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Climate and Environment
- 'Only 50/50' chance that 2C climate target will be met
- Call for murder charges to be brought over toxic dumping
- Climate conference: 'Make bankers pay for deal'
- Flood sweeps man to death as UK storms continue
- 'Climategate' review panellist quits after his impartiality questioned
- 'Fourteen days to seal history's judgment on this generation'
- 127 areas to be proposed as English marine conservation zones
- After the floods, the clean-up operation
- Almost 300 flood warnings issued as Britain faces further deluges
- Australian floods wreak havoc on Queensland economy
- Big freeze brings ice, snow and now potholes
- BP briefs No 10 as fight to cap well enters critical 24 hours
- BP oil spill disaster report paves way for bitter legal battle
- BP shuts UK field after oil leak
- Britain braces for weeks of transport chaos
- Britain colder than Arctic and Antarctic with just two weeks until summer
- Britain faces worst drought since 1976
- Britain finally waves farewell to radioactive waste from abroad
- Britain rules out climate treaty at summit
- Britain wakes up to dusting of snow and there's more on the way...
- Britain's big freeze continues
- Britain's four-day battle against worst snow in 23 years
- British butterflies suffer devastating year after 2012's wet summer
- Butterfly effect: why Britain is suddenly all of a flutter
- Cancun climate change summit: deaths from floods and drought double
- Climate change sceptic Peter Lilley joins Commons energy committee
- Climate change will damage your health
- Coalition failing on majority of green pledges, analysis shows
- Cold weather and snow continue to disrupt power and transport across UK
- Copenhagen: Leaked draft deal widens rift between rich and poor nations
- Copenhagen: World leaders 'face public fury' if agreement proves impossible
- David Cameron in forest sale climbdown
- Deep-water oil drilling: banned in America, allowed here
- Drivers punished for going green
- Earthquake hits North Yorkshire
- Emissions rise at UK universities puts 2020 targets in doubt
- Energy bill expected to favour nuclear and gas over renewables
- Energy security questioned as National Grid cuts off gas to factories
- Environment policy reforms to add £300 to energy bills
- Environmental Protection UK forced to shut
- EU cuts must go deeper to get Copenhagen climate deal
- EU sets toughest targets to fight global warming
- Extinct short-haired bumblebee to be reintroduced in England
- First grit, then gas – now it's vegetables in short supply
- First Scotland was blanketed. Now England wakes up to the snow
- Freezing temperatures and blanket of snow continue to hold UK in icy grip
- Global warming? It doesn't exist, says Ryanair boss O'Leary
- Government departments cut CO2 emissions by 10%
- Government's doomed £6bn plan to dispose of nuclear waste
- Green activists claim victory over coal power
- Green rating of British bus firms leaves Google and Apple behind
- Growing Valentine's Day roses harming Kenya's ecological site
- Heathrow’s third runway passes the carbon test
- Heatwave brings rare moths to UK
- Households 'may have to pay up to £125' for green changes to poor homes
- How much worse can it get for BP?
- Huge rise in bathroom rubbish on UK beaches
- Hundreds stranded with more travel chaos to come
- Hurricane Katia: 80mph winds as Britain takes a battering
- Inconvenient truth for Al Gore as his North Pole sums don't add up
- Invading cannibal ladybirds take over Britain's homes
- June on course to be wettest in a century - but rain to clear for start of Wimbledon
- Leaders to agree to climate change deal
- Look what’s struggling to swim the Thames now… trout
- Major cities at risk from rising sea level threat
- Met Office analysis reveals 'clear fingerprints' of man-made climate change
- Ministers urged to cap aviation emissions to meet carbon targets
- More than two extinct species a year in England, report reveals
- Most English and Welsh rivers too dirty for new European standards
- Motorists and holidaymakers face 'green tax' rise of £800
- Motorists warned not to travel
- Nearly 50 beaches in Britain fail cleanliness test
- Nuclear waste 'may be blighting 1,000 UK sites'
- Scientist admits leaked emails were 'pretty awful'
- Scotland may cull deer in greater numbers to reduce road accidents
- Severe weather leaves 30,000 homes in Northern Ireland without power
- Shell and SSE join forces for UK's first carbon-capture project
- Smog alert: Britain's lung weekend
- Snow chaos: passenger plane overshoots runway
- Tax rebate plan for 'green' drivers and homeowners
- The real cost of the the big chill
- The soggy weather’s Christmas gift: no hosepipe ban next year
- Thinktank blasts wind power support
- Thirty degrees below – and at least a hundred dead: Europe's big freeze
- UK beaches blighted by balloons and discarded bags of dog poo
- UK slips down global green investment rankings
- UK's top scientist urges care in presenting results of climate change
- Warning of salt emergency as Britain's 'deep freeze' continues
- Weather: a wet May makes hay, but what will snow do?
