Roman Abramovich is super-rich, but few dare ask how The Times | A riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma. Winston Churchill was talking about Stalin's foreign policy but much the same applies to the Russian orphan who grew up to be the world's fifteenth-richest man. | Chelsea fans invented the chant: "If you want the best then don't ask questions 'cos ...
Robert Mugabe uses food as weapon as famine looms The Times | Zimbabwe is on the brink of an unprecedented famine after its worst harvest since independence in 1980. The plight of Zimbabweans is compounded by the deliberate starvation of most of the population because of their support for the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC). | A crop assessme...
Soon, pandas may be flying The Times | Politicians and people on both sides of the Taiwan Strait hope the launch of direct flights yesterday will move them a step away from the threat of hostilities. | For the two countries, who have remained technically at war for more than 60 years, t...
First shots in Glasgow by-election fired The Times | Labour's campaign in the crucial Glasgow East by election got off to a shambolic start last night after the party failed to select a candidate to fight the seat. | Party members were widely expected to back Glasgow city councillor George Ryan to co...
Hundreds of crime checks were wrong The Times | The Home Office said that errors at the Criminal Records Bureau were "regrettable" after it emerged that hundreds of innocent people had been wrongly branded as criminals. Almost 700 applicants for jobs in teaching, nursing, childminding and volunt...
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Biofuels blamed for food price crisis - report The Star | LONDON (Reuters) - Biofuels have forced global food prices up by 75 percent -- far more than previously estimated -- according to a confidential World Bank report published in a ...
The rebranding of Barack Obama The Daily Tribune | FEATURE | 07/05/2008 | WASHINGTON — Barack Obama bills himself as a new brand of leader poised to drain Washington’s swamp of political cynicism. | But despite spellbinding calls...
Joc-joc extradition only after final US court’s ruling—DoJ The Daily Tribune | 07/05/2008 | Not even the tiny finger will be lifted by the Department of Justice (DoJ) in any move to get former Agriculture Undersecretary Jocelyn “Joc-joc” Bolante, who stands...
Obama mixes holiday barbecue, politics in Montana The Star | BUTTE, Mont. (Reuters) - Democrat Barack Obama mixed presidential politics with parades and barbecue on U.S. Independence Day on Friday, celebrating his daughter's birthday with a picnic and fireworks in Montana. | Obama, concluding a week-long cam...
Roman Abramovich is super-rich, but few dare ask how The Times | A riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma. Winston Churchill was talking about Stalin's foreign policy but much the same applies to the Russian orphan who grew up to be the world's fifteenth-richest man. | Chelsea fans invented the chant: "I...
Welsh and Gaelic are official EU tongues The Times | Welsh and Scottish Gaelic will soon be echoing around the European Union's corridors of power under an agreement that Britain is about to sign with its EU partners. The deal, which could be rubber-stamped as early as Tuesday, will mean that individ...
Gordon Brown hopes to rise above his troubles on global tour The Times | Gordon Brown will strive to put his domestic problems behind him when he embarks tomorrow on a 30,000-mile epic journey that he hopes will portray him as a statesman, world diplomat and defender of British interests. | For much of the next three weeks, as his party battles it out with the SNP in another critical by-election, the Prime Minister wi...
Iran open to idea of US diplomatic presence in Tehran: Mottaki Dawn | By Masood Haider | UNITED NATIONS, July 3: Iran’s Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki has said his government might consider the American idea of opening a US diplomatic section in Tehran. | “Contacts between Iranians and the American people will be a useful step for better understanding of the two nations,” Mr Mottaki told reporters here on Wedn...
