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For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page Irish Sun.com http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/10/id/45d771c7290844e9/ en-us Thu, 07 Aug 2008 14:58:23 -0400 Thu, 07 Aug 2008 14:58:23 -0400 30 Salim Ahmed Hamdan was found guilty of providing material support for terrorism at a Guantánamo military commission this week. http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/391389/cs/1/ Thu, 07 Aug 2008 08:20:02 -0400 Irish Sun.com http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/391389/cs/1/ Professor John A K Huntley's suggestion (Scotsman article 06 Aug) that Scotland's justice system is the appropriate one for determining the legality of the purchase of the Parthenon and other marbles ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16732357/ Thu, 07 Aug 2008 12:46:36 -0400 The Scotsman http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16732357/ A Donora woman who ran a subscription-based Web site where she published stories depicting the rape, torture and murder of children pleaded guilty this morning in federal court to violating obscenity ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16732288/ Thu, 07 Aug 2008 13:09:31 -0400 Post-Gazette http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16732288/ HONG KONG : This territory is in the throes of an election campaign for its law-making Legislative Council, set for Sept. 7. But an electoral void already tells more about the current and future struc... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16733562/ Thu, 07 Aug 2008 12:25:03 -0400 International Herald Tribune http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16733562/ WASHINGTON : In the effort to crack down on tax evasion and tax fraud, many countries have banded together to exchange information, remove bank secrecy and work on cross-border enforcement initiatives... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16733563/ Thu, 07 Aug 2008 12:24:53 -0400 International Herald Tribune http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16733563/ Go to the source Your editorial "The other enemy in Afghanistan" (Aug. 6) rightly argued that the opium cultivation and trafficking problem in Afghanistan is bad and getting worse. The problem has gl... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16733564/ Thu, 07 Aug 2008 12:24:51 -0400 International Herald Tribune http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16733564/ Posted on: Thursday, 7 August 2008, 06:00 CDT By Florence Morning News, S.C. Aug. 7--It's August in South Carolina. And it's hot. And it's dry. But it's been much drier than normal, especially in the... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16724451/ Thu, 07 Aug 2008 08:51:41 -0400 RedOrbit http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16724451/ allen for the right person time after time and found those perfect best friends.We've all got our exes. The childhood friend who was secretly having it off with our first love. The one who upgraded an... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16725834/ Thu, 07 Aug 2008 08:06:08 -0400 The Scotsman http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16725834/ As municipal leaders look for ways to ease the financial crunch for taxpayers during these tough economic times, they seem to be ignoring one way to lower spending - shared services. The use of shared... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16724452/ Thu, 07 Aug 2008 08:11:41 -0400 Register Citizen http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16724452/ The basic error here is to believe that rich capitalists inherently want a free enterprise system. They don't. They want a system which will maintain their wealth & keep out competitors. This is why t... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16725836/ Thu, 07 Aug 2008 08:05:52 -0400 The Scotsman http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16725836/ Posted on: Thursday, 7 August 2008, 06:00 CDT By The Anniston Star, Ala. Aug. 7--Mobile Bay is one of this state's great natural resources. Although much of its shoreline is in private hands, the wat... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16724449/ Thu, 07 Aug 2008 08:51:33 -0400 RedOrbit http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16724449/ rticle on the response of Leith Central Community Council to the city council's recently produced planning briefs for the Steads Place/Jane Street area. My architectural practice has recently been inv... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16725837/ Thu, 07 Aug 2008 08:05:30 -0400 The Scotsman http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16725837/ Enter the Evening News caption competition and tell us. Just log on to edinburghnews.com and post your caption. You'll need to register if you've not posted a comment on the website before but it only... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16725838/ Thu, 07 Aug 2008 08:05:26 -0400 The Scotsman http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16725838/ ILULISSAT, Greenland : Sometimes you just wish you were a photographer. I simply do not have the words to describe the awesome majesty of Greenland's Kangia Glacier, shedding massive icebergs the... