Wednesday, May 14, 2008
World News
"Snake man" slithers out of Austrian prison cell
A man has escaped from his
Austrian jail cell by squeezing through a food hatch in the
door, police said on Wednesday.
The 19-year old...
More troops rush in to help China quake rescue
China poured more
troops into the earthquake-ravaged province of Sichuan on
Wednesday to quicken a search for survivors as time ran out...
Clinton cruises to easy win in West Virginia
Hillary Clinton scored a big
victory over front-runner Barack Obama in West Virginia on
Tuesday, although it could be too little and too late...
More than 25,000 still buried after China quake
More than 25,000 people remained
buried by rubble after the massive earthquake that struck
southwestern China, state media reported on...
Friday, March 28, 2008
Stories from The Times
Mugabe hands out cars ahead of election
Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe, facing the toughest election battle of his 28 years in power, handed out hundreds of cars to doctors yesterday...
Monks accuse China of lying over unrest
Tibetan monks stormed a news briefing at a temple in Lhasa yesterday, accusing officials of lying about unrest and embarrassing Chinese...
Remy Ma convicted of shooting woman
Grammy-nominated rapper Remy Ma was convicted of assault, weapons possession and coercion yesterday for shooting a woman in the abdomen in a...
Saboteurs blow up Basra oil pipeline
Saboteurs yesterday blew up one of Iraq's two main oil export pipelines from Basra, cutting at least a third of the exports from the city which...
Italy seeks to reassure on mozzarella
Italy told the European Commission yesterday it had not exported any mozzarella cheese contaminated with cancer-causing dioxin, but it faced...
Helicopter crash kills12
A helicopter belonging to Ukraine's border guards crashed off an island in the Black Sea yesterday, killing 12 of 13 people on board, officials...
Sarkozy, Brown pledge market turmoil action
Britain and France vowed to respond to financial market problems yesterday and called on banks to declare the full extent of the damage to their...
UN's Pachauri urges caution in biofuel use
The world must take care when developing biofuels to avoid perverse environmental effects and higher food prices, Nobel Peace Prize winner and...
Egypt snubs Arab summit, tension high
Egypt plans to send a junior minister to the upcoming Arab summit in Damascus, effectively snubbing a meeting which is usually attended by heads...
Gaddafi reform heralds private sector push
Muammar Gaddafi's decision to abolish much of Libya's state bureaucracy may herald a much bigger private sector role in a society impatient for...
World briefs
Self-help manual If You Want Closure In Your Relationship, Start With Your Legs won this year's oddest book title competition, The Bookseller...
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