Binyam Mohamed, the British resident who was held in detention for almost seven years by the Americans after being arrested in Pakistan in 2002 on terror charges, has said that the torture he claims he suffered at the hands of US agents was the result of British involvement in his...[continued] The funeral will be held today of Stephen Carroll, the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) constable who was murdered in an attack on Monday night in County Armagh that was claimed by the Continuity IRA. Mr Carroll, a 48-year-old father of one, will be buried at midday in his...[continued] Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), the troubled bank which is now 70 per cent owned by the British taxpayer, had at least £25bn of assets tied up in complex tax-avoidance schemes which cost the British and US Treasuries at least £500m, the Guardian reports today. The revelation came to...[continued] Barack Obama is facing up to his first major foreign policy test as president after he decided to send heavily armed destroyers into the South China Sea to escort US surveillance ships. Last weekend an unarmed US vessel in the area was harassed and almost struck by five Chinese boats....[continued] More than 200 passenger jets are still flying with a potentially fatal engine flaw that could cause a major crash, the American air safety watchdog has warned. The Boeing 777s are vulnerable to ice forming in the fuel supply, which can cause the engines to cut out with disastrous consequences....[continued] Hundreds of the world's leading scientists have called upon politicians to act against global warming, claiming that unless immediate action was taken then the world would soon be facing up to the "worst-case" scenarios, and that "dangerous climate change" was now imminent. More than 2,500 leading environmental experts at... [continued]Air crash brings Turkey's troubles to a head
Has Turkey's ruling AKP sacrificed the safety record of the national carrier Turk Hava Yollari for political gain?
Mohamed: UK colluded in torture
Murdered PC’s funeral to be held
RBS admits £500m tax avoidance
US sends Navy to South China Sea
Boeing 777s have major engine flaw
Scientist demand climate action
Friday, 13 March 2009
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