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Georgia accused of targeting civilians
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The BBC has discovered evidence that Georgia may have committed war crimes in its attack on its breakaway region of South Ossetia in August... |
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RAND Lobbies Pentagon: Start War To Save U.S. Economy
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According to reports out of top Chinese mainstream news outlets, the RAND Corporation recently presented a shocking proposal to the Pentagon in which it lobbied for a war to be started with a major foreign power in an attempt to stimulate the American economy and prevent a recession... |
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Deutsche Bank profits fall sharply
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Deutsche Bank today reported steep falls in pre-tax and net profits and a further series of writedowns in the third quarter as the collapse of US investment bank Lehman Brothers last month sent the global banking sector into freefall... |
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Growing Doubts on Palin Take a Toll, Poll Finds.
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A growing number of voters have concluded that Senator John McCain's running mate, Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska, is not qualified to be vice president, weighing down the Republican ticket in the last days of the campaign, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News poll... |
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UK House prices have fallen almost £30,000 in the past year and are set to drop even further, Britain's biggest building society warned yesterday.
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House prices have fallen almost £30,000 in the past year and are set to drop even further, Britain's biggest building society warned yesterday... |
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UK October's weird weather continues as hailstorm swamps one small town in 6ft drifts
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These astonishing scenes are the aftermath of a deluge of hailstones that buried a town in a river of ice.
Ottery St Mary, in Devon, was plunged into chaos by the storm in the early hours yesterday... |
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Mixed reviews for Obama's30-minute, $4m 'infomercial'
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Barack Obama's 30-minute campaign commercial broadcast on Wednesday night carpet-bombed millions of Americans in the hope of persuading the last remaining undecided voters to back America's first black presidential nominee... |
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Police did not warn de Menezes before opening fire, witnesses claim
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Jean Charles de Menezes was not warned before he was shot dead by police, three witnesses told an inquest today. The claim contradicts the police account that the innocent Brazilian was warned before being shot... |
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US economy shrinks as anxious consumers slash spending
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The US economy shrank at an annual rate of 0.3% in the three months to September as anxious consumers cut their spending at the sharpest rate in almost 30 years... |
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Smith orders inquiry into MI5 and CIA torture claims
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Jacqui Smith, the home secretary, has asked the attorney general to investigate possible "criminal wrongdoing" by the MI5 and the CIA over its treatment of a British resident held in Guantanamo Bay, it was revealed tonight... |
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Shell halts Canadian sands development
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Royal Dutch Shell has become the latest oil company to halt development of Canada's formerly booming tar sands industry, amid soaring costs and plunging oil prices... |
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HBOS executives pose threat to stance on failure rewards
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HBOS appeared to be on a collision course with Parliament on Thursday after the Treasury Select Committee said that it would investigate any secret payments to the bank's departing directors... |
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Calls grow to save autistic Scots hacker from threat of US prison
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PRESSURE is growing on the Home Secretary to step in and halt the extradition of a Scots-born autistic computer hacker who is facing up to 60 years in a US prison... |
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Deafness is the new scourge of British troops in Afghanistan
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Hundreds of soldiers are returning from Afghanistan suffering from severe and permanent damage to their hearing because of the overwhelming noise of intense combat... |
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Hungary holds out the begging bowl for $25bn rescue package
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Hungary has become the latest country to receive a multibillion-dollar bailout to help it tackle the effects of the global financial crisis. It has been promised $25.1bn (£15.4bn) by the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and the European Union to help shore up its beleaguered banking system and currency, the forint... |
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