May 18 2008
Tolstoy wrote that happy families are all alike, while every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Something like the opposite might be said for Web sites.
May 17 2008
A dark pool of dried blood and a fallen red scarf mark the place where Ronak, who had fled to a woman’s shelter in the Kurdish city of Sulaymaniyah when she was accused of adultery by her husband, was shot three times by a man hiding on the roof...
May 17 2008
With the race for the Democratic nomination drawing to a close, Senator Barack Obama and a good chunk of the Democratic Party have begun to look to the future and the challenges ahead.
May 17 2008
The world’s species are declining at a rate “unprecedented since the extinction of the dinosaurs”, a census of the animal kingdom has revealed. The Living Planet Index out today shows the devastating impact of humanity as biodiversity...
May 16 2008
Big-hearted Birmingham midfielder Olivier Kapo shrugged off the disappointment of the club’s Premier League relegation by giving his bootboy a £30,000 Mercedes.
May 16 2008
Nearly half of all under-25s do not use condoms with new partners, according to a new survey.
May 16 2008
Hillary, today in Rapid City, South Dakota, defended Obama from President Bush’s apparent comparison of him to Neville Chamberlain, Ken Vogel reports.
May 16 2008
The Democrat-controlled US House of Representatives has rejected more funding to pay for another year of fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan. The bill would have provided the Pentagon with $162.5bn (£83.5bn) to keep the two wars going but included...
May 16 2008
The central bank has issued a 500m Zimbabwe dollar banknote, worth US$2, to try to ease cash shortages amid the world’s highest rate of inflation. The previous highest denomination note was for Z$250m, issued 10 days ago. Meanwhile, the...
May 16 2008
The boy with the shaved head and Kalashnikov slung across his legs is uncertain about a lot of things, even his age. He pulls at the long, dry grass around him and in a quiet voice says he thinks that he might be 13 years old because he was a baby when...