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This was the first major attack by Palestinian militants on the Jewish side of Jerusalem in the last four years, although police and the military claimed to have foiled many attempts.
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HILLARY Clinton celebrated her election victories yesterday with hints about forming a joint Democratic party ticket with Barack Obama.
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Crufts has long been considered a competition of the utmost decorum. The closest it normally comes to opprobrium is someone accidentally picking up an opponent’s grooming brush. But this year, the dog show has been rocked by an unlikely betting scandal, with fears that a mystery “super dog” may be about to pad off with […]
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JERUSALEM (March 6) - Two gunmen infiltrated a Jewish seminary in Jerusalem and opened fire in a dining hall Thursday night, killing at least seven people, police and rescue workers said.
Channel 2 TV said police special forces killed the two infiltrators.
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And with Islamic militant groups swearing revenge for the bloody incursions, Israel is repeatedly hinting at a large-scale invasion of the territory - though it insists such an operation will not be meant as a “reoccupation”.
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An exuberant President George W. Bush endorsed Senator John McCain for the Republican nomination, asking his party’s rank and file to rally round the maverick candidate who is distrusted by right-wing conservatives.
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This list, though hardly exhaustive, provides an overview of some of Africa’s major contemporary civil conflicts.
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In 2006, Congolese voted in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s first-ever, free presidential election. The polls were marred by violence, despite the presence of the world’s largest multinational peacekeeping force who struggled to maintain basic order so that the election could take place. The DRC has been headed by a transitional government […]
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By Bridget Johnson, your guide to Journalism
Continuing the Year of Breakaway Territories, the 263-sqaure-mile island of Anjouan — the triangular-shaped part of Comoros on the map (courtesy: U.S. State Department) here — may be the site of a war within just days.
A bit of background first: The Mozambique Channel islands, once annexed by the French, […]
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Lightford was the chief sponsor last year of a law that requires public school teachers to lead students in brief periods “for silent prayer or for silent reflection” at the start of every day.
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Sky.Com News is on-air and online from 7.30pm tonight.
The most-clicked stories on Sky News Online:
Police In Premiership Ticket Tout Probe
‘Illegals’ Sneaking Through Calais Fences
Fatal Stabbing In Broad Daylight
Hillary Clinton Back In White House Race
Puppy Death YouTube Video Condemned
Missing Shannon: Mother’s 999 Call
UN: ‘Celebs Get Away With Drug Abuse’
Bomb-Laden Hijacker Takes Hostages
The stories moving up the […]
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Hollywood star Patrick Swayze
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Michelle Ryan has revealed her mixed feelings over the lacklustre response in America to the new, reimagined Bionic Woman series in which she plays the lead.
Speaking to the Radio Times, the former EastEnders actress said: “The show had so much potential. It’s had creative changes; some things didn’t work, but in launching a TV show […]
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OPEC has snubbed US President George W Bush by deciding to leave its production level unchanged, sending crude prices spiralling more than $US3 higher.
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March 6, 2008 — The left-wing governments of Venezuela and Ecuador are amassing more than 12,000 troops, tanks and warships on their borders with US-backed Colombia in what threatens to become all-out war.
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So the blogosphere is still buzzing about whether the Hillary Clinton campaign darkened Barack Obama’s face in one of its new TV ads. The Clintonistas say it wasn’t on them, but, as our friends on Fox like to say, we report, you decide.(Somewhere Robert Greenwald is weeping.)
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Geneva, Switzerland - Watching the European media watching the American media watching the drama of the unfolding U.S. presidential-election primary process becomes an inevitable part of the exercise when one pays attention to the coverage by the press in Europe of the whole, complex spectacle. To many or perhaps even most European news outlets, […]
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The first time it happened was when I arrived in Iraqi Kurdistan and checked in at a hotel in Irbil, the regional capital.The porter who showed me to my room bounded over to a television set at the foot of my bed and scanned the channels until he found one playing an English-language, kung fu […]
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One of these days I must post on something other than politics, but the situation in Nagatacho (Tokyo’s equivalent of Westminster) is so fast moving and unpredictable that it is difficult to think about much else.
In essence, this is the situation this afternoon:
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One of the small tweaks introduced this year to the pomp and circumstance of the Queen’s Speech will come as some relief to her Majesty.
In previous years the Queen has been forced to wait for ten minutes or more on the huge, ornate throne in the House of Lords while the gentleman usher Black Rod […]