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'Don't talk to me about justice' *
The Hutus tortured Athanasie Mukarwego's husband to death and then told her: 'You, we will kill with rape.' For three horrific months, literally hundreds of them tried to do just that. [More]

'Guess what? Sex is beautiful' *
When Thai massage mogul Chuwit Kamolvisit declared war on the police, no one dreamed he could make a government embarrassed by the flesh trade consider making it legal. CHRIS TENOVE reports from Bangkok. [More]

'Ukraine's Holocaust' slowly acknowledged *
Olga Skoba's memories of the great famine in her village are dominated by a single image. [More]

'We are their home, so we should display them' *
GEOFFREY YORK reports on a campaign to recover looted relics that would put a dozen bronze animals back on their pedestals in Beijing. [More]

* The end of an era in US news: Peter Jennings dies at 67 *
Jennings defined an era in news for Americans; for them, Peter Jennings was the elegant one. [More]

. . . and its judo politics *
A fat flag-bearer? Iran must be snickering behind its hands. [More]

16 killed in Brazilian rocket blast *
A rocket exploded on its launch pad Friday while undergoing final pre-launch tests, killing at least 16 people, officials said. [More]

9/11 2003: The world remembers *
In France, the anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks was marked with more attacks, "a million poetic attacks," that is. A group of "thinkers, artists, writers of all beliefs and persuasions" called upon the people of France to "get yourself a book, a book that you like and that changed your view of the world. Write a dedication there, a few words, and release it!" [More]

9/11 report slams CIA, FBI *
Despite spending billions of dollars, U.S. intelligence agencies remain so crippled by bureaucracy and poor communications that they lost their best chance of stopping the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks because the CIA failed to tell the FBI that two men under observation were suspected terrorists. [More]

9/11 transcripts released *
After a plane struck the first of the World Trade Center towers on Sept. 11, 2001, callers from the top floors of the neighbouring tower were told by Port Authority police to remain where they were. [More]

9/11: America remembers terror *
The name of every person to die at the World Trade Center two years ago was read aloud at the site Thursday morning, a ceremony that took several hours. It was one of a flurry of commemorations of the thousands who were killed in the worst terrorist attacks on U.S. soil. [More]

A Canadian way for Al-Jazeera *
There was a time when banning the importation of Al-Jazeera, the Arabic news channel, would have been consistent with Canadian values. Indeed, in the early 1930s, a principal rationale for regulating radio was to protect our sovereignty. [More]

A made-in-America Middle East *
Like it or not, Washington is calling the shots in the Israeli-Palestinian quest for peace, says SHIRA HERZOG [More]

A new kind of 'world power' *
As Canadians prepare to patrol Kabul, GREG FOSTER, a U.S. military academic, says we can find an international role by doing a job the U.S. cannot: nation-building [More]

A puppet government won't work in Hong Kong *
The current crisis in Hong Kong, precipitated by the government's gross mishandling of anti-subversion legislation, highlights a key feature of China's "one country, two systems" policy: When the central government interferes in the special administrative region's internal affairs, it creates an artificial environment that results in political imbalance. [More]

A victory for South Africa's martyr-in-chief *
In the continental AIDS crisis, Africans have been shocked to find themselves fighting not just Western drug companies, but one another. STEPHANIE NOLEN, The Globe's new Africa bureau chief, recounts an AIDS drama with that rarest of things, a happy ending. But at great cost: Activist Zackie Achmat nearly lost his life. His old African National Congress comrade, President Thabo Mbeki, had to sacrifice his pride. Their standoff lasted nearly five years [More]

Abu Musab al-Zarqawi killed in air raid *
Al-Qaida has been dealt a severe blow with the death of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, its leader in Iraq, U.S. president George W. Bush said today. [More]

Access to care for HIV/AIDS African goal *
Those being treated only tiny proportion of continent's 30 million victims, UN says [More]

Afghanistan: no jiggery-pokery there *
It seems ironic that The National, CBC's flagship news program, is airing from Afghanistan this week when the biggest political scandal in years is rocking this country. [More]

Africa: Cries from the heart *
Canada claims to care about Africa, but what about the children of war-torn Uganda? asks LLOYD AXWORTHY [More]

AIDS advances on the Russian front *
HIV has struck the country with a vengeance, the UN reported this week, and Canadians are helping to man the barricades. CAROLYNNE WHEELER reports from Siberia. [More]

AIDS ends African success story *
With nearly 38 per cent of adults infected, formerly prosperous Botswana is reeling. [More]

Al-Jazeera news service sets up English Web site *
The Arab satellite station Al-Jazeera launched an English-language Web site yesterday, five months after hackers brought down a temporary site at the height of the Iraq war. [More]

Alberta researchers reeling from grizzly bear slaughter *
The internationally famous research by two Canadian naturalists showing that grizzly bears in the snow-swept Russian wilderness can live peacefully with humans has ended in a brutal tragedy, The Globe and Mail reports. [More]

Alexandre (Sacha Trudeau) faces the world *
As Pierre Trudeau's middle son steps reluctantly into the spotlight to promote his film on Iraq, he tells SARAH HAMPSON about lessons his father taught him: Confront your fears. Never enter politics [More]

All hail Britain's inquiring minds *
One of the headlines in the British press about the Hutton Inquiry was, "A very British sort of inquiry." Isn't it, though, I said approvingly, and was surprised to find the author thought this was a bad thing. He felt the inquiry was scattered in its intent. He sound miffed, like an English schoolmaster... [More]

America's cultural offensive *
Washington hopes to ease foreign-policy woes in the Middle East by wooing hearts and minds with a new Arabic-language radio network, satellite TV channel and glossy monthly magazine. It's the funky side of the war on terror, SIMON HOUPT writes [More]

Amid the wreckage, Britain seeks answers *
As London calmly picked itself up from Thursday's terrorist attacks and began to count the corpses yesterday, its citizens and leaders embarked on the far more difficult task of finding an explanation amid the chaos and wreckage. [More]

Analysis: What Bush Really Wants *
Unlike the Turkish emperors of the past, George W. Bush has no territorial ambitions in the Middle East, writes PAUL KORING . But he certainly wants something -- a new world order -- and is royally determined to get it. [More]

And justice for all *
In 2001, six conflicted young men in New York State are lured to Osama bin Laden's training camp in Afghanistan. They hate it, and come home as soon as they can. A year later -- on what their community now calls 9/13 -- all hell breaks loose. As the second anniversary of Sept. 11 nears, IAN BROWN visits Lackawanna, the home of a 'terrorist cell' that now seems less a menace than a test of what freedom is in today's America [More]

Angelina Jolie's conservation project approved *
Cambodia has approved a forest conservation project funded by Tomb Raider star Angelina Jolie. [More]

Aristide defiant as violence descends on Port-au-Prince *
Canada, U.S. adopt France's suggestion that President's departure might help Haiti. [More]

Aristide flees Haiti *
Armed insurgents, who said they were be former members of Haiti's now-disbanded army, sped through Haiti's capital following President Jean-Bertrand Aristide's flight into exile Sunday and vowed to battle pro-Aristide gangs in the streets. [More]

Aristide rebuffs allies' pressure to resign *
A defiant Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide vowed yesterday to hold on to power until his term ends, despite facing a spreading rebellion and pressure from Ottawa, Washington and Paris to resign. [More]

Austrian president dies at 71 *
President Thomas Klestil, who brought calm to an office frayed by controversy surrounding his predecessor's past in the Nazi army, died Tuesday. He was 71. [More]

Baghdad opens door to free market *
Iraq is to become a free-market economic laboratory, with levels of foreign ownership and privatization never before seen in the Arab world, its U.S.-appointed government announced yesterday. [More]

BBC chief resigns over Hutton report *
The head of the British Broadcasting Corp. resigned Thursday after a judicial inquiry harshly criticized the network's journalistic standards. [More]

Berlin, Paris are united in rejecting Iraq proposal *
U.S. plan for UN role called insufficient; Pentagon looks to build new Iraqi army [More]

Better brace for history's blowback, Mr. Blair *
So now it is up to history to make the case for war against Iraq? In a week when Tony Blair appealed to the verdict of history and Hollywood studios have upped the ante on digital pirates in Asia, it strikes me that in their urge to impose their authority, these masters of mass media forget the incontrovertible, inexorable logic of history -- that those who dream of dominating the world should expect the world to overrun them. [More]

Blair aide sent warning Iraq dossier weak *
'Document does nothing to demonstrate a threat,' e-mail to PM's inner circle said [More]

