McCanns ‘let down’ over sighting
A spokesman for Kate and Gerry McCann says the Portuguese police "let down" Madeleine, who disappeared from the family's holiday apartment last year, by not telling the couple about a 'sighting' of a
little girl in Amsterdam, and by a lack of co-ordination. Now investigators for the couple are looking... [continued]
October 2007: was Portuguese policeman incompetent? 
UK protestors arrested as torch tours Beijing
Four protestors, two Britons and two Americans, have been arrested in Beijing for unveiling pro-Tibet banners as the Olympic torch makes its final journey across the city, despite tight security. The
Britons are Iain Thom, 24 from Edinburgh and Lucy Marion, 23, from London. Thom climbed a 124... [continued]
Beijing 2008: speedy analysis, strong comment, enduring photographs
Son of the Teflon Don arrested
John Gotti, former head of the notorious Gambino crime family, has been arrested in the US and charged with crimes relating to murder and drugs trafficking. Dozens of FBI agents swooped on Gambino's
Long Island home in the latest round in an extraordinary game of cat and mouse with an... [continued]
The Gambinos and the Sicilian connection
Tory candidate admits 75 crimes
The Tory prospective parliamentary candidate for Watford has admitted 75 offences of intimidation and harrassment against local Lib Dems over the past two years, and is awaiting sentence. Thirty-one-year-old Ian Oakley wrote "scum, scum perv" on the wall of a councillor's house, twice slashed councillors' car tyres, sent letters to... [continued]
Biggest-ever ID theft case arrests
Eleven people have been arrested in the US in connection with an alleged "international conspiracy" which amounts to the world's biggest-ever ID theft fraud. The 11 are accused of hacking into the computers of major retailers to steal 40m credit and debit card numbers. Three are US citizens, the others... [continued]
France ‘was complicit’ in Rwanda
Rwanda has called for the prosecution of senior French politicians including former PM Dominique de Villepin, who it claims assisted the Hutus in the genocide of hundreds of thousands of Tutsis in 1994. Also blamed was former president Francois Mitterand, who died in 1996. The accusations, made in a... [continued]
Northern Rock cash boost attacked
Opposition parties have attacked the Government's decision to further bail out Northern Rock with £3bn cash. Both the main opposition parties said the decision put the taxpayer at unacceptable risk.
Unlike the loans the Government was forced to make to the stricken mortgage bank when it collapsed, the latest cash... [continued]
America and Europe will rise from the financial ashes
ITV: 28 per cent profit fall
ITV has announced a 28 per cent fall in profits for the first half of the year, causing an immediate slump of 10 per cent in the broadcaster's share price. Pre-tax profits were £91m as ITV, in common
with other media organisations, suffered the knock-on effects of the credit crunch... [continued]
America and Europe will rise from the financial ashes
