3 held for plotting attack on US sites

Thursday 6 September '07

The police in Germany have arrested three Islamic militants suspected of planning large-scale terrorist attacks against several sites frequented by Americans, including discos, bars, airports and military installations.

In Sydney, Bush again says open to troop cuts

Thursday 6 September '07

US President George W. Bush said on Wednesday he saw signs of progress in Iraq on both the military and political fronts and again held out the possibility of a reduction in US troop levels.

Highlights plenty, but largely unseen

Wednesday 5 September '07

The cheering, at least what there was of it, has stopped. The tens of thousands of Osakans who attended the track and field world championships at Nagai Stadium are back to their regular lives.

Drug provides hope of schizophrenia breakthrough

Tuesday 4 September '07

In a clinical trial of about 200 patients, an experimental drug from Eli Lilly reduced schizophrenia symptoms without the serious side effects of current treatments

British troops begin withdrawal from Basra

Tuesday 4 September '07

The British Army began withdrawing from its last base in Basra’s city centre early on Monday, a move that will leave Iraq’s second-largest city without foreign forces for the first time since the American-led invasion in 2003.

India prepares to build a modern arsenal

Saturday 1 September '07

According to military analysts, India over the next five years is expected to spend $40 bn on weapons procurement

Mankind’s secret weapon?

Saturday 1 September '07

Its poor reputation aside, fat is something we cannot do without. From a role in developing intelligence to influencing hormones that help reproduction, fat has brought humans where we are

Lower and lower till it lands them in jail

Friday 31 August '07

Jamarcus Marshall, a 17-year-old high school sophomore in Mansfield, La., believes that no one should be able to tell him how low to wear his jeans.

10 years after her death, the Diana debate rages on

Friday 31 August '07

Ten years have passed since Diana, Princess of Wales, died and Britain erupted in a febrile convulsion of grief and anger, but in some ways you would hardly know it.

In desperate Greece, wine becomes fire extinguisher

Wednesday 29 August '07

When the water ran out, with pine cones popping and the flames still high around his house, George Dimopoulos switched to wine.

Scientists induce sensation of drifting outside body

Saturday 25 August '07

Using virtual reality goggles, a camera and a stick, scientists have induced out-of-body experiences — the sensation of drifting outside of one’s own body — in healthy people

Iraq leaders wasting US’ security gains: report

Saturday 25 August '07

A stark assessment released on Thursday by the nation’s intelligence agencies depicts a paralysed Iraqi government unable to take advantage

Sharif can return, rules Pak SC, he says: beginning of end for General

Friday 24 August '07

Pakistan’s Supreme Court ruled today that former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, who was thrust into exile in 2000 after a military coup, could return to the country, in what could be a direct political challenge to President Pervez Musharraf.

New kind of power equation in Iraq

Friday 24 August '07

Militias control grids, decide who gets electricity

Scandal, suicide in China’s toy story

Friday 24 August '07

Factory owner who killed himself over recalls in US may not have known his toys had lead

Virtual business cards churn out real business profits

Tuesday 21 August '07

Internet firm VistaPrint distributes 2.5 bn free cards with its marketing message on the back, clocks 28 profitable quarters

Backlash awaits book on ‘Israel lobby’ in US

Saturday 18 August '07

The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy is not even in bookstores, but already anxieties have surfaced about the backlash it is stirring

To keep him in saddle, US prodding General to share power with Benazir

Friday 17 August '07

The Bush administration, struggling to find a way to keep General Pervez Musharraf in power amid a deepening political crisis in Pakistan

On an ancient sea, Europe dreams and schemes

Monday 13 August '07

Sarkozy’s proposal for the Mediterranean is beguiling: rich and poor nations, democratic and not, Muslims and Christians, from North Africa and Asia Minor and the Middle East and Western Europe, lashed together to form a richer and safer region

When 7 equals 4: Blowing sex surveys’ gender bias

Monday 13 August '07

Everyone knows men are promiscuous by nature. It's part of the genetic strategy that evolved to help men spread their genes far and wide.

In the middle of Iraq destruction, stumbling on boomtown Dubai

Monday 13 August '07

They call this “The Other Iraq”. The one where people still think rivers are for swimming in, not dumping headless bodies.

Big Brother’s great leap forward

Monday 13 August '07

China puts in place largest effort to meld hi-tech with police work to keep eye on a restive population

As cycling loses face, Armstrong’s team disbands

Sunday 12 August '07

The cycling team of Lance Armstrong and of this year’s Tour de France winner is disbanding for lack of a sponsor, the latest evidence that the sport is collapsing under the weight of persistent doping problems.

US promotes free Middle East elections, only to see allies lose

Saturday 11 August '07

Lebanon's political spin masters have been trying in recent days to explain the results of last Sunday’s pivotal by-election

New fossil finds in Kenya shake human family tree

Friday 10 August '07

Two fossils found in Kenya have shaken the human family tree, possibly rearranging major branches thought to be in a straight ancestral line to Homo sapiens.