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
Afghanistan confirms Karzai ballot win
Thursday 04 November 2004
AFGHAN interim leader Hamid Karzai was declared the winner of the country's presidential election yesterday, after investigators concluded that a string of irregularities were too minor to overturn his triumph.
Opposition party general strike halts Bangladesh
Thursday 04 November 2004
STREETS across Bangladesh were largely deserted yesterday after the main opposition Awami League called a nationwide general strike.
Colombia denies entry to foreign union leaders
Thursday 04 November 2004
COLOMBIAN Vice-President Francisco Santos said on Tuesday night that his government had been wrong to deny entry to four international union leaders when they arrived at Bogota's international airport for a labour conference.
German union agrees to VW wage freeze
Thursday 04 November 2004
GERMANY'S biggest industrial union agreed to a 28-month pay freeze for members at car maker Volkswagen yesterday in return for a company pledge of no lay-offs in Germany before 2012.
Irish activists defend neutrality
Thursday 04 November 2004
IRELAND must bar US military aircraft from landing in the officially neutral country, left politicians and activists demanded yesterday, in the run-up to a major protest at Shannon airport.
Judges walk out in Austria
Thursday 04 November 2004
AUSTRIAN judges and prosecutors stayed away from work for two hours yesterday to protest over impossible working conditions and understaffed courts.
Kidnappers put back deadline
Thursday 04 November 2004
MILITANTS in Afghanistan who are threatening to kill three UN hostages pushed back their deadline until midnight last night and said they might spare a Filipino from execution because Manila has no troops in the country.
Supporters of Rugova win Kosovo poll
Thursday 04 November 2004
KOSOVO'S largest ethnic Albanian party won general elections in the UN-run Serbian province, but it failed to gain an absolute majority, according to final results released yesterday.
US deserter pleads guilty
Thursday 04 November 2004
US soldier Charles Jenkins pleaded guilty yesterday to deserting his unit in 1965 and fleeing to North Korea.
12 die in Iraq bomb blasts
Wednesday 03 November 2004
CAR bombs killed at least a dozen people in Baghdad and Mosul yesterday, while pressure mounted on interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi to avoid ordering a full-scale US attack on Fallujah.