Cameron: black fathers at fault
David Cameron has said he agrees with Barack Obama's controversial claim that too many black fathers have abandoned their responsibilities to their children. He told the Guardian
newspaper: "I think he's absolutely right. I've had a number of meetings with black church leaders who make the same point. They... [continued]
Let's inject some intelligence into the race debate 
Media obsession risks normalising knife crime
Obama: I’ll shift focus to Afghanistan
American Democrat presidential candidate Barack Obama has delivered a key foreign policy speech, promising to shift the US's focus away from Iraq and towards pursuing al-Qaeda in Afghanistan and
Pakistan, just days before he is due to visit Kabul and Baghdad. Almost simultaneously, the Republican party's nominee for the presidency,... [continued]
Why Obama will play it safe in November
When satire falls flat: the Obama cover scandal in full
Obama lays out plans for Iraq: media reaction
Dead Israeli soldiers identified
Lebanese militant group Hezbollah has handed over the remains of two Israeli soldiers, whose capture in 2006 sparked a 33-day war. It was unclear whether the missing soldiers were dead or alive until
coffins were seen being taken from a car. The Israeli army has now confirmed that the remains... [continued]
Israel: a warning from history
Murat to settle libel actions
Robert Murat, the British man named by Portuguese police as an arguido, or formal suspect, in the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, is due to collect a total of £550,000 in damages from the British media. Murat will fly to the UK tomorrow for the settlement at the High Court of... [continued]
Canoe man’s wife ‘betrayed’ sons
Anne Darwin was in tears yesterday as her son told Teesside Crown Court that she had "betrayed" them by lying about the death of their father, who was presumed dead by authorities after he apparently
disappeared while canoeing near Hartlepool. Thirty-two-year-old Mark Darwin said his "world was crushed" when he... [continued]
John and Anne Darwin: the story so far
Council workers start huge strike
Thousands of council workers across the UK are on strike in a 48-hour walk-out which began at midnight last night. The biggest campaign of industrial unrest for years, it has forced schools and libraries to close, and disrupted rubbish collections. The unions involved, Unison and Unite, said they expect 600,000... [continued]
OFT: bank accounts don’t work
The Office of Fair Trading has said that personal current accounts are not working well for consumers. The regulator said that much of the banks' revenue from these accounts was "derived opaquely" from charges levied on customers with insufficient funds and from interest payments. In a new report, the OFT... [continued]
Investors expect rate cut
Investors are anticipating that the Bank of England is set to cut interest rates for the first time since May, a clear acknowledgment that the UK is facing a serious recession in the wake of the
global credit crisis. Market observers now believe there is a 40 per cent chance... [continued]
Is Wall Street to blame for the credit crunch?
