Tuesday, December 2, 2008
World News
Rice plays piano for Queen
Outgoing US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice played the piano for Britain's Queen Elizabeth at Buckingham Palace yesterday as a farewell...
Canada opposition signs deal to defeat government
The leaders of Canada's three opposition parties on Monday signed a historic deal to bring down the minority Conservative government and then form...
Bomb kills one at Thai airport
A grenade killed an anti-government protester at Bangkok's blockaded Don Muang airport on Tuesday, hours before a vote fraud case that could...
Saturday, March 29, 2008
Stories from The Times
BA cancels flights in Heathrow T5 chaos
British Airways Plc cancelled a fifth of flights from its new ₤4.31 billion terminal at London's Heathrow airport yesterday as chaos from...
EU rifts on Tibet, Beijing Olympics
The EU exposed its divisions yesterday over how to respond to China's suppression of Tibetan protests, with ministers differing over whether to...
N. Korea raises tensions with missile launch
North Korea test-fired a battery of short-range missiles yesterday in what analysts saw as a show of the reclusive state's anger at Washington and...
Italy recalls contaminated mozzarella cheese
Italy ordered a recall yesterday of mozzarella cheese potentially contaminated with cancer-causing dioxin, as a widening health scare tainted the...
France's Princess Diana
The day after splashing pictures of her naked, Britain's tabloids hailed Carla Bruni as a fashion queen who could be the new Princess...
Zimbabwean Election - Cabinet dissolved ahead of poll
Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe has dissolved his Cabinet in a procedural move ahead of today's election.
One of the major parties contesting...
World briefs
A vicar in Germany who had the novel idea of helping parishioners escape the stresses and strains of daily life by letting them lie in an open...
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