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The author’s sister in front of a fire truck on September 12, 2001

9/11: It’s all I’ve ever known

Aaron White was six years old in New York City when the Towers fell. For the lucky ones, life just moved on

Staff rehearse for Sunday’s 76th Golden Globe Awards (Mark Ralston/AFP/Getty Images)

‘A Star Is Born’ expected to win big at Golden Globes

Hosting the gala will be actress Sandra Oh and comedian Andy Samberg

Donald Trump addresses supporters after being declared by the television networks as the winner of the Nevada Repulican caucuses at his caucus night rally in Las Vegas

Trump’s presidential campaign may not be the last to successfully use scare tactics

Right-wing populism is gaining fertile ground in Europe, preying on the fears of ordinary citizens who feel excluded by ‘establishment politics’.

Former US vice president

World leaders outraged by CIA torture report

Many world leaders are criticising the torture methods of the CIA, revealed this week in a US Senate report, and they are calling for legal action.

Our president seeks to know his future

CIA lied about brutal and ineffective torture – report

A US Senate report found that the CIA misled the American public about its torture methods after 9/11 and were brutal and pervasive in their actions.

Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld memoirs reveal internal battles

Upcoming accounts could offer new insights on issues ranging from Iraq and Guantánamo to Hurricane Katrina.

Cheney ‘told CIA to withhold information’

The CIA withheld information about a counter-terrorism programme from Congress for eight years on orders from former US vice-president Dick Cheney.

Dick Cheney unplugged

The former US vice president refuses to be a has-been. His voice appears to carry even more weight than it did in the days of the Bush administration.

Cheney: Interrogations saved ‘hundreds of thousands’

Dick Cheney insisted on Sunday that intelligence extracted from interrogations of suspected militants had saved "hundreds of thousands" of lives.

It might be fun to see Cheney behind bars for condoning torture

The fact that waterboarding was repeated so many times on two people suggests that Bush officials lied when they said its use was strictly controlled.

Cheney and the apologists of torture distrust democracy

Our way of life is threatened not by an al-Qaeda nutcase, but politicians like former US vice-president Dick Cheney in thrall to a fantasy war.

No geo-strategic conspiracy

Putin claims that Washington is to blame for the Caucasus crisis. Does he really think Dick Cheney’s that clever?

Russia warns against rearming Georgia

Russia has warned that any Western moves to rearm Georgia could bring further instability, sharpening the stand-off between Moscow and Washington.

Russia says Washington fanning Georgia instability

Russia on Wednesday accused the US of stirring up instability in Georgia, hours after US Vice-President Dick Cheney landed in the region.

West’s impotence laid bare

Moscow has to take some of the blame. But it is the West’s policy of liberal interventionism that has fuelled war in Georgia.

Bush was not ‘forthright’ on Iraq, says ex-spokesperson

Former White House press secretary Scott McClellan says in a new book that United States President George Bush ”veered terribly off course” and was not ”open and forthright on…

Iran calls for uranium enrichment on its soil

The Iranian government has proposed the creation of an international consortium to enrich uranium on its own soil as a way of defusing the tense stand-off over its nuclear…

His final bow: Bush’s last supper with the press

United States President George Bush described his mood as ”a little wistful” on Saturday night as he attended his last White House correspondents’ dinner. The president, who is…

Obama says he will fine-tune his campaign

Democrat Barack Obama said on Friday he would fine-tune his United States presidential campaign and remind voters of his humble roots after a defeat in Pennsylvania fuelled in…

Unusual catch: Cheney’s fishy trip

He told his wife he’d gone fishing. But when a photograph of Dick Cheney, the United Vice-President, appeared on the White House website, the smile on his face and the reflection…