Cameron calls for general election after Brown’s Glasgow disaster
The Conservative leader David Cameron today demanded that Labour calls a general election following the party's humiliating defeat in the Glasgow East by-election yesterday. With a swing of more than
22 per cent, the Scottish National Party candidate John Mason stole the former Labour stronghold by a margin of 365... [continued]
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Obama woos 200,000 Berliners
Barack Obama's long-awaited speech on trans-Atlantic policy in Berlin saw the US presidential candidate greeted with thunderous applause by a 200,000-strong crowd in front of whom he urged an end to
the divisions between America and Europe and sought a new global partnership. On the latest leg of a week-long... [continued]
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Mosley still faces calls to resign
FIA president Max Mosley is still facing calls to resign despite winning his privacy action against the News of the World in the High Court yesterday. Former world champion Sir Jackie
Stewart has urged Mosley, who was awarded £60,000 damages as well as £200,000 legal fees, to step down. He... [continued]
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Gadaffi’s son sparks economic war
The youngest son of Colonel Muammar Gadaffi has been jailed for two days in Switzerland, sparking a diplomatic crisis between Switzerland and Libya. Libya has vowed to retaliate with "an eye
for an eye and a tooth for a tooth" after 30-year-old Hannibal Gadaffi was arrested and jailed on July... [continued]
People: Hannibal Gadaffi at war with the Swiss
Terror as Qantas plane plunges 20,000ft
Passengers on a Qantas jet en route from London to Melbourne have told of their terror when their plane was ripped open at 30,000 feet. A four-metre hole was left in the side of the Boeing 747-400 jet after a faulty door caused the fuselage to pull away.... [continued]
High street sees record fall in sales
High street sales saw a record slump in June, raising fears that a rapid fall in consumer spending will tip Britain into recession. The 3.9 per cent drop in sales is the sharpest monthly decline since records began in 1986, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said. The figures represent... [continued]
BMJ: limit families to two kids
An article in the British Medical Journal is urging GPs to encourage their patients to consider capping their families at two children, in an effort to limit the impact of a burgeoning population on the environment. John Guillebaud, emeritus professor of family planning and reproductive health, at University College London... [continued]
TNK-BP chief executive flees Russia
The beleaguered chief executive of BP's Russian oil venture TNK-BP, Robert Dudley, has left Russia after an "orchestrated campaign of harassment". BP's chief executive, Tony Hayward said Dudley will run the company "temporarily" from outside Russia, after he was the victim of an intense campaign of harassment by TNK-BP’s Russian... [continued]
Rentokil shares plunge 30 per cent
Pest control firm Rentokil Initial's shares plummeted 30.3 per cent yesterday following the battered services firm's fourth profits warning in just seven months. Full-year profits are now expected to be £35m lower after sales declined in its troubled delivery firm City Link. Rentokil's new chief executive Alan Brown... [continued]
