NEC dismisses leadership calls
Labour's National Executive Committee has effectively blocked attempts to hold a formal challenge to Gordon Brown's leadership, by refusing to send out nomination papers. Twelve rebel MPs had asked the NEC to send out leadership nomination forms - nine have already written to the party with the same request -... [continued]
John Reid - the Labour plotters' secret weapon 
The Mole: Why it pays backbenchers to let Brown continue in office
The collapse of Lehman Brothers, the fourth-biggest investment bank in the US, and the emergency takeover of Merrill Lynch, led yesterday to the worst day in the world's financial markets since the credit crunch began. Stock markets around the world tumbled, with America's Dow Jones industrial average falling 504 points... [continued]
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Scandal of the Freddie and Fannie bail-out
Lehman collapse exposes Wall Street's moral bankruptcy
Obama gets personal with McCain
US Democrat presidential candidate Barack Obama has resorted to his most personal attack so far on Republican rival John McCain. A new Democrat TV ad accuses McCain, a Vietnam war veteran who has billed himself as a man of honour, of fighting a dishonourable and dishonest election campaign. The ad... [continued]
Alexander Cockburn: Democrats panic over Palin
Lipstick on a pig: smear or storm in a teacup?
Peregrine Worthorne: McCain's choice of Palin is inexcusable
US Iraq commander steps down
America's commander in Iraq, General David Petraeus, is to hand over control to Lt Gen Raymond Odierno today in a ceremony in Baghdad overseen by US defence secretary Robert Gates. Gen Petraeus assumed command in February 2007 to implement president George W Bush's controversial 'surge' plan. Under the... [continued]
Robert Fox: suicide bombers are a message from al-Qaeda
No end yet to Zimbabwe sanctions
The EU and the US say they will not immediately end sanctions against Zimbabwe, despite a historic power-sharing deal between president Robert Mugabe and his arch-rival, MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai. The EU's foreign policy chief Javier Solana said a decision on lifting sanctions had been postponed until October, while an... [continued]
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