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It is jokingly dubbed ‘the most expensive B&B in the world’. Then again the trailer camp is the only ‘bed and breakfast’ that also provides lunch, dinner, a gym, 24-hour Internet access and a relatively secure place to stay in Basra.Situated within the newly-acquired American military base in this southern-Iraqi province, the B&B provides private [...]
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Peter Riddell describes it as a “stench of death” that reminds him of the last days of John Major. A Labour MP says it’s “an end-of-empire kind of event“. The Prime Minister’s authority has clearly been badly dented in recent weeks, especially after yesterday’s Commons defeat on the Gurkha question. But what should Gordon [...]
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WASHINGTON — In a candid moment during his speech this week at the National Council of La Raza’s annual convention, John McCain acknowledged he was addressing a largely skeptical audience. “I know many of you are Democrats, and many of you would usually vote for the presidential candidate of that party,” he said. “I know [...]
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Let’s imagine, and this is purely hypothetical, that President Bush has already decided that he will not leave office in January 2009 without a satisfactory resolution of the Iranian nuclear problem. Let’s imagine that he has already determined that if he cannot obtain Iran’s agreement to dismantle its nuclear weapons program voluntarily and verifiably, then [...]
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President Obama will not twit, I have been authoritatively informed. Or should that be tweet? Unsure about the correct verb form for sending Twitter messages, I turned for guidance to my authoritative informer, Macon Phillips, the affable young Internet specialist in charge of the White House’s new-media office. Read more
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The British government has paid nearly $900,000 in legal fees on behalf of three associates of Osama bin Laden who have fended off attempts by the U.S. government to extradite them for a decade, according to documents obtained by The Washington Post. Read more
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BEIJING, May 2 — Chinese authorities confirmed the country’s first case of swine flu on Friday evening and put into full swing a meticulously planned program to contain the outbreak. Read more
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MEXICO CITY — Mexican authorities have arrested more than 60,000 people in connection with drug trafficking over the past two years, according to government statistics from a nationwide crackdown that has also led to dramatic increases in violence and allegations of human rights abuse. Read more
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MEXICO CITY, May 1 — Mexican health officials studying the new influenza virus said Friday they have found that its ability to spread from person to person may be fairly low, raising hopes that the extreme measures taken here — the shutting down of all nonessential commerce and government — can contain its spread. Read [...]
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By Alison Bevege NAIROBI (Reuters) – Portuguese warship Corte-Real captured, disarmed and briefly detained 19 pirates armed with high-explosives after they attempted to attack a Norwegian-owned oil tanker in the Gulf of Aden, NATO officials said on Saturday. Crude oil tanker MV Kition radioed for help on Friday afternoon after a skiff full of pirates [...]
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – New laboratory data showed fewer people have died in Mexico than first thought from a deadly new influenza strain, a glint of good news for a world rattled by the threat of a flu pandemic. Read more
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Mexico has revised down the suspected death toll from swine flu from 176 to 101, indicating that the outbreak may not be as bad as was initially feared. Read more
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WASHINGTON (AFP) – The IMF said Friday that talks with Sri Lanka for a bailout package of around two billion dollars were still continuing despite reports the fund was under pressure to withold the planned financing. Read more
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NAIROBI, Kenya – A Portuguese warship seized explosives from suspected Somali pirates after thwarting an attack on a Norwegian-owned oil tanker in the Gulf of Aden, a NATO spokesman said Saturday. Read more
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The Windsor dynasty sits easily on top of the premier league of royal families. Few can compete with its dramas, scandals and tragedies, reaching right back to the early 20th century and the abdication scandal and through to Diana and her tragic and, some still insist, mysterious death. Read more
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(May 1) – Some 2,300 years ago, an Egyptian was laid to rest with his best friend at his feet. That friend, scientists in Pennsylvania say, was something akin to a Jack Russell terrier, Discovery News reports. Pet Albums Skip over this content Skip over this content Staff at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of [...]
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Supporting each other: Kate and Gerry unveiled a computer generated image of how Madeleine might look if still alive. It was released today Read more
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AMSTERDAM — The man who drove his car into a crowd of parade spectators and killed six people has died of his injuries, leaving unresolved the mystery of why he tried to attack the Dutch royal family. Read more
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Relatives of the Srebrenica massacre victims attend the funeral of their family members at the Srebrenica Memorial site during the 10th anniversary of the massacre on July 11, 2005, in Srebrenica, Bosnia Herzegovina. Read more
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Lots of world leaders have jumped into the information age with blogs, web pages, Twitter, YouTube and the like, but one might not expect a politician to pay much heed to constituents sounding off in the comments field. An interesting story from The Moscow Times: “When President Dmitry Medvedev opened his blog [...]