Mosley wins privacy action
Max Mosley, world motorsport chief and son of the wartime British fascist leader Sir Oswald Mosley, won his privacy action against the News of the World today. He was awarded £60,000 damages
and £200,000 legal costs after Mr Justice Eady agreed that Mosley had a reasonable expectation of privacy in... [continued]
People: was Max Mosley set up? 
Mosley had the right to enjoy S&M in private
Max Mosley and an orgy of misunderstandings
Barack Obama guarantees US support for Israel
Barack Obama moved yesterday to shore up his credentials on national security during his trip to the Middle East by promising that he would back Israel against any threat to its existence, most
notably an attack by Iran. With foreign policy appearing to be the Republicans' most fruitful line... [continued]
Alexander Cockburn: Israel stance belies Obama's message of change
Sderot, the Israeli town that Bush forgot
US Election 2008: all the latest news and opinion
Canoe couple jailed for six years
John and Anne Darwin, the 'canoe couple' who were jailed yesterday for staging Mr Darwin's 'death' in a bid to collect insurance money, may have more than £1m stashed away in secret bank accounts set
up under aliases. Mr Darwin was sent to jail for six years while his... [continued]
John and Anne Darwin, the full story
Voters head to Glasgow East polls
Voters are going to the polls in Glasgow East today in a by-election that could seal the fate of Prime Minister Gordon Brown. Should Labour fail to hold onto the seat, one of their safest which they
won by a 13,500 vote majority in the 2005 General Election, Brown will... [continued]
The Mole: ministers cling to bizarre hopes on day of crucial by-election
Millions at famine risk in Africa
Millions of people in east Africa are at risk of starvation due to drought and food prices that are spiralling out of control, according to aid agencies including Oxfam and the World Food Programme.
Where as in previous droughts there had always been cheaply available grain and fuel prices... [continued]
Somalia: a victim of Bush’s recklessness
The world is running out of food
UK blocks green energy plan
Britain is trying to block European Union legislation which would make it easier for renewable energy sources to supply energy to the national grid, documents revelaed yesterday to the Guardian showed. Despite Gordon Brown talking of a 'greeen revolution' and urging business to clean up its act, his government... [continued]
Zimbabwe runs out of money paper
The Zanu-PF government of Robert Mugabe is running out of paper to print bank notes on as the crisis of hyperinflation tightens its grip on Zimbabwe. The move means the government will be unable to
pay civil servants and, more importantly, the army. The German company that had been... [continued]
Zimbabwe Today: Moses Moyo on life with hyperinflation
Fannie & Freddie bail-out agreed
The troubled US mortgage finance firms Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac yesterday received a welcome boost when bipartisan political plans were approved that will help to baail out the companies. The move,
which will also act as a shot in the arm to the moribund US housing market as... [continued]
Freddie and Fannie: an American racket
EDF bid for £11bn British Energy
The energy companies are about to be convulsed by a surge of takeovers and transactions as EDF, the huge French power conglomerate, looks set to clinch a £11bn deal to swallow up British Energy, the UK's main nuclear generator. Should that deal go through, Centrica, the owner of... [continued]