Blair and the BBC *
Lord Hutton, one of the 12 Law Lords on Britain's highest court, has considered many complex issues in his time, including the 1999 question of whether Chile's Augusto Pinochet was immune from prosecution. He should therefore be up to the task of sorting rumours from facts in the suicide of government adviser and former United Nations weapons inspector David Kelly, and determining what if any censure the Labour government of Tony Blair and the British Broadcasting Corp. deserve in this affair. [More]

Blair carries the day at Kelly inquiry *
Smooth as silk, Prime Minister Tony Blair testified yesterday and tore apart the BBC's allegations about his controversial Iraq dossier, saying that the broadcaster had attacked "the credibility of the country" and that he would have resigned if his office had exaggerated the threat posed by Saddam Hussein. [More]

Blair confident history will be kind *
British PM tells Congress Hussein regime caused 'inhuman carnage and suffering' [More]

Blair defends decision to invade Iraq *
British Prime Minister Tony Blair says history "will forgive" the Iraq war even if it turns out that Saddam Hussein didn't pose an immediate threat with weapons of mass destruction. [More]

Blair denies authorizing Kelly's identification *
British Prime Minister Tony Blair said Tuesday that he did not authorize the identification of a weapons inspector as the source for a British Broadcasting Corp. report questioning the honesty of a government dossier on Iraqi weapons. [More]

Blair gets away with it *
Whether the British government lied to the world in claiming that Saddam Hussein could launch horrible weapons on less than an hour's notice is, Lord Hutton wrote, a subject that does not fall within his terms of reference. [More]

Blair takes the hot seat, denies dossier manipulated *
Prime Minister Tony Blair told an inquiry Thursday that his office did not exaggerate estimates of Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction and said that he would have had to resign if it had. [More]

Blair to testify at Kelly inquiry *
The appeals judge heading an inquiry into the suicide of government weapons adviser David Kelly said Friday he will ask Prime Minister Tony Blair to testify. [More]

Blair vows to co-operate with probe into death *
Judge makes it clear only he will decide extent of inquiry into apparent suicide [More]

Blair wanted dossier public: aide *
Britain Prime Minister Tony Blair's communications director, a key figure in a controversy over the government's case for war in Iraq, said Tuesday that it was Blair who decided to publish a contentious dossier on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction. [More]

Blair's in the spotlight as judicial inquiry begins *
There will be little celebration today for Tony Blair as he becomes the longest continuous-serving Labour Party prime minister in history under the shadow of a judicial inquiry that goes to the heart of his style of government. [More]

Blair, the BBC and the devil's dilemma *
'There's no doubt in my mind that I would have aired the report,' says veteran broadcaster MARK STAROWICZ [More]

Blair: Of suicide and spin *
No one does it quite like Tony Blair. No leader currently on the world stage can match the British Prime Minister's ability to shoulder politically risky policies and defend them in person, with consummate debating skill, against a critical public. [More]

Blood loss ended bid to save life of Canadian *
Two Iraqi doctors who raced to help the victims of the suicide-bomb attack in Baghdad wound up desperately trying to save the life of a young Canadian who was their boss and friend. [More]

Body found believed to be British defence adviser, Dr. David Kelly *
The discovery of a body found in an Oxfordshire wood, believed to be that of an expert on Iraqi weapons programs, has added a dark twist to questions about the intelligence Prime Minister Tony Blair used to justify war. [More]

Bolder than ever *
Forget U.S. claims about a new era in the Mideast; 25 years after the fall of the Shah, war in neighbouring Iraq has encouraged Iran's hard-liners, says SAEED RAHNEMA. [More]

Bourbon blaze sets creek aflame *
Fire engulfed a seven-storey bourbon warehouse Monday, sending alcohol-fuelled flames more than 30 metres in the air. [More]

Brazil mourns dead in space program disaster *
Smoke rose from a crater littered with twisted metal at Brazil's space centre Saturday, one day after a rocket explosion killed 21 people in the country's latest attempt to launch Latin America's first satellite. [More]

Breaking the 'loi du silence' *
In France, where most turn a blind eye toward domestic violence, the death of much-beloved actress Marie Trintignant has raised questions about the country's famously libertine attitudes, reports EGLE PROCUTA [More]

British arrest 21 in slaying of boy *
Mutilation of corpse pulled from Thames in 2001 indicates ritual killing, police say [More]

British MPs call for broad probe after suicide *
A judge investigating the suicide of a Defence Ministry weapons adviser should also examine the British government's use of intelligence to justify war with Iraq, opposition MPs said Monday. [More]

British spied on UN's Annan, former cabinet member says *
British intelligence agents spied on UN Secretary General Kofi Annan in the run-up to the Iraq war, a former member of Prime Minister Tony Blair's Cabinet said Thursday. [More]

Briton arraigned in U.S. over missile sting *
A suspected arms dealer who authorities say thought he was selling a shoulder-fired missile to a Muslim terrorist bent on shooting down an airliner was arraigned on U.S. federal charges Wednesday. [More]

Broken promise: Why I quit Iraq *
America's approach to governing Baghdad has failed to involve Iraqis, says ISAM al-KHAFAJI, who returned home to help rebuild his country [More]

Bush adviser apologizes over Iraq claim *
Stephen Hadley, U.S. President George W. Bush's deputy national security adviser, on Tuesday became the second administration official to apologize for allowing a tainted intelligence report on Iraq's nuclear ambitions into Mr. Bush's State of the Union address. [More]

Bush defends war in Iraq during state visit *
Welcomed to Britain with royal pageantry and a smattering of anti-war protesters, U.S. President George W. Bush defended the war in Iraq, saying Wednesday that military must at times be used to confront the continuing, global danger of terrorism. [More]

Bush's last stand: turning the war on its head *
The Tinmes of London's Andrew Sullivan offers a brilliant and insightful analysis of the Bush administration's campaign of terror. [More]

Bush, Blair look for UN help on Iraq problems *
U.S. President George W. Bush signalled support Friday for an interim government to take power in Iraq on June 30, saying the plan under development by a United Nations envoy is "broadly acceptable to the Iraqi people." [More]

Calm, cool and dissident *
With a string of controversial lawsuits, Igor Trunov has made himself the Russian government's public irritant No. 1 -- and a hero to many. MARK MacKINNON reports. [More]

Can't wait for Saddam's TV trial *
Saddam Hussein went down with a whimper, not a bang, but America will take the win anyway. [More]

Canada as Europe's model? It's an excellent joke *
Believe it or not, there are serious and influential people on the other side of the ocean who want their governments and societies to be modeled after Canada's. [More]

Canada can carry much more *
Canadian firms stand ready to manufacture affordable AIDS drugs. The WTO has even relaxed its patent rules. So why won't the PM give the green light? demands lawyer RICHARD ELLIOTT [More]

Canada cancels Iraqi debt *
Prime Minister Paul Martin confirmed Friday that Canada would join a number of other G7 countries in eradicating the debt it is owed by Iraq. [More]

Canada mourns with U.S., PM tells Bush *
Chrétien phones President on anniversary of 9/11 attacks in New York, Washington [More]

Canadian Muslims' new political muscle *
Last September, British Muslims made political history. [More]

Canadian soldier killed in suicide attack *
One Canadian soldier was killed and three others were injured in Kabul Tuesday morning in what appears to be a suicide attack, a Department of National Defence spokesman said early Tuesday. [More]

Canadian-born ABC News' anchor Peter Jennings dies at 67 *
Peter Jennings, the suave, Canadian-born veteran broadcaster who delivered the news to Americans each night in five separate decades, died at age 67. [More]

Cancun: Why it's good that the trade talks broke down *
Talks have collapsed and there is no agreement," said George Ong'wen, Kenyan delegate at the World Trade Organization talks in Cancun, Mexico. His decision to stand up and walk away from the table on Sunday afternoon forced the chair of the talks, Mexico's Luis Ernesto Derbez, to declare that negotiations had broken down. [More]

CBC on defensive over trip to Kabul *
Peter Mansbridge's stint in Afghanistan was seen as a way to improve CBC News' image, in the wake of a recent study that suggested the public broadcaster seemed stuffy in the public's eye. [More]

Charles, Camilla visit Bushes after New York triumph *
Fittingly, royal couple meet Bush at White House with no pomp and ceremony. [More]

Children Lost in translation *
Parents in war-torn countries used to flee, then send for their children. Now, they get the kids out first. As MARINA JIMENEZ reports, child refugee claimants pose a special problem for the system: Often they've been told to use a phony story, but that doesn't mean they don't desperately need help. [More]

