Brown presents fuel package
Gordon Brown has rejected the option of a windfall tax on energy companies in presenting his much-anticipated plans to help people with soaring fuel bills. Instead, the energy providers will be
expected to fund a £910m fuel-efficiency programme which will also provide extra money for the poorest households. The... [continued]
The Mole: Labour MPs give Brown's fuel package a cool reception 
McCain and Obama attend 9/11 ceremony
Presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain are set to bury their political differences when they attend a service near Ground Zero in New York today, to remember those who died in the
September 11 attacks seven years ago today. In a joint statement, the two rivals vowed to come... [continued]
September 11: Robert Fox on eyewitnesses to history
Obama defends lipstick joke
Barack Obama has spent the past 24 hours defending himself against charges of sexism after comparing his Republican rival John McCain's promise of change to putting "lipstick on a pig". On Tuesday
Obama said his rival was still pursuing the policies of the Bush administration despite presenting himself as an... [continued]
Lipstick on a pig: smear or storm in a teacup?
Peregrine Worsthorne: McCain's choice of Palin is inexcusable
Barristers snub £91 hourly rate
A boycott by barristers over their hourly pay rates is threatening to delay the start of several major court cases, including the Rhys Jones murder trial in Liverpool. The trials are under threat because barristers are refusing to work for a minimum of £70 an hour for a junior barrister... [continued]
Zimbabwe allows foreign currency
Robert Mugabe, who has consistently blamed Zimbabwe's financial woes on the actions of foreign businesspeople, has finally acknowledged the need for foreign currency to bolster his country's battered
economy. The Zimbabwe dollar remains the legal tender but around 250 wholesalers and 1,000 retailers are to be licensed to accept foreign... [continued]
Zimbabwe Today: exclusive reports from Moses Moyo in Harare
Seven face bomb plot retrial
Seven British men accused of plotting to blow up passenger planes over the Atlantic with liquid bombs could face a retrial. Abdulla Ahmed Ali, Assad Sarwar and Tanvir Hussain were found guilty of
conspiracy to murder after a five month trial but the jury was unable to return verdicts... [continued]
The US must never be allowed to blow a British terror probe again
Scientists fire up Big Bang machine
The world's biggest physics experiment got underway this morning, as scientists attempt to recreate the Universe's first moments after the Big Bang. The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is a 27km-long
circular tunnel which runs under the French-Swiss border. After 14 years of work by 10,000 scientists, at around 8am engineers... [continued]
Robert Matthews: LHC could be the end of the world - for physics
In pictures: back with a bang
