Posted on 10 March 2010
Man from Sheffield repeatedly raped and physically and sexually abused two women in case with echoes of Josef Fritzl
Local authorities in Lincolnshire and Sheffield today apologised to two women for failing to protect them from being repeatedly raped and abused by their father over a 35-year period period.
The unreserved apology came in the aftermath of [...]
10 March 2010
PHILADELPHIA—An American woman was charged with using the Internet to recruit jihadist fighters and help terrorists overseas, even agreeing to move to Europe to try to kill a Swedish artist, prosecutors said. Authorities said Tuesday the case shows how terror groups are looking to recruit Americans to carry out their goals. A federal indictment charges that Colleen [...]
10 March 2010
Detroit is a city in terminal decline. When film director Julien Temple arrived in town, he was shocked by what he found – but he also uncovered reasons for hope When the film- maker Roger Graef approached me last year to make a film about the rise and fall of Detroit I had very few preconceptions [...]
10 March 2010
The moral gulf between citizens and banks must be replaced with an ethic of responsibility If the second worst financial crisis in history signalled the implosion of offshore capitalism – that remote, distant and out-of-control economic system that crashed and burned in 2008 – what kind of capitalism is replacing the old, bankrupt model? To see [...]
10 March 2010
Statistics record a wider range of sexual, racial and domestic offences than before. Britain’s not broken – it’s more humane Something puzzling yet wonderful is happening in the US. For nearly two decades, and in almost every city, murder rates have been in steady decline. Experts disagree about the reason; some cite better policing, others the [...]
10 March 2010
The White House chief of staff has been accused of inappropriate behaviour in a locker room Age: 50. Appearance: Naked and unashamed. He’s too old to be in porn, and it’s the wrong month for nude calendars. So who is he: the newest Chippendale? Close, but no cigar. He’s the former ballet dancer who is now White House [...]
10 March 2010
Richard Purssell describes ’shocking event’ in Haifa court on first day of civil suit brought by Corrie family against Israel A British witness told a court today about how he had watched an Israeli military bulldozer run over and kill the American activist Rachel Corrie while she was trying to stop Palestinians’ homes being demolished in [...]
10 March 2010
Greece’s fiscal problems is not exactly my great area of expertise, but when you’re invited to meet an actual head of state, you go. And so I was one of about 17 journalists who met with George Papandreou this morning at the Center for American Progress. Here’s the Reuters news write-up of the session: WASHINGTON, March 10 [...]
10 March 2010
The first U.S. IPO to price within its expected range in two months struggled to stay above water in early trading Wednesday, sending mixed signals to a new offerings market desperate for some good news. Ocean shipping company Baltic Trading Ltd.’s stock vacillated in early trading between $13.90 and $14 on the New York Stock [...]
10 March 2010
Culminating a year’s work, a panel of educators convened by the nation’s governors and state school superintendents released a set of proposed common academic standards on Wednesday. The standards, posted on the panel’s web site, lay out the panel’s vision of what American public school students should learn in math and English, year by year, [...]
10 March 2010
A book setting out the principles of a pared-down Buddhism has won praise from arch-atheist Christopher Hitchens In God is Not Great, Christopher Hitchens writes of Buddhism as the sleep of reason, and of Buddhists as discarding their minds as well as their sandals. His passionate diatribe appeared in 2007. So what’s he doing now, just [...]
10 March 2010
Former MI5 head Eliza Manningham-Buller denies knowing about mistreatment of detainees. Didn’t she read the papers? To be fair to Britain’s security services, the gathering of intelligence can be the most difficult of jobs. The claim on Wednesday from the former head of MI5, Eliza Manningham-Buller, that the US hid from the UK security services the torture [...]
10 March 2010
Parents of American activist killed by Israeli bulldozer seven years ago take fight for justice to Haifa courtroom An Israeli court today is to begin hearing a civil suit brought against the Israeli government over the death of Rachel Corrie, the US activist who was killed by an Israeli army bulldozer in Gaza seven years ago. The [...]
