Top Hezbollah leader killed
One of the top leaders of Hezbollah, the Lebanese militant group, has been killed by a car bomb in Damascus, Syria. Imad Mughniyeh, who was the special operations and intelligence chief of the
movement's military wing, was high up on the target list for both the US and Israel. He... [continued]
Death of the original Bin Laden 
Russia warns Ukraine over Nato ambition
Russia has warned Ukraine that it will point its nuclear missiles at the former Soviet republic if it joins Nato and allows the US to deploy infrastructure for its missile shield there. President
Vladimir Putin said, "It's frightening not just to talk about this, but even to think about, that... [continued]
Putin might be right about the US
Obama crushes Clinton
Barack Obama enjoyed crushing victories over Hillary Clinton in yesterday's three Democratic primaries. Obama won Washington DC by 75 per cent to 24, Maryland by 60 to 37 and Virginia by 64 to 36.
The scale of the losses prompted the resignation of a second Clinton aide in three days... [continued]
Alexander Cockburn: Obama surges past floundering Clinton
Election 2008: News, analysis and videos
Police probe dissident death
The death of a leading Georgian opposition politician in Surrey last night is being treated by British police as suspicious. Badri Patarkatsishvili, 52, died in Leatherhead, near London, from what
his aides describe as a heart attack. Patarkatsishvili was living in self-imposed exile in the UK after being charged with... [continued]
People: Georgian tycoon found dead
Worsthorne: Putin might be right about US
Darling U-turn over non-doms
Alistair Darling has executed a dramatic U-turn over plans to toughen up the tax regime on 'non-doms' - wealthy foreign workers living in the UK. The Treasury has said proposals to tax the foreign
earnings of non-domiciled workers would be dropped along with demands that they disclose income from offshore... [continued]
People Page: Chancellor is not the City's Darling
The rich will always flock to tax haven Britain
Zanu-PF expels Mugabe challenger
Zimbabwe's ruling party has expelled Simba Makoni, the former finance minister who last week said he would challenge the incumbent Robert Mugabe in next month's presidential election. Nathan
Shamuyarira, the party's information secretary, warned any other party members who plan to support Makoni would also be expelled. The scale of... [continued]
Zimbabwe Today: The men behind Makoni
Australia apologises to Aborigines
Australia has issued a formal apology to Aborigines for forcibly separating their children from their parents under an official policy of racial assimilation that lasted until 1970. Kevin Rudd, the
newly elected prime minister apologised for "the indignity and degradation inflicted on a proud people" and spoke of "one of... [continued]
Pros & Cons of apologising for slavery
Database for pupils planned
The Government plans to place the personal details and exam results of all 14-year-old children in England on an electronic database which will be accessible to colleges and prospective employers online. As well as qualifications, the 'Unique Learner Number', which will be used to track individuals until they retire, will... [continued]
Sixth month of house price falls
House prices fell for a sixth month in succession in January, according to figures from the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors. The survey said 55 per cent more surveyors reported a fall than a rise in house prices in January - up from 49 per cent in December. The news... [continued]
Buffett outlines sub-prime rescue
Warren Buffett has outlined a bail-out for bond insurers hit by the US sub-prime mortgage crisis. The billionaire investor told CNBC he had offered to take more than $800bn of high-quality municipal bonds guaranteed by Ambac, MBIA and FGIC, who are struggling to shore up the triple-A credit ratings on... [continued]
