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Blogger Alex Hilton is a former staffer at the House Of Commons in Westminster. In light of the latest security breach, he explains how the climate change protesters could have reached the roof.
Alex is a guest on Sky.Com News, on-air and online at 7.30pm. Click here for what’s on tonight.
Today, a group of eco-warriors stormed […]
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Mr Medvedev is expected to formally take over as president in May and Mr Putin has agreed to be his prime minister.
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Duffy has made it a third week atop the UK singles chart with ‘Mercy’.
The Welsh popstar oversees a top ten almost entirely unchanged from last week, with single place rises for Rihanna and OneRepublic.
Outside the top ten, Taio Cruz rises 12 places to 11 with ‘Come On Girl’, while Flo Rida jumps from 22 to […]
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Dmitry Medvedev will win Russia’s presidential election by a huge margin, the first official results from the Central Election Commission showed on Sunday.
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March 2, 2008 — GAZA CITY - Palestinians threatened yesterday to call off peace talks with Israel after 61 Gazans, at least half of them civilians, were killed in fierce fighting yesterday.
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Forget regional balance and those white guys in suits. Alaska’s young, hot, Vogue-posing, female Republican governor could become the popular favorite to be Sen. John McCain’s running mate.
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Yes, we know - we’ve used that catch phrase here before and we’ll probably have opportunities to revisit it in the future, too. For now, though, it couldn’t be more apt. That’s because, yesterday, the euro, which is now the national coin of 15 European countries, reached an all-time high in its value against the […]
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Habib, the young Christian Kurd whose kidneys have failed, is not responding well to dialysis treatment at a hospital in northern Iraq. He needs a kidney transplant fast and you can help.Anemic, with blood that clots too quickly and weak veins, his body is struggling to cope with the tubes that are inserted on a […]
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I have never seen the sites of the Nazi Holocaust, but S-21, the Khmer Rouge prison and torture centre in Phnom Penh, is one of the most impressive and disturbing memorials to a historical event that I’ve ever visited. I thought of it again yesterday after the arrest of Nuon Chea, “Brother Number Two” to […]
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The guests gathered for today’s state opening of the new session of Parliament boasted the usual sprinkling of foreign diplomats and dignitaries.
Among them was this man, who appears to have solved the issue of where his next glass of champagne is coming from.
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CARTAGENA, Colombia — La guarderÃa en El Pozón, barrio en las afueras de esta ciudad turÃstica de la costa atlántica, no es exactamente lo que uno espera encontrar en un vecindario ocupado por algunos de los colombianos más oprimidos — parte de los miles que se ven forzados a dejar su tierra cada año debido […]
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Twenty-nine Democratic senators voted in the fall of 2002 to authorize the invasion of Iraq. There isn’t enough room on this page to list the Democratic foreign policy experts and former officials, including those from the top ranks of the Clinton administration, who supported the war publicly and privately — some of whom even signed […]
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It is an unsettling time to be a journalist. You are either on the edge of extinction or in charge of the universe.
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A li Suleiman Aujali , the chief of the Libyan Liaison Office here, has not been installed as Libya’s new ambassador to the United States, but his nine-diplomat mission in the Watergate building has been busy receiving the first high-level delegation of Libyan officials since the normalization of diplomatic and economic ties between Tripoli and […]
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ST. PETERSBURG — At the age of 23, Dmitry Medvedev went to a cathedral in this city, then called Leningrad, and was baptized into the Russian Orthodox Church. Even in the relatively liberal environment of Mikhail Gorbachev’s Soviet Union, it was a quiet act of defiance for a postgraduate law student whose prospects depended on […]
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CRAWFORD, Tex., March 1 — The Danish prime minister, the host of the next big international meeting on climate change, used unusual one-on-one time Saturday with President Bush to press the United States to take a greater leadership role in reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
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GUATEMALA CITY, Nov. 4 — Ãlvaro Colom, who struggled with internal defections and disappointing poll numbers in the final stages of Guatemala’s presidential campaign, won a startling victory Sunday.
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BUENOS AIRES — Movements to rewrite national constitutions are dramatically changing the political paths of several South American countries, triggering bitter debates over whether new charters will benefit future generations or simply serve the political ambitions of current presidents.
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MEXICO CITY, Jan. 7 — Mexico’s foreign minister accused U.S. presidential candidates Monday of worsening an already “adverse climate” for Mexican migrants and vowed to redouble efforts to protect the rights of her country’s citizens living and working in the United States.
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JOHANNESBURG, Feb. 25 — South Africa will lift a 13-year-old ban on using professional hunters to reduce burgeoning elephant populations, officials announced Monday, despite opposition from animal rights activists who call such killings barbaric and unnecessary.
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