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Tuesday, 06 January 2009

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A mayan old man sits on a coffin as he waits for information about his relative after a mudslide in Panabaj, Santiago Atitlan, 180 km south from Guatemala City, Friday, Oct 7, 2005. More than 70 persons dead after a mudslide Thursday ni

33 dead after 10,000 tonne landslide in Guatemala

The Australian

AT least 33 people were killed and up to 60 were missing after a huge chunk of mountain collapsed onto coffee farmworkers walking home along a road in northern Guatemala, officials said. Hugo Arvizu, a spokesman for...

photo: AP / Moises Castillo

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Opinion Worldwide

Darwin's year

The Guardian

This year will be Darwin's year if it is anyone's year. The bicentenary of his birth, and the...

Israel has yet to learn the US lesson, that the war on terror was a failure

The Guardian

On New Year's Day Atif Irfan boarded an AirTran flight at Reagan National Airport in Washington...

Is baseball ruining America?

The Guardian

The New York Yankees in the past couple of weeks have committed $423.5m to just three players....

The story of Eva Schloss, Anne Frank's stepsister

People walk behind barbed wire in the former Nazi concentration camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau, Thursday, Jan. 27, 2005 near Oswiecim, southern Poland

The Times

Eva Schloss will never forget her 15th birthday. On May 11, 1944, she and her mother had just moved to a new hiding place in the Netherlands - their seventh. But the Dutch nurse who had led them there then betrayed them. She was a Nazi double agent;...

photo: AP / Jockel Finck

Lessons from the thirties for Gordon Brown

A general view shows the facade of the Bank of England in the City of London, Wednesday April 9, 2008.

The Times

Sir, Financial commentators say that confidence in UK banks must be restored, but they do not suggest credible remedies. A similar problem was faced by the Roosevelt Administration after the collapse of so many banks in the deepening depression in...

photo: AP / Matt Dunham

New York Times opens front page to ads

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The Australian

THE New York Times has joined the growing trend of newspapers around the United States of putting advertisements on its front page. The first front-page ad in the Times appeared in colour, was bought by CBS and ran horizontally across the bottom...

photo: WN/CB1

China's brand of capitalism faces 'monumental odds'

The Times of India

Text: A self-serving state deliberately impoverishes the countryside, stifling business and sending illiteracy soaring, in favour of building skyscraper-raked metropolises...

photo: GFDL / Ofol

Bush: Any Gaza truce must block Hamas rocketfire

President George W. Bush concludes his address to the nation from the Oval Office Thursday evening, Sept. 13, 2007. Supporting the recommendations issued in a report from General David Petraeus, President Bush said, "Now, because of the measure of s

The Star

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President George W. Bush said on Monday any ceasefire to end the Gaza crisis must include provisions that prevent...

photo: White House/Eric Draper

U.N. urges nations to accept Guantanamo detainees

In this photo, reviewed by a US Department of Defense official, detainees stand together at a fence, one holding Islamic prayer beads, at Camp Delta prison, at the Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, Cuba on Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2006. An attorney for a Guantan

The Star

VIENNA (Reuters) - More countries should offer to take in Guantanamo prisoners to help U.S. President-elect Barack Obama close the detention camp for terrorism suspects, the U.N.'s torture investigator said on Monday. About 255 men are still held at...

photo: AP/Brennan Linsley