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The housemates living in the Hell half of the house looked far from happy as Big Brother gave the Heaven group a party tonight.
As Darnell ran out of the Diary Room and told his companions the news, Bex and Luke went into the bedroom and started to criticise the angels.
Luke lay down on his bed […]
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A multi-pronged militant assault on a small, remote U.S. base killed nine American soldiers and wounded 15 Sunday in the deadliest attack on U.S. forces in Afghanistan in three years, officials said.
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A multi-pronged militant assault on a small, remote U.S. base killed nine American soldiers and wounded 15 Sunday in the deadliest attack on U.S. forces in Afghanistan in three years, officials said.
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On the rare occasion that a reporter asks a question which includes the word “Viagra,” a male politician goes into panic mode. Nothing good can happen from that moment forward. There are no roads out.
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Here’s a question some critics have been asking: Does the world even need an organization like the Group of Eight, that exclusive club of heads of government or heads of state of several of the world’s leading, industrialized nations - but not including China, India or Brazil - that meets each year to talk about […]
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The hit song of this summer in Iraq is not some chant in praise of Moqtada al-Sadr but a plaintive, rollicking tale of love and road trips around the country in a communal taxi (the huge GMC Suburbans that are the modern ‘ships of the desert’). In true Iraqi style, Hossam al-Rasam’s chartbuster – which […]
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WASHINGTON — The three-minute video is filled with iconic images: the final minutes of freedom for “Cesar,” a commander in the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC); the look of resignation from U.S. hostage Keith Stansell as he is placed in plastic handcuffs; the loud protests of Colombian hostage Raimundo Malagon; the silence of former […]
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At the strong urging of the Bush administration, Israel has pulled back from threatening to bomb Iran’s nuclear enrichment program and has joined the U.S.-led effort to give coercive diplomacy with Tehran a (time-limited) chance.
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MOSCOW Antonina Zbanatskaya, an energetic 70-year-old, awoke early one recent Monday after a cold, rainy Sunday. She cut some cherry branches in her garden in Odintsovo, near Moscow, and tied them together to make a sort of small broom. Then she packed up her creation along with a floral bedsheet, towel, felt hat, slippers and […]
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PESHAWAR, Pakistan, July 12 — At least 20 people were killed Saturday in fighting between security forces and pro-Taliban insurgents in volatile northwestern Pakistan, according to officials and witnesses.
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MIAMI, Aug. 24 — Tropical Storm Debby was expected to stay away from land as it remained out in the open Atlantic, but another system north of Venezuela was on the verge of strengthening into a named storm, forecasters said Thursday.
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RUSUTSU, Japan, July 8 — President Bush has worked hard over the past few years to cultivate good relations with many world leaders, but as a summit of the Group of Eight industrialized nations got underway Monday, he was once again discovering the limitations of those efforts.
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U.S. and Iraqi negotiators have abandoned efforts to conclude a comprehensive agreement governing the long-term status of U.S troops in Iraq before the end of the Bush presidency, according to senior U.S. officials, effectively leaving talks over an extended U.S. military presence there to the next administration.
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TOKYO — Death from too much work is so commonplace in Japan that there is a word for it — karoshi.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - Pope Benedict arrived in Australia on Sunday for an international Catholic youth festival and promised to apologize for a sexual abuse scandal that has rocked the church in the country.
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - U.S. and Iraqi negotiators have ended efforts to reach a formal security pact before President George W. Bush leaves office in favor of an interim deal, the Washington Post said on Sunday, citing senior U.S. officials.
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Leaders of EU and Mediterranean rim countries are gathering in Paris to launch a Union for the Mediterranean.
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“Our government’s policy is that our troops, paramilitary forces and our regular forces are deployed in sufficient numbers. They are capable of taking action there. And any foreign intrusion would be counterproductive,” he said Saturday. “People will not accept it. Questions of sovereignty come in.”
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Rarely, remarkably rarely, do the world’s First Ladies appear on stage together. But this week, in the annual beauty pageant that accompanies the serious business of the G8 conference, there they were.
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Terri Judd in London
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