Thursday 6 November '08
Barack Hussein Obama, the son of a father from Kenya and a white mother from Kansas, was elected the 44th President of the United States...Sunday 26 October '08
Record numbers of voters across the nation are casting ballots before election day, including high proportions of Democrats and African Americans in some of the battleground states...Friday
17 October '08The star of Wednesday night’s final presidential debate was neither John McCain nor his rival, Barack Obama.Thursday
6 September '07President Bush’s recent claims resurrect a question: Who are the real heroes of democracy in Asia — Americans or Asians?Monday
13 August '07Soot from coal-burning factories in the northeastern United States might have been the most important factor in the warming of the Arctic region at the turn of the last century, American researchers reported last week.Monday
6 August '07For now, the headquarters of Abdel Wahid’s faction of the Sudanese Liberation Movement is a cafe in Paris.Friday
27 July '07Recently, in Dallas, one elderly gentleman addressed me in a bookshop. He held a copy of my latest novel, The Reluctant Fundamentalist, and examined the face on its cover, comparing it to mine.Friday
13 July '07Have we heard him right? Is Gordon Brown really suggesting a United States of Britain?Monday
18 June '07US commanders announced the start of a major offensive outside Baghdad on Saturday aimed at flushing out al-Qaeda-linked...Monday
11 June '07Monday night, 9 p.m. The darkened streets were eerily empty. At Bread, there were five people at a window table and a couple at the bar.Tuesday
29 May '07Something novel is occurring in this year’s election cycle. Gore has created a virtual textbook example of a multimedia candidacyFriday
18 May '07Jerry Falwell was a Christian who couldn’t be counted on to turn the other cheekWednesday
4 April '07An emotional internal rift rocked the Los Angeles Times today, as publisher David D. Hiller scrapped a special edition of the paper’s SundayWednesday
21 March '07The South Pole of Mars contains enough ice to cover the planet in 35 feet of water if it melted, new radar scans have determined. The North Pole, researchers said, probably holds about as much.Saturday
17 March '07... simple chest compression works better than mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, reports Japanese researchers in the latest edition of Lancet, giving hope to heart attack victims who fail to receive primary care from bystanders for fear of infectionSaturday
17 March '07A review of existing computer climate models suggests that global warming could transform the North Pole into an ice-free expanse of open ocean at the end of each summer by 2100...Saturday
17 March '07The most revealing aspect of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed’s testimony before a military tribunal may not have been the details about the many al-Qaeda...Friday
16 March '07Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the Kuwaiti national who is believed to be the highest-ranking al-Qaeda operative in US custody, told a military tribunal last weekend that he was Osama bin Laden’s “operational leader” for the “9/11 Operation,”Monday
12 March '07Maggie Farley on a little known mechanism whereby Iranian and American officials have been meeting one-on-one for more than a decadeFriday
9 March '07Britain’s House of Commons took a historic step on Wednesday to endorse a fully elected House of Lords, a move that could eventually end the reign of Parliament’s upper house as a seat of privilege and patronage.Sunday
4 March '07Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory on Friday was declared the winner in a competition to design the nation’s first hydrogen bomb in two decadesSunday
25 February '07On a night when actresses will be draped in diamonds, Amnesty International USA and Global Witness have asked artists...Saturday
24 February '07Lazy, shiftless couch potatoes of the world, here’s something to crow about.Saturday
17 February '07A study has found that children of women who ate little fish during pregnancy had lower IQs and more behavioural and social problems than youngsters whose mothers ate plenty of seafood.Saturday
17 February '07No more invasive procedures. In 3-4 years, a simple blood test will be able to tell whether your unborn child is likely to suffer from a series of genetic disorders, including Down Syndrome
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