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16727074/ Thu, 07 Aug 2008 07:40:58 -0400 International Herald Tribune http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16727074/ Asia is reporting gains in the fight against the HIVAIDS epidemic, thanks to more access to vital medicines and growing public awareness, lowering rates of infection in http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16724450/ Thu, 07 Aug 2008 07:33:14 -0400 General Sources http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16724450/ acknowledged that if the interrogation had taken place elsewhere than Guantanamo, he would have given Hamdan a Miranda warning. An argument by Hamdan's lawyers that he had cooperated with the U.S. in ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16714555/ Thu, 07 Aug 2008 03:44:04 -0400 Los Angeles Times http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16714555/ It is obvious. The only reason the Democrat-controlled houses of Congress don't want to resolve any of our serious problems right now is purely because of partisan politics. They want the situation of... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16714585/ Thu, 07 Aug 2008 03:27:04 -0400 Deseret News http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16714585/ dying last week of an overdose of acetaminophen . Ivins knew the government was prepared to indict him in the deaths of five people infected by powdered anthrax in letters the government says he dropp... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16709802/ Thu, 07 Aug 2008 03:25:51 -0400 USA Today http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16709802/ India is still a long way behind China in evoking, by its very rise, strong passions of one kind or another among the major powers of the world. Yet, for India, the first consultations among the Forei... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16719627/ Thu, 07 Aug 2008 03:25:17 -0400 The Hindu http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16719627/ Once again, an unarmed citizen who confronted police won't be around to tell his side of the story. Andre Thomas of Swissvale died Tuesday after he was subdued by borough officers. Allegheny County P... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16710032/ Thu, 07 Aug 2008 03:24:27 -0400 Post-Gazette http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16710032/ NOUAKCHOTT: Mauritanian soldiers overthrew the elected president in a coup yesterday and announced the formation of a military ruling council.Soldiers in this northwest African state seized President ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16720123/ Thu, 07 Aug 2008 03:20:41 -0400 Arab News http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16720123/ Reuters BELGRADE: Serbia has stepped up its pursuit of fugitive Bosnian Serb Gen. Ratko Mladic whose arrest is crucial to the country’s European Union bid, a senior Serbian official said yesterd... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16720121/ Thu, 07 Aug 2008 03:20:39 -0400 Arab News http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16720121/ The chorus is growing for the departure of state House leader Bill DeWeese. And that's just his fellow Democrats. Last month, after a dozen Democratic aides and legislators were indicted in the House... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16710031/ Thu, 07 Aug 2008 03:24:27 -0400 Post-Gazette http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16710031/ Azhar Masood I Arab News ISLAMABAD: Partners in Pakistan’s ruling coalition led by the party of slain former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto have agreed on the major issues that have bedeviled the... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16720115/ Thu, 07 Aug 2008 03:20:31 -0400 Arab News http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16720115/ states. Manmohan Singh himself has called the Maoist insurgency centred on the state of Chhattisgarh the biggest internal security threat to India since independence. The Maoists, however, are confine... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16711549/ Thu, 07 Aug 2008 04:02:21 -0400 The Guardian http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16711549/ He rattled off several examples: Iraq, oil prices, energy policy, heath care policy, lobbyists, the mortgage mess, the national debt, inflation, Corporate Average Fuel Economy standards, the Middle Ea... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16709801/ Thu, 07 Aug 2008 03:25:50 -0400 USA Today http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16709801/ » Discuss Article The president's military commissions were inaugurated with the loftiest rhetoric. On Nov. 13, 2001, President Bush issued a military order authorizing trials of suspected t... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16714553/ Thu, 07 Aug 2008 03:44:01 -0400 Los Angeles Times http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16714553/ My husband, three children, dog, and I recently moved – from Baton Rouge, La., where we lived for 13 years, to Montclair, N.J. I thought I was a fairly meticulous housekeeper, the type who cleans ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16716707/ Thu, 07 Aug 2008 03:27:24 -0400 Christian Science Monitor http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16716707/ Hamish Mcrae I The Independent IT is upon us. The greatest sporting event in the world, of course, but also the greatest single media event and, more questionably, a huge political event too. China is... