Britain enters recession
Economic data released today will confirm that the UK is in recession, as the leader of the Opposition warned that the country faces bankruptcy. Preliminary economic growth data for the fourth quarter and retail sales figures for December are both due today. The figures are expected to show that... [continued]
You read it here first: Bankrupt Britain - how it could happen 
The recession is worse than we are being told
The Business Pages: all the latest on the financial crisis
What green shoots? The global economy is still on life support
US President Barack Obama has appointed George Mitchell, the man who helped end the Troubles in Northern Ireland, as his special envoy working on the Middle East peace process. He also named Richard Holbrooke, who brokered the 1995 agreement that ended the war in the former Yugoslavia, as envoy... [continued]
The Obama White House: President moves swiftly on Guantanamo
Can Obama change the middle east? No he can't
In pictures: inauguration day
Ghost of Richard Nixon dogs Obama's big moment
People: Obamas whoop it up at Neighbourhood inauguration ball
Palestinian death toll questioned
It has been claimed that the number of Palestinians killed by Israeli troops in the fighting in Gaza is half the official figure. Reports in the Italian press quotes residents of Gaza as saying fewer that 600 people had died in the three week offensive - well under half... [continued]
The Gaza File: latest news, comment and analysis on the crisis
War reporters are crucial to report what is really happening in Gaza
In pictures: Gaza invasion
German protestors dare to compare Israelis to Nazis over Gaza attacks
Rebel leader Nkunda arrested
Laurent Nkunda, the rebel leader in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, has been arrested in Rwanda. He was arrested as he fled a joint Rwandan-Congolese military operation, the operation's joint commander said. Troops from DR Congo and Rwanda advanced on Nkunda's headquarters at Bunangana in the Nord-Kivu region... [continued]
In pictures: war in the Congo
Will Self: Miliband postures in the heart of Congo's darkness
Rwanda accuses French elite of genocide
Soldiers angry over Taliban treatment
British soldiers in Afghanistan are said to be up in arms over the fact that they are having to share hospital space with Taliban fighters. Servicemen at Camp Bastion are unhappy that wounded soldiers are waking up in hospital to find enemy prisoners on the same wards. Army chiefs... [continued]
Hutton's half-cocked cuts are no use to anyone
The navy's £100bn flight of fancy
In pictures: scenes from an Afghan field hospital
Peregrine Worsthorne: our Afghan war heroes are playing to an empty gallery
Stem cell trials to start in US
A new era in medicine could begin this summer when paralysed patients receive a therapy based on human embryonic stem cells this summer. The Times reports that human trials of the technology will be cleared to take place in the US, despite opposition from pro-life groups who believe the... [continued]
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