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19-12 Timesonline - world Surprise surge from Mike Huckabee helps to revive John McCain's campaign fortunes <a href="http://www.timesonline.typepad.com/uselections/">Read our US elections blog: Across the Pond</a>
18-12 Timesonline - world Jacob Zuma wins ANC presidency Jacob Zuma, South Africa’s most controversial politician, yesterday defeated President Thabo Mbeki to win the presidency of the ruling African National Congress (ANC), dealing his arch rival an unprecedented public humiliation and putting himsel
18-12 Timesonline - world Henri Paul was 'crazy' driver, inquests hear Henri Paul, the security man who drove Diana, Princess of Wales, and Dodi Fayed when they were killed in a Paris crash, was today described as a frighteningly reckless driver by a witness at the inquest into the deaths of the couple.
18-12 Timesonline - world Ahmadinejad joins pilgrimage to Mecca President Ahmadinejad has become the first Iranian leader to perform the haj.
18-12 Timesonline - world Russia sends nuclear shipment to Iran Russia delivered a nuclear snub to the West yesterday by revealing that it had begun to send enriched uranium to Iran.
18-12 Timesonline - world Bomb plot suspect escaped while praying Rashid Rauf, a key suspect in the alleged Heathrow bomb plot, escaped police custody in Pakistan after officers allowed him to pray at a mosque as he was being driven back to prison in his uncle’s car.
18-12 Timesonline - world Couple kept housekeepers as 'slaves' <b>New York</b> A millionaire couple have been convicted of enslaving two Indonesian women whom they brought to their New York mansion to work as housekeepers.
18-12 Timesonline - world Power struggle pushes ANC factions to naked hostility A second day of ill-tempered chaos marred attempts by the African National Congress to elect a new leader and sparked warnings of “anarchy” if the populist Jacob Zuma won later today. Voting by 4,000 delegates was delayed again by argu
18-12 Timesonline - world Peace drive gets £3.6bn boost but Palestinians 'need to see the difference' The Middle East faces a decisive three-month period that could make or break peace hopes, after world leaders pledged an unprecedented $7.4 billion ($£3.6 billion) in aid to the Palestinians, Tony Blair said last night.
18-12 Timesonline - world President Putin sets seal on plan to stay at the helm President Putin yesterday agreed to become Russia's Prime Minister after he steps down as President next year.
18-12 Timesonline - world Hong Kong willing to pay for clean air <b>Hong Kong</b> People in Hong Kong are willing to pay higher transport costs to breathe cleaner air, a survey revealed. More than 75 per cent of 82,000 surveyed said that they would prefer buses, taxis and minibuses to use cleaner fu
18-12 Timesonline - world World in Brief <b> Court accepts war crimes case </b>
18-12 Timesonline - world Boos from crowd as Belgian beauty crashes into the language barrier To be Miss Belgium you need two essential assets. Unfortunately for the French-speaker Alizée Poulicek, 20, her beauty contest triumph was marred when she came up one short: she revealed an inability to communicate in Dutch, the country's oth
17-12 Timesonline - world Saudi King Abdullah spares rape victim from lashes King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia has pardoned a teenage victim of a gang rape who was sentenced to 200 lashes and jailed for six months in a highly-publicised case that inflicted incalculable damage on the country’s image.
17-12 Timesonline - world Hillary Clinton gets crucial boost Hillary Clinton received a badly needed boost to her presidential campaign yesterday with the endorsement of Iowa’s biggest newspaper, a vote of confidence that followed days of lobbying by her husband.
17-12 Timesonline - world Heathrow bomb suspect on the run A key suspect in the alleged Heathrow bomb plot was on the run last night after escaping from his police custodians after an extradition hearing in Pakistan. Britain has applied to extradite Rashid Rauf, who has dual Pakistani-British nationality,
17-12 Timesonline - world World in Brief <b>Turkey bombards Kurdish rebel bases </b>
17-12 Timesonline - world Modern art takes on the old guard The American millionaire who is considered the world’s most powerful art dealer has shaken up the Italian cultural scene by opening the biggest gallery in Rome to showcase contemporary art.
17-12 Timesonline - world All aboard the overnight party train for the French Riviera Overnight party trains with DJs, music and talent competitions are being planned by French railways in an attempt to breath new life into a declining service.
17-12 Timesonline - world The ship that hitched a record-breaking ride across top of the world Visitors to the North Pole in the past 15 months might have happened upon a peculiar sight: a ship, high and dry on the ice pack, her masts upright against the flaming aurora borealis, her bow pointing over the ice sheet, as if sailing on a sea of sno
17-12 Timesonline - world Israeli sanctions ‘will ruin plans to rebuild Palestinian economy’ Donors from 90 nations gather in Paris today to pledge billions of dollars to rebuild the shattered Palestinian economy, but economists and human rights groups say that the huge cash injection will be wasted if Israel does not lift crippling roadblock
17-12 Timesonline - world Crumbling services and violence on the streets, but hope follows British pullout Cautious optimism is stirring in Basra as it shakes off almost five years of British control marked by insecurity and crumbling public services.
17-12 Timesonline - world Crouching Tiger star goes into battle for million hidden orphans The screen goddess stooped to give ten-year-old Li Hubin a teddy bear and a hug. The room fell silent as Zhang Ziyi, the star of Memoirs of a Geisha and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, listened to the chatter of the child who made history by b
17-12 Timesonline - world Splits and jeers as ANC seeks a leader The African National Congress (ANC), facing one of the worst splits in its 96-year history, will today begin choosing a new party leader, the first time that the position has been contested in 55 years.