China holds the key to unlocking the North Korean crisis *
Last week, when the government of North Korea finally agreed to participate in multilateral talks to resolve the crisis over the country's nuclear-weapons program, the Bush administration was quick to claim victory for its hard-line approach toward the Kim Jong Il regime. [More]

China lifts ban on animals linked to SARS *
The ban, which involved 54 types of wildlife, lasted for five months [More]

China lifts ban on wild-animal sales *
Ruling sparks fears trade in exotic species could be source of another SARS outbreak [More]

Chinese Potter book hits the web *
Chinese fans of Harry Potter are posting unauthorized translations of the latest book on the Internet and the Chinese-language publisher says it has no right to stop them. [More]

Chrétien was right: It's time to redefine a 'just war' *
The 1990s was a challenging decade. Our consciences were shocked by atrocities from Rwanda to Bosnia and beyond, and by the price that innocent men, women and children paid because of the world's failure to rise to such challenges. [More]

CIA chief defends his ground *
Intelligence analysts never told U.S. President Bush before the invasion of Iraq that Saddam Hussein's rule posed an imminent threat, Central Intelligence Agency Director George Tenet said Thursday in a heated defence of agency findings central to the decision to go to war. [More]

Clarkson wraps up Afghan visit *
Governor-General Adrienne Clarkson wrapped up a four-day visit to Afghanistan on Friday, meeting with aid workers and soldiers high atop a mountain in the middle of Kabul. [More]

Class reunion in the ruins *
Returning to Botswana after almost 20 years, KEN SITTER finds that his former students are prosperous and sophisticated. And some are dying [More]

Clinton 'a little scared' about heart bypass surgery *
As he prepared for heart bypass surgery early next week, former U.S. president Bill Clinton was in good spirits, dressed in street clothes and walking around his hospital room Saturday morning, people close to the Clinton family said. [More]

Clinton released from hospital *
Former U.S. president Bill Clinton was released from the hospital and headed home Friday, four days after undergoing heart bypass surgery, a source familiar with the situation said. [More]

Copenhagen's Little Mermaid turns 90 *
She's been beheaded twice, her arm has been amputated and vandals keep pouring paint over her. [More]

Court orders extradition of Vancouver man *
Michael Seifert, a former Nazi prison guard who now lives in Vancouver has been ordered extradited to Italy. [More]

D'Estaing joins the French 'immortals' *
The former president of France, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, was elected yesterday as a member of the Académie Française, the elite cultural institution whose main task is to compile the definitive French dictionary. [More]

Dead arms expert was weapons source: BBC *
The British Broadcasting Corp. said Sunday that David Kelly, a scientist whose apparent suicide intensified a debate over whether the government inflated claims about Iraqi weapons, was its main source for a story at the centre of the dispute. [More]

Democratic despite everything *
This Sunday, Hugo Chavez's presidency, a country's destiny and oil prices are once again on the line, says economist ANNETTE HESTER. [More]

Diplomats: Mourn, but avoid politicized mourning *
On Jan. 29, a Palestinian suicide bomber blew up Jerusalem's No. 19 bus. Among the many dead was a Canadian, Yechezkel Goldberg, a resident of the Israeli settlement of Betar Illit in the occupied West Bank, where some 200,000 Jewish settlers live in uneasy co-existence with more than two and a half million Palestinians. [More]

Doing good by doing well *
Private investment must be the main source of income growth and job creation in poor countries -- just as it is in industrialized nations, say PAUL MARTIN and ERNESTO ZEDILLO [More]

Don't hold your breath *
UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan is right to want to amend the way the Security Council is run, says DAVID MALONE. Whether he'll be allowed to do so is a different matter. [More]

Dying from the heat *
A month-long heat wave has taken the lives of as many as 5,000 elderly people in France, despite an enviable health system and a social safety net that is the pride of the country. What went wrong? The answer can be summed up in a word: indifference. [More]

Encephalitis kills 110 children in southern India *
Mosquito-borne encephalitis has killed 110 children in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh in the past six weeks, health officials said Tuesday. [More]

Ex-head of BBC blasts Blair on Iraq *
'We were all duped,' Greg Dyke writes in a blistering attack on the British PM. [More]

Experts meet for avian-flu talks *
Gathering in Rome aims to help nations affected by disease, prevent its spread. [More]

Explosion rocks Moscow train station *
39 dead, 150 injured in suspected suicide bombing. [More]

Fagan: Canada keeps the peace *
The Americans and the French did the shoving to convince Jean-Bertrand Aristide to leave power. But Canada was doing the compensatory fence-mending across the Caribbean Sunday, and it also moved to send as many as 500 troops to Haiti for a year or more to take part in an international stabilization force. [More]

Family of slain Brazilian refuses compensation offer *
The parents of the Brazilian man killed mistakenly by British anti-terror police in south London have reportedly turned down a compensation offer of 1 million pounds (1.8 million US dollars). [More]

Father's nightmare begins after son arrested *
The ordeal began with a midnight phone call. Azmat Begg, a retired banker, grappled for the receiver after a shrill ring roused him from sleep. "Dad, I've been arrested," whispered the voice of his son Moazzam. [More]

First whale harpooned in Icelandic hunt *
Icelandic whalers harpooned their first minke whale in 14 years yesterday, the marine scientist in charge of the controversial hunt said. [More]

For the children's sake *
International laws concerning the treatment of children during times of conflict seem to be forgotten in this war against terrorism, says SHEEMA KHAN [More]

Foreign medics face firing squad *
In controversial verdict, Libya sentences health workers for giving children HIV. [More]

Former GOP Activist says: 'The GOP Brand Has Fallen and Can't Get Up' *
According to former GOP stalwart and current Blue Dog Democratic, Eric Roberson, candidate for Congress in the Texas 32nd District, GOP "rebranding" efforts are too little, too late. [More]

Former Soviet republics poised to sign trade deal *
Critics fear economic pact signals attempt to consolidate power in hands of Kremlin [More]

Fragile -- handle with care *
What has to happen if Bush is to bring in Iraqi self-rule by next June (and incidentally boost his hopes for a second term)? The Globe's PAUL KORING investigates. [More]

France votes to ban head scarves *
France took a decisive step Tuesday toward banning Islamic head scarves from public schools, with legislators overwhelmingly backing the government's drive to preserve French secularism from Islamic fundamentalism. [More]

France's health minister predicts heat toll will rise *
France's health minister said in an interview to be published Sunday that people have not stopped dying from the August heat wave that seared France and he predicted the death toll will climb toward 12,000. [More]

French want answers on heat deaths *
Government faces anger over belated reaction to deaths of 10,000 citizens [More]

G7 ministers call for quick resumption of trade talks *
Facing uneven economic expansion, finance ministers from the wealthy countries urged a quick resumption of global trade talks Saturday, after they fell apart last week amid sharp divisions with the poor countries. [More]

G8 leaders all smiles *
World leaders clamped a harmonious face on a summit simmering with Iraq war disputes Sunday, striking a united front with pledges of billions of dollars to fight AIDS and hunger in poor countries. [More]

G8 leaders remain split on Iran, North Korea *
On Iraq, at least, they turned the page. But feuding world leaders who came together at a let's-make-up summit in France remained split over the next crises darkening the horizon — how to prevent North Korea and Iran from building nuclear weapons. [More]

G8 retreating from disease commitments, activists say *
Signs indicate leaders ready to back away from pledges to aid ill in poor countries [More]

Getting to know you *
When 20 teenage Israelis and Palestinians got together recently at Ottawa's Ashbury College for a 10-day "peace camp," there must have been more than a little trepidation among organizers. How would they get along? [More]

Glaciers melt as Europe sizzles *
Britain sweltered through its hottest day on record Sunday and Alpine glaciers melted as the heat wave that has baked much of Europe for days sizzled on relentlessly. [More]

Graham won't expel Saudi ambassador *
Foreign Affairs Minister Bill Graham says he won't consider expelling the Saudi Ambassador to Canada to protest the treatment of William Sampson, who was imprisoned in Saudi Arabia for 2½ years and tortured frequently. [More]

Haiti rebellion spreads *
Rebellion spread to central Haiti on Monday as rebels and former soldiers attacked a police station in Hinche and President Jean-Bertrand Aristide pleaded for help to stop the bloodshed. [More]

Haiti's PM calls for international aid *
Canada offers $1.5-million as bloody uprising intensifies; Graham offers 100 officers for police force. [More]

