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19-03 Timesonline - world Monks brave teargas and gunfire to challenge generals' grip on Burma Buddhist monks marched in protest in Burma yesterday in the biggest show of defiance for a decade against the country’s repressive and tenacious dictatorship.
19-03 Timesonline - world Nepal on the brink as Maoists quit coalition Nepal’s peace process has been thrown into turmoil yesterday after the former rebel Maoists withdrew from the interim Government.
08-09 Timesonline - world Green activists 'are keeping Africa poor' Western do-gooders are impoverishing Africa by promoting traditional farming at the expense of modern scientific agriculture, according to Britain's former chief scientist.
08-09 Timesonline - world Legendary Hollywood actress Anita Page dies aged 98 Anita Page, the last surviving star of the silent movies, has died at the age of 98 in Los Angeles.
08-09 Timesonline - world Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac bailed out by US Government The US Government took control of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, the stricken companies that underpin the American mortgage market, yesterday and promised to inject up to £110 billion of taxpayers’ money to keep them afloat.
08-09 Timesonline - world India given go-ahead on nuclear trade despite proliferation fears India celebrated its admission to the world’s nuclear club yesterday after a decision by the 45 nations that legally supply atomic fuel and technology to lift a decades-old ban on nuclear trade with the country.
07-09 Timesonline - world Shimon Peres warns Israel’s hawks over Iran strike Israel's president, Shimon Peres, has warned the prime minister that a military attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities could provoke a broader conflict.
07-09 Timesonline - world Fertile French crow over bébé boom They hold down demanding jobs but still manage to have at least two children and enjoy the highest life expectancy in Europe. Meet the so-called “Super-Frenchies”, the Gallic wonder women behind France’s “bébé bo
07-09 Timesonline - world US bazooka for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac trumps Brown's peashooter Two months ago Hank Paulson said that Congress had given him a bazooka by granting him power to intervene to support Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the US mortgage finance giants. The mere sight of the bazooka would so impress the markets that he would not
07-09 Timesonline - world 'Delayed justice' fear as OJ Simpson faces fresh trial A large majority of Americans remain convinced that OJ Simpson got away with murder when he was acquitted of killing his ex-wife and her friend in the “Trial of the Century”.
07-09 Timesonline - world Case study: Biotech bananas offer hope to family farms A yellow revolution is sweeping through the poverty-riddled farmsteads of the Central Kenyan highlands. Neat rows of coffee bushes that once dominated the landscape are being replaced by 21st-century biotech farming techniques - tissue-c
07-09 Timesonline - world Cuba and Haiti say their prayers as Hurricane Ike steers course for Gulf Coast The world's five most expensive natural disasters
07-09 Timesonline - world Geek War! It's Tech Crunch 50 v Demo 08 in battle of the start-ups Sparks are set to fly this week as the tech world’s uber-nerds descend on California for two conferences designed to kick start Silicon Valley’s next success story.
07-09 Timesonline - world US attacks on border may hinder chances of help from Asif Zardari The biggest test of Asif Zardari, Benazir Bhutto’s widower and Pakistan’s new President, from the American and British point of view, is whether he will take on the Taleban and other Islamic militants. The anger rising in Pakistan at the mil
07-09 Timesonline - world When the going gets tough, Spain's young get going - back home Battered by economic downturn and contemplating even worse times ahead, Spain’s beleaguered parents now have one more thing to worry about: the return of their adult children.
07-09 Timesonline - world Hurricane Ike: Royal Navy heads for Turks and Caicos Islands with aid The world's five most expensive natural disasters
07-09 Timesonline - world Case study: Thriving tobacco crop stubbed out by settlers When 40 settlers were moved on to Don Miller's 1,100 hectare (2,700 acre) farm in Tengwe in northeast Zimbabwe, they found an efficiently run agricultural unit. All they had to do was to carry on what he had been doing.
07-09 Timesonline - world The old guard blown away by Hurricane Sarah Palin, an unstoppable force before she turned two The small Alaskan town of Wasilla sits on the merging deltas of the Matanuska and Susitna rivers in an area known as the Valley, an hour’s drive from Anchorage. It is a casual, mostly rural place where dog mushers, farmers, homesteaders and other
07-09 Timesonline - world Academics label Charlie Wilson too 'gung-ho' Good time Charlie, the hard-drinking, skirt-chasing Texan politician played by Tom Hanks in the film Charlie Wilson’s War, is facing a new battle.
07-09 Timesonline - world Vladimir Putin set to bait US with nuclear aid for Tehran Russia is considering increasing its assistance to Iran’s nuclear programme in response to America’s calls for Nato expansion eastwards and the presence of US Navy vessels in the Black Sea delivering aid to Georgia.
07-09 Timesonline - world Barack Obama switches off personality politics but Sarah Palin continues to electrify crowds Barack Obama turned his gaze yesterday towards the economic storm gathering around ordinary Americans as he began trying to navigate an election landscape transformed over the past ten days by Sarah Palin.
07-09 Timesonline - world ‘A pile of rubbish was home to baby twins’ When Cat Deeley went on a night mission into the streets of Manila in the Philippines last month, Britain’s favourite girl next door was finally lost for words. “It was like . . .” she reaches around for a word. “It was like look
07-09 Timesonline - world Sarah Palin: lipstick pitbull So hi there. Welcome to Pig’s Eye, Minnesota. Funny old name. Funny old place. Minnesota. It’s Indian for “wrap up warm”. The Sioux used to say, “We’re going to Pig’s Eye” and their mother would say, “
07-09 Timesonline - world British spy in longbow plot to kill Heinrich Himmler A British spy who was a cross between James Bond and Robin Hood plotted to use a longbow to assassinate one of the most notorious Nazis, according to a new book.
