December 20, 2008
Former US President Bill Clinton has collected tens of millions of dollars for his foundation over the last 10 years from governments in West Asia...
December 20, 2008December 20, 2008
Experts say doctors rarely ask older patients how much and how often they drink.
December 20, 2008December 19, 2008
Uo to 35 officials in the Iraqi Interior Ministry, ranking as high as General...
December 19, 2008December 18, 2008
The Bush White House has prepared more than a dozen contingency plans to help guide President-elect Barack Obama.
December 18, 2008December 18, 2008
Yale disclosed Tuesday that its endowment had fallen at least 13.4 per cent in the four months since June...
December 18, 2008December 17, 2008
Caroline Kennedy, the deeply private daughter of America’s most storied political dynasty, will seek the United States Senate seat in New York...
December 17, 2008December 17, 2008
A terrorism trial centering on the use of a bomb-laden Jeep to crash into Glasgow’s main airport terminal...
December 17, 2008December 16, 2008
The deadly attacks in Mumbai, which targeted areas favoured by tourists, including two of the city’s most luxurious hotels...
December 16, 2008December 15, 2008
Last Sunday, President-elect Barack Obama’s three closest friends — Martin Nesbitt, Eric Whitaker and Valerie Jarrett...
December 15, 2008December 14, 2008
Defence Secretary Robert M Gates warned on Saturday that foreign powers should not try to “test” President-elect Barack Obama...
December 14, 2008December 13, 2008
Indian music director A R Rahman has won a nomination for best original score for his music in director Danny Boyle’s uplifting underdog tale Slumdog Millionaire.
December 13, 2008December 13, 2008
On Wall Street, his name is legendary. With money he had made as a lifeguard on the beaches of Long Island, he built a trading powerhouse that had prospered for more than four decades.
December 13, 2008December 13, 2008
Bettie Page, a legendary pinup girl whose photographs in the nude, in bondage and in naughty-but-nice poses appeared in men’s magazines and private stashes across America in the 1950s and set the stage for the sexual revolution of the rebellious ‘60s, died in Los Angeles. She was 85.
December 13, 2008December 13, 2008
President-elect ELECT Barack Obama pledged to disclose any interaction between his transition team and the office of besieged Governor Rod R Blagojevich of Illinois, while declaring again that he and his staff had no involvement in deal-making over an appointment to his vacated Senate seat.
December 13, 2008December 13, 2008
President Bush and the Treasury Department signaled morning that they would consider dipping into the $700 billion bailout program for financial institutions to aid the Big Three car companies, after Republican senators refused to support a compromise proposal to rescue the automakers.
December 13, 2008December 13, 2008
The Senate abandoned efforts to fashion a government rescue of the American automobile industry, as Senate Republicans refused to support a bill endorsed by the White House and congressional Democrats.
December 13, 2008December 12, 2008
At last the bullets had stopped, and François Kambere Siviri made a dash for the door.
December 12, 2008December 12, 2008
For the Obama team in the days after his election to the presidency, the question of who would succeed him in the Senate was a sensitive one.
December 12, 2008December 12, 2008
Governor Rod R Blagojevich of Illinois returned to work here amid whirlwind efforts across the state and country to remove him from office before he could make an appointment to the vacant US Senate seat that is the root of a debilitating criminal case against him.
December 12, 2008December 11, 2008
Before Sunday’s basketball game, coach Yogi Woods gathered the junior varsity at Lambuth University. Watch out for 73 on the other team, he said. He did not mean the player’s number. He meant his age.
December 11, 2008December 11, 2008
Little in Rod R Blagojevich’s background prepared the people of Illinois for the man who was revealed in the criminal complaint that dropped like a bombshell.
December 11, 2008December 11, 2008
A phone call that Barack Obama made three months ago to urge the passage of a state ethics bill indirectly contributed to the downfall of Gov Rod R Blagojevich.
December 11, 2008December 11, 2008
The Mumbai police said that the 10 men who carried out the terror attacks here in November were among 30 recruits selected for suicide missions, and that the whereabouts of the other 20 were unknown.
December 11, 2008December 10, 2008
When President-elect Barack Obama talked about realigning the American automobile industry, he was quick to offer a caution, lest he sound more like the incoming leader of France, or perhaps Japan.
December 10, 2008December 10, 2008
For 5-year-old Sean Batson, even a grandmother’s kiss is to be feared. “My mother was wearing lipstick, and when she kissed Sean’s cheek, it broke out in hives,” said his mother, Jennifer Batson.
December 10, 2008