Haitian opposition will consider power-sharing deal *
After a heated five-hour meeting with international envoys, Haitian opposition leaders agreed Saturday to consider a power-sharing plan that would give the poorest country in the Americas a new government but leave President Jean-Bertrand Aristide in office. [More]

Health problems hit children of Russia *
Falling standards make care in Soviet era seem like good old days, MARK MacKINNON finds [More]

Health-care systems weak in rural China *
Widening gap between rich, poor leaves some areas unprepared to fight disease. [More]

Heart attack fells Austrian President *
Austrian President Thomas Klestil, whose term ends this week, was in critical condition Monday after being revived at home and flown by helicopter to a Vienna hospital suffering heart failure. [More]

Heat blamed for dozens of deaths across Europe *
Head of French emergency doctors cites weather for toll in Paris region; glaciers melting in Alps [More]

Heroin's new killing fields *
The Taliban falls and the opium poppy rises. SHAWN BLORE visits the Tajik-Afghan border, where the fierce Russian anti-drug squad this week made its biggest seizure yet [More]

Hoax continues: Jessica Lynch receives a hero's welcome *
Former PoW Jessica Lynch returned home to a flag-waving hero's welcome Tuesday, saying "it's great to be home" in her first public words since being rescued. [More]

Honesty killed David Kelly *
The brave people of conscience who reveal government wrongdoing always pay a price, says British MP TAM DALYELL [More]

How could Israel ever trust the United Nations? *
Liran Zer-Aviv was getting excited about his approaching fourth birthday party when his family took him out to lunch at a well-known restaurant in the Israeli city of Haifa last month. As they ate, a young Palestinian woman walked into the restaurant packed with other families and detonated a suicide bomb. Liran and his parents were killed. So were his baby sister and his grandmother. [More]

How long will this one last? *
Meet Mahmoud Zahar, the third leader the militant Palestinian group Hamas has had in a month. He won't admit his new status because he'd like to stay alive, even though, he tells MATTHEW KALMAN, assassination by the Israelis 'is a new oil for our movement' [More]

How to make friends and occupy people *
REVERSALS OF FORTUNE. When Saddam Hussein's sons died this week, many predicted a warming between Iraqis and U.S. soldiers. But as MARK MacKINNON reports from Baghdad, resistance there may need no leadership, if the U.S. can't calm tempers and assure basic needs [More]

Human embryo cloned *
Researchers in South Korea have become the first to successfully clone a human embryo and then cull from it master stem cells that many doctors consider key to one day creating customized cures for diabetes, Parkinson's and other diseases. [More]

Hussein's sons killed in raid: U.S. general *
Saddam Hussein's sons Uday and Qusay died in a blaze of gunfire and rockets Tuesday, the U.S. military said, claiming their deaths will blunt Iraqi resistance to the American occupation. [More]

Hutton report had narrow focus *
The inquiry into the death of a British weapons expert had no mandate to look at the Iraq war, or at the intelligence failures that helped set it off, says PAUL KNOX. [More]

I spy blocked vision *
If Bush and Blair want to know why they got faulty intelligence on Iraq, they should look at the politicization of their spy ops, says U.K. security analyst PHILIP DAVIES. [More]

Idi Amin: He got away with murder *
He was a torturer and a sadist (the terms do not necessarily exhaust one another). He was a mass killer. Some 300,000 people died under his barbarous rule. This is the most frequently cited tabulation, but when killing reaches into the hundreds of thousands, we must remember some amount of "rounding off" is almost always inevitable. [More]

In Haiti, the fear is all around *
Fear is a gaggle of menacing toughs on a ramshackle main thoroughfare, waving rifles and pistols to halt vehicles and summarily search their occupants. [More]

Iran's brinkmanship . . . *
Is Iran headed for war with the United States and Israel? Judging by recent news reports, one could be forgiven for thinking so. [More]

Iranian twins don't make it *
Pair die within 90 minutes of each other [More]

Iraq is rich in the most dangerous resource -- idle young men *
It was last fall when I first became aware that the coalition governing Iraq had failed to pay any attention to one of the world's most dangerous threats. [More]

Iraq now: 20 questions *
Is there power? Health care? How many troops remain? How many people died? In Baghdad, Globe correspondent MARK MacKINNON answers some lingering questions about the aftermath of the war in Iraq [More]

Iraq's new governors *
Even as U.S. President George W. Bush continues gamely to insist that things are looking up in Iraq, polls show that fewer and fewer Americans believe him. The irony is that, for the first time in months, Mr. Bush is right. [More]

Islam on the ropes *
This week's massive firefight in Iraq symbolizes the depth of Islamic defiance -- but not in China, reports GEOFFREY YORK. Remote Xinjiang's one-rebellious Muslims now live in fear. [More]

Ismaili Muslims: Living well is the best revenge *
Thousands of Ismaili Muslims were among the Asians expelled from Uganda in 1972 by Idi Amin. As the tyrant lies on his deathbed three decades later, ERIN ANDERSSEN reports, Canada's hugely prosperous Ismaili community doesn't bat an eye [More]

It must come tumbling down *
From the West Bank's olive groves to the hearing that continues in a Hague courtroom, Palestinians are struggling against the wall Israel is erecting. [More]

It's past time to punt on Iraq *
Washington had better snap to it and hand control of Iraq to the Security Council, says SALIM LONE, before the U.S. sinks into a quagmire of endless war. [More]

Japan's beef with Canada *
We brushed off their fears and insulted them. Not great tactics, says political scientist WENRAN JIANG [More]

Kelly believed war only way to disarm Hussein: report *
The weapons scientist caught up in a storm about claims the government exaggerated the threat posed by Iraq believed war was the only way to eliminate Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction, a British newspaper reported Sunday. [More]

Kelly felt betrayed by bosses, wife testifies *
Weapons adviser David Kelly felt betrayed by the Ministry of Defence for confirming that he might be the source of a broadcast report questioning the British government's case for war in Iraq, his widow testified Monday [More]

Kenyan activist wins Nobel Peace Prize *
Kenyan environmental activist Wangari Maathai won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for her work as leader of the Green Belt Movement, which has sought to empower women, better the environment and fight corruption in Africa for almost 30 years. [More]

Key Blair aide to resign *
Prime Minister Tony Blair's powerful communications chief Alastair Campbell, a central figure in the controversy over whether Britain exaggerated the Iraqi weapon threat to justify war, announced Friday that he will resign. [More]

Knox: Bloodstained past haunts hopes *
The looters who ransacked Jean-Bertrand Aristide's official residence a few hours after he fled into exile didn't leave much behind. [More]

Korea: Chinese vets proudly recall taking on U.S. *
Mao's army pushed back Americans, says GEOFFREY YORK, to force Korean War stalemate [More]

Korea: It's time to talk *
The resolution of the crisis in North Korea is not just a matter of concern to the United States, says Russia's deputy foreign minister ALEXANDER LOSYUKOV [More]

Korea: Split by silence *
The fighting in Korea stopped on July 27, 1953, without a peace treaty. Fifty years later, most citizens of the North and South still talk of reunification as their ultimate goal. But when Toronto writer JIN DAVID KIM returns to piece together how the war affected his family, what he learns makes him doubt the great rift can ever be mended [More]

Korean War horrors linger, 50 years later *
Vets recall the savage human-wave assaults of this bloody conflict, GEOFFREY YORK writes [More]

Korean War: Canada's forgotten veterans *
Dave Crook huddled in his sleeping bag braced against the bitter cold of the Korean winter and thought about the Americans on the other side of the icy road. They, too, were in their sleeping bags. But they were dead — shot in their sleep the night before by a raiding platoon of Chinese soldiers. [More]

Last 12 SARS patients virus free, China says *
The last 12 SARS patients in Beijing have been declared free of the disease but remain in hospital, state media reported yesterday. [More]

Leprosy blight persists despite low-cost cures *
The scourge of humanity for millenniums, leprosy is now an almost entirely curable disease. [More]

Let Hong Kong be Hong Kong *
British Prime Minister Tony Blair's visit to Hong Kong last week came at a critical time. The former British Crown colony is in the midst of a major political crisis stemming from a botched attempt to impose Draconian new security measures that could endanger civil liberties and impede the promised transition to full democracy. [More]

Liberia is chained to its past *
Former U.S. slaves seized land from indigenous peoples, and even set up their own slave trade, says ROGER MORRIS [More]

Liechtenstein ruler to hand over power *
The outspoken ruling prince of Liechtenstein, who garnered controversy in Europe with his push for more power in the tiny state, announced yesterday he would step down and hand over the reins to his son in one year. [More]