17-12 Timesonline - world Iraq’s second-biggest city is a dangerous place After four years, eight months and twenty-seven days, the Iraqis in the south have been “liberated” for a second time – handed the opportunity by the former British occupiers to take control of their own security in the last and
17-12 Timesonline - world Brigadier strides into battle against Taleban The British Forces commander in Afghanistan played a personal role in the recapture of Musa Qala, the Taleban-controlled town in the north of Helmand province.
16-12 Timesonline - world Basra handover ends British control in southern Iraq Four-and-a-half years of British military control in southern Iraq came to an end today with the handover of Basra Province in a curiously low-key ceremony at the city's airport.
16-12 Timesonline - world Billionaire Michael Bloomberg may make independent run for White House The billionaire mayor of New York, Michael Bloomberg, is preparing for a White House run as an independent.
16-12 Timesonline - world Wife’s suicide note surfaces to smear Thabo Mbeki leadership rival, Jacob Zuma <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ae-Pe0HBKsM&NR=1">Jacob Zuma on Africa Diaspora Skills Links - extracts from new film 'Still My Home'</a>
16-12 Timesonline - world Shucks, I’m the hick who can beat Hillary Clinton <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmS2A_N6t6M">Mike Huckabee: Faith and Politics</a>
16-12 Timesonline - world The new face of America Last week was a horrible one for Hillary Clinton. Her husband had thrown a wrench into her campaign to become president of the United States by declaring that he’d been against the Iraq war from the beginning - a transparent fib that reminde
16-12 Timesonline - world Machinegun Huckabees are a feisty family <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmS2A_N6t6M">Mike Huckabee: Faith and Politics</a>
16-12 Timesonline - world Get a load of the Swiss views, girls <a href="http://www.myswitzerland.com/en.cfm/home/wintervacation/page-Tab_Home-Home_Winter-275305.html">Win a Ski Instructor</a>
16-12 Timesonline - world Hollywood’s A-list of overpaid stars <a href="http://www.forbes.com/2007/08/03/celebrities-hollywood-movies-biz-cz_dp_0806starpayback_slide_2.html?thisSpeed=20000">The Forbes Payback List</a>
16-12 Timesonline - world Broken Bethlehem gambles on Vegas LAS VEGAS is coming to Bethlehem and it’s building a brand new inn. After years of controversy over the redevelopment of one of America’s most historic industrial cities, the residents of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, have turned to a casino to
16-12 Timesonline - world Lesbian love tangle stirs Paris literati A FORMER magazine editor has caused a sensation in Parisian literary circles with a memoir exposing the “love triangle” she shared with Françoise Sagan and the famous novelist’s boyfriend.
16-12 Timesonline - world Bali deal leaves greens in despair AS more than 180 countries agreed a deal on climate change at the UN summit in Bali, environmentalists punctured the mood of self-congratulation by pointing to the failure to agree firm targets for reducing emissions.
16-12 Timesonline - world Bali's crying shame The baby turtles were cute, but they were also clearly suffering. The tropical sun was beating down on the beach in Bali as they swam round and round in their big plastic bowls full of slowly warming water. They were waiting to be liberated into the o
16-12 Timesonline - world Inside the Taliban’s fallen town of fear FIRST the traitor was hanged, then his head was cut off and finally the Taliban placed it on a road at the point where it enters Musa Qala.
16-12 Timesonline - world Band of brothers in vigil for fallen Lee 'Jonno' Johnson THE men of B Company gathered in whispers on the hilltop, helmeted silhouettes against a tapestry of stars.
16-12 Timesonline - world Pervez Musharraf: Benazir Bhutto may return as PM THE president of Pakistan, Pervez Musharraf, signalled yesterday that Benazir Bhutto might serve a third term as prime minister after parliamentary elections next month.
16-12 Timesonline - world Don’t call the aliens,they might not be friendly FOR decades it has been a staple of science fiction &#150; somewhere out in the galaxy, a highly developed alien race picks up a radio signal from Earth, and decides to eat us for lunch.
15-12 Timesonline - world Climate deal sealed in Bali Negotiators trying to agree a road map for a new international climate change deal finally managed to broker a compromise deal today after days of wrangling.
15-12 Timesonline - world Adieu, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, a tricky guest Rarely can a host have been so happy to see the back of a guest as President Sarkozy will be today when Muammar Gaddafi and his caravan of 400 followers finally leave Paris.
15-12 Timesonline - world Brothers in arms against apartheid, now Thabo Mbeki and Jacob Zuma face each other in a bitter struggle for power Their families shared in the struggle against apartheid and both played a prominent role in ending white minority rule in South Africa. But Thabo Mbeki, the country’s President, and Jacob Zuma, his main challenger, come from very different world
15-12 Timesonline - world Jean-Marie Le Pen faces trial for defending Nazi record Jean-Marie Le Pen, leader of France's far-right National Front, went on trial yesterday accused of condoning the Nazi occupation of his country, which he described as “not particularly inhumane”.
15-12 Timesonline - world Little woman in a big hat who got Barack Obama all fired up and ready to go <b><a href="http://www.timesonline.typepad.com/uselections/" target="_self">Read our blog on the race for the White House</a></b>
15-12 Timesonline - world Troops dig in to defend town seized from Taleban British troops were braced yesterday for their hardest challenge in the notoriously difficult town of Musa Qala in Helmand province.
15-12 Timesonline - world Chinese pandas set free for a walk on the wild side <a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/fashion/article2933191.ece">Never tease a panda</a> I <a href="javascript:function pictureGalleryPopup(pubUrl,articleId){va
15-12 Timesonline - world Japan's respect for celebrities goes west High on a mighty billboard, pouting down at the masses on the most elegant shopping street in Asia, Victoria Beckham could be the last of a dying breed: a western celebrity deified by the Japanese for her beauty and glamour.