BRITISH troops are no longer needed for the security of Iraq and should go home, Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has told a British newspaper. “We thank them for the role they have played, but I think that their stay is not necessary for maintaining security and control,” Mr Maliki told the Times. “There might be a need for…
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The world’s governments will fail to meet their agreed target of curbing biodiversity loss by 2010, according to experts questioned by BBC News. Nearly 200 countries signed up to the target in 2002. Ten leading conservationists asked here at the World Conservation Congress were unanimous that the goal cannot be met. All the global indicators of progress are heading in the wrong direction, and few governments have even translated the target into national legislation. Not all the experts questioned would go on the record, and some said there was a reluctance to embarrass governments over their failures on the matter. Others suggested the target was unachievable even at its inception six years…
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Perhaps he was worried his acting would look wooden alongside a Dalek. But last night it emerged that Prince Charles has turned down an invitation to appear on Dr Who. The show’s writer and executive producer Russell T Davies wrote to Clarence House asking if Charles would like to make a cameo appearance in the hit BBC drama. Fancy that? How Prince Charles could have looked if he had agreed to appear in the hit TV show Dr Who, which also stars Billie Piper, left Even though he is self-confessed ‘big fan’, Charles declined. Speaking at the Cheltenham Literature Festival, Mr Davies OBE was indignant. He said: “He turned us down, the miserable swine.” Mr Davies has been credited with…
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NEW YORK - Investors agonizing over whether the stock market is bottoming out or about to extend its precipitous decline face more uncertainty this week as they await action on the government’s rapidly expanding effort to pull the financial system from the brink. If last week was any indication, Washington’s medicine has yet to take hold. Wall Street suffered through its worst five-day period in history as investors’ fears about frozen credit markets deepened and they yanked money out of the markets, sending major indexes tumbling from New York to Hong Kong. But amid the financial carnage, some saw reason for hope: Friday’s trading left the Dow Jones industrials 128 points lower, a…
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Ireland is bracing itself for the harshest budget since the recession of the 1980s as new figures have revealed that for the first time in the Republic’s history tax revenues are falling and will be close to 8% lower by the end of the year. Ireland will…
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Controversial plans to detain terror suspects without charge for up to 42 days are likely to be rejected overwhelmingly by the House of Lords today, piling fresh pressure on Gordon Brown to abandon the proposal. The strength of feeling among peers is highlighted today by Lord Goldsmith, Tony Blair’s long-serving attorney general. In an article for the Guardian, Goldsmith writes: “This pernicious provision should be removed from this bill now….
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Zimbabwe’s opposition leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, yesterday threatened to pull out of a power-sharing deal after President Robert Mugabe unilaterally announced that the ruling Zanu-PF party would control all main cabinet posts, including the military and police. South Africa’s former president, Thabo Mbeki, is expected in Harare today to try and rescue the deal he brokered, under which Tsvangirai would be appointed prime minister and Mugabe would remain president but with far fewer powers….
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13 Oct 2008, 0318 hrs IST, Rajat Pandit,TNN NEW DELHI: Even as controversy still rages over the Bush administration’s plan to divert over $250 million in aid to Pakistan from counter-terrorism programmes to upgrading its F-16 fighter jets, the US has now invited the Pakistani Air Force (PAF) to take part in its world-famous ‘Red Flag’ wargames. “The US has apparently asked Pakistan whether it will be willing to participate in the Red Flag exercise in 2009. Pakistan’s response is not yet known,” said a senior…
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13 Oct 2008, 0234 hrs IST,AGENCIES Text: KUALA LUMPUR: India’s top Bollywood star has been given Malaysia’s equivalent of a knighthood in a move criticised by opposition lawmakers and the public. Shah Rukh Khan has been conferred with the governor’s award for promoting Malacca state after filming a movie there and for his…
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Austria’s leading far-right politician, Jorg Haider, had been at a late-night party and was driving at more than double the speed limit when his limousine left the road and somersaulted, killing him almost instantly. Mr Haider, 58, whose fatal car accident early on Saturday morning has left Austria in a state of shock, was travelling near Klagenfurt in the southern province of Carinthia at 142kph along a stretch of road which has a 67kph speed limit….
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