Lights, camera, Apocalypse! *
As bombs explode, locusts swarm and seas turn to blood, GAYLE MacDONALD investigates a growing appetite for 'endtimes entertainment' and finds that two brothers running a tiny film company in St. Catharines, Ont., are feeling the Rapture [More]

Locked in a PR nightmare *
The Akkal case highlights Israel's media problems: While some of its spokesmen contradict one another, others attack the foreign press. The Globe's PAUL ADAMS investigates. [More]

Macedonia's president killed in plane crash *
Macedonia's President Boris Trajkovski, a moderate leader who helped unite his ethnically divided country, was killed Thursday when his plane crashed in bad weather in mountainous southern Bosnia. [More]

Made-to-measure justice *
To cope with the future, Iraq must come to grips with its past, says law professor RUTI TEITEL. And that's a job for the United Nations [More]

Maoist army wins hearts and minds in west Nepal *
Rebel promises of land reform, education and free health care are attracting support [More]

Massive shark devours 77-year-old *
A great white shark estimated to be at least five metres long attacked and killed an elderly South African woman Monday off a beach near Cape Town, officials said. [More]

Mbeki's new tune *
South Africans had cause to celebrate this past weekend, after the government finally reversed its much-maligned policy against giving drug treatments to AIDS patients. [More]

Media watchdogs call for inquiry into killing *
Journalism watchdogs called for an investigation into the killing of a Reuters cameraman by U.S. troops. [More]

Mid-East: Follow South Africa's lead *
Israelis and Palestinians could learn a lot from how South Africa's F. W. de Klerk approached peace,says SHIRA HERZOG [More]

Moscow Air Show Ends With New Hope *
The Moscow International Air Show ended Sunday with an air display, and hope among Russian officials that new contacts would lead to a boost in aviation sales next year. [More]

My son is no terrorist *
Momin Khawaja sits in solitary confinement, the first person charged under Canada's new anti-terrorism law, COLIN FREEZE reports from Ottawa. His scholarly father, himself released from Saudi custody this week, insists the young man is innocent and defends his own writing from accusations of extremism. [More]

NATO in Iraq? But not yet *
The United States is suffering severely from George W. Bush's failure to establish a true multilateral coalition, with international legitimacy, for the war and its aftermath in Iraq. As one soldier on average dies each day, and as the costs of the Iraqi engagement are doubling, Washington has begun to hear a bipartisan call for bringing NATO into the management of Iraq. [More]

New York Times criticises Bush’s response to disaster *
US President George W Bush was heavily criticised today for his response to the devastation in New Orleans caused by Hurricane Katrina. [More]

Nine dead after Russian submarine sinks *
A mothballed Russian submarine being towed to a scrapyard sank in a gale in the Barents Sea on Saturday, killing nine of the 10 crew, Russia's defence minister said. [More]

No way out *
With grim reports from Iraq and a June 30 deadline looming, many saw George Bush's waffling press conference this week as a failure of presidential leadership, DOUG SAUNDERS writes. While insisting he would stay his stubborn course, he was actually admitting defeat, adopting his Democratic opponents' Iraq line. But was it too little too late? [More]

No weapons and a funeral *
The inquiry into Dr. David Kelly's suicide will confirm an embarrassing fact: The West knew that Iraq posed no threat, says military analyst SUNIL RAM [More]

Of human bondage *
This week George W. Bush declared another war -- on the global sex trade, a problem in need of 'urgent attention and moral clarity.' Is the U.S. President being too dramatic? No, the Globe's MARK MACKINNON reports from tiny Moldova. So many of its girls have been shanghaied to the fleshpots of the world that the impoverished former Soviet republic is starting to run out. [More]

Ottawa's unwelcome visitor *
Pervez Musharraf leads a terrorist state, says DAVID VAN PRAAGH. We forget that at our soldiers' peril. [More]

Pakistan 'has the stench of the apocalypse' *
Bernard-Henri Lévy, France's 'rock star' philosopher-journalist, traces the killing of reporter Daniel Pearl to high levels in Pakistan -- a U.S. ally that's a far graver threat than Saddam's Iraq, he tells CHRISTOPHER DREHER in New York City [More]

Paris morgues overflowing with elderly heat victims *
City's gravediggers working overtime as France's death toll rises to at least 3,000 [More]

Parmalat woes deepen *
Six life insurance companies that loaned money to Parmalat units in the Cayman Islands have asked a judge to help them get back their money after the Italian dairy company defaulted on the loans and declared bankruptcy this week. [More]

Peter and the crew troop off to Kabul *
It was touch and go for a few hours, but Peter Mansbridge, CBC chief correspondent and anchor of The National, and several other journalists, producers and technicians arrived in Kabul over the weekend in preparation for almost a week of broadcasts from the Afghan capital. [More]

Police probing Swedish killing release photos *
Unable to pull fingerprints from the murder weapon, Swedish police combed for DNA evidence Saturday in the assassination of Foreign Minister Anna Lindh and released pictures of a possible suspect. [More]

Pollution looms, minister warns China *
Pollution could kill substantial numbers of children if China goes ahead with an extraordinarily ambitious plan to quadruple its economy by 2020, Environment Minister David Anderson warned Chinese students yesterday. [More]

Prank message via Google mocks WMD search *
The hunt for weapons of mass destruction isn't going so well in Iraq. It's not going so well on Google, either. [More]

Prison Grey is the New Black: Conrad Black is found guilty *
Has this man no friends or allies? It seems that everyone is crowing as "Tubby" Black goes down. No less respected organ than The Times of London used the word "swindler;" the lofty Guardian even headlined: "For all his wealth and influence, the fallen media mogul Conrad Black is little more than a common thief. . . ." [More]

Putin's power politics *
The President's landslide win gives him a free hand for reform, says Russia specialist JAMES HUGHES. [More]

Queen Elizabeth II celebrates 80th birthday *
Cheering crowds, red-jacketed bandsmen in bearskin hats and ceremonial gunfire saluted the Queen on her 80th birthday Friday, but clouds denied the monarch her wish for sunshine. [More]

Reach for the stars -- again *
Beep-beep-beep: Shrill, innocuous-sounding noises from the sky shocked the world on Oct. 4, 1957. Short-wave radio users the world over captured signals from the Soviet satellite Sputnik as it circled Earth. The launch was a monumental feat, one that shook the United States out of its state of complacency and provoked a cascade of events that led to the space race and the birth of NASA. [More]

Rebel Philippine troops end standoff *
More than 300 mutinous Philippine troops who seized a downtown residential shopping complex surrendered late Sunday, ending a 19-hour standoff with government forces without a shot fired. [More]

Rebels plot Aristide's overthrow *
Welcome to Gonaïves, says the soda-pop ad on a billboard past the rebel-controlled barricade at the entrance to town. Life Tastes Good. [More]

Rebels target Haiti's second-largest city *
Frightened police barricaded themselves inside their station Wednesday and said they could not repel a threatened rebel attack on Haiti's second-largest city, the last major government bastion in the north. Officers in other towns deserted their posts with no guerrillas in sight. [More]

Regime's fall allows buyers to snap up brand-name bargains *
Freedom is killing Haidar Lazem's back. Every morning for the past three months he has been carrying brand-new Hitachi refrigerators, 21-inch Samsung flat-screen televisions and Nokia satellite equipment out of his store onto the wide sidewalks of Baghdad's Karadeh Kharej Street [More]

Report attacks U.S. intelligence failings *
Failure to share intelligence on two future Sept. 11 hijackers destroyed perhaps the best chance to stop the attacks, says the final report of a congressional inquiry that details a maddening government chain of actions not taken, information not shared and help not given. [More]

Reporter testifies at British probe *
British weapons adviser David Kelly held Prime Minister Tony Blair's communications director responsible for rewriting an intelligence dossier on Iraq's weapons program to make it "sexier," a BBC journalist testified Tuesday at an inquiry into Dr. Kelly's suicide. [More]

Reporters shown Hussein brothers' bodies *
Their faces covered in morticians' makeup, patches of hair sprouting from their scalps, two bodies were displayed to journalists Friday in a further attempt by American occupation authorities to convince sceptical Iraqis that Saddam Hussein's sons Uday and Qusay are really dead. [More]

Saddam Hussein -- The game's not over *
The capture of the deck's biggest card makes it seem as if Washington has won another round in the Iraqi conflict. But Saddam may have another ace up his sleeve: the power to embarrass the West, says PAUL KNOX. [More]

