Iran Fires Missile Barrage Toward IsraelThe attack, which comes days after the assassination of Hezbollah’s leader, Hassan Nasrallah, marks a sharp escalation in the conflict between Israel and Iran. By Chevaz Clarke Israel Has Destroyed Half of Hezbollah’s Arsenal, U.S. and Israeli Officials SayThe Lebanese militia is seeking more weapons from Iran, the officials said. It has yet to fire large ba
With Gaza under a tight economic blockade from Israel, hundreds of tunnels have been dug under the southern border with Egypt to smuggle in food, fuel, construction materials, cars and even live animals. Hamas has made money on the smuggling business, imposing taxes and importing goods itself. It is understood the closure is temporary and follows a security alert issued to all Israeli tourists in
The climate scientists at the centre of a media storm over emails released on the internet were disorganised but did not fudge their results, an independent inquiry into the affair reported today. The inquiry, the second of three set up in the wake of the controversy, found "absolutely no evidence of any impropriety whatsoever", according to Lord Oxburgh, who led the investigation. Instead, Oxburg
Long ago, during one of President Lyndon Johnson’s informal Oval Office press gaggles, a reporter put forth a particularly trivial question. LBJ gave him a hard look and said, “You’re talkin’ to the commander in chief of the most powerful military in the world, and you ask a chickenshit question like that?” Barack Obama must have longed for those days last week when, sitting for an exclusive inter
President Obama with Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. during the Nuclear Security Summit in Washington on Tuesday.Credit...Doug Mills/The New York Times WASHINGTON — President Obama completed a first meeting of world leaders on combating nuclear terrorism with a list of specific commitments from dozens of nations to eliminate or lock down nuclear materials, in what he called a “bold and pragmati
Page last updated at 21:54 GMT, Tuesday, 13 April 2010 22:54 UK Gay rights activists have criticised a Vatican official who sought to link homosexuality to paedophilia when commenting on child sex abuse scandals. The UK's Stonewall group said it was astonishing gay people should still be dealing with "such an offensive myth". Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone had said homosexuality, not celibacy, lay behi
Page last updated at 20:32 GMT, Tuesday, 13 April 2010 21:32 UK The Army has defused a bomb in a car abandoned outside the police station in Newtownhamilton in County Armagh. The device is understood to have consisted of a number of containers filled with flammable liquid. It was in a silver Peugeot 406 left outside the station at about 0200 BST on Tuesday. The cordon at the scene has been reduced
It was like a hidden passage on Wall Street, a secret channel that enabled billions of dollars to flow through Lehman Brothers. In the years before its collapse, Lehman used a small company — its “alter ego,” in the words of a former Lehman trader — to shift investments off its books. The firm, called Hudson Castle, played a crucial, behind-the-scenes role at Lehman, according to an internal Lehma
Sexual abuse of children is not unique to the Roman Catholic church, and Joseph Ratzinger is not one of those priests who raped altar boys while in a position of dominance and trust. But as so often it is the subsequent cover-ups, even more than the original crimes, that do most to discredit an institution, and here the pope is in real trouble. Pope Benedict XVI is the head of the institution as a
In the places worst affected by Europe's economic crisis, unemployment and cuts in pay and public services are hitting the headlines. But the crisis is also having another effect with profound long-term consequences - the return of emigration. Places like Greece and Ireland thought the good times of the last decade or two had finally ended the cycle of emigration, with the brightest and best young
Former Bosnian Serb leader, Radovan Karadzic, has cross-examined the first prosecution witness at the resumption of his war crimes trial at The Hague. Ahmet Zulic, a Bosnian Muslim, told the judges his elderly father-in-law had been burned alive by Serb forces. Mr Karadzic, defending himself, asked Mr Zulic a long list of questions and was told to "come to the point". Mr Karadzic denies 11 charges
Page last updated at 16:49 GMT, Tuesday, 13 April 2010 17:49 UK At least 73 civilians were killed when an army jet bombed a remote village in Pakistan's tribal region of Khyber, a local official has told the BBC. He said the incident took place on Saturday but news was slow in being reported because of the inaccessibility of the region. The jet was involved in operations against Taliban militants
Kyrgyzstan's ousted President Kurmanbek Bakiyev has said he will be willing to step down in return for security guarantees for him and his family. Mr Bakiyev fled to the south of the country following last week's uprising. The interim government has yet to give a response to his offer. Its leaders held a late-night meeting in Bishkek, the capital, but made no announcement. Meanwhile Russian Presid
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