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Ian McEwan’s tale leads him to long-lost brotherSubscriber Only

January 20, 2007

He is known as an author of dark and tangled tales in which love sometimes endures and sometimes does not. But Ian McEwan, one of Britain’s best-known novelists, has now found himself as a player in a true story that might have sprung from his own imagination.

January 20, 2007

Iran’s discontent with its President growsSubscriber Only

January 20, 2007

Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad appears to be under pressure from the country’s highest authorities to end his involvement in its nuclear programme

January 20, 2007

Morning sickness sign of a healthy pregnancy?Subscriber Only

January 20, 2007

It may be among the most unpleasant aspects of pregnancy but can morning sickness also indicate a lower risk of miscarriage?

January 20, 2007

Aging should not mean fallingSubscriber Only

January 20, 2007

For the elderly, falls have become the major reason of injury and death. But a few simple steps can help you evade them

January 20, 2007

Diabetics in US workplaces confront a tangle of lawsSubscriber Only

December 27, 2006

Patients contend they are being blocked by their employers from the near-normal lives their doctors say are possible while companies defend actions.

December 27, 2006

After 2 years & billions in aid, tsunami scars remainSubscriber Only

December 27, 2006

“This is it,” said Safrial, a carpenter, to his two young sons when a towering tsunami of black water rushed toward them two years ago. “This is the end of the world.”

December 27, 2006

Saddam loses appeal, may hang within 30 daysSubscriber Only

December 27, 2006

An Iraqi appeals court today upheld a death sentence for Saddam Hussein in a decision that clears the way for his execution within 30 days, Iraqi officials said on Tuesday.

December 27, 2006

US holding Iranians seized in Iraq raidsSubscriber Only

December 26, 2006

The American military is holding at least four Iranians in Iraq, including men the Bush administration called senior military officials

December 26, 2006

On a respirator for nine years, Italian poet, 60, crusades for right to dieSubscriber Only

December 21, 2006

Many patients on respirators are not conscious and so cannot say whether they want to live or die.

December 21, 2006

Americans who are single, obese or over 50 can’t adopt from ChinaSubscriber Only

December 21, 2006

China plans to tighten rules on foreign adoptions, barring people who are single, obese, older than 50 or who fail to meet certain benchmarks in financial

December 21, 2006

High-tech cool for Bush bunkerSubscriber Only

December 20, 2006

It's starred in many a movie and television show. But the Situation Room - the presidential decision centre under the West Wing - is not quite the high-tech haven that Hollywood imagines it to be.

December 20, 2006

China capitalist dream chokes in Shenzhen’s murky bylanesSubscriber Only

December 20, 2006

When Zhang Feifei lost her job in this booming Chinese factory town, she was not terribly concerned. Jobs had always been plentiful in Shenzhen’s flourishing economy.

December 20, 2006

960 attacks on US troops every weekSubscriber Only

December 20, 2006

A pentagon assessment of security conditions in Iraq concluded on Monday that attacks against American and Iraqi targets had surged this summer and autumn to their highest level.

December 20, 2006

With strokes, knowledge is a lifesaverSubscriber Only

December 16, 2006

Until two months ago, Todd McGee, 34, was a healthy man in top physical condition — a builder, surfer and devoted father of a 15-month-old.

December 16, 2006

Circumcision halves HIV risk, says new US study after Africa trialsSubscriber Only

December 15, 2006

Circumcision appears to reduce a man’s risk of contracting AIDS from heterosexual sex by half, United States government health officials have said

December 15, 2006

Found: Gene central to pain perceptionSubscriber Only

December 15, 2006

Geneticists following up the case of a 10-yr-old Pakistani boy who could walk on coals without discomfort have discovered a gene that is central to the perception of pain.

December 15, 2006

US cable networks have no airtime for Al Jazeera’s English versionSubscriber Only

November 17, 2006

The lead story on the debut of Al Jazeera’s new English language channel on Wednesday was the re-election of President Joseph Kabila of Congo.

November 17, 2006

Iran’s new nuclear technology claim worries expertsSubscriber Only

April 18, 2006

Of all the claims that Iran made last week about its nuclear programme, a one-sentence assertion by its President has provoked such surprise......

April 18, 2006

McClatchy sets stage to resell 12 papers it’s buyingSubscriber Only

March 15, 2006

There was both joy and despair across the Knight Ridder newspaper chain as employees learned that the McClatchy Company, which announced on Monday to acquire the company’s 32 newspapers, would promptly sell 12 of them.

March 15, 2006

China doesn’t wall great debate over ideologiesSubscriber Only

March 13, 2006

For the first time in perhaps a decade, the National People’s Congress, the Communist Party-run legislature now convened in its annual two-week session...

March 13, 2006

Republicans rebel over port, eavesdropping and securitySubscriber Only

March 10, 2006

After over five years of allowing President George W Bush relatively free rein to set their course, Republicans in Congress are suddenly in rebellion, a mutiny all the more surprising since it centres on the party’s signature issue of national security.

March 10, 2006