Saddam Hussein captured by U.S. forces *
The intensive manhunt for Saddam Hussein came to an abrupt end Saturday, when American forces captured the ousted dictator after finding him hid away in a dirt hole under a farmhouse near his hometown of Tikrit. [More]

Second Bush statement on Iraq debunked *
A key Iraqi scientist recently told the CIA high-strength aluminum tubes bought by Iraq weren't meant for nuclear bomb production, as U.S. President George W. Bush suggested in his State of the Union address, two experts on Iraq's nuclear program said. [More]

Second Canadian dies in Baghdad bombing *
A second Canadian working to improve conditions for children in war-torn Iraq has died from the blast at UN headquarters in Baghdad that killed at least 20. [More]

Secrets of Sept. 11 *
A joint U.S. congressional inquiry into the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, has confirmed that intelligence and law-enforcement agencies missed opportunities to foil the plot or at least blunt its eventual impact by warning the public. The reasons range from a failure to grasp the nature of the threat to serious mistakes in judgment and an inability to connect the dots between disparate pieces of information collected by different agencies that jealously guarded their own turf. [More]

Sharon's Gaza gambit *
An old Jewish adage says, "say little and do much." So far, Ariel Sharon has said much and done little. Tuesday's announcement that Israeli settlements in Gaza will be relocated over the next year or two is the most recent in a string of similar statements the Israeli Prime Minister has made over the last several months. The message alone has rocked the Israeli political scene and led to intense international speculation. [More]

Shields's talents gained world acclaim *
International success came late to Carol Shields, but when it did, it came big time, in great, lifting waves. [More]

Should we hear this voice? *
Because Canadians need other perspectives to better understand the world, we should give Al-Jazeera a chance, says RICK SALUTIN [More]

Show trials are not the solution to Saddam's heinous reign *
It is difficult to contemplate, after the many horrors of the last century, that a government could get away with murdering a quarter of a million people. [More]

Sinking of Russian sub spurs memories of Kursk *
When news broke that the Russian nuclear submarine K-159 had sunk in the Barents Sea, the ghosts of those who died trapped aboard the Kursk three years ago leapt back into public consciousness. [More]

Slain Canadian soldier was 10 days from home *
Patrol in Kabul attacked by suicide bomber, leaving one dead and three wounded soldiers. [More]

Sri Lanka: Peace in the tiger's jaws *
Sri Lanka's latest turmoil has renewed deep questions about the necessary conditions for peace, say negotiators BOB RAE and DAVID CAMERON. [More]

Stampede leaves 37 dead in Beijing *
At least 37 people were killed and 15 others injured Thursday when a crowd stampeded during a holiday gathering outside the Chinese capital on the final day of the country's Lunar New Year celebrations, the government said. [More]

Star Wars missile shield technology: It won't fly, but it can bite *
The Pentagon secretly admits that a missile shield isn't feasible, but that doesn't diminish NMD's power to back us into a corner, says MP JOHN GODFREY [More]

Stop turning away, America *
A West African force should take charge in war-ravaged Liberia, says former U.S. diplomat JOHN HIRSCH, but it needs help from Washington [More]

Study disparages plans for hydrogen-fuelled cars *
-spirited individuals hoping to do their part to save the environment by buying hydrogen-fuelled cars next year are in for expensive and rude surprises, a study by a Canadian and a U.S. scientist says. [More]

Sub loss sums up Russia's military mess *
Standing on the deck of the grey missile cruiser Marshal Ustinov as it cut through the greyer waters of the Barents Sea, Sergei Ivanov made it clear that he was furious about Russia's latest submarine tragedy [More]

Sudanese 'nodding syndrome' confounds experts *
Martha Halim lives in fear. She is terrified of the moon's phases, afraid of eating and fearful of fires, rivers and ponds. [More]

Swedes deal blow to euro with big No vote *
Swedish voters delivered a stunning blow to the single European currency yesterday when they voted 56 per cent against joining the euro in a hard-fought campaign that was overshadowed by last week's murder of Foreign Minister Anna Lindh. [More]

Swedish police interrogate murder suspect *
Swedish police interrogated and took DNA samples from the suspected killer of Foreign Minister Anna Lindh early Wednesday, following his capture in a Stockholm suburb, authorities said. [More]

Taliban lurches back to power *
The intimidation tactics are simple, if horribly brutal . . . [More]

Ten African nations vow to eradicate polio *
Ten African countries on Monday will launch a vast campaign designed to eradicate polio on the continent once and for all, health officials said. [More]

The battle of the Madonna *
Don't let the calm scene fool you. This tiny, perfect picture is the subject of a fierce fight rife with historical ironies, SARAH MILROY writes, pitting a wealthy gallery in the New World against the staid defenders of culture in Britain. And did we mention the money-hungry Duke? [More]

The face of AIDS in Mozambique *
Graça Nevas is Mozambique's 'AIDS celebrity' after saying on television 'the disease exists, I have it,' STEPHANIE NOLEN reports. [More]

The merchant and the missile *
Arrest of London salesman comes amid new fears of al-Qaeda terrorist strikes [More]

The peace goes to pieces *
It will take more than a commitment of 500 Canadians, needed as they are, to save Afghanistan, says Human Rights Watch's SAMAN ZIA-ZARIFI. [More]

The return of the Shining Path *
In Peru, the very mention of Sendero Luminoso -- the Shining Path -- evokes painful memories of the neo-Marxist revolutionary group that blurred the concepts of terror, crime and war; a fanatical group that went beyond the typical confines of rural guerrilla warfare to major offensives involving extensive urban terror. [More]

The Sutyagin case doesn't indict all Russian justice *
Western and Russian observers alike were dismayed last week, when the Moscow City Court convicted researcher Igor Sutyagin of espionage. An apparent miscarriage of justice was one reason, but also troubling was the realization that even jury trials, which occupy a special place in the criminal-justice reform in Russia, could deliver such results. [More]

The Third World War is now *
From Palestine to Iraq, the region is aflame with conflict. Yet the need for dialogue is ignored, says Prince EL HASSAN BIN TALAL. [More]

The war for a cure has a catch *
The global fight against AIDS is flagging. Canada was a leader with Bill C-9, but the legislation's flaws could hurt our efforts to get generic drugs to Africa, says activist RICHARD ELLIOTT. [More]

The WTO is simply ignored *
The World Trade Organization is once again in the news, not so much for its Montreal meeting, but because of the demonstrations that inevitably follow it wherever it goes. As expected, protesters come with the usual list of complaints: The WTO is undemocratic, it constitutes a new world government, it overrides national sovereignty. [More]

Thinkers return to N.S. to study world's threats *
A group of 200 international scientists, academics and ardent opponents of nuclear weapons is pondering the possibility of global destruction in Halifax this week -- before heading to the scenic shores of the Nova Scotia village of Pugwash where the movement began in 1955. [More]

This is no time for half-measures, Mr. Sharon *
It's a familiar pattern: For Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas, convincing Israel to release a significant number of Palestinian political prisoners is not just another test of Israel's sincerity in implementing the "roadmap" to peace, but a key to Mr. Abbas's political survival in a skeptical Palestinian constituency. [More]

Thousands greet arrival of Haitian rebels in capital *
Philippe led a caravan of rebels into the capital Monday, Paul Knox reports from Port-au-Prince. [More]

Tony and the tangled web *
The British Prime Minister's moral certainty got his country into Iraq. It's hardly the right strategy to get him out of the Kelly affair, says political scientist JENNIFER WELSH [More]

Top Haitian rebel demands army be re-established *
Emboldened rebel chief Guy Philippe took over the former military headquarters Tuesday, threatened to arrest Haiti's Prime Minister and warned the country's new president to reconstitute its disbanded army. [More]

Tracking threatened cultures *
Half of humanity's cultural legacy could soon disappear, Wade Davis and Chris Rainier say. So they're doing something about it [More]

Transcripts of frantic WTC calls made public *
Transcripts of harrowing emergency phone calls made by people stranded in the burning World Trade Center towers depict the horror and chaos of the morning and brought a flood of harsh memories back for the families of victims only two weeks before the second anniversary of the terrorist attacks. [More]

True Brit: The Queen's Defiant speech *
The Queen yesterday warned the London terror bombers: "You will not change our way of life." [More]

Two explosions rock French city *
Two explosions rocked central Nice early Sunday, slightly injuring at least 16 people and damaging several government buildings, fire and rescue workers said. [More]

