The Guardian:
Many children in orphanages throughout the developing world have at least one parent who is alive, a charity claims today.According to research by Save the Children, 98% of children in residential care in central and eastern Europe, 94% of those in Indonesia and 90% of children in Ghana are not actually orphans but have at (Read More)
The Guardian:
• Deal would give Bing exclusive rights• Times will have paywalls in place by next springRupert Murdoch is considering a tie-up with Microsoft which would see the technology group pay for exclusive rights to content from his stable of newspapers, including the Times and the Sun, to attract visitors to its Bing search engine (Read More)
Reuters:
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Television veteran David Frost received an honorary International Emmy on Monday at the annual awards for TV produced outside the United States, with five of the prizes going to Britain and Brazil winning its first Emmy.
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The Guardian:
An Israeli attack on Iran's atomic weapons plants rests on one thing – the US president's approvalThe talk in Israel, explicit and open – including in the country's leading daily, Haaretz, last week – is about a war in the coming spring or summer. The skies will have cleared for air operations, Israel's missile shields agai (Read More)
The Guardian:
Four men sent to the Old Bailey on violent jihad chargesFour men were remanded in custody today when they appeared at City of Westminster magistrates court in London charged with terrorism offences.Israr Malik, 21, of Fallowfield, Manchester, was charged with intending to commit acts of terrorism, namely violent jihad, betw (Read More)
The Guardian:
Thousands take to streets in Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro to denounce Iranian president's record on rights and IsraelProtests greeted Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Brazil at the start of a South American tour intended to bolster the Iranian president's legitimacy and ease his country's international isolation.Thousands of demonstr (Read More)
The Guardian:
Brilliant American painter with a vivid palette – and an affection for animalsThe exhibition of contemporary painting, 15 Americans, has remained almost as famous in New York since the Museum of Modern Art organised it in 1952 as it has in Europe, where it visited, among other galleries, the Tate. It included a group of pai (Read More)
Drudge Report:
The arrests last month of two Chicago men accused of planning an attack on a Danish newspaper have widened into a global terrorism inquiry that has led to arrests in Pakistan and implicated a former Pakistani military officer as a co-conspirator, government officials said Wednesday. Mr. Headley and Mr. Rana were accused in (Read More)
The Guardian:
Sa'ada fighting risks turning into proxy war between Sunni powerhouse of Saudi Arabia and Shia rival, IranSaudi bombing raids on rebel positions inside Yemen represent a significant escalation of a local conflict that has become entangled in wider regional rivalries with alarming sectarian undertones.Viewed from Riyadh, the (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Society:
It's about more than just the beer. Coors' decision to reopen a brewing museum shows the power of local actionAn important part of Britain's brewing heritage has been saved, with the news that the former Bass Museum in Burton-on-Trent will reopen in 2010, possibly as early as Easter. It's a victory not only for historians b (Read More)
MSNBC.com: Africa:
Federal authorities are due to unseal new charges against eight suspects in a long-running probe of young men who left the United States to fight in Somalia.
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guardian.co.uk: The Guardian newspaper: Editorials & reply:
The appalling injustice done to wrongly accused Lofti Raissi (Secret files show UK courts were misled over 9/11 suspects, 23 November) of course demands an apology from Jack Straw and former ministers. It also justifies the payment of considerable compensation from taxpayers for sins perpetrated under the New Labour regime (Read More)
The Guardian:
A turbulent life has kept England's head coach realistic about his side since the Ashes triumphI think all your life experiences affect how you coach," Andy Flower says on a quiet afternoon in Johannesburg. The former Zimbabwe Test cricketer, now coaching England, has already steered his new team to an Ashes victory last su (Read More)
New York Times:
In honoring Zimbabwe’s tenacious women protesters at the White House on Monday, President Obama bluntly referred to Zimbabwe’s president as a dictator.
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The Guardian:
• Posts go at Aylesbury centre as Equitable Life transfers admin contract to Indian company• Announcement takes total Lloyds job losses to 15,000 this yearAnother 800 posts are being cut at administrative centres run by Lloyds Banking Group, taking the job toll at the bank to more than 15,000 since the start of year when it (Read More)