07 Dec 2009 04:38:26 GMT US said leaving Iraq millions of dollars of gear WASHINGTON, Dec 6 (Reuters) - U.S. commanders are donating up to $30 million worth of passenger vehicles, generators and gear to Iraq from each facility they leave, as they scale back deployments, up ...
07 Dec 2009 04:12:24 GMT Save the bankers! Only they can deliver economic growth
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It is alarming when economics starts to sound like Buddhism. Yet the British economy is now beset by paradoxes worthy of a Buddhist sage. The banks must increase their lending, but also improve their balance sheets. The Government ...
07 Dec 2009 04:12:07 GMT Are you a red, green, or blue Tory? And why don't you get a windmill?
Comment | You ask the questions Greg Clark MP Tory spokesman on Energy and Climate Change
Don't the leaked emails from the University of East Anglia show that dissent on climate change is crushed whenever it appears?
07 Dec 2009 04:11:54 GMT The age of UNCERTAINTY
Independent Life | Beginning a four-part series of essays to mark 10 years since the dawn of the 21st century, Rupert Cornwell argues that America's response to 9/11 spelt doom for the world's only 'hyper-power' - and paved the way for a ...
07 Dec 2009 04:11:51 GMT Africa's Schindler
News | In one of the continent's bloodiest battlegrounds, one man has saved thousands from the clutches of lethal militias. Claire Soares launches this year's Christmas Appeal from Butembo, Congo
07 Dec 2009 04:07:47 GMT U.N. climate talks to seek deep CO2 cuts, aid * Copenhagen climate talks open "turning point"
* Seeking deep greenhouse gas cuts, billions in aid
* Summit of world leaders raises hope of deal
By Gerard Wynn and Emma Graham- ...
07 Dec 2009 04:02:48 GMT Fewer at relief centres as floods ebb
KUALA TERENGGANU: The flood situation in the state has improved, with only 829 victims still at relief centres yesterday from 1,077 people on Saturday night.
07 Dec 2009 03:50:49 GMT Honduras' Zelaya says will stay in Brazil embassy TEGUCIGALPA, Dec 6 (Reuters) - Honduras' deposed President Manuel Zelaya said on Sunday that he would stay in the Brazilian embassy in the Honduran capital for as long as Brasilia allowed him to and ...
07 Dec 2009 03:37:02 GMT U.S. envoy may take disarmament plan to Pyongyang (For full coverage of North Korea see [ID:nNORKOR])
* U.S. envoy holds talks in Seoul ahead of trip
* Nuclear breakthrough unlikely, analysts say
* Money troubles and human rights review weigh ...
07 Dec 2009 03:30:45 GMT People wear skull masks during a protest in Ciudad Juarez People wear skull masks during a protest in Ciudad Juarez December 6, 2009. Thousands of people demanded soldiers leave Mexico's most violent city on Sunday, accusing troops of provoking a surge in ...
