Editorial
Free care at point of need
There's a clear message from the Labour Party's research into care of the disabled and the elderly and it's don't move to Brighton and Hove.
Features
Running out of political steam
The rise and ultimate demise of the formidable Ken Livingstone
Delusions of grandeur
Not enough is done by British government to alleviate poverty around the world
World
Peace force head fears war between Ethiopia and Eritrea
Friday 04 November 2005
A SENIOR UN official who is monitoring the Ethiopian-Eritrean border said yesterday that he fears a new war is looming after both sides moved troops and military hardware closer to the frontier in the past 10 days.
Police kill 3 in poll demos
Friday 04 November 2005
POLICE in Ethiopia shot dead three people and wounded 12 others yesterday on the fourth day of protests against the country's disputed parliamentary elections.
US helicopter crashes in Iraq
Thursday 03 November 2005
TWO US soldiers died in Ramadi in a car bomb attack on Tuesday and two more were killed in a helicopter crash yesterday.
Argentina hosts Peoples' Summit
Thursday 03 November 2005
THOUSANDS of Argentinians held a huge rally in Mar del Plata on Tuesday, two days before US President George W Bush arrives for the Summit of the Americas.
Strike delays NASA spy satellite launch
Thursday 03 November 2005
ABOUT 1,500 Boeing machinists went on strike at midnight yesterday after last-minute talks broke down between their union and the company unit that operates the Delta rocket programme, forcing the US air force to delay the launch of a classified spy satellite.
Irish workers rally against ferry cuts
Thursday 03 November 2005
FOUR of Ireland's top trade union leaders united yesterday to urge support for a mass protest in Dublin today against redundancies at Irish Ferries.
Bagram escapee is top al-Qaida activist
Thursday 03 November 2005
SECURITY has been tightened at a massive US military detention camp in Afghanistan, a US official said yesterday, a day after the military revealed that one of four men who escaped in July was a suspected al-Qaida leader in south-east Asia.
US recruiters target 'youth with limited opportunity'
Thursday 03 November 2005
LOWER-INCOME communities experience higher US military enlistment rates than higher-income areas, according to a new analysis released yesterday by US watchdog the National Priorities Project (NPP).
Sharon 'used pullout as a smoke screen'
Thursday 03 November 2005
THE minister of state for Jerusalem affairs in the Palestinian cabinet, Hind Khoury, accused Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon on Tuesday of deception in withdrawing from Gaza.
Guantanamo detainee in solitary tries to commit suicide
Thursday 03 November 2005
A DETAINEE from Bahrain at the US detention camp at Guantanamo Bay tried to kill himself last month, his lawyer Joshua Colangelo-Bryan said on Tuesday.