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16720108/ Thu, 07 Aug 2008 03:20:16 -0400 Arab News http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16720108/ Reuters KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia’s best-known opposition politician Anwar Ibrahim is to be charged with sodomy today, potentially derailing his return to Parliament and his plans to push the gover... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16720122/ Thu, 07 Aug 2008 03:20:40 -0400 Arab News http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16720122/ BEIJING - AUGUST 06: The city skyline is shrouded in smog two days before the opening of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games on August 6, 2008 in Beijing, China. Visible pollution returned to the city as t... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16705847/ Thu, 07 Aug 2008 03:09:24 -0400 Denver Post http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16705847/ SAN FRANCISCO — California's former and perhaps future governor, Jerry Brown, says it took him 13 minutes to get here from Oakland, where he was mayor for eight years and now lives. He came on BA... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16714588/ Thu, 07 Aug 2008 03:27:10 -0400 Deseret News http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16714588/ Under the benign gaze of a bright silver statue of Bhimrao Ambedkar, improbable numbers of passengers were being packed in a battered jeep for the ride home in forest hamlets. Neither a month of horri... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16716717/ Thu, 07 Aug 2008 03:25:18 -0400 The Hindu http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16716717/ Food and Drug Administration is the final step in the acceptance of new uses for old medications. Often, independent doctors and research departments, with their training in scientific methods, have ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16709800/ Thu, 07 Aug 2008 03:25:49 -0400 USA Today http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16709800/ SRINAGAR, India: A Hindu protester was shot dead in an army firing in Indian Kashmir yesterday as Prime Minister Manmohan Singh held talks with the nation’s political parties in a bid to defuse ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16720114/ Thu, 07 Aug 2008 03:20:25 -0400 Arab News http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16720114/ 7 August 2008 THE Gulf states need expatriate workers. Yet as recent tensions in Kuwait demonstrate, that need is not always reflected in the decent and honorable treatment the workers deserve, either... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16720111/ Thu, 07 Aug 2008 03:20:20 -0400 Arab News http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16720111/ If our era could have its own coat of arms, it would be a yak against a background of mush. This must be the golden age of endless and pointless talk. Every sports events seems to be preceded by all k... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16714587/ Thu, 07 Aug 2008 03:27:09 -0400 Deseret News http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16714587/ August is often an excellent month for conspiracies, but Labour's electoral meltdown and David Miliband's finely tuned bid for power have turned it into a plotters' paradise. The excitement was all su... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16711548/ Thu, 07 Aug 2008 04:02:24 -0400 The Guardian http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16711548/ federal criminal investigation of Tim Donaghy , who confessed to gambling on NBA games and disclosing confidential information about the league to other gamblers. Even when Donaghy and his attorney http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16708328/ Thu, 07 Aug 2008 03:03:18 -0400 USA Today http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16708328/ WASHINGTON: Al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden’s former driver was convicted of supporting terrorism in the first US military war crimes trial of a terror suspect captured after the Sept. 11 attack... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16720119/ Thu, 07 Aug 2008 03:20:36 -0400 Arab News http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16720119/ Children take patience and commitment. It takes love and sacrifice to do what is in the best interest of the child. It becomes easier to subject some children to absolute control or abuse rather than ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16714586/ Thu, 07 Aug 2008 03:27:05 -0400 Deseret News http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16714586/ AFP ISLAMABAD: Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf will go to the Beijing Olympics as planned, officials said yesterday, hours after he canceled his departure amid fears that his opponents could impe... