Gene Robinson, the first openly gay bishop in the Anglican Communion, said on Wednesday he had ”great confidence” that rifts caused by his appointment could be healed.
Stock market sell-offs and collapsing corporations have been the most visible signs of the United States economic downturn over the past two years. But as growth slowed the economic pain spread well beyond chastened dotcom millionaires, hitting disadvantaged groups that had only just begun to benefit from the long boom of the late 1990s.
A British aid flight carrying 30 tonnes of emergency supplies for Liberia has landed near the war-ravaged capital Monrovia, as the first peacekeepers made their way to the west African country.
Disgraced former South African cricket captain Hansie Cronje could have been murdered to keep him quiet and not, as first thought, the innocent victim of a plane crash, it was claimed in London on Sunday.
The silly season approaches. The United Kingdom government is closing down. And a battered prime minister is about to go on vacation. Once away, we must hope that he will focus on how to redeem his administration’s future.
The judge heading an inquiry into the suicide of government weapons adviser David Kelly said on Friday he will ask Prime Minister Tony Blair to testify.
The cost of living in the eurozone has soared in comparison with the rest of the world, according to a new portrait of living costs around the globe.
The power of search as a business was confirmed by the recent ,6-billion purchase of the search engine Overture by Yahoo!. The deal has got the banking sector talking about the potential of the dotcoms again.
Children from a growing number of countries are being imported into Britain against their will as cheap labour, often ending up in prostitution, according to a new report published by Unicef, the United Nation’s children’s organisation, on Wednesday.
The body set up to monitor advertising in Britain on Wednesday said it had rejected complaints about billboards showing a woman’s breasts and sporting the slogan ”Discover Weapons of Mass Distraction” in order to advertise a cheap airline.
Detectives in Britain investigating the murder of a young Nigerian boy whose torso was found in the River Thames in September 2001 arrested 19 people on Tuesday in early morning raids in London, police said.
US stock markets have rallied since the end of the war in Iraq, but with the country’s trade deficit running at more than -million an hour, analysts warn that an economic crisis is looming.
The sequence of events surrounding the leaking of David Kelly’s name prior to his suicide implicates the UK’s Ministry of Defence and Blair’s office. Now, fingers are being pointed left, right and centre. Whose head will roll?
British aid agencies issued a joint statement late on Wednesday in which they called for the urgent deployment of international peacekeepers to war-torn Liberia.
The British Broadcasting Corporation has an audiotape that could back up its disputed report on the government’s handling of intelligence on Iraqi weapons, the broadcaster said on Wednesday.
The oldest and most distant planet yet discovered has been found 5 600 light years from Earth. It is 800 times bigger than our own planet. The discovery could force astronomers to rethink theories of how planets are made.
United States Treasury Secretary John Snow shrugged off concerns about the US’s deficit last week, insisting that a recovery in the world’s largest economy would help close the record gap between revenues and spending.
Having withstood centuries of outdoor exposure, David must now endure exposure of a different sort that could lead to his tragic demise, writes Jonathan Jones in London.
A British Ministry of Defence adviser on weapons of mass destruction, named by the government as the possible source for a disputed news report on Iraqi arms, has been reported missing by his family, police said on Friday.
British police searching for a missing Ministry of Defence adviser on weapons of mass destruction, named by the government as the possible source for a disputed news report on Iraqi arms, said on Friday they had found a male body.
Leading world diamond producer De Beers is set for an imminent return to the Democratic Republic of Congo, from which it withdrew in 1999 amid concern over the export of so-called ”blood” diamonds.
It’s a sad but incontestable fact that women have a rough time in the world
of rock and pop, but in R&B women currently reign unchallenged, writes Alexis Petridis in London.
Lasagne is as English as roast beef and has been part of the English culinary scene since at least 1390, the British Daily Mirror newspaper reported on Tuesday, citing a cookbook compiled for Richard II.
South African President Thabo Mbeki has told US President George Bush that Robert Mugabe will relinquish his leadership of Zimbabwe’s ruling party by December, the British Independent newspaper reported on Tuesday.
Harry Potter may have his hands full fighting Voldemort, but his creator, JK
Rowling, has found her own nemesis, writes Rebecca Allison in London.
Police probably could have prevented family doctor Harold Shipman from murdering his last three victims if they had properly conducted their initial investigation, an inquiry ruled on Monday.
Nelson Mandela unveiled a plaque to two anti-apartheid activists in London.
Britain’s intelligence community faces an unprecedented crisis of credibility in the wake of the Commons’s foreign affairs committee’s report on the decision to go to war in Iraq.
The widening gulf between the global haves and have-nots was starkly revealed this week when the United Nations announced that while the United States was booming in the 1990s, living standards fell in more than 50 countries.
World Bank projects costing hundreds of millions of dollars and aimed at cutting malnutrition among children in developing countries have completely failed to make a difference, according to a report published last week.
British and African conservationists have joined forces to protect endangered plants in sub-Saharan countries.
Prime Minister Tony Blair faced some tough questioning on Tuesday from deputies on whether the war on Iraq was justified, a day after a parliamentary report rapped the manner in which he took Britain into the conflict.