Will Brown trigger boycott by missing Olympics opening?
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His announcement on Wednesday may have a snowball effect, with other leaders also under pressure to pull out.
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Melbourne - Eighteen year old charged with murder
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MELBOURNE - The 18-year-old stepdaughter of missing man Russell Frik has been charged with murder following the grisly discovery of a torso in his backyard in northern Victoria.
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Overview: Africa's Civil Wars
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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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Top Ten World Oil Reserves
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Top Ten World Oil Reserves (2005)
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Mugabe Unlikely to Go Down Without a Fight
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By Bridget Johnson, your guide to Journalism
It’s been five days since the presidential election in Zimbabwe: Anybody seen a vote count yet? Anybody? Well, the parliamentary count was released yesterday — Mugabe’s party lost control of the lower house, the Senate count is dragging on (as the counters are likely, er, scared), and the backlash […]
Blagojevich must act now on pardons
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In a heated moment more than six years ago, Gill, then 26, grabbed the neck of an off-duty police officer working as a security guard at a high school basketball game in Urbana. The guard was trying to eject Gill’s friend from the bleachers for having walked on the court, and Gill ripped the guard’s […]
It’s The Real Economy, Stupid
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So the US economy is about to disappear into a long dark tunnel according to the IMF. Interesting? Worth a story on Sky News? Possibly … or not according to Trevor Williams, the Lloyds TSB economist who came on to Sky News this afternoon to tell viewers that the IMF is as good at forecasting […]
Olympic Gold Medallist James Cracknell Says China Should Not Have Been Given Games
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However, Cracknell told Sky News that the IOC should have been more aware of China’s record when it decided where to stage the 2008 Games.
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Kooks blame bassist departure on drugs
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Rex Features
The Kooks singer Luke Pritchard has revealed that their bass player left the band due to drug problems.
Max Rafferty departed the band in January and was temporarily replaced by Dan Logan from Brighton band Cat The Dog.
Speaking to Orange, frontman Pritchard said: “Max was in and out for a long time and we kind […]
US mortgage crisis costs global economy 945 bln dlrs: IMF
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The International Monetary Fund said Tuesday the worldwide losses stemming from the US subprime mortgage crisis could hit 945 billion dollars.
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BROWN OUT FOR OPENER
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He became the second world leader, after German Chancellor Angela Merkel, to decide to stay away from the opening ceremonies, although Brown’s office insisted yesterday that he was not boycotting the Olympics and would attend the closing ceremony.
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Prostitutes and Politics
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Just when we were wondering whether Eliot
Spitzer paid too much for a prostitute, it turns out that many people think nothing of paying $237,000 to hear Bill Clinton speak.
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Now, the world’s problem is food: Here come shortages, rising prices and riots
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As if the human family doesn’t have enough to worry about, what with the alarming, destructive effects in many parts of the world of global climate change, political unrest or certain thorny, ugly, seemingly endless wars (those in Iraq and western Sudan (Darfur), for example), now comes the disturbing news that the planet’s food supply […]
Flying Seoul-o
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Writing about foreign stereotypes last week, I made sceptical reference to the popular notion of Japan as a land awash in bizarre pornography, where every other salarymen spends his lunch break hunched over rape manga, downloading bukkake videos, and purchasing schoolgirls’ underwear from his office vending machine. Japanese smut is certainly distinctive, I acknowledged, but […]
‘Real men go to Tehran’: what Dick Cheney might have said
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It’s the White House, some time in January 2002.
Condoleezza Rice, National Security Advisor, and Stephen Hadley, her deputy, are telling George W. Bush that lumping Iran along with Iraq and North Korea in his forthcoming “Axis of Evil” speech may not be such a good idea (especially since - as Rice points out - […]
Merida Initiative a Welcome Distraction
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WASHINGTON — As one who has written about the desert that often is U.S. policy toward Latin America, I should be quick to admit that it is also easy to see mirages.
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Dissent May Shift Torch’s Route at Last Minute
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LOS ANGELES, April 8 — San Francisco officials and police scrambled Tuesday to find a path for the Olympic torch that would accommodate the obligations of hospitality and the city’s historic tolerance for dissent, which has now targeted the Beijing Games.
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Senior Al-Qaeda Commander Believed to Be Dead
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BERLIN, April 9 — Al-Qaeda’s chief operational planner is believed to have died late last year in a remote part of Pakistan after contracting a fatal illness, a U.S. counterterrorism official said Wednesday.
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Hondurans Ride Winds of Change Blown In by Mitch
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CHOLUTECA, Honduras — When Hurricane Mitch tore into this sleepy Pacific coastal province of dairy farms and cane fields in October 1998, its torrential rains and winds swept away an entire way of life — and opened up unexpected new vistas of change.
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