World News

• Duke in Falklands tour row
  3 February 2012

  The Duke of Cambridge last night arrived in the Falklands amid simmering tensions between Britain and Argentina over the disputed islands.

• Clashes in Cairo at soccer tragedy protest
  3 February 2012

  Egyptians incensed by the deaths of 74 people in soccer violence clashed with the country's security forces yesterday, as a state of emergency was declared by the Government.

• Diplomatic shift offers real hope for Somalia
  3 February 2012

  BEING appointed Britain's new ambassador to Somalia could easily feel like the diplomatic equivalent of being a Second World War soldier sent to the Russian front.

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  74 killed in riot at Egyptian football match
  2 February 2012

  SEVENTY-FOUR people were killed and at least 1000 injured in clashes after a football match in the worst disaster of its kind in Egypt.

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  Republicans search for anyone but Romney or Gingrich
  29 January 2012

  Fidel Castro called it "the greatest competition of idiocy and ignorance that has ever been," and as the Republican nomination contest rolls into Florida, it is surprising how many conservatives agree with him.

• IMF warns of cuts risk to growth
  29 January 2012

  THE head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has warned that inappropriate spending cuts could "strangle" growth prospects.

• Riots over Wade's third-term bid
  29 January 2012

  VIOLENCE has erupted in Senegal after the country's top court let President Abdoulaye Wade run for a third term in office.

• Rebels shoot 14 at polling station
  29 January 2012

  REBELS in the north-eastern Indian state of Manipur are believed to have shot and killed at least four people in an attack on a polling station.