World
An Oscar. The Nobel Peace Prize. Now, can Al Gore win the presidency?
Published: 13 October 2007
Blair admits shock at discrimination on West Bank
Published: 13 October 2007
Mr Blair was on the road yesterday, grappling with the complexities of how the physical security infrastructure of the occupation has squeezed the Palestinian economy.
Scientist who shares honour: 'I feel very privileged'
Published: 13 October 2007
At his office in Delhi, Rajendra Pachauri was at the centre of a maelstrom of ringing telephones, shouting assistants and people wanting to congratulate him. One of the first to call with felicitations was his fellow prize winner, Al Gore, with whom he is to share the Nobel honour.
Supreme Court ruling puts Bhutto amnesty in doubt
Published: 13 October 2007
Pakistan's Supreme Court has added more uncertainty to the country's future by vowing to consider the legality of an amnesty allowing Benazir Bhutto to return to frontline politics.
Inquiry after US air strikes kill 15 women and children
Published: 13 October 2007
A spokesman for Iraq's Shiite-dominated government yesterday called the killings of 15 women and children in a US ground and air assault "a sorrowful matter" but said civilian deaths are unavoidable in the fight against al-Qaida in Iraq.
Camels replace horses as Sydney races suffer
Published: 13 October 2007
With Australia in the grip of equine flu and horseracing banned as a precaution in Sydney, tracks are losing money and punters are getting restless. Last night, however, race fans were given a different kind of spectacle as half a dozen camels cantered around the city's premier harness track.
Concert ban on Chavez critic
Published: 13 October 2007
Venezuela's government has blocked a popular Spanish singer from using a stadium because he criticized President Hugo Chavez three years ago.
Shaolin: The Monks who dealt a blow to the Olympics
Published: 13 October 2007
Why Klee would have admired the world's oldest wall painting
Published: 13 October 2007
Its precise red, black and white rectangles recall Modernist art by Mondrian or Klee, but this painting – recently discovered in the Syrian countryside – is actually the oldest wall painting known to man.
US strike kills women and children
Published: 12 October 2007
A US attack killed 19 insurgents and 15 civilians, including nine children, in Iraq - one of the heaviest civilian death tolls in an American operation in recent months.
Blackwater faces war crimes inquiry after killings in Iraq
Published: 12 October 2007
The American firm Blackwater USA has been served notice that it faces investigations for war crimes after 17 unarmed Iraqi civilians were killed in a hail of bullets by its security guards in Baghdad.
Delhi's bus passengers demand safer travel as death toll hits 97
Published: 12 October 2007
Every day that Rajesh Kumar hops on a bus, he knows he is taking a chance. "I've not had any problems and I'm just hoping nothing will happen," the computer technology student said as he waited to catch a bus home from college. In Delhi, something as simple as using public transport can be a deadly endeavour.
Junta told that UN 'deplores' Burmese violence
Published: 12 October 2007
The UN Security Council has condemned the crackdown against peaceful demonstrators in Burma, calling for a release of "all political prisoners" and a dialogue between the junta and the symbol of democracy in the country, Aung San Suu Kyi.
Land swap could be key to Israel deal
Published: 12 October 2007
The international conference called by the US could commit both sides to an equal land swap as part of an agreement on the borders of a future Palestinian State, Palestinian negotiators indicated yesterday.
City of angels without a heart: building plan aims to give Los Angeles a cultural focus
Published: 12 October 2007
When Sir Peter Hall travelled to Los Angeles a few years ago to direct a Shakespeare season, he quickly realised his biggest challenge was not the difficulty of the texts he was presenting, so much as persuading Angelenos to make the journey to a distinctly unfashionable part of the city – its downtown heart. "The people in Hollywood and Beverly Hills don't like going down there," Sir Peter said. "They'd rather go to New York."
Guru of greed: The cult of selfishness
Published: 12 October 2007
Comics jailed for daring to parody governing junta
Published: 12 October 2007
In Burma where dissent is banned, comedians famously use humour to deliver their political messages in satire, song and dance despite the threat of jail.
Only now, the full horror of Burmese repression of monks emerges
Published: 11 October 2007
Monks confined in a room with their own excrement for days, people beaten just for being bystanders at a demonstration, a young woman too traumatised to speak, and screams in the night as Rangoon's residents hear neighbours being taken away
US judge rules Guantanamo inmate cannot be deported
Published: 11 October 2007
In a major setback for the Bush administration, a federal judge has halted the deportation of a Guantanamo detainee to Tunisia because of fears that he would be tortured or killed.
Bush and Congress dispute Armenian 'genocide' status
Published: 11 October 2007
A Congressional committee last night defied George Bush, voting through a resolution describing the 1915 slaughter of Armenians as a genocide – a move the White House says would severely damage relations with Turkey, a vital ally in the Iraq war.
Afghanistan refugees fight to stay in camps
Published: 11 October 2007
The mud huts are clustered together around narrow alleys potholed and covered in dirt. Families of 10, crammed into single rooms, are dependent on brackish water from wells that have effluent seeping in. There are no medical facilities. This is Safean, eight miles to the south of Lashkar Gar, and home to 25,000 Afghans displaced by war.
Expedition into the unknown uncovers remote Brazilian tribe threatened by hydroelectric dam
Published: 11 October 2007
Two British explorers have completed a gruelling six-month expedition down 2,500 kilometres (1,550 miles) of the Xingu river through the Cerrado savannahlands and rainforest in the heart of Brazil.
Argentina's disappeared: Father Christian, the priest who did the devil's work
Published: 11 October 2007
Boy, 14, kills himself after shooting four in school rampage
Published: 11 October 2007
A 14-year-old boy wearing a Marilyn Manson concert t-shirt and black fingernail polish walked into his high school in downtown Cleveland, Ohio, yesterday and shot four people before turning one of his .38-calibre revolvers on himself.
Stagehands' dispute may close down Broadway
Published: 11 October 2007
The New York theatre world was on the brink of its second shutdown in five years last night after Broadway producers and theatre owners were unable to reach agreement with the stagehands' union after two-and-a-half months of fractious negotiations.
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