

Sunday 4 October '09
David Letterman, who built his career skewering philandering politicians and show business “weasels” and “boneheads”, finds himself in the middle of his own celebrity scandal....Saturday 3 October '09
Iran agreed in talks with the United States and other major powers to open its newly revealed uranium enrichment plant near Qom to international...Saturday
3 October '09Cristen Chinea, a senior at MIT, made a confession in her blog on the college website.Saturday
3 October '09David Letterman said on his show on Thursday that he had been the victim of an extortion attempt over charges of sexual affairs...Saturday
3 October '09Jerome Kagan’s “Aha!” moment came with Baby 19. It was 1989, and Kagan, a professor of psychology at Harvard, had...Saturday
3 October '09The European Union’s antitrust regulator said on Friday that it had sent objections to British Airways, American Airlines and Spanish flag carrier...Saturday
3 October '09Barely a year after his election, he was campaigning not for himself but for his adopted hometown. Yet as President Obama pitched Chicago’s bid...Friday
2 October '09China’s leaders marked the 60th anniversary of Communist Party rule on Thursday with a precision display of military bravado and a confident prediction by President Hu Jintao...Friday
2 October '09Iran and the big powers opposed to its nuclear programme appeared to make progress on Thursday in talks that included the highest-level...Friday
2 October '09The chairman of the Federal Reserve, Ben S. Bernanke, told skeptical lawmakers on Thursday that the Fed should be put in charge of regulating...Thursday
1 October '09Ten months after the devastating attacks in Mumbai by Pakistan-based militants, the group behind the assault remains largely...Thursday
1 October '09The International Monetary Fund said Wednesday that “the global economy has turned a corner” after the harrowing start to 2009...Wednesday
30 September '09Israel: It has restarted weaponisation; Germany: Weapons work never halted; France: International inspectors have more info than they made public....Wednesday
30 September '09Security forces fired at pro-democracy demonstrators on Monday in Guinea, killing scores, according to witnesses and news reports....Tuesday
29 September '09The Obama administration is scrambling to assemble a package of harsher economic sanctions against Iran over its nuclear program...Tuesday
29 September '09William Safire, a speechwriter for President Richard M. Nixon and a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for The New York Times died at a hospice in Rockville...Monday
28 September '09Director Roman Polanski (76) was taken into custody, Swiss police confirmed on Sunday, on a 1978 US arrest warrant for having sex with a 13-year-old girl....Saturday
26 September '09In letter to IAEA, admits for the first time a ‘semi-industrial enrichment fuel facility’ is under construction...Saturday
26 September '09Since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, senior government officials have announced dozens of terrorism....Saturday
26 September '09It certainly looked like the same Libyan leader, even if he was clad in a black robe rather than brown, and he had swapped his black lapel pin of the African continent....Friday
25 September '09Senior Taliban leaders, showing a surprising level of sophistication and organisation, are using their sanctuary in Pakistan...Friday
25 September '09A new AIDS vaccine tested on more than 16,000 volunteers in Thailand has protected a significant minority against infection....Friday
25 September '09After being introduced in the General Assembly Hall as the “leader of the revolution, the President of the African Union and the king of kings of Africa”...Thursday
24 September '09Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi took the lectern at the United Nations on Wednesday for his first address at the General...Thursday
24 September '09US President Barack Obama is exploring alternatives to a major troop increase in Afghanistan, including a plan advocated by Vice-President...