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16720110/ Thu, 07 Aug 2008 03:20:30 -0400 Arab News http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16720110/ Fatima Najm I Arab News A message of hope is bobbing its way over to the survivors of a grueling siege imposed by Israeli military forces who deny their chokehold on the Gaza Strip. But in March this ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16720116/ Thu, 07 Aug 2008 03:20:32 -0400 Arab News http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16720116/ The Colombo statement on food security, adopted by the leaders of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) at the 15th summit, brings into focus one of the basic issues confronting... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16719628/ Thu, 07 Aug 2008 03:25:19 -0400 The Hindu http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16719628/ Manny Mogato I Reuters MANILA: Philippine security forces went on full alert this week ahead of elections in the Muslim south that could be a focus for violence after a fresh setback to the peace proc... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16720113/ Thu, 07 Aug 2008 03:20:24 -0400 Arab News http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16720113/ GAZA CITY/JERUSALEM: Israel’s premier pledged to free more than 150 Palestinian prisoners in a meeting yesterday with President Mahmoud Abbas, as a way of energizing their sluggish peace talks. ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16720117/ Thu, 07 Aug 2008 03:20:34 -0400 Arab News http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16720117/ The news that Iraq's government will show a $79 billion surplus this year, after the recent report that next year's U.S. budget will have a $482 billion deficit, is one more injustice stemming from Pr... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16710030/ Thu, 07 Aug 2008 03:24:26 -0400 Post-Gazette http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16710030/ Uri Avnery, Arab News EHUD OLMERT’S resignation speech reached us on our way back from a demonstration.We were protesting the death of Ahmad Moussa, aged 10, who was murdered during a demonstrat... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16720109/ Thu, 07 Aug 2008 03:20:17 -0400 Arab News http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16720109/ Sayed Salahuddin I Reuters KABUL: A senior Afghan intelligence official has accused a number of parliamentarians of supporting Taleban insurgents, Afghan newspapers said yesterday.Afghan and foreign t... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16720112/ Thu, 07 Aug 2008 03:20:22 -0400 Arab News http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16720112/ Toll roads take cashless route " failed to mention one problem with electronic toll road payments: The information is accessible by subpoena (News, July 28 ). http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16708325/ Thu, 07 Aug 2008 03:03:15 -0400 USA Today http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16708325/ WASHINGTON: Attention, America: Paris has spoken. Paris Hilton, the blonde, doe-eyed celebrity thrust into the presidential campaign in an ad by Republican candidate John McCain, issued a tart rebutta... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16720118/ Thu, 07 Aug 2008 03:20:35 -0400 Arab News http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16720118/ Shadiah Abdullah I Arab News DUBAI: Authorities in Um Al-Quwain are investigating the deaths of two newborn twins who were allegedly killed by their mother on Sunday morning.The woman, a Sudanese nati... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16720120/ Thu, 07 Aug 2008 03:20:37 -0400 Arab News http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16720120/ Just one thing is missing from the financial drama that has captivated us for the past year. Yes, the meltdown of the markets has been thrilling, the run on Northern Rock was spectacular, and the scal... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16711550/ Thu, 07 Aug 2008 04:02:31 -0400 The Guardian http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16711550/ Graffiti delivers a message. It's a signal to other taggers; a deadly warning to rival gangs; a commentary on the kind of society in which youth earn respect from one another by vandalizing property.T... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16714554/ Thu, 07 Aug 2008 03:44:02 -0400 Los Angeles Times http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16714554/ The success of tax measures in 2007 was striking, but the fact is that local voters for years have supported more tax measures than they have defeated. Since the CEDA started collecting data in 1996, ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16714551/ Thu, 07 Aug 2008 03:43:57 -0400 Los Angeles Times http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16714551/ Standard Life243.25p -1pFriends Prov91.7p +0.2pSANDY Crombie was in a cheerful mood yesterday, and well he might be. Standard Life, which he has led from demutualisation to the market – with a wobbl... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16710185/ Thu, 07 Aug 2008 03:01:57 -0400 The Scotsman http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16710185/ PROPHETS, it is said, are supposed to be without honour in their homeland. Yet Moscow has just witnessed the extraordinary sight of Alexander Solzhenitsyn – the dissident and once-exiled author of t... