Obama to offer Clinton top job
Barack Obama is "on track" to nominate Hillary Clinton to become his secretary of state, according to reports in the US media which suggested the appointment would be announced within a week. It had been rumoured earlier in the week that Obama was planning to offer the job to Clinton,... [continued]
Alexander Cockburn: Barack Obama rounds up the usual suspects 
American Transition: all the latest from Washington
US supremacy is over, says report
Barack Obama is inheriting a country which can "no longer call the shots alone", according to a stark new report by US's leading intelligence organisation, the National Intelligence Council (NIC). The NIC produces its global trends review every four years, and the latest version predicts an increasingly multipolar world where... [continued]
Alexander Cockburn: Obama goes back to the future
Forget terrorists, here's what we should worry about
Friend or foe? The great Russian debate
Dubai: world’s most costly party
More than 2,000 guests last night attended the most expensive launch party in history as the Atlantis hotel was opened in Dubai. The hotel's owners spent £15m on a party that featured one million fireworks - ten times as many as the opening ceremony at the Beijing olympics earlier this... [continued]
Pirates demand $25m for tanker
Pirates who are holding the largest ship ever hijacked have apparently demanded the Sirius Star's owners pay a $25m ransom within 10 days or face "disastrous" consequences. A man claiming to be one of the pirates told Agence France-Presse via satellite phone: "We do not want long-term... [continued]
In pictures: Pirates of Somalia
Somalia, home of the entrepreneurial spirit
Briefing: Who are the million dollar pirates?
Somalia: A victim of Bush's recklessness
‘Delay welfare reform’ says advisor
A senior Government advisor has called for a rethink of changes to the welfare system he says could "push people into poverty" because of rising unemployment. Sir Richard Tilt said the so-called "welfare to work" reforms should be delayed by one or two years. Under the changes, part of... [continued]
The latest on the global financial crisis
BNP leak: policeman suspended
A serving police officer whose name appeared on a leaked list of BNP members was last night suspended from duty by Merseyside police. PC Stephen Bettley, who worked as a driver for Merseyside's chief constable in 2006, came home early from a holiday abroad to help the investigation into his... [continued]
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