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Saturday, 13 October 2007 |
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John F Kennedy's closest living aide has anointed Barack Obama as the heir to the assassinated president's legacy and predicted that Hillary Clinton would lose an election to a Republican.
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Saturday, 13 October 2007 |
(CBS/AP) The mother of a 14-year-old who authorities say had a cache of guns, knives and explosive devices in his bedroom for a possible school attack was charged Friday with buying her son three weapons.
Michele Cossey bought her home-schooled son a .22-caliber handgun, a .22-caliber rifle and a 9 mm semiautomatic rifle, authorities said.
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Friday, 12 October 2007 |
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A team of Thai prosecutors are due to arrive in London today to investigate the possibility of extraditing the Manchester City owner Thaksin Shinawatra on corruption charges. The former Thai prime minister, who was ousted by a military coup in September last year, has lived in self imposed exile in London ever since. He protests his innocence and insists the cases against him are politically motivated.
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Friday, 12 October 2007 |
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A man attacked and killed two students and attacked three other women within a small area of west London, the Old Bailey heard today. French student Amelie Delagrange, 22, and gap year student Marsha McDonnell, 19, died after being struck on the head with a blunt object, said Brian Altman, prosecuting.
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Friday, 12 October 2007 |
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Prince William and his girlfriend Kate Middleton have flown to Scotland together to spend the weekend at the Queen's Balmoral estate. The couple arrived on Thursday night at Aberdeen Airport on a scheduled British Airways flight from Gatwick Airport.
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Friday, 12 October 2007 |
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CHICAGO - Defeated, broke, and unsure what life held next, Barack Obama lumbered aboard the Abegweit, an old ferry docked in Lake Michigan off downtown Chicago. The day, in mid-2000, was luminous, the boat offering panoramic views of the city, the lake, and beyond. But the atmosphere was funereal: Obama had just lost badly in his bid for Congress, and he had organized this small fund-raiser to help retire his campaign debt.
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Friday, 12 October 2007 |
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"One of the most important aspects of her work is that she showed that you could explore ideas — political ideas, cultural ideas, philosophical ideas — through fiction, in a very persuasive way,". British writer Doris Lessing was announced the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in Stockholm Thursday. Just several weeks short of age 88, she is the oldest writer to receive the literature award and only the 11th woman to receive the honor.
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Friday, 12 October 2007 |
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When Rehabilitation Camp turned into Concentration camp in Bindunuwewa, there were no Schindlers or Nicholas Winston in Sri Lanka to save those chirldrens who were Massacred by the government servants? A 98 years old British Knight to be nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize almost 70 years after he saved Hundred of Jewish Children from death in Nazi Concentration camps.
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Friday, 12 October 2007 |
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Former ambassador to the US, Sir Christopher Meyer published memoirs which were critical of some ministers. The Foreign Office has been accused of trying to gag diplomats for life after regulations were issued stopping them from commenting on international issues even after retirement.
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Thursday, 11 October 2007 |
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A failed asylum seeker with a mountain of debt died after throwing himself in front of a moving train. Sivanathan Gowthaman plunged to his death as the 12.54pm South West Trains service sped through Bedhampton railway station at 40mph. The train – carrying about 340 passengers – was passing through on its journey from Portsmouth Harbour to London when the 29-year-old stepped off the platform into its path on May 13 last year.
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