Racetrack plan shatters quiet life in France 2008-09-14 11:08 - British expatriates swapped their wine glasses for banners to join a protest
against plans by a wealthy Oxford graduate to build a vintage car-racing
circuit in the grounds of his mansion in the Dordogne.
Britain to back air drops to deliver aid to Burmese cyclone victims 2008-09-14 11:08 - Britain would support unilateral humanitarian intervention in Burma if the
military government’s refusal to accept foreign aid for the victims of
Cyclone Nargis results in epidemics and widespread deaths, Lord
Malloch-Brown, the Foreign Office Minister, told The Times yesterday.
For Obama, it’s now all but in the bag 2008-05-19 06:01 - Barack Obama expected to claim mantle of Democratic nominee this week when he passes a significant milestone.
The population explosion on Europe’s doorstep 2008-05-19 06:01 - In a televised interview with Sir Trevor McDonald last week, the Duke of
Edinburgh cited “overpopulation” as the prime source of escalating food
prices. Another gaffe! “Overpopulation” dropped out of usage in the 1970s,
and the deluded old coot doesn’t seem to realise that the term is passé. Or
is it?
