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As many as 10,000 people have been killed by a massive earthquake in southwestern China, officials said on Tuesday, a number that is expected to increase. ... Beijing has yet to call for international assistance, but the Swiss government and non-governmental...
Comments George Bush is heading to the Middle East to push once more for an elusive peace deal as hopes fade for any agreement between Israel and the Palestinians before he leaves the White House. Mr Bush – with less than nine months to go as U.S. President – insisted in interviews published...
Darling's statement today – a budget day in all but name – went down splendidly with Labour MPs. Just eight weeks after Alistair Darling told MPs that there was not enough money to pay for large tax cuts, he has announced a £2.7bn tax cut – hefty, by any standards, and far bigger than the very...
Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif pulled his party out of Pakistan’s six week old coalition government yesterday, plunging the volatile Muslim nation back into political uncertainty Sharif pulled his PML-N out because of differences over the reinstatement of judges sacked by president Musharraf....
Myanmar's military government has denied unconfirmed reports that it is hoarding high quality aid meant for cyclone victims and replacing it with rotten food. The regime says the claim is outrageous and insists that the military continues to control relief distribution. Meanwhile EU ministers in...
MOSCOW. The latest clashes in Beirut once again prove that it is the militant Shiite group Hezbollah and its supporters, rather than the pro-Western government of Fouad Siniora, that control the situation in Lebanon. On Tuesday, the Lebanese government outlawed the Hezbollah mobile-phone network...
By Robert Winnett, Deputy Political Editor Caroline Flint, the Housing Minister, made an embarrassing blunder this morning by accidentally displaying Cabinet briefing notes which reveal Government fears about the true state of the housing market. The speaking notes, from which she briefed the...
Lebanese soldiers guard the street in Beirut, Lebanon. Photograph: Wael Ladki/EPA The US is prepared to strengthen the Lebanese army to help disarm Hizbullah, after a week of violence between the militia group and pro-government gunmen that has left 81 people dead. The president, George Bush,...
A crop of backbiting memoirs shows that New Labour's once famed discipline has well and truly collapsed "Annoying, bewildering, prickly ... could go off like a bloody volcano." Well, it's over three years since I left the Labour NEC bear pit to move to the US, and now I'm back just in time to...
Series of blasts kill 60 in India At least six bombs, which exploded in markets and near a Hindu temple in Jaipur's crowded walled city just as many people took to the streets after a sweltering day, also wounded up to 150 people. Sixty people were killed in a series of bomb attacks in Jaipur....
