Monday 23 July '07
The Bush administration is struggling to get Congressional approval for millions of dollars in aid to a tribal paramilitary group in the semi-autonomous region of PakistanFriday 20 July '07
Scholastic, the US publisher of the Harry Potter series, sued an online bookseller and its distributor on Wednesday for “flagrant violations...Wednesday
18 July '07Hamas television, which was criticised for a Mickey Mouse-like character named Farfur who spouted anti-Israeli and anti-Jewish nostrums at children, has replaced the mouse with a bee named Nahoul, who says he is Farfur’s cousin.Monday
16 July '07Saving the planet is hard work, Al Gore says, and somebody has to sell the idea. As a follow-up to last weekend’s Live Earth concerts he helped promoteSunday
15 July '07As David Beckham checks in, California starts dreaming all over againSaturday
14 July '07In rebuffing calls to bring troops home from Iraq, President Bush on Thursday employed a stark and ominous defence.Thursday
12 July '07The European Union feels unloved. Even when it does something useful, no one seems willing to give it credit.Thursday
12 July '07Of all the magical powers wielded by Harry Potter, perhaps none has cast a stronger spell than his supposed ability to transform the reading habits of young people.Thursday
12 July '07For many economists, questioning free-market orthodoxy is like expressing a belief in intelligent design at a Darwin convention: Those who doubt the naturally beneficial workings of the market are considered crazy.Thursday
12 July '07The Brazilian team that won the 1970 World Cup in Mexico was voted the best team in soccer history in a poll conducted by World Soccer magazine, based in London.Wednesday
11 July '07A Newspaper in Glasgow counts six people worthy of the red carpet treatment for subduing two terrorists trying to crash a truck laden with fuel into the airport.Tuesday
10 July '07Kafeel Ahmed, the Indian aeronautical engineer described by the police as the driver of the gasoline-laden Jeep Cherokee that crashedTuesday
10 July '07Compared with suspects in past terrorist attacks, the eight held in connection with the bungled bombings here and in London gravitated to the most unlikely places in BritainMonday
9 July '07MICHELINE MAYNARD on why the label matters so much to Americans worried about greenhouse emissionsMonday
9 July '07As Lebanon falls increasingly into a state of political paralysis, the risk of militants setting up base here is raising alarmsMonday
9 July '07A secret US military operation in early 2005 to capture senior members of Al Qaeda in Pakistan’s tribal areas was aborted at the last minute after top BushSunday
8 July '07Investigators have identified two “principal protagonists” in the botched terrorist attacks in London and Glasgow and are tryingSaturday
7 July '07After his annual physical, a middle-aged man is told that his PSA level has jumped to 2.3 after having been stable for years at 1.5. Should he be alarmed?Saturday
7 July '07David Flashner thought he had it wired: buy two iPhones last Friday when they first went on sale, keep one and sell the other at a profit so big it would pay for most of the first one.Friday
6 July '07Park Hye-ran, a 15-year-old girl, wanted to know the shortest route from a bus terminal in Busan to a fish market. That is precisely the kind of question Cho In-joon, 50, a seller of lottery tickets in Busan, loves to answer.Friday
6 July '07Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold went on a killing rage in 1999 at Columbine High School in Colorado because they were abruptly denied access to their computers, an Oregon psychiatrist says in a published study.Thursday
5 July '07In March, Mahesh Yogi’s Global Financial Capital opened its headquarters at 70 Broad Street, close to the NYSEThursday
5 July '07Before Gordon Brown took over as Britain’s new Prime Minister, there was much talk about whether the electorate would warm to the dourThursday
5 July '07All 8 held in the London, Glasgow incidents are medicos — seven doctors, one lab technician; till last year, foreign doctors could practise in UK without a work permitWednesday
4 July '07Barack Obama has the fresh face and the record-smashing fundraising operation, but he doesn’t have Bill.
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