Americas
Democrat rivals clash over Iraq and healthcare
Published: 05 June 2007
Sixteen United States flags flapped in a bracing wind at a truck stop where the first of two New Hampshire presidential campaign debates took place on Sunday night.
Guantanamo charges dismissed by judges
Published: 05 June 2007
Military judges have dismissed charges against a Guantanamo detainee who chauffeured Osama bin Laden and another who allegedly killed a US soldier in Afghanistan.
Black's defence decide not to call Trump as witness in fraud trial
Published: 05 June 2007
It is a rare day when Donald Trump fails to make a head-turning personal appearance, but so it was yesterday when defence lawyers declined to call the celebrity billionaire as a character witness in the fraud trial of his friend and former business associate Lord Black of Crossharbour, the fallen newspaper baron.
Paris Hilton swaps her little black dress for a jumpsuit
Published: 05 June 2007
Paris Hilton, the heiress turned celebrity bad girl, spent her first full day in a Los Angeles women's prison yesterday after a whirlwind weekend in which she found herself mercilessly teased at an awards show and then, two days earlier than expected, swapped her strapless black evening dress for an orange jumpsuit.
'Terror plot' to attack JFK sparks fears of radical Islam in Caribbean
Published: 04 June 2007
American officials say they are growing increasingly concerned about the domestic threat posed by radical Islamists from the Caribbean following the disruption of an alleged plot to ignite jet fuel tanks and blow up New York's JFK airport.
Footage of Castro shows recovery from operation
Published: 04 June 2007
In the first images broadcast of him in four months, Fidel Castro has appeared in photographs and a brief video released by the Cuban government at the weekend.
Sicko? The truth about the US healthcare system
Published: 04 June 2007
Terrorist plot to blow up airport's fuel lines is foiled
Published: 03 June 2007
A plot to blow up the jet fuel lines that supply John F Kennedy Airport has been thwarted with the arrest of three people, including a former member of Guyana's parliament, US officials announced yesterday.
Spock crosses art's final frontier with full-bodied approach
Published: 03 June 2007
Best known for playing Mr Spock on the much-loved TV series Star Trek, Leonard Nimoy has become the unlikely champion of plus-sized women - by photographing them nude.
TB sufferer is quarantined as US asks how he was allowed to fly
Published: 02 June 2007
An American lawyer with a potentially fatal form of tuberculosis who travelled to Europe against the advice of his doctors and then snuck back into the US through Canada, was yesterday undergoing treatment under armed guard, amid a national outcry at his behaviour.
Jack Kevorkian released from prison
Published: 02 June 2007
Jack Kevorkian, the retired pathologist dubbed "Dr. Death" for claims that he participated in at least 130 assisted suicides, left prison after eight years yesterday still believing people have the right to die.
The mixed legacy of 1967: The summer of self-love
Published: 02 June 2007
One's a Mac, the other is a PC, but really they are the best of friends
Published: 01 June 2007
They didn't introduce themselves by saying "Hello, I'm a Mac", "and I'm a PC" - but the cheeky Apple adverts ribbing Microsoft were never far from the surface as the tech companies' founders, Steve Jobs and Bill Gates, appeared on stage together for the first time in a decade.
Marquez returns to home of 'magical realism' after 25 years
Published: 01 June 2007
It was a scene that might have come straight from one of his novels. The giant of Latin American literature Gabriel Garcia Marquez arrived yesterday in the tiny Colombian backwater of Aracatacawith a train-load of musicians, singers, friends and family and even a government minister.
Guantanamo 'suicide' was in maximum-security cell
Published: 01 June 2007
The Saudi Arabian prisoner who apparently committed suicide at Guantanamo Bay this week was being held in isolation in the maximum-security Camp Five section.
Abortion: The hysteria which divides the US
Published: 01 June 2007
Anti-abortion campaigners in the US will tell you their crusade is about the sanctity of life. But really it is about upholding a singularly unhealthy tendency in American public life - the exploitation of a divisive social and ethical issue to further the ambitions of a single political party whose agenda doesn't necessarily reflect the interests of the anti-abortion campaigners at all.
Black may escape witness box after 'weak' prosecution rests
Published: 31 May 2007
Lord Black of Crossharbour, the former owner of the Daily Telegraph who has been put on trial for fraud, won one-14th of the courtroom victory he has been loudly predicting, as prosecutors dropped a money laundering charge against him.
Goldman Sachs marches on with Bush's candidate for World Bank
Published: 31 May 2007
"In Goldman Sachs we trust," was the title of one of the chapters of John Kenneth Galbraith's The Great Crash, his account of the crooked dealings that triggered the great stock market bust of the 1920s.
Drugs giant faces criminal charges over clinical trial
Published: 31 May 2007
The US pharmaceutical giant Pfizer has been slapped with criminal charges in Nigeria over a notorious clinical trial it conducted on children during a meningitis epidemic a decade ago. Patients became unwitting guinea pigs for a new, untested antibiotic and many of them either died or were left with permanent disabilities.
'Orphaned' boy spells out plight of parents
Published: 31 May 2007
Somehow, Kunal Sah had managed to control his nerves by the time he approached the microphone and listened for the word he was required to spell.
Bush to nominate Zoellick as World Bank president
Published: 30 May 2007
President George Bush will today nominate Robert Zoellick - a former government official with close links to corporate America - to take over as head of the controversy-stricken World Bank.
Cindy Sheehan quits as 'face' of anti-war campaign
Published: 30 May 2007
The war in Iraq has claimed another victim - leaving the US peace movement without one of its most inspir-ational voices. The activist Cindy Sheehan has announced she is standing down from her position as the "face" of the anti-war movement, citing her frustration with the apathy of the American public and the failure of the Democratic Party to do more to bring the troops home.
Venezuelans protest as private TV station goes off the air
Published: 29 May 2007
National Guard troops yesterday fired tear gas and rubber bullets into a crowd of protesters angry over a decision by President Hugo Chavez that forced a critical television station off the air.
Cover girl in the running for the macho Indy 500
Published: 27 May 2007
Danica Patrick has never won a professional motor-racing race. But somehow that doesn't seem nearly as significant as the fact that the 25-year-old American driver has done swim-suit modelling for the lads' magazine FHM, has an elfin round face and alluring straight black hair, and was recently named sexiest athlete in a "what is sexy" list compiled by the underwear retailer Victoria's Secret.
Hillary's campaign rocked by claims in two books
Published: 27 May 2007
It had to happen, and it has. Once again the great drama of the Clinton marriage - from his philandering and "bimbo eruptions" and her contemplation of divorce, to an alleged joint secret scheme to turn the US presidency into a family business - is back in the headlines, with repercussions as yet unknown for the future of Hillary's bid to become the first woman to win the White House.
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