Police snare Miss Puerto Rico final saboteurs

Miss Puerto Rico, Ingrid Marie Rivera, is at last feeling vindicated following the recent arrest of two beauty pageant employees, who police say pepper-sprayed her clothes prior to her crowning appearance last November.
The police have identified the joint culprits as the pageant’s security director and a catwalk co-ordinator in a case that has suffered more […]

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Posted in Fashion & Beauty, World News Comments Off 24.01.2008 on 07:59.

Fictional Nightmare Becomes Congo Reality

Simon Tisdall, world briefing: The chaos Le Carré conjured in North Kivu is now a cruel reality
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Posted in World News No Comments 19.12.2007 on 04:12.

If Clegg Gets It Right in 2008, He Could Bring the Lib Dems Into Government

Jonathan Freedland: The new leader’s start was uninspiring, but next year will bring the real test, and may pave the way for a hung parliament
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Posted in World News No Comments 19.12.2007 on 03:12.

Fairytale of Hypocrites

Peter Tatchell: Radio 1 needs to develop a consistent policy to cover all forms of bigoted language in song lyrics
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Posted in World News No Comments 19.12.2007 on 03:12.

Reconciliation, Sealed With a Bombing Run

Weekend air raids aimed at Kurdish PKK separatists were the biggest Turkish incursion since the US seized Baghdad in 2003. But their significance is more political than military
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Posted in World News No Comments 18.12.2007 on 10:12.

The Remains of Occupation

Richard Norton-Taylor The handover of power in Basra is motivated by self-interest, and leaves the region on a knife edge
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Posted in World News No Comments 18.12.2007 on 09:12.

Brown Dithers As Cameron Lays Claim to His Core Values

Polly Toynbee: The government has weakened its own defenses by failing to state what it really means by progressive politics
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Posted in World News No Comments 18.12.2007 on 08:12.

Beware the Tyrant Voter

Peter Preston: As the vagaries of TV’s Strictly Come Dancing show, there is no way to second-guess the public.
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Posted in World News No Comments 17.12.2007 on 02:12.

Our Tendency to Persecute Others is As Alive Today As in Medieval Times

Madeleine Bunting: The cultural fascination with the middle ages rarely acknowledges that power is still won and abused in the same way.
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Posted in World News No Comments 17.12.2007 on 01:12.

All the Troubles in the World

Leader: Victory has been declared before in Iraq. Notoriously, George Bush landed on the deck of an aircraft carrier six weeks after the opening air strike on Baghdad and announced the end of major combat operations
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Posted in World News No Comments 17.12.2007 on 01:12.