Sunday 11 October '09
The five-member Norwegian Nobel committee spent seven months winnowing the dossiers on dissident monks, human rights advocates, field surgeons and other nominees — 205 names in all.....Saturday 10 October '09
Barack Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize Friday for “extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation,” a stunning surprise less than nine months into his presidency....Saturday
10 October '09No one else more deserving, says ElBaradei; should get prize for violence, say Taliban....Friday
9 October '09A car packed with explosives blew up beside the Indian Embassy today, leaving at least a dozen dead in what India’s Foreign Secretary...Friday
9 October '09US President Barack Obama’s national security team is moving to reframe its war strategy by emphasising the campaign against al-Qaeda in Pakistan...Friday
9 October '09The European Central Bank and the Bank of England kept their benchmark interest rates steady on Thursday as they assess whether current...Thursday
8 October '09Three researchers whose work delves into how information encoded on strands of DNA is translated by the chemical complexes known as ribosomes...Thursday
8 October '09Hilary Mantel won the 41st annual Man Booker Prize on Tuesday night for Wolf Hall, a historical novel about Henry VIII’s court centered on the king’s adviser, Thomas Cromwell.Wednesday
7 October '09General David H Petraeus, the commander of American military forces in West Asia, received a diagnosis of early-stage prostate cancer in February...Tuesday
6 October '09Mohamed Aden left a health care business in Minnesota to build a bandit-free enclave of peace—with a police force, new businesses, new schools and new rules—in war-torn Somalia....Tuesday
6 October '09Why David Letterman went on the offensive against his blackmailer and did not try to buy silenceTuesday
6 October '09What happens to a tax haven when it has to raise taxes? The Cayman Islands may soon find out. Caught in a vise of shrinking revenue and stubbornly high public spending....Tuesday
6 October '09The inspector general who oversees the government’s bailout of the banking system is criticising the Treasury Department for some misleading public statements....Monday
5 October '09With the liquid children’s version of Tamiflu in short supply, pharmacists are making their own children’s version.Sunday
4 October '09US wonders if Iran is playing for time or if it’s a serious deal; ElBaradei arrives for talks on timings for inspections....Sunday
4 October '09David 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 '09Iran 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...
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