Mississippi voters head to polls

 
Mississippi is holding its presidential primaries as Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama continue their battle for the Democratic Party’s nomination.
Polls suggest Senator Obama is leading in the state, which has 33 delegates to the August convention where the party will choose its White House candidate.
Mr Obama dismissed Senator Clinton’s offer to run as her vice-president.
Senator [...]

climate change

 
 
 
 
 

climate change threat

 
An EU report says climate change will have a growing impact on global security, multiplying existing threats such as shortages of food and water.
It warns that climate change could cause millions of people to migrate towards Europe as other parts of the world suffer environmental degradation.
States that are “already fragile and conflict prone” could [...]

Rain and high winds battering UK

 
Parts of the UK are being battered by rain and fierce winds, as weather forecasters warn worse may be to come.
Winds of up to 82mph (130km/h) have brought down trees in Wales and south-west England and left 10,000 homes without electricity.
There are seven severe flood warnings on the south-west coast, where it is feared [...]

Police arrest man over Goa ‘rape’

 
 Police in Goa investigating the death of a British teenager have arrested a man on suspicion of rape.
Kishan Kumar, the Inspector General of Police in Goa, said local man Samson D’Souza, 28, was due to appear in court in Mapusa on Monday.
Scarlett Keeling, 15 and from Devon, was found dead on 18 February.
A second [...]

Osama bin London’

 
 
A senior figure in extremist Islamic networks has been convicted of organising al-Qaeda style training camps across Britain.
Mohammed Hamid, a Muslim street preacher, was accused of grooming groups of young men – including the five men convicted of carrying out failed suicide bombings in London on July 21 2005 – to wage jihad abroad.

Mr Hamid [...]

Election leaves Musharraf reeling

The results in so far from Pakistan’s elections suggest that all of President Pervez Musharraf’s plans are being thrown into disarray.
It seems like Mr Musharraf’s chief political ally, the Pakistan Muslim League – Quaid-e-
Azam (PML-Q), has been routed.
The president must also be worrying about the rather unexpected rise of former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s PML-N [...]

Castro announces retirement

 

 Born in 1926 to a wealthy, landowning family

Took up arms in 1953, six years before coming to power

Brother Raul (pictured) was deputy and 

Che Guevara third in command

Has outlasted nine American presidents

Target of many CIA assassination plots

Daughter  is a dissident exile in Miami

 
Cuba’s ailing leader Fidel Castro has said he will not accept another term as president, [...]

Spielberg in Darfur snub to China

 
US film director Steven Spielberg has withdrawn as an artistic adviser for the 2008 Olympics in Beijing.
In a statement, he accused China of not doing enough to pressure Sudan to end the “continuing human suffering” in the troubled western Darfur region.
At least 200,000 people have been killed and two million forced from their homes [...]

Obama wins primaries clean sweep

 
Illinois Senator Barack Obama looks set to overtake his rival, Senator Hillary Clinton, in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination.
In the latest round of primaries, Mr Obama has clinched Virginia, Maryland and the District of Columbia.
But neither has secured enough party delegates to secure the nomination to contest November’s presidential poll.
For the Republicans, [...]