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16710184/ Thu, 07 Aug 2008 03:01:53 -0400 The Scotsman http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16710184/ SUDDENLY, and from all sides, there are rumours that the Westminster government is considering a moratorium on house-purchase stamp duty, as a way of breathing life into the property market and throwi... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16710183/ Thu, 07 Aug 2008 03:01:50 -0400 The Scotsman http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16710183/ This website and its associated newspaper adheres to the Press Complaints Commission's Code of Practice. If you have a complaint about editorial content which relates to inaccuracy or intrusion, then ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16710182/ Thu, 07 Aug 2008 03:01:39 -0400 The Scotsman http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16710182/ MAE SOT, Thailand : On Friday, millions of people will gather to celebrate universal values, national spirit, and the promise of progress in a country isolated for decades on the precipice of change.... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16714346/ Wed, 06 Aug 2008 20:47:42 -0400 International Herald Tribune http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16714346/ The Chinese Communist Party has a mixed record dealing with nature. During the Great Leap Forward in the late-1950s, Mao ordered the Chinese to kill all the pesky sparrows that were eating the grain. ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16714347/ Wed, 06 Aug 2008 20:47:52 -0400 International Herald Tribune http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16714347/ foreign service environment officer the united... duties of the foreign service environment officer include: 1. environment strategic planning and program... . http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16705849/ Wed, 06 Aug 2008 20:46:32 -0400 The Guardian http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16705849/ The editorial "The next step for international trade" (Aug. 4) suggests broadening the World Trade Organization's agenda in the wake of the collapse of the Doha round of global trade talks. Bring... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16714344/ Wed, 06 Aug 2008 20:47:37 -0400 International Herald Tribune http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16714344/ London's roads, it emerged yesterday, are just as snarled up as they were before the congestion charge was introduced five years ago. So was it a costly mistake? Quite the opposite. The charge netted ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16705555/ Wed, 06 Aug 2008 20:46:24 -0400 The Guardian http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16705555/ There is no reason why Twenty20 cricket should feature as an Olympic event. The Olympics are an occasion to showcase sporting events that are representative of a large number of countries and have ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16708975/ Wed, 06 Aug 2008 20:33:13 -0400 Times of India http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16708975/ Rwanda has produced the most detailed account yet of France's role during the 1994 Rwandan genocide. The report released in Kigali follows a four year inquiry. It implicates top officials in the Frenc... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16703143/ Wed, 06 Aug 2008 20:23:16 -0400 Financial Times http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16703143/ By Sami Moubayed DAMASCUS - When veteran United States diplomat Edward Djerejian received notice that he had become America's ambassador to Syria in 1989, he happened to be in Israel. He inform... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16717771/ Wed, 06 Aug 2008 07:24:06 -0400 Asia Times http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16717771/ By Hiro Katsumata and Mingjiang Li Since the early 1990s, a number of Japanese policymakers and opinion leaders have called for the "normalization" of their country. The notion of a so-called "... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16717773/ Wed, 06 Aug 2008 07:23:58 -0400 Asia Times http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16717773/ By Julian Delasantellis In the now almost two-and-a-half year tenure of US Federal Reserve Board chairman Ben Bernanke there have been few events to which he can point to with pride or satisfac... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16717776/ Wed, 06 Aug 2008 07:23:45 -0400 Asia Times http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16717776/ India as a US hedge against China By Jeff M Smith Speaking Freely is an Asia Times Online feature that allows guest writers to have their say. http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16717770/ Wed, 06 Aug 2008 07:24:02 -0400 Asia Times http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16717770/ By Ahmed Ali and Dahr Jamail BAQUBA - A massive military operation in Diyala province has underscored the military and political gains by the Sahwa militia, despite Prime Minister Nuri al-Malik... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16717775/ Wed, 06 Aug 2008 07:24:01 -0400 Asia Times http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16717775/ By Antoaneta Bezlova BEIJING - China's tough stance at the recent Doha Round trade talks in Geneva had less to do with political posturing than with the country's long-standing obsession with f... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16717777/ Wed, 06 Aug 2008 07:23:44 -0400 Asia Times http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16717777/ bour's electoral college, comprising everyone who's anybody in the Scottish section of the party, won't be the Labour Party's Leader in Scotland.Confused? You're not alone. Even Labour voters assume t... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16710178/ Wed, 06 Aug 2008 07:17:39 -0400 The Scotsman http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16710178/ visit to Tigerlily to preach his liqueur's key properties to assorted bartenders One of the world's top five "Cognac noses", he admitted that the liqueurs business currently is "flat" but, thanks a lo... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16710179/ Wed, 06 Aug 2008 07:17:32 -0400 The Scotsman http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16710179/ GONE are the days where communities revolved around a bustling post office, and that's a fact – four million fewer people a week are now using the network than two years ago. http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16710180/ Wed, 06 Aug 2008 07:17:29 -0400 The Scotsman http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16710180/ After complaints from immigrant-rights advocates, Caltrans yanked the sign in January with plans to plant it along a road less traveled. The Minutemen sued in U.S. District Court, claiming infringemen... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16700904/ Wed, 06 Aug 2008 03:59:36 -0400 Los Angeles Times http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16700904/ Los Angeles County voters, fed up with soaring gas prices, pollution and gridlocked traffic, might be asked in November whether they're willing to tax themselves to improve matters. But ego conflicts ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16700903/ Wed, 06 Aug 2008 03:59:35 -0400 Los Angeles Times http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16700903/ Vice presidents once were little more than Senate chairs and presidential spares. Then they became presumptive heirs, favored candidates for their party's presidential nomination. George W. Bush broke... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16700905/ Wed, 06 Aug 2008 03:59:33 -0400 Los Angeles Times http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16700905/ Pickens' assertion that increased use of wind power would displace natural gas is based on wishful thinking. Our energy system is not a Lego game -- one piece can't replace another at whim. Even if 78... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16700902/ Wed, 06 Aug 2008 03:59:32 -0400 Los Angeles Times http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16700902/ The change in position by Sen. Barack Obama, the putative Democratic nominee, on tapping the Strategic Petroleum Reserve and allowing offshore drilling is one more episode in a sad political dance aro... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16700141/ Wed, 06 Aug 2008 03:43:10 -0400 Post-Gazette http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16700141/ Alexander Solzhenitsyn was not one to keep silent. When the late Russian writer, who died this week at 89, saw human misery or social ills, he railed against them. Mr. Solzhenitsyn spoke out against ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16700142/ Wed, 06 Aug 2008 03:43:09 -0400 Post-Gazette http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16700142/ If you want something done right, do it yourself. The Allegheny County Chiefs of Police Association, with funding from the district attorney's office, adopted that attitude in establishing a fingerpr... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16700140/ Wed, 06 Aug 2008 03:43:10 -0400 Post-Gazette http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16700140/ Colorado voters may be at risk of writer's cramp in the Nov. 4 general election, when as many as 19 initiated or referred measures may clog the ballot. Worse than the sheer size of this avalanche of ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16699372/ Wed, 06 Aug 2008 03:30:33 -0400 Denver Post http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16699372/ Congress, to its discredit, recessed last week without addressing America's energy woes in any meaningful way. That prompted about two dozen Republicans, including Colorado Rep. Marilyn Musgrave, to ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16699374/ Wed, 06 Aug 2008 03:30:32 -0400 Denver Post http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16699374/ Nader, who is not expected to win the election, does seem to put a little fear into Democrats and Republicans. It was eight short years ago when Al Gore lost the presidential election to George W. Bus... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16699373/ Wed, 06 Aug 2008 03:29:17 -0400 Register Citizen http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16699373/ far too few military votes get cast and counted , mostly because of a bewildering voting process that's different in every state and a Defense Department that continues to do a poor job sorting out th... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16699856/ Wed, 06 Aug 2008 03:26:07 -0400 USA Today http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16699856/ respectful campaign ." He now attacks Barack Obama's character almost daily. In his new way of campaigning, McCain put his political future first. McCain puts his country first, sometimes. Voter... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16699858/ Wed, 06 Aug 2008 03:26:05 -0400 USA Today http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16699858/ I have a problem with commentary writer Julianne Malveaux's suggestion that an upcoming increase in the minimum wage is a "baby step in the right direction." It creates a conflict for me as ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16699855/ Wed, 06 Aug 2008 03:26:05 -0400 USA Today http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16699855/ Those on the political left would have people believe that tax cuts are bad. They call them tax cuts "for the rich." I would like someone to explain what happens to the tax cuts. Do the rich... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16696565/ Wed, 06 Aug 2008 00:13:49 -0400 USA Today http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16696565/ When Toby Knight's gymnasium products company, Knight Athletics Inc., won its first contract in 2006, to provide batting cages, electronic scoreboards and other equipment for a new recreation center i... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16696613/ Wed, 06 Aug 2008 00:12:23 -0400 Post-Gazette http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16696613/ 6 August 2008 MALAY peacemakers were due yesterday in Kuala Lumpur to witness the end of 10 long hard years of stop-start negotiations. A peace treaty was to be signed between the Philippines governme... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16698249/ Wed, 06 Aug 2008 00:09:10 -0400 Arab News http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16698249/ SHALER, Pa. -- Forklifts rumble around the scrapyard, grabbing pieces of metal and plunking them on scales: Will the junk be worth a tank of gas or a cart of groceries? Nationwide, recycling faciliti... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16696614/ Wed, 06 Aug 2008 00:12:23 -0400 Post-Gazette http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16696614/ When I first went to Hiroshima in 1967, the shadow on the steps was still there. It was an almost perfect impression of a human being at ease: legs splayed, back bent, one hand by her side as she sat ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16692480/ Tue, 05 Aug 2008 20:51:27 -0400 The Guardian http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16692480/ AFP BAGHDAD: Iraqi members of Parliament failed to reach agreement yesterday on a much-delayed local elections bill amid persistent disagreement over the disputed northern oil province of Kirkuk.A rew... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16694590/ Tue, 05 Aug 2008 20:10:05 -0400 Arab News http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16694590/ Americans do it clean, Britons do it dirty. Americans have term limits on high office. Their contestants come out in the open, take off their shirts and fight to known rules. They say who they are and... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16692482/ Tue, 05 Aug 2008 20:51:18 -0400 The Guardian http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16692482/ Agencies NEW YORK/KARACHI: An MIT-educated Pakistani woman once identified as a possible Al-Qaeda associate has been brought to New York to face charges she tried to kill US agents and military office... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16694592/ Tue, 05 Aug 2008 20:10:07 -0400 Arab News http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16694592/ Agencies COTABATO, Philippines: Muslim separatists traded mortar fire with troops in the southern Philippines just hours after the Supreme Court stopped a land deal between them and the government, th... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16694585/ Tue, 05 Aug 2008 20:09:58 -0400 Arab News http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16694585/ Osama Al Sharif I osama@mediaarabia.com IN a world that suffers from an endemic shortage of justice, the sight of former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic appearing before the UN war crimes tribuna... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16694583/ Tue, 05 Aug 2008 20:09:55 -0400 Arab News http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16694583/ Mohammed Mar’i | Arab News RAMALLAH/GAZA CITY: A senior Hamas official in Gaza City warned yesterday that his Islamic group could overrun the West Bank, just as it took over Gaza, if provoked by... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16694589/ Tue, 05 Aug 2008 20:10:06 -0400 Arab News http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16694589/ Simon Tisdall | The Independent THE turbulent prospect of direct US intervention against Al-Qaeda and Taleban bases in Pakistani territory adjoining Afghanistan appears to have moved closer following ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16694579/ Tue, 05 Aug 2008 20:09:54 -0400 Arab News http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16694579/