10 March 2010
Minister apologises for timing of statement, but not for the plan itself – to build 1,600 homes on occupied Palestinian land Israel apologised to Joe Biden today for announcing a plan to build 1,600 homes on occupied Palestinian land during his visit, after the US vice-president launched a strongly worded attack on the planned construction in [...]
10 March 2010
The spiritual home of the Taliban will be the scene of intense US efforts to crush the rebels this summer, the most significant struggle of the year After three hours of lugging heavy gear around Arghandab, a lush valley flanking Afghanistan’s second city of Kandahar, and with the sun about to set, the men of Bravo [...]
09 March 2010
Some of the largest U.S. business groups announced a multimillion-dollar television advertising campaign aimed at defeating the Democrats’ pending health-care legislation, as both backers and opponents of the initiative sought to target wavering lawmakers in what is expected to be the final phase of the legislative process. View Full Image Agence France-Presse/Getty Images Protesters [...]
09 March 2010
LITTLE ROCK, Ark.—A former top aide to Bill Clinton, charged with trying to smuggle contraband to a death-row inmate, will ask a state court to allow a videotaped deposition of the man before he is executed. The request, to be made Wednesday in Pine Bluff, is the latest twist in the case of Betsey Wright, an [...]
Business
Posted on 10 March 2010
WASHINGTON — After a year in which global exports declined by 9 percent in the biggest contraction since World War II, trade policy is heating up again.
But the question is whether the United States is prepared to lead the way or whether domestic protectionist pressures will make it all but impossible for the Obama administration [...]
Business - US Economy
Posted on 10 March 2010
MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Alabama’s January unemployment rate rose to 11.1 percent, the highest mark in 26 years and a level that may increase again this spring.
The state Department of Industrial Relations said Wednesday that the rate was up from December’s revised 10.9 percent and increased significantly from the 8.1 percent recorded a year ago.
The last [...]
Entertainment
Posted on 10 March 2010
Corey Haim, the star of The Lost Boys and Lucas, has died aged 38. We pay tribute to an actor who grew up in the limelight, but whose adult career was spent sadly in search of it
The road to adulthood for the child star is frequently a rocky one. For Corey Haim, who has died [...]
Health
Posted on 10 March 2010
A unit of Johnson & Johnson, just months after saying it was phasing out an artificial hip implant because of slowing sales, has warned doctors that the device appears to have a high early failure rate in some patients.
A rendering of metallic debris caused by an improperly implanted hip, as shown in instructional [...]
Opinion and Editorial
Posted on 09 March 2010
He came, we saw, he conquered.
I met Marco Rubio in Naples, Fla., this weekend, where he gave the keynote speech at the Council for National Policy.
Never fall in love with a political candidate, I tell myself; they will break your heart. Besides, expecting more than one Reagan in a lifetime is just plain greedy. [...]
Science
Posted on 09 March 2010
EL CAJON, Calif. – The government sent investigators Tuesday to examine a Prius that sped out of control on a California freeway, and Toyota said it wanted to interview the driver as the besieged automaker dealt with a high-profile new headache that raised questions about the safety of its beloved hybrid.
A day after state troopers [...]
Sports
Posted on 09 March 2010
BOCA RATON, Fla. — N.H.L. general managers moved closer Tuesday to recommending measures to penalize certain shoulder checks to the head, league officials said.
If it happens on ice and it involves hitting and scoring, The Times’s Slap Shot blog is on it.
“We are moving toward a set of rules or a specific rule” to curb [...]
Technology
Posted on 10 March 2010
If you’re the early-adopter type who doesn’t mind paying top dollar for the latest tech gear, 3D TV may tickle your buying bone. But once you’ve shelled out thousands of dollars for 3D-enabled hardware, such as a Panasonic, Sony, or Samsung 3D TV, a 3D-capable Blu-ray player, and two or more pairs of 3D glasse, [...]
US National
Posted on 10 March 2010
Google Inc.’s chief executive said Wednesday he expects the company will soon reach a conclusion to negotiations with the Chinese government regarding the fate of its China business.
“We are in active negotiations with the Chinese government,” Eric Schmidt told reporters at a media summit in Abu Dhabi. Google has [...]