Two more U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq *
Two more U.S. soldiers were killed in combat Wednesday, and the relief agency Oxfam became the fourth non-governmental organization to pull some or all of its foreign staff out of Iraq because of the increasing danger. Total of U.S. soldiers killed since the war "ended" now equal to those who died "during the war." [More]

U.S. Policy: A wolf in wolf's clothing *
Washington is still punishing those who oppose its foreign wars -- as a new squabble at the UN reveals, says JOHN R. MacARTHUR [More]

U.S. releases photos of Hussein's sons *
Editor's Warning: Story contains graphic photographs
The United States released grisly photos Thursday to convince Iraqis that Saddam Hussein's sons were dead and to weaken support for an anti-American insurgency. [More]

U.S.: 'We were all wrong' *
Iraq did not possess banned weapons, former arms expert tells senators. [More]

UN staffer says desk saved her life *
Montreal woman credits colleague's scrounging skills for her survival in Baghdad blast [More]

United States' threat level rises to orange *
The U.S. government on Sunday raised its national threat level to orange, the second-highest, saying attacks were possible during the holiday season and that threat indicators are "perhaps greater now than at any point" since Sept. 11, 2001. [More]

Unwanted but necessary *
Regardless of what the International Court decrees, Israel's security barrier isn't about grabbing land, says Israeli analyst MARK HELLER. [More]

Violent Islamic groups encouraged *
Ineffective U.S. policies in Central Asia are encouraging violent Islamic groups, some seeking to form their own state, says analyst NICOLE JACKSON. [More]

Voluntary AIDS testing creates waves *
The government of Botswana is offering AIDS testing to anyone who is treated at a health clinic, a simple step that may herald a major change in how the disease is handled throughout the developing world. [More]

War for a country's spirit *
The murder of Shia leaders in Najaf is a bid to divide Iraq, and destabilize the region. The world's only hope is to build an Iraq of respect, justice and inclusion, says Jordan's PRINCE HASSAN. [More]

War: greed, not grievance *
It's too easy to blame armed conflict around the world for ethnic strife, says MADELAINE DROHAN [More]

We must slip the surly bonds of protectionism *
A fortnight remains for the 146 member states of the World Trade Organization, gathered in Mexico, to agree that they can put enough on the negotiating table to proceed with the "Doha Round." That round of trade talks, endorsed in principle in Doha, Qatar, two years ago, set the impossible date of the end of 2004 for the completion of the complex and difficult negotiations. [More]

Westons gain posh and spice with Selfridges *
The family of Canadian billionaire Galen Weston has won control of luxury goods retailer Selfridges PLC for $1-billion (U.S.), a move industry observers say will add more polish and European flair to Mr. Weston's high-end Holt Renfrew. [More]

What it takes to fight HIV/AIDS in Africa *
As the United States, Canada and more than 40 other donor countries gather today in Paris to discuss AIDS funding, officials are well aware that getting the epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa under control will require more than billions of dollars in new spending commitments and a massive inflow of affordable drugs [More]

What's striped on the outside, but has a heart as black as night? *
This man has no friends, nor allies; everyone crows as "Tubby" Black goes down; today, Canadians learned that the disgraced Conrad Black will be sentenced to between 6.5 and 8.1 years in prison. Prosectors sought more, but at least it can be said that "Prison Grey is the New Black." [More]

Where the best isn't enough *
Ninety per cent of the world's HIV/AIDS infections are in Africa, and the bulk of the rest are also in the developing world. It is an overwhelming reality, and the first nation to make any serious effort to come to grips with it is Botswana, which is offering free treatment for all its people with HIV/AIDS. [More]

WHO official targets global eradication of polio *
David Heymann, an epidemiologist with the World Health Organization, was thrust into the limelight when he was charged with stopping SARS. His reward for succeeding is even more daunting: Finish the job of eradicating polio by 2005. [More]

Who sexed up the story? *
They say that dead men tell no tales. But sometimes their deeds speak volumes. By killing himself, British bio-weapons expert David Kelly has turned Britain's political crisis on its head -- and left the BBC with a whole lot of explaining to do. [More]

WHO targets polio in Africa despite local resistance *
The World Health Organization plans to launch a massive immunization campaign Monday, targeting 63 million children in 10 African countries as a polio outbreak spreads from heavily Muslim northern Nigeria. [More]

Why are you here, Mr. Nigger? *
Back in the USSR, racial tolerance was a top priority, but in today's Russia,writes MARK MACKINNON, people of colour live in perpetual fear. Xenophobia is on the rise, and violent skinheads don't deserve all the blame. [More]

Why Canada must not intercept asylum-seekers *
In 1948, the world was still reeling from the horrors of the Holocaust and the failure of states to protect Jews fleeing Germany. To prevent a recurrence of such atrocities, the United Nations General Assembly unanimously declared that "everyone has the right to seek and enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution." [More]

Why the BBC is to blame *
The public broadcaster's dubious standards led to David Kelly's death, London-based commentator JOHN LLOYD asserts [More]

Will Saddam spill the beans? *
This man has a strong sense of self-preservation. The captive's current meekness is no surprise -- nor is the likelihood that he will try to rebuild his legend, says biographer ANDREW COCKBURN. [More]

World must intervene in Uganda, Axworthy says *
Former Canadian foreign affairs minister Lloyd Axworthy said Tuesday that suffering in northern Uganda's civil war has reached the point that it cannot be solved locally and requires urgent international intervention. [More]

World's deepest-diving sub vanishes *
The world's deepest-diving submarine has disappeared in the choppy Pacific Ocean off Japan, a blow to deep-sea research on everything from earthquakes to rare bacteria, an official said Monday. [More]

World's largest liner sets sail *
The world's largest cruise ship, Queen Mary 2, set sail for the United States on its maiden voyage Monday, carrying 2,600 passengers who paid up to $48,000 (U.S.) for the privilege. [More]

WTO seals deal on cheap drugs *
The World Trade Organization on Saturday sealed its agreement to allow poor countries to import cheap copies of patented drugs for killer diseases like HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis. [More]

Your teeth don't scare us *
Cancun was no failure. It showed the richest countries that developing nations have fangs, too. The new power blocs could lead to a WTO with more bite, says trade guru DAVID WOODS [More]

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'All my dreams have been disturbed' *
Arrested on suspicion of posing a security threat, Muhammed Naeem says he is an unfortunate victim of circumstance [More]

'I'm in Grade 8,' shouts the boy with the bottle *
Russia's renown for alcohol abuse is greater than ever-- now even kids are knocking 'em back, MARK MacKINNON reports. With a Canadian-backed treatment centre admitting children as young as 8, public officials blame more than the great vodka tradition. Those beer ads work a little too well. [More]

15,000 believed to have died in French heat wave *
An estimated 15,000 people died in France's scorching heat wave this August, the country's largest undertaker said Tuesday, surpassing the official government estimate of 11,435. [More]

A cynic lands a miracle *
A surprise $85,000 donation from a famous director is earmarked for a Cambodian museum [More]

Africa's HIV babies given hope *
For Stephanie Jones, the babies offer proof -- 300 of them born during the past 18 months at Coronation Hospital in a rough area of Johannesburg. [More]

Aiming in the wrong direction *
Instead of exiling or killing Yasser Arafat, Israel should let the Palestinians decide his future [More]

Antarctic 'ozone hole' reaches record size *
The ozone hole over the Antarctic this year has reached the record size of 28 million square kilometres set three years ago, the United Nations' weather organization said Wednesday. [More]

Asteroid a threat to Earth? *
An asteroid about a kilometre wide has been spotted in distant space and will be closely studied for its possible future course while visible over the next two months, British astronomers said Tuesday [More]

Astronomers find planet almost as old as universe *
A planet nearly as old as the universe has been discovered in the constellation Scorpius by a consortium of Canadian and U.S. astronomers. [More]

Bandit militia slaughters civilians in Congo *
A government-allied militia led by a commander known as "Cut Throat" has massacred more than 100 civilians and soldiers in southeast Congo, the army said Tuesday, further underscoring the difficulties faced by the government and the United Nations in calming the country's lawless east. [More]

Beijing pulls pages from Clinton memoir *
Former first lady's frank references to repression in China fail to appear in new Mandarin edition. [More]

Belgium dismisses Bush war-crimes complaints *
Belgium's highest court dismissed war-crimes complaints Wednesday against former U.S. president George Bush, current U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell and Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, ruling that it no longer has a legal basis to charge them. [More]

Benazir Bhutto, 54 *
Benazir Bhutto falls to an assassin's bullet, and a bomb, sending shockwaves around the free world. [More]

