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Nov 6 2009
Ukraine is in the midst of what some might call swine-flu hysteria. The country is in virtual lockdown mode, with the government closing schools, universities and movie theaters and banning all public gatherings until the end of November. Pharmacies...
Oct 12 2009
A fire sale of public assets will be announced by Gordon Brown today to help cut the Government’s mounting deficit. The Tote, the Dartford crossing, the student loan book, the Channel Tunnel rail link and the Government’s stake in Urenco,...
Oct 12 2009
President Barack Obama needs to immediately stop looking for space on his mantle to place his Nobel Peace Prize and get back to work on closing the ever-widening science-fiction war science gap that’s opening between the United States and her...
Oct 5 2009
Britain faces being sidelined from a new elite club of economic powers being set up by Barack Obama. The U.S. president wants to establish a top table of powerful countries called the Group of Four to take key economic decisions for the world - but...
Sep 23 2009
Relatives of people who kill themselves will not face prosecution as long as they do not maliciously encourage them and assist only a “clear, settled and informed wish” to die, the director of public prosecutions said today. Keir Starmer QC...
Sep 18 2009
He was born when Queen Victoria was on the British throne. But whether Luang Phu Supha is really the world’s oldest man remains open to debate. The Buddhist monk claims to be celebrating his 115th birthday today at a temple in Phuket, Thailand.
Sep 11 2009
President Robert Mugabe on Friday lashed out at Western sanctions against him, condemning “bloody whites” for meddling in Zimbabwe’s affairs, on the eve of a landmark European Union visit. “Who said the British and the Americans...
Aug 7 2009
As the first anniversary of the Russian invasion of Georgia draws closer, tensions are again rising in South Ossetia, the breakaway territory over which the war last August was fought. The rhetoric coming out of Moscow and the Georgian capital of...
Jul 27 2009
The Community Security Trust (CST) recorded 609 anti-Semitic incidents in the first half of 2009, more than the total for all of last year. Much of the surge took place in January when there were more than nine incidents in the UK every day.
Jul 25 2009
Gordon Brown is being given until the autumn to turn Labour’s fortunes around in the wake of another by-election disaster. The Conservatives romped home yesterday in the first test of public opinion since the scandal over MPs’ expenses,...