Brown gets a boost from Sarkozy: French president to send extra 1,000 troops to Afghanistan
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Nicolas Sarkozy is expected to make the pledge during his state visit to Britain next week. Read more
Mugabe faithful now opposition
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A man in his late fifties pushed a home-made bicycle through the crowds gathered for an impromptu political rally in Ebworth, a rural suburb of Zimbabwe’s capital, Harare. His shoes were made of strips of rubber tyre, an old skill the fighters learned during the hardships of the independence struggle. Read more
Violence in Darfur
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The tactics the Janjaweed and others have used against the civilian populations in Darfur have made headlines around the world and prompted international outrage. Read more
Nicolas Sarkozy
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Formerly Minister of the Interior, Nicolas Sarkozy is the head of France’s main conservative party, the UMP (“Union Pour Un Mouvement Populaire”) and was a candidate in the 2007 presidential election. Read more
Pope Baptizes Prominent Italian Muslim Writer
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By Bridget Johnson, your guide to Journalism Egyptian-born Magdi Allam — deputy editor of Corriere della Sera newspaper, and a nonpracticing Muslim married to a Catholic — became a Catholic himself at Vatican Easter services, being baptized by Pope Benedict XVI himself. Allam is widely known as a staunch supporter of Israel, which seems [...]
Purpose of school `moment of silence’ revealed
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All along, proponents of the new state mandate requiring public school students to observe a brief period of silence at the start of every classroom day have piously insisted that, oh, no, the mandate is not intended to encourage students to pray. Read more
Today’s News Moving Across The Web
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Sky.Com News is on-air and online from 7.30pm tonight. The most-clicked stories on Sky News Online: Bank Chief Urged To Act As Alarm Grows Bin Laden Threat To Europe Over Cartoons No Charges Over TV Presenter’s Death Threat To Disown Son Over Student Death Man Kills Himself With ‘Suicide Robot’ Deported Paedophile ‘More Dangerous’ Kerry [...]
Pope Benedict XVI Calls For Peaceful Solution To Middle East Turmoil
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The Pope, who turns 81 next month, delivered his Urbi et Orbi message to the world in driving rain after celebrating Easter Mass. Read more
Dance troupe hit out at Cowell’s ‘Talent’
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A girls’ dance troupe has hit out at Simon Cowell for the way they were treated at a Britain’s Got Talent audition. The girls, from the Liverpool Renaissance Academy of Performing Arts, danced at an audition in Blackpool but were sent home after Cowell told them that their costumes were “tacky”. The troupe then spent [...]
1 Dead, 7 Hurt in Japan Stabbings
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Public broadcaster NHK says one person was stabbed to death and at least seven others were injured by a man who went on a knifing spree at a shopping mall in eastern Japan. Read more
US MILITARY IRAQ TOLL NEARS 4,000
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US MILITARY IRAQ TOLL NEARS 4,000 AP March 23, 2008 — BAGHDAD – A roadside bomb killed three GIs north of Baghdad yesterday, pushing the US death toll in the five-year conflict to 3,996. Two of the soldiers were killed in the blast and the third died of wounds, the military said. In other violence [...]
Gov. Clinton?
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Could St. John Eliot Spitzer, anti-crime crusader turned New York governor turned Mayflower John, open a face-saving slot for Sen. Hillary Clinton, should she fail to nominate rival Sen. Barack Obama as her vice president? Read more
Iraq war, five years later: Death, lies and an uncertain future
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Yesterday, commemorating the fifth anniversary of his war in Iraq, George W. Bush spoke to an audience of military and U.S. Department of Defense officials at the Pentagon in Washington. Bush stated: “Because we acted, the world is better and United States of America is safer….The battle in Iraq has been longer and harder and [...]
Toilets, snakes and flies
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British soldiers in southern Iraq have some of the most informative toilets I have ever seen, with signs on the doors of cubicles offering advice on a host of different topics from snake sightings to learning Arabic.Admittedly, the threat of a snake bite was furthest from my mind when I headed down to Britain’s military [...]
Hot News
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It’s very hot in Japan, in fact it has literally never been hotter. Today in the otherwise obscure municipality of Tajimi, Gifu Prefecture, a temperature of 40.9 degrees centigrade was measured, higher than the Japan Meteorological Agency’s previous record of 40.8 C (Yamagata, 1933). Read more
A Better Alternative to a Showdown Over Free Trade
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WASHINGTON — I recently had the chance to talk with two of Mexico’s most prominent business leaders, Emilio Azcarraga Jean, chairman of television giant Televisa, and Roberto Hernandez Ramirez, chairman of the board of Banamex. Among other things, we spoke about the pledges of candidates Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama to renegotiate the North American [...]
Behind the ‘Modern’ China
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China can go for great stretches these days looking like the model of a postmodern, 21st-century power. Visitors to Shanghai see soaring skyscrapers and a booming economy. Conference-goers at Davos and other international confabs see sophisticated Chinese diplomats talking about “win-win” instead of “zero-sum.” Western leaders meet their Chinese counterparts and see earnest technocrats trying [...]
Obama’s Promise — And Its Limits
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Barack Obama’s worldview is anchored in both his DNA and his experiences. This is a historical optimist at work: He believes that people and nations can change themselves, for the better — and that they will be moved to do so even more by their differences than by their similarities. Read more
Sri Lankan Steers Parents to Peace After Loss in War
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After five years of trying to get information about her son, missing after a fierce battle in the heart of rebel territory in Sri Lanka, Visaka Dharmadasa learned that 500 bodies of soldiers had been doused with kerosene and burned in a pile on the killing field where they had fought Tamil separatists. Read more
Sarkozy Announces Cuts in Nuclear Arsenal
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PARIS, March 21 — French President Nicolas Sarkozy announced a small reduction in the country’s nuclear arsenal Friday during inauguration ceremonies for “Le Terrible,” his military’s newest nuclear-capable submarine. Read more