India remembers Bombay attacks
Bombay’s police paraded past some of the city’s landmarks in a show of strength as India’s financial hub marked the first anniversary of militant raids that killed 166 people and ratched up tensions with Pakistan.
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France gets key EU Commission job
France gets the key internal market post in the new European Commission, whose composition has just been announced.
Iran denies Nobel prize claim
Iran today denied Norway’s accusation that Tehran had confiscated the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to human rights campaigner Shirin Ebadi in 2003.
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Inquiry into UK war crime claims
The British government is expected announce the terms of an independent inquiry tomorrow into claims British soldiers murdered and mutilated Iraqi civilians and tortured nine others after a battle in southern Iraq in May 2004.
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Davydenko shocks Federer in semis
Nikolay Davydenko beats Roger Federer for the first time in 13 attempts to reach the final of the ATP World Tour Finals in London.
‘Bomb’ caused Russian train crash
A bomb blast caused a Russian express train to crash, killing at least 26 people, intelligence officials say.
Gatecrashers met Obama at banquet
A couple who gatecrashed a state dinner at the White House met President Barack Obama, his office confirms.
Woman’s touch
Female preachers prompt Islamic revival in Syria
Korea s Kate Moss pleaded for help hours before suicide
A South Korean supermodel whose apparent suicide in Paris a week ago sent shockwaves through the fashion industry reached out to a friend for help with relationship problems a few hours before she was found dead.
Murder on the Nevsky Express
The first sign of something wrong as the Nevsky Express raced through the night came when the train began to tremble . Then the carriage gave a violent lurch to the left and Igor Pechnikov was hurled from his seat.
Dubai owes British builders 250m amid debt crisis
British engineers, contractors and consultants have sought help from Lord Mandelson, the business secretary, to recoup more than 250m in unpaid bills from Dubai.
Duch expresses ‘excruciating remorse’
The Khmer Rouge’s chief torturer and jailer expressed “excruciating remorse” today for more than 14,000 people killed under his watch at a notorious prison during Cambodia’s ultra-Maoist revolution of the 1970s.
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