» Steve Bell: Iraq war inquiry - Britain heard US drumbeat for invasion before 9/11
25/11/09 23:33 from guardian.co.uk World news
Evidence given on opening day suggests Blair's government initially dismissed plan to topple Saddam Hussein as unlawful Steve Bell

» U.N.: 150,000 still in Sri Lankan camps
25/11/09 03:28 from CNN.com Recently Published/Updated
Nearly 150,000 refugees from Sri Lanka's civil war remain detained in Sri Lankan government internment camps, according to the United Nations' chief humanitarian affairs official, John Holmes.

» Official: Pakistanis want Taliban defeat
25/11/09 02:52 from CNN.com Recently Published/Updated
Pakistanis now believe the war against the Taliban is their war, whereas in the past they considered it to be the United States' war, a former Pakistani general with close ties to his country's military told CNN's Christiane Amanpour.

» Facebook paves way for IPO
25/11/09 02:35 from CNN.com Recently Published/Updated
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» Capital crunch for Chinese banks
25/11/09 01:09 from CNN.com Recently Published/Updated
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» Afghanistan: Obama To Reveal Plans 'Shortly'
25/11/09 00:57 from World News, Global News and International breaking News.
An announcement on a possible US troop surge in Afghanistan is expected within days after Barack Obama said he will show his hand "shortly".

» Gold Miner Meets Grisly Death In Jungle
25/11/09 00:57 from World News, Global News and International breaking News.
A jaguar prowling the lush jungles of Guyana has killed a gold and diamond miner as he went to fetch water from a creek.

» Jermaine Jackson: Lawyers, money can't divide family
25/11/09 00:26 from CNN.com Recently Published/Updated
Michael Jackson's family gathered Tuesday for an early Thanksgiving dinner, determined not to let money and fame pull it apart, the pop icon's oldest brother said.

» Hugh Muir's diary
25/11/09 00:15 from guardian.co.uk World news
How the NHS and its data mash cost the poor taxpayer a wodge of cash One of the sorrier deals in New Labour history has re-emerged to haunt one of David Cameron's close advisers. Clearing the decks, perhaps, before the ..

» Editorial | Complicity in torture: Looking the other way
25/11/09 00:05 from guardian.co.uk World news
Allegations about Britain's role in the torture of its own citizens in Pakistan are not new. They have been made persuasively by our own investigative reporting . What is new in the report published yesterday by Human Rights Watch is the c..

» Michael White's political briefing | Britain under water: How the state responded
25/11/09 00:05 from guardian.co.uk World news
In imperial China a surfeit of floods, famines and earthquakes was usually taken to signify that the mandate of heaven, a more conditional version of Europe's divine right of kings, had been withdrawn from a particular emperor. Many Americ..

» The floods can't keep Cockermouth down | Hunter Davies
25/11/09 00:05 from guardian.co.uk World news
Flooding is frightening, but the people of Cumbria are resilient Cockermouth is my local town, for half of each year anyway, for we have had a house at nearby Loweswater for 23 years. It's so weird to see it constantly on the television – ..

» From the archive: Execution of the murderers of Brett
25/11/09 00:05 from guardian.co.uk World news
Originally published on 25 November 1867 [The three are commemorated in the city as the Manchester Martyrs, Brett as the first of its policemen to be killed on duty.] On Saturday morning, at eight o'clock, three of the men convicted at the..

» Aids: the pandemic is officially in decline
25/11/09 00:00 from The Independent - World RSS Feed
The HIV pandemic which started 28 years ago is officially in decline, two of the world's leading health organisations said yesterday.

» Commonwealth offer for Zimbabwe
25/11/09 00:00 from The Independent - World RSS Feed
Zimbabwe will be offered a seat back in the Commonwealth within two years as long as it agrees to political and economic reform.