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Financial crisis beckons as public spending cuts loom and universities face intense competition from overseas Universities are facing a new funding crisis with looming public spending cuts and intense competition from overseas,...
A bond between president and the secretary of state helps when it comes to executing foreign policy. While Mrs Clinton’s relationship with Mr Obama is cordial, one would be hard-pressed to call them buddies
By Tom Braithwaite in Washington US President Barack Obama, faces the next big test of its push for healthcare reform this evening when the Senate meets to decide whether to proceed to a debate on its $848bn draft legislation....
Gordon Brown should demand the "immediate" return of the Lockerbie bomber to serve his sentence in a Scottish jail - because he is still alive exactly three months after his controversial release according to an American senator.
In his regular column, the BBC's environment analyst, Roger Harrabin, assesses the arguments sparked by the leaking of information on climate change. "If the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) can't do closed...
Ahead of the Senate's first major test vote on healthcare reform, the Dems who refuse to show their cards face a political paradox Once upon a time, I was involved in a union negotiation. Yes, I was on the union side, at the...
Who's up, who's down in Celebrity Watch, the barometer of fickle fame. this week: Katie Price can't burp. Honestly... 10 Up Mark Owen Owen — the one from Take That who looks like a 12-year-old — has, this week, wed his...
All right, it would have yucked me out pretty majorly if something like this had been produced under Bush. But hey, the guy is under 50 and athletic. I do wonder, though, if he caught it on the first take. I'll confess to you...
As President Obama decides future American strategy in Afghanistan, never has the US understood a wartime adversary less than now. Even after eight years of war and countless re-assessments, we have remarkably little insight...
Not until this month, when Marie NDiaye won the Prix Goncourt, France’s most prestigious literary award, did most of her fellow citizens discover that she was living in self-imposed political exile. In an interview with the...
