Why party elders may have to sort this one out
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The Democratic presidential race is now between a seemingly unstoppable force and an apparently immovable object.
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Two Irish held in London after police cocaine raids
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Police used a mechanical digger yesterday to smash into the luxury home of one of the suspected kingpins behind a £100m (€135m) cocaine empire.
Officers swarmed inside after a hole was smashed in a wall surrounding the fortified £3m west London property.
Two Irish people were last night being quizzed by detectives in connection with the raids. […]
Thai Cops Nab ‘Ponytail Bandit’ Suspect
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BANGKOK, Thailand (Feb. 14) - An American woman dubbed the ponytail
bandit, suspected in a string of bank robberies in the United
States, has been arrested in Thailand, police said Thursday. Her
husband remained on the run in the Southeast Asian nation, they
said.
Immigration police arrested Morgan Michelle Hoke, the
21-year-old suspect, at a Bangkok hotel following an FBI tip-off,
police […]
Chinese ’spy’ arrests by U.S. fuels Olympics row after Spielberg’s call for boycott
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Beijing urged America to stop its “Cold War thinking” in a statement that followed the arrest by the US of four Chinese men suspected of spying on American military and space programmes.
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First lady sorry for comments
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The new French first lady, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, apologised yesterday for comparing a magazine website to French collaborators who “denounced Jews” during the 1939-45 war.
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Where is Sudan?
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Sudan is a country in central Africa that is rich in oil but poor in land. Only 6.78% of the land in Sudan is arable, a fact which has helped to fuel the conflict.
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7 Weird World News Stories
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Satisfy your laugh appetite, your prurient interest. Take a break from all those hard-hitting stories with this selection of world news gone weird.
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Red Banned Until Tomorrow in Saudi Arabia
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By Bridget Johnson, your guide to Journalism
Why the Valentine’s Day party poopers? Valentine’s Day = St. Valentine = not an Islamic holiday. Plus, as an Islamic scholar told the Saudi Gazette, “As Muslims we shouldn’t celebrate a non-Muslim celebration especially this one that encourages immoral relations between unmarried men and women.” So in Saudi Arabia, […]
14th District race may not be GOP rout
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Time the resignation of incumbent Republican Dennis Hastert so that the special election to choose his successor will not coincide with any other election. This will all but assure low voter turnout, which generally favors the incumbent party.
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What’s On Sky.Com News Tonight?
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Sky.Com News is on-air and online at 7.30pm and will be presented by Charlotte Hawkins. Here are the links to the stories featured:
The most-clicked stories on Sky News Online:
Police Smash Drugs Gang In Raid
Heather Mills ‘To Leave The UK’
Beckham Pair’s Pain After Changing Their Names To Match Celebrities
Wife Of British Mercenary On Trial Simon Mann […]
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad To Visit Iraqi Capital Baghdad On March 2
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His visit will be the first to Iraq by the president of the Islamic Republic.
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Lyric etched on Peel’s gravestone
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BBC
A line from John Peel’s favourite song has been etched on his gravestone.
The Undertones’ 1978 debut single Teenage Kicks, which the BBC DJ admitted reduced him to tears, was played at his funeral.
His family has now had the lyric “teenage dreams so hard to beat” sculpted on his headstone, which has just been erected in […]
Police: Suspect lays out Bhutto slaying details
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An Islamic militant who helped carry out the assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto wanted to avenge the death of a friend in the military attack against the Red Mosque in Islamabad last year, a senior police officer said Wednesday.
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YOUNGEST ‘PATS’
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The “championship” shirts and hats that the New England Patriots players were set to wear had they won the Super Bowl wound up yesterday on the backs of the poor children of Nicaragua.
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SF Moms Smackdown Over Obama Baby Shirts
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You know it’s getting ugly in this most competitive of political seasons when folks are getting touchy about alleged politicking on the Golden Gate Mothers Group group email list.
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Spreading democracy, the new British way, and America’s Guantánamo problem
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Spreading democracy, the new British way, and America’s Guantánamo problem
Democracy: Something to really fight for or something that’s just good for a laugh?
George W. Bush has made something of an oratorical industry for himself out of urgent-sounding proclamations about the value and virtues of “freedom” and “democracy” (and, of what his handlers have him […]
Joking even though there is no gas, water, electricity, money, jobs…
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Jump into a taxi in Baghdad and within minutes the driver will most likely have steered the conversation onto a favourite topic here – power and water, or at least the lack of both.“Makou falous, makou kaharaba, makou maie,†is a phrase, meaning: “No money, no electricity, no waterâ€, that is often uttered with a […]
Dreams in Bali
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[Hello again. Here’s a post I wrote for another Times blog, ‘Across the Pond’, about US poltiics and the presidential elections.]
On the face of it, Asia is an unlikely place from which to pontificate on the US presidential election, and I am an unlikely pontificator. Drastic barriers of culture and language, the world’s largest […]
Even Everest is in shadow today
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When Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tensing Norgay reached the summit of Mount Everest on May 29, 1953, it took no less than five days for the news to spread around the world (although The Times broke the story on the day of the coronation so perhaps there was a bit of news management).
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Free Elections Come First
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During the slavery controversy of the 1850s, Northerners who opposed confronting the South argued for letting nature take its course. Slavery was doomed, they argued, because it could not spread where the climate was inhospitable to cotton and because the atavistic slave system would inevitably be overtaken by industrialization.
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