What’s The Top Web Video?
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Sky.Com News is on-air and online from 7.30pm tonight.
The most-clicked stories on Sky News Online:
Buffett Overtakes Gates On Rich List
Will Jordan’s Underwear Revive George?
Kids’ Photos Covered With Smiley Faces
‘Naughty’ Burrell Won’t Return To Inquest
First-Date Killer Confessed To Her Father
Dirty Dancing Hero Swayze Has Cancer
Blast At Military Recruitment HQ
The stories moving up the web agenda:
Censorship With […]
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Rape Arrest After British Girl Scarlett Keeling Murdered In Goa
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Sky’s Asia correspondent, Alex Crawford, speaks from India about the arrests of one man in connection with the murder of British teenager Scarlett Keeling in Goa.
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Duffy clinches UK chart double
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Welsh singer Duffy has scored a rare chart double this week.
Her debut LP, Rockferry, enters the UK album chart at number one, while she spends a fourth week atop the UK singles chart with ‘Mercy’.
Rockferry sold 180,000 copies over the last seven days - more than the rest of the top ten combined - to […]
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Mass Grave Discovered North of Baghdad
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A mass grave containing about 100 bodies was discovered Saturday in a region north of Baghdad that has seen years of intense fighting between Shiites and Sunni extremist members of al-Qaida in Iraq.
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MASS GRAVE FOUND IN IRAQ
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March 9, 2008 — BAGHDAD - A mass grave containing about 100 bodies was discovered yesterday in a region north of Baghdad that has seen years of intense fighting between Shiites and Sunni extremist members of al Qaeda in Iraq.
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Clinton AND Obama Should Stop Crying About the Press
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Clinton AND Obama Should Stop Crying About the Press
Waaaaaaaaaaaaah!! Whenever you hear a candidate crying about their press coverage, it means two things:
1. The voters just kicked their butt.
2. They need somebody to blame who is almost-universally loathed and they’re too self-absorbed to take responsibilty for their own campaign’s derailment.
In just the past two weeks, […]
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No big surprise: In Russian election, Putin’s man, Medvedev, wins big
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As expected, the vote-count returns from yesterday’s much-anticipated presidential election have indicated that current Russian President Vladimir Putin’s hand-picked, favored candidate, First Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, is the runaway winner of the contest. About an hour after midnight today, Moscow time, Medvedev was leading with more than 69 percent of the vote (Kommersant), with […]
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Stranded then upgraded Air Force-style
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Travelling to northern Iraq for an embed is always a bit of a gamble because there are limited military flights and the weather has a habit of grounding them.Fellow journalists have shared horror stories about being stuck en route for hours, even days, at a remote base called Speicher, waiting for a connection. For me, […]
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On a drip
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UPDATE BELOW!
Shinzo Abe - who technically remains prime minister until the election of his successor - has gone to hospital “because he feels unwell”, according to the chief cabinet secretary, Kaoru Yosano. At this point, we are told, there is no question of his duties being taken over by a deputy (this would be […]
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Ruddy hell
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Britons whose knowledge of Australian dining habits is based largely on the bush tucker trial sections of I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here! will be appalled to learn that this is yet another deception foisted on the public by ITV.
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An Embarrassing War of Words Among Neighbors
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WASHINGTON — While Ecuadorian troops were positioning themselves this week at the border with Colombia, and hours after Ecuador’s President Rafael Correa severed relations with that country, a diplomatic war of words between the two neighbors began here at the Organization of American States.
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League of Dictators?
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Ever since liberalism emerged in the 18th century, its inevitable conflict with autocracy has helped shape international politics. What James Madison called “the great struggle of the epoch between liberty and despotism” dominated much of the 19th century and most of the 20th, when liberal powers lined up against various forms of autocracy in wars […]
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How to Make an Exit
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“I’m rather clever at appearing,” said the Cheshire Cat grinning at Alice and the White King, “and I’m even better at disappearing.”
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CARE’s Envoy to the Powerful and the Poor
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Physician Helene Gayle may have been born with a gift for empathy. It was the trait that was nurtured by her family and has guided her work on child malnutrition, HIV/AIDS and diseases among the poor.
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Despite Landmark Changes in N. Ireland, Trust in Police Still Lags
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BELFAST — The two young men, in their teens or early 20s, one of them with fresh bruises on his face, walked up the Shankill Road on a busy Friday afternoon in January, carrying placards that read, “I’m a thief and a burglar.”
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India’s Movie Mecca Goes Global
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MUMBAI — When Amit Shah, a budding young actor born in Chicago, auditioned for a role in the upcoming Hollywood comedy “Fraternity House,” the directors picked him to play an Indian exchange student. He was told to wear glasses and sport a thick Indian accent like Apu, the convenience store owner in television’s “The Simpsons.”
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Document Details U.S. Aid Proposed For Mexico
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TIJUANA, Mexico, Oct. 26 — More than a third of the Bush administration’s proposed counternarcotics aid package for Mexico would be spent on aerial surveillance and the rapid deployment of troops, according to a breakdown of the plan.
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Diplomats Closer To Ending Crisis In Latin America
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BOGOTA, Colombia, March 5 — As Venezuelan troops took up positions on Colombia’s border, diplomats at the Organization of American States moved closer Wednesday to resolving a crisis that ignited when Colombia launched a strike against Marxist rebels just inside Ecuador.
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Obama Narrowed the Gap
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LAREDO, Tex., March 4 — Jose Lopez had already spent three hours hammering Barack Obama signs into the ground when he drove up to an elementary school within sight of the Mexican border Tuesday morning. The 23-year-old college student grabbed six signs and carried them to the school’s front entrance. He walked past a five-foot-high […]
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Deal on Sharing Power Goes Before Parliament
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NAIROBI, March 6 — President Mwai Kibaki urged lawmakers Thursday to pass legislation necessary to enact a power-sharing agreement “so that Kenya can be restored to and even exceed its former glory.”
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