Blair stands firm on Iraq invasion *
British Prime Minister Tony Blair acknowledged yesterday that his leadership is going through a "rough patch" but made no apologies for having backed the war on Iraq and pushed unpopular domestic policies, and vowed to seek a third term in office. [More]

Bono argues with Bush over AIDS spending *
Bono, the Irish rock star and social activist, said Tuesday he had a "good ole row" with President Bush over global AIDS funding. [More]

Bono says he'll be a 'pain' about Africa *
Funny, articulate rock star praises Canada's international presence. [More]

Breaking the food chains *
When Florence Wambugu lectured at the University of Toronto last week there was a security guard on hand, just in case. Sometimes demonstrators show up when she speaks. To them, this stately, eloquent Kenyan woman has a dangerous message. [More]

British government did not 'sex up' dossier: panel *
Prime Minister Tony Blair's government did not deliberately "sex up" a dossier on Iraqi weapons by including a disputed claim about chemical and biological weapons, Parliament's Intelligence and Security Committee reported Thursday. [More]

Brother says Diana feared for her life *
The late Diana, Princess of Wales, believed her phone was bugged and that she was being spied on before her death, her brother said at a press conference Wednesday. [More]

Cambodia: That old black magic *
Violence is never far from the surface in Cambodia. With the recent election only days away, a triple homicide is assumed to be political carnage, the last thing this troubled nation needs. But, as Canadian writer CHRIS TENOVE learns when he finally reaches the scene of the crime, the real motive for the killings may be something ancient and much more sinister [More]

Can they unscramble the Haiti mess? *
A shattered nation, and foreign powers who don't learn from past mistakes are no recipe for nation-building, say DAVID MALONE and KIRSTI SAMUELS. [More]

Canada's UN ranking drops *
Just when Canadians started feeling good about themselves over winning the race to play host to the 2010 Winter Olympics, the United Nations has pulled Canada down a few notches on its annual quality-of-life ranking. [More]

Canadian may hold key to identifying Chilean blob *
Large lump of flesh could be the remains of a giant octopus or a decaying whale [More]

Caribbean school linked to suspect college *
Ties promoted with now-defunct business facility that's part of federal terror probe [More]

Coldplay calls for fair trade *
British rock group Coldplay is campaigning to give poor countries better access to global trade, but don't expect their activism to show up in their music anytime soon. "It's very hard to find things that rhyme with North American Free Trade Agreement," said lead singer Chris Martin in Cancun on Tuesday. [More]

Cubans keep driving to Florida *
Two Cubans who tried to sail to Florida in a truck converted to a pontoon boat last year have made another attempt, this time piloting a seagoing 1950s-era Buick. [More]

Dallaire's Rwandan tale slated for film *
Halifax-based Salter Street Films has secured the rights to retired lieutenant-general Roméo Dallaire's upcoming book on his experience in Rwanda. [More]

Death by overwork doubles in Japan *
A record number of Japanese managers, engineers and workers died of overwork last year, the government said this week, showing that the country's economic slump hasn't reduced pressures on Japanese to work long hours. [More]

Death toll in France reaches 5,000 *
A senior French health official resigned on Monday after the country's health minister acknowledged that as many as 5,000 people might have died in a blistering heat wave. [More]

DNA match of 9/11 victims limited *
Up to 1,000 of World Trade Center dead may never be identified, pathologist says [More]

Dutch make pot a prescription drug *
Pharmacies to sell medical marijuana to the chronically ill in 'historic step' [More]

English-language boom worldwide draws support and condemnation *
In the Taiwanese city of Tainin, garbage trucks are required to carry loudspeakers that endlessly shout phrases designed to improve residents' conversational English. [More]

EU warns on global trade pact protection of wine, cheese *
The European Union issued a list Thursday of 41 wines, cheeses and other products it wants protected by a global trade pact, accusing other countries of abusing the names of its delicacies. [More]

Ex-PM pushes ban on head scarves *
Former French prime minister Alain Juppe on Wednesday urged a “massive vote” of approval for a bill that would ban Islamic head scarves in public schools, as Muslims opposed to the measure protested outside the National Assembly. [More]

Finnish fans happy, despite defeat *
The Toronto Maple Leafs' good-will visit to Helsinki proved be a success on all fronts. The fans went home happy, despite the 5-3 loss by the home team Jokerit, having seen National Hockey League players in the flesh, and the Leafs were encouraged by several young players as well as veterans. [More]

Floods surge in storm-lashed France *
Chirac heads for south to check out rescue efforts; at least five dead. [More]

France in the hot seat *
The record-setting heat wave that swept across much of Europe in the first half of August caused thousands of deaths and widespread economic damage. But only in France did it turn into a national disaster, sparking public outrage over government inaction and ineptitude and raising serious questions about cherished French institutions. [More]

Geneva: the road to peace *
Although the recently released Geneva accord outlining a potential Israeli-Palestinian peace deal is far from perfect or complete, it's a welcome development. [More]

Gilligan joins BBC exodus *
The storm consuming the British Broadcasting Corp. sent a chill through British journalism Friday, as senior figures warned that a judge's harsh criticism of the broadcaster could discourage tough investigative reporting. [More]

Girl's abduction exposes extent of Internet luring *
tale of the 12-year-old British girl who ran away with a former U.S. marine she met on the Internet has police and parents concerned that it may be an extreme result of the sexual advances children receive over the Internet. [More]

Global AIDS epidemic still spreading, UN says *
The HIV/AIDS epidemic continues its devastating march across the globe, with more deaths and infections this year than ever before, according to a United Nations report released yesterday. [More]

GMO wheat risky, study asserts *
Genetically modified wheat is "environmentally unsafe" and, if approved for use in Canada, could close markets to this country's multibillion-dollar crop, Canadian scientists have found. [More]

Hijacker ordered crash, FBI says *
U.S. investigators now believe that a hijacker in the cockpit aboard United Airlines Flight 93 instructed terrorist-pilot Ziad Jarrah to crash the jetliner into a Pennsylvania field because of a passenger uprising in the cabin. [More]

Hitler's face on wine bottle tasteless: German minister *
Germany has complained to Italy about a winery that labels its bottles with portraits of Adolf Hitler. [More]

Hockey Camp opens amid pall *
The shocking slaying of Anna Lindh, Sweden's Foreign Minister, cast a pall over the National Hockey League's latest excursion to Europe and left some of Sweden's most famous athletes wondering whether one of the few places left in the world where celebrities can wander freely was about to be lost [More]

Human rights are for the tricky cases, too *
The pesky thing about human rights is that they belong to human beings. Not some more than others. Not citizens, not residents. The universality of the human-rights commitment is hard to square with the us-them line that drives immigration policy. [More]

Invaders at the gate *
From snakehead fish in Maryland to zebra mussels in the Great Lakes, invasions by foreign species are a growing problem. [More]

Iraqi press runs free and wild *
With little in the way of television news, print is king. Even conservative estimates put the number of new publications at 90. MARK MacKINNON reports on the growing pains of a burgeoning industry [More]

Ireland curbing liquor ads *
Ireland will restrict advertisements and wants to slap health warnings on alcoholic beverages in hopes of deterring heavy drinking by teenagers, Prime Minister Bertie Ahern announced Monday. [More]

Israeli films go behind the news *
Just over a month ago, front pages and nightly news programs around the world carried startling pictures of a Palestinian teenager standing alone at an Israeli checkpoint south of the West Bank town of Nablus, wearing an explosives-packed vest, which he eventually cut free from his body with a pair of scissors delivered by a robot. [More]

It's lonely at the top *
Rebuilding societies in crises can't be done by one country alone. But one country's solo actions can make rebuilding a lot more complex, says DAVID MALONE [More]

Korea still dangerous flashpoint (part three of three) *
Tension increases in world's most heavily militarized zone, writes GEOFFREY YORK [More]

Largest Arctic ice shelf breaks up, wiping out unique ecosystem *
The largest Arctic ice shelf is beginning to rip itself apart, 4,500 years after it first began forming. [More]

Last American Titanic survivor dies *
Lillian Gertrud Asplund, the last American survivor of the sinking of the Titanic in 1912, has died, a funeral home said Sunday. She was 99. [More]

London subway workers to go on strike on New Year's Eve *
The Financial Times reported on Saturday that the strike was announced on Thursday after London Underground station staff voted by more than five to one to take action over disagreements about the working week, manning levels and safety. [More]

Lord Shawcross, 101 *
Lord Shawcross, who was Britain's chief prosecutor at the Nazi war crimes trials in Nuremberg and a representative at the