07-09 Timesonline - world The spirit of Carrie returns, M&S-style Drag queens cavorted on the catwalk and a host of Greenwich Village transvestites whooped among the roaring crowd that had packed the Edison Ballroom on Broadway, expecting the creations to rival anything they had seen on Sex and the City.
06-09 Timesonline - world Zardari wins Pakistan presidential election Asif Ali Zardari, the widower of former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto, has won Pakistan's presidential election, according to unofficial results tally released today.
06-09 Timesonline - world MoD breaches EU rules by training Chinese officer The government has breached EU rules banning military cooperation with China by allowing a Chinese army officer to study at Sandhurst.
06-09 Timesonline - world Top stories from around the world Bangkok battles
06-09 Timesonline - world British envoy Paul Boateng criticised over party for King Mswati III As scores of bare-breasted virgins dance in front of the portly King Mswati III of Swaziland to celebrate his 40th birthday today, one guest could be forgiven for feeling rather hot under the collar.
06-09 Timesonline - world Fury in Iraq as Bob Woodwood claims US spied on Nouri al-Maliki Iraq is demanding an explanation from the United States after allegations that US intelligence agencies have been spying on Nouri al-Maliki, the Iraqi Prime Minister and other government officials.
06-09 Timesonline - world Hillary Clinton unleashed to counter ‘pitbull in lipstick’ Sarah Palin It seems only yesterday that Hillary Clinton was battling against Barack Obama for the Democratic presidential nomination. But when she hits the campaign trail in Florida tomorrow Clinton’s target will be Sarah Palin, a new threat to her ambition
06-09 Timesonline - world India: where Christians are a target for the religious murder mobs The mob appeared an hour after sunset, armed with axes, clubs and paraffin. The carnage that followed would have been much worse if the Christians of Gadragaon, a remote village in northeast India, had not been warned by text message: “The Hindus
06-09 Timesonline - world Thailand threatens jail for defaming king Until six days ago when the men in uniform led him away at Bangkok airport, Harry Nicolaides was just one more flamboyant expatriate in Thailand. He visited first from Australia five years ago, and made his living as an English teacher with a bit of wri
06-09 Timesonline - world Big bad beast prefers a light salmon supper to wolfing down deer Wolves have a fearsome reputation as pack hunters that are able to execute ruthlessly efficient co-ordinated attacks on much larger animals. But they would much rather go fishing.
05-09 Timesonline - world Mother of Kerry Winter, missing in Dubai, makes appeal to British boyfriend The mother of a woman missing in Dubai has spoken to her daughter's British ex-boyfriend and pleaded with him to reveal if he killed her.
05-09 Timesonline - world My Week: Sarah Palin Monday
05-09 Timesonline - world From jail to high office: the strange journey of Asif Ali Zardari Asif Ali Zardari, the controversial widower of Benazir Bhutto, is poised to become Pakistan's new president today when lawmakers elect a successor to Pervez Musharraf, who resigned last month under threat of impeachment.
05-09 Timesonline - world US warship confronts Russian military in ‘tinderbox’ port A US Navy flagship carrying humanitarian aid yesterday steamed into a Georgian port where Russian troops are still stationed, stoking tensions once again in the tinderbox Caucasus region.
05-09 Timesonline - world Three teenagers buried alive in 'honour killings' Three teenage girls who planned to defy their families and marry men of their choice were buried alive in “honour killings”. Now the Pakistani Government has been forced to order an inquiry, six weeks after the crimes.
05-09 Timesonline - world Britain values unity in Nato over Georgia Gordon Brown believes that Britain should remain an “honest broker” in negotiations over Georgia's membership of Nato, despite increasing pressure from the US for the country to join the alliance.
05-09 Timesonline - world Times specialists give their views on the Sarha Palin speech Daniel Finkelstein
05-09 Timesonline - world Georgia will be in our Nato alliance, Cheney warns Moscow Dick Cheney delivered a bellicose warning to Russia yesterday during a brief visit to war-torn Georgia, promising that America's small Caucasus ally would one day join the Nato alliance .
05-09 Timesonline - world Sarah Palin lawyers are accused of stalling Troopergate inquiry Sarah Palin’s lawyers were accused yesterday of trying to delay a potentially damaging inquiry into the Republican vice-presidential nominee until after the general election.
05-09 Timesonline - world Rehab elephant beats his heroin addiction Beijing
05-09 Timesonline - world Somali pirates demand $1m ransom for French couple seized on yacht$ Somali gunmen are demanding a $1 million ransom for a retired French couple captured aboard a yacht sailing through the pirate-ridden waters of the Gulf of Aden. Maritime officials said that an armed gang was sailing the Carré d$’As t
05-09 Timesonline - world Pope Benedict XVI carries an organ donor card Rome
05-09 Timesonline - world Gaddafi welcomes 'darling Leezza' as US breaks bread with Libya It was a scene almost unimaginable just a few short years ago. America’s top envoy welcomed by the one-time “Mad Dog of the Middle East”, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, breaking his Ramadan fast at a lavish dinner beneath Beduin canvas a
05-09 Timesonline - world Basic pilot error blamed for Madrid Spanair crash Basic pilot error and an electrical failure have emerged as possible causes of the crash of a Spanair airliner at Madrid airport last month that killed 154 people.
05-09 Timesonline - world British aid workers risk arrest in Gaza British aid workers distributing medical and food supplies in the West Bank risk being arrested by Israel after it banned five British-based charities operating in Gaza for their alleged links with Hamas, the Palestinian Islamist group.
05-09 Timesonline - world Soldier forced to sleep in car after hotel refuses him a room A hotel that refused an injured soldier a room, forcing him to spend the night in his car, was backed into issuing a grovelling apology yesterday after receiving a barrage of abusive phone calls.