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Oil and gas companies are preparing for a complete shutdown of offshore drilling in the Gulf of Mexico as tropical storm Gustav gathers strength and churns ominously towards the US coast. Energy prices rose on concerns...
The Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic made a defiant stand before a UN court yesterday when he refused to enter pleas to genocide charges brought against him following atrocities in the Bosnian war of the 1990s. Judge...
Russia bitterly accused the west of bias and double standards yesterday, following international criticism of its actions in Georgia, and amid signs that the European Union is backing away from sanctions against Moscow....
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Vladimir Putin launched a fresh attack on the United States, saying U.S. advisers were involved in the Georgian conflict and accusing the White House of provoking the crisis to help Republicans win the...
As Nick Faldo settles on his two personal choices for the Ryder Cup team this weekend he can expect to make a couple of difficult phone calls. I decided to pick José María Olazábal ahead of Woosie as my second wild card in...
Matthew Fort catches up with the Slow Food movement's dynamo Photographs by Silvija Davidson; Corbis Carlo Petrini once addressed an auditorium of Americans. Petrini (pictured below) has been the guiding spirit of Slow...
Search for a third body continues at businessman Christopher Foster's house in Shropshire An aerial view of Christopher Foster's burned-out country house in Shropshire. Photograph: Rui Viera/PA Two bodies have been found...
Winehouse falls ill and misses concert Soul singer Amy Winehouse pulled out of a Paris concert at short notice on Friday after falling ill at home in London, her spokesman has said. The 24-year-old, whose battle against...
It was a spectacular clash of auteurs. Two years ago the writer, Guillermo Arriaga, was effectively banned from the Cannes film festival after falling out with the director of his screenplay for Babel. Yesterday there...
