditionally known as the jewel in the crown of the "British" empire is about to have a Tartan makeover.
- Iran dissidents risk lives to escape regime November 7, 2009When she saw the browbeaten features of her younger sister confessing at a show trial on state television Sepideh Pouraghaie knew she had to flee Iran.
- British tourist Thomas Reeve shot dead in Amarillo Texas November 7, 2009Thomas Reeve a British tourist on a road trip across America was shot dead in a bar in Amarillo by a masked robber.
- Simon Mann: spotlight falls on business associates of freed British mercenary November 7, 2009As Simon Mann enjoys his first weekend of freedom for more than five years it is time for the business associates of the British mercenary to feel the heat over the failed "Dogs of War" in Equatorial Guinea.
- Fort Hood shooting: President Barack Obama will travel to Texas for Fort Hood memorial service November 7, 2009US President Barack Obama will travel to Texas to attend a memorial service for the victims of the Fort Hood massacre.
- Fort Hood shooting: policewoman Kim Munley awoke from surgery and asked if anybody died November 7, 2009After regaining consciousness the first words of policewoman Kim Munley who shot the Fort Hood gunman Major Nidal Malik Hasan were "Did anybody die?"
- Fort Hood shooting: inside story of how massacre on military base happened November 7, 2009
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- Home Office covered up immigration risk November 8, 2009Labour's “open door” immigration policy knowingly risked allowing dangerous people to settle in Britain unchecked, according to documents seen by The Sunday Times.
- Sir Mark Thatcher said he was a spy for South Africans November 8, 2009Sir Mark Thatcher became an informer to the South African secret services in an attempt to avoid prosecution for his role in a botched coup in central Africa.
- Army wants to retreat in Afghanistan November 8, 2009ARMY CHIEFS are drawing up plans to withdraw British troops from outlying bases in Afghanistan.
- Gordon Brown calls for global banking shakeup November 8, 2009
- Ousted Thai leader Thaksin Shinawatra calls for ‘shining’ new age after King’s death November 8, 2009The ousted prime minister of Thailand and opposition leader-in-exile Thaksin Shinawatra has called for reform of the country’s revered monarchy and spoken of his expectations of a “shining” new age after the passing of the ailing King Bhumibol Adulyadej.
- I'm doing 'God's work'. Meet Mr Goldman Sachs November 8, 2009Number 85 Broad Street, a dull, rust-coloured office block in lower Manhattan, doesn’t look like a place to stop and stare, and that’s just the way the people who work there like it. The men and women who arrive in the watery dawn sunshine, dressed in Wall Street black, clutching black briefcases and BlackBerrys, are very, very private. They walk quickly fro […]
- Britain stops to remember as 200th killed in Afghanistan November 8, 2009A British soldier who died yesterday in an explosion in Helmand Province was the 200th to have been killed in action during the Afghan conflict, the Ministry of Defence said today.
- Barack Obama's healthcare reform bill passes first hurdle November 8, 2009The US House of Representatives approved the broadest overhaul of US health care in four decades overnight, handing President Barack Obama a hard-fought victory that energised his top domestic priority.
- David Haye slays Russian giant to become world heavyweight champion November 8, 2009DAVID HAYE won the WBA world heavyweight title in Nuremberg last night when he outpointed the giant Russian Nikolai Valuev. It was a tactical triumph for Haye, who gave away seven stone in weight and produced a calculated performance, staying well clear of trouble while launching the odd attack.
- Alan Sugar: I’ll fire myself – that’ll learn you November 8, 2009Stonily quiet at the back of a big, blank office on a weird, wind-whipped Essex trading estate, Sir Alan Sugar — ’skewze me, Lord Sugar — looks small, angry and alone. The businessman’s face, normally the rough beige of a Farley’s rusk, is oddly white and red, even though, as it hungrily patrols the two televisions, the computer and the iPhone near his desk, […]
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