Thursday 4 December '08
The heavily armed terrorists who set out for Mumbai by sea navigated with Global Positioning System equipment...Tuesday 2 December '08
Barack Obama’s decision to name Hillary Rodham Clinton as his Secretary of State likely will be viewed as one of the defining moments in the shaping of his administration. But at the heart of the new union between one-time rivals for the Democratic presidential nomination lies the question: Why?Tuesday
2 December '08President-elect Barack Obama Monday formally announced a national security team that is led by his onetime chief Democratic rival and includes a top member of President Bush’s Cabinet — a bipartisan group that he said shares his pragmatism and his commitment to strengthen America’s standing in the world.Saturday
22 November '08The only obstacle between kids and their french fries: ‘Moms’. So here is Debra DeMuth, McDonald’s global nutrition director, mounting a spirited defence of fries to five mothers of young children at a McDonald’s in Baltimore.Saturday
22 November '08An internal CIA probe has concluded that agency officials deliberately misled Congress, the White House and federal prosecutors about key details of the 2001 downing of an airplane carrying US missionaries in Peru, according to a senior lawmaker who called for a new criminal inquiry into the case.Thursday
20 November '08Eric H Holder Jr, a former Justice Department official who was President-elect Barack Obama’s campaign co-chairman, is the leading candidate to serve as the next US Attorney General, according to Democratic sources familiar with the choice.Tuesday
18 November '08It began with Svetlana Bakhmina’s handwritten letters from prison —melancholy notes to an old classmate. “It wouldn't be that bad, if it weren't for the children,” Bakhmina, 39, a lawyer and mother of two, wrote a few years into her sentence.Tuesday
18 November '08If Hillary Clinton is named the next Secretary of State, she and her husband could be positioned to lead a public-private partnership on the global stage unlike any before it, one that experts say would bring with it a host of potential benefits and pitfalls for the new President.Tuesday
18 November '08In wooing federal employee votes on the eve of the election, Barack Obama wrote a series of letters to workers that offer detailed descriptions of how he intends to add muscle to specific Govt programs, give new power to bureaucrats and roll back some Bush administration policies.Friday
14 November '08Since 2006, Iran’s leaders have called for direct, unconditional talks with the US to resolve international concerns over their nuclear program.Tuesday
11 November '08A highly anticipated study has produced powerful evidence that a simple blood test can spot seemingly healthy people who are at increased risk for a heart attack or stroke...Tuesday
11 November '08President-elect Barack Obama plans to push ahead with a middle class tax cut soon after taking office...Sunday
9 November '08President-elect Barack Obama continued his round of congratulatory calls with foreign leaders, speaking briefly with six more leaders, after chatting with nine.Saturday
8 November '08Comparative genomic hybridisation uses gene chips to search for dozens of less common, often more severe syndromes caused by subtle deletions or additions of genetic material that standard genetic analysis missesSaturday
8 November '08As the scale of his mandate widened, Obama began preparing for a war-time transfer of power, getting his first, hour-long classified national security briefing from two of America’s top intelligence officers, accepting an invitation to meet with President Bush early next week, and returning calls to nine world leaders who had phoned to congratulate him on his victory.Thursday
6 November '08Barack Obama left his Hyde Park home late Tuesday night and arrived at Grant Park just before 11 p.m., enveloped in euphoria.Saturday
1 November '08For the first time in my life I felt like a normal person,” says Josh Thayer, who dropped from 367 pounds to 230 within a year of undergoing gastric bypass surgery...Tuesday
28 October '08A New York-based organisation has sent copies of a movie about Islamist extremism to more than 28 million houses and religious institutions in presidential election battleground states over the past several weeks.Saturday
25 October '08Blowing into a glass bubble that holds buzzing bees sounds a little kooky.Saturday
18 October '08A growing body of evidence is supporting the “use-it-or-lose-it” hypothesis of aging well. It says staying mentally active helps keep the brain spry.Saturday
18 October '08This is a defining moment for the world economy. We are living through the first financial crisis of this new global age.Saturday
11 October '08Iraqi insurgents are increasingly using magnetically attached bombs known as “sticky IEDs” to assassinate mid-and low-level Iraqi officials, Iraqi and US officials said.Saturday
11 October '08Multiply stress and bad habits over a couple of decades, add poor posture and a decline in blood flow associated with ageing, and the shoulder becomes a breeding ground for aches and pains.Saturday
4 October '08Listening to relaxation tapes or classical music by Mozart might reduce your blood pressure if you listen for three times...Saturday
27 September '08John McCain’s sudden intervention in Washington’s deliberations over the Wall Street bailout could not have been more out of sync...
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