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Jul 9 2009
Seven deaths in seven days, and the grim warning that many more lives will be lost before it is over. That is the bloody reality on the ground for British troops in what has been described as the defining moment in the ferocious war in Afghanistan. The...
Jul 4 2009
Parents were banned from attending an inter-school sports day to protect pupils from kidnappers and paedophiles. The host school said they could not prevent ‘unsavoury’ characters from sneaking in. More than 270 pupils from four local...
Jun 22 2009
That Twitter post was from a man who said he is a guitarist from Nashville, Tennessee. Amid the hundreds of images of Saturday’s crackdown on protesters in Iran that were distributed to the world over the Internet, it was the graphic video...
Jun 18 2009
It’s past midnight in downtown Berlin, and the prostitutes pace in front of the Hackescher Markt’s stores. Signs of a slow economy are everywhere — a sportswear store offers 40 percent markdowns, and bars advertise discounted drinks. Like...
Jun 17 2009
Marriage must be re-established as the “gold standard” for relationships to halt an “epidemic” of family breakdown ­­which is overwhelming the family courts, a ­senior judge said yesterday. Mr Justice Coleridge, a family...
Jun 16 2009
Oslo - Can the North Sea basin hold all of the carbon dioxide in Europe? Norway certainly hopes so. At a high-level conference in Bergen last month, the oil-rich Nordic nation announced that it will work with Britain to study how the base of the North...
Jun 15 2009
Yemeni authorities have arrested the financier of Al-Qaeda operations in the country and in neighbouring Saudi Arabia, an official said on Sunday, as cited on the defence ministry news website. “The arrested man is named Hassan Hussein bin Alwan,...
Jun 11 2009
In Russia it is not only the future that is unpredictable; often the past is equally in doubt. One minute Leon Trotsky was a hero of the Revolution, the father of the Red Army and a strong contender to succeed Lenin; the next minute he never existed....
Jun 3 2009
German Chancellor Angela Merkel, in a rare public rebuke of central banks, suggested the European Central Bank and its counterparts in the U.S. and Britain have gone too far in fighting the financial crisis and may be laying the groundwork for another...
May 29 2009
Throughout the Second World War Eton College was adamant it would not close its doors as a result of any threat from the Germans. It would not, its then headmaster Claude Elliot said, countenance such a lack of defiance. Indeed, nobody yesterday could...