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ASHEVILLE, North Carolina (Reuters) – Democrat Barack Obama counterattacked on Sunday against a new Republican tactic by saying rival John McCain was more interested in a smear campaign than fixing the U.S. economy. Read more
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The German government and banks have agreed a 50bn euro ($70bn; £40bn) plan to save one of the country’s biggest banks, the finance ministry says. Read more
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The intelligence officials, who said their information came from informants and field agents, interpreted the Taliban’s anger as a sign that a senior militant may have been among at least 24 people killed. But that has not been confirmed, said the officials, who sought anonymity because they were not allowed to speak to media. Read [...]
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PETER Mandelson was sensationally appointed to the cabinet for a third time yesterday as British Prime Minister Gordon Brown launched an attempt to tackle the political and economic crisis that threatens to engulf his premiership. Read more
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Gordon Brown plans to bring David Blunkett back into the Cabinet in another dramatic bid to revive Labour’s political fortunes. Read more
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PARIS – A European summit on the global financial crisis opened yesterday with Britain’s leader saying strong banks should be protected and “whatever is necessary” must be done to restore stability. Read more
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The trial of Michel Fourniret — who reportedly enlisted his wife’s help to seize virgin girls to rape and kill — began March 27, 2008, with Fourniet refusing to speak unless court went into closed session and refusing to let the press take his photograph. The Times of London reported the gory details: “The couple [...]
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Saudi Arabia’s king called for greater dialogue and openness between the world’s monotheistic religions on March 24, 2008. In the face of rising tensions over Mohammed cartoons, al-Qaida claiming Pope Benedict XVI is leading a crusade, and a stalled Middle East peace process, King Abdullah‘s outreach took on extra weight. From the International Herald Tribune: [...]
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A commenter in another thread urged Republicans to relax about the apparent lead that Obama is opening up in many polls: “Obama always underperforms his poll numbers,” he wrote. Read more
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11:36am UK, Sunday October 05, 2008 The gloves have well and truly come off in the US presidential race after Sarah Palin accused Barack Obama of associating with terrorists. Alaska Governor [...]
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The X Factor edged ahead of Strictly Come Dancing in the ratings last night, according to early figures. Last Saturday Strictly was on top, with 8.59m (40.6%) to its rival’s 8.18m (36%). This week the ballroom show improved to 9.22m (39.9%) between 6.45pm and 8pm, but its ITV1 rival improved more still, averaging 9.84m (40.5%) [...]
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After two weeks of anguishing debate, Congress has passed and President Bush signed a massive plan to save the financial industry and the economy at large from an unthinkable free fall. Now, the world holds its breath, seeing if it will work. Read more
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AP Posted: 4:34 amOctober 4, 2008 SYDNEY, Australia – A 7-year-old boy broke into a popular zoo, fed a string of animals to the resident crocodile and bashed several lizards to death. The 30-minute rampage, caught on the zoo’s security camera, happened early Wednesday after [...]
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Thursday debate set record TV ratings — it was the most watched VP debate ever. Somewhere — probably on a golf course — Dan Quayle is very happy to hear that. Read more
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Carlos Slim Helú, the 68-year-old, Lebanese-Mexican, communications-and-retail mogul and philanthropist, is the second-richest man in the world according to Forbes‘ 2008 “The World’s Billionaires” list, coming in just ahead of Microsoft founder Bill Gates. Based in Mexico City, Slim, the dueño of a fortune worth some $60 billion, knows a thing or two about making [...]
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Today is my third birthday in Baghdad, as in it’s the third time I’ve spent a birthday in Baghdad as oppose to being three – something that happened 29, distant, years ago. My first birthday in Iraq, back in 2004, was marked by a big car bomb and lots of reporting on the carnage. The [...]
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WASHINGTON — John McCain and Barack Obama made little mention of Latin America during last week’s foreign policy debate. Obama, in speaking generally about China, referred to Latin America once, saying “the conspicuousness of their presence (in the region) is only matched by our absence.” And McCain mentioned Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez and Cuba’s Raul Castro [...]
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Candidates Obama, McCain, Biden and Palin, take a bow. And you in the huge television audiences, bask in the reflected glory. You all have established in two national political debates that a lot is going right in America, despite our enormous problems. Read more
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MOSCOW, Oct. 3 — A car bomb exploded outside Russia’s military headquarters in South Ossetia on Friday, killing seven soldiers and two others in what leaders of the Kremlin-backed separatist region immediately described as a terrorist attack launched by Georgia. Read more