- Weather: batten down the hatches, we're in for a 'European monsoon'
- Wet prospects for Ascot and Wimbledon
- We’re mastering the oil slick, says BP chief facing flood of lawsuits
- Whaling: the great betrayal
- Why did Britain slide into snow chaos again?
- Wild flower re-planting to boost bee numbers
- Wind farms to increase energy bills by £178 a year
- World on course for catastrophic 6° rise, reveal scientists
- £500 on electricity bills to pay for green energy
Freedom and Security
- Anglo-French deal rewrites military history
- Horsemeat scandal: prosecutions possible over burger contamination, warns Government
- School evacuated as MI5 warns of growing threat from former IRA men
- Sea-based nuclear deterrent expensive and 'insane' – ex-defence minister
- You would be daft to scrap Trident, Hutton tells Brown
- 'Prepare for all-out cyber war'
- 30,000 Twitter users could face legal action over gag breaches
- A force for good? the rise of private police
- Agent in underwear bomb plot 'was British'
- April Jones: 'Our sweet, innocent girl is not coming home'
- Armed Forces must wait five years longer for pension
- Army at war over axing of battalions
- Backlash over plans to monitor all internet use
- Berlin Wall: 20 years after the fall
- British nuclear sub forced back to base
- Britons urged to act on identity fraud
- Brown promises to scale back Trident
- Censored: MI5 links to murdered Litvinenko
- CIA given details of British Muslim students
- Councils' crackdown on leafleting is 'a blow to liberty', says campaign group
- Cut in police numbers has contributed to rise in crime, police chief warns
- Defence cut threat to the special relationship
- Defence cuts: Gurkhas and RAF take brunt
- Defence cuts: Thousands of soldiers could face compulsory redundancy
- Extra staff to be deployed to tackle Heathrow immigration crisis
- Failed anti-terror campaigns 'waste of money', Prevent strategy admits
- Fears of 'licence to kill' as Tories bid to change self-defence law
- Fears of crackdown on right to protest in wake of anti-cuts violence
- Fifth night of flag rioting hits Belfast
- Free press is only way to expose abuse, MPs warned
- George W Bush: 'waterboarding' saved British lives
- Guantánamo Bay detainees to be paid compensation by UK government
- Homeowners are given new rights to attack burglars
- I've killed Taliban fighters, says Prince Harry
- It’s bobbies, not buildings we need in the fight against crime
- Julian Assange to learn extradition decision
- Letters raise fears for last Briton in Guantanamo
- MI5 warns al-Qaida regaining UK toehold after Arab spring
- Ministry of Defence pays millions to rehire sacked civilians
- MPs and peers told to flee for their lives if terrorists attack Parliament
- National 'virtual ID card' scheme set for launch (Is there anything that could possibly go wrong?)
- Nick Clegg urges newspapers to accept press regulation proposals
- Northern Ireland police injured trying to defend office from rioters
- Occupy London: police and bailiffs move in to evict St Paul's protesters
- Phone hacking: Phone hacking: Now Met police are in the dock
- Police 'kettling' under fire as May refuses to rule out water cannon
- Police and MI5 get power to watch you on the web
- Police forces warned to treat their tweeters with care
- Police officer targeted in Northern Ireland shooting
- Police vans to be fitted with CCTV to uncover hidden abuse
- Police warned not to misuse anti-terror laws to round up innocent people
- Politicians agree deal on post-Leveson Royal Charter for press regulation - but Daily Mail Group, News International and Telegraph Media Group refuse to sign up
- Private investigators accessed police files, says leaked report
- Revealed: the £130bn cost of Trident replacement
- Risk-averse Britain may lose stomach for war, warns minister
- Russian 'spy': MI5 investigating MP's aide for months
- Scrap Trident, voters tell Brown
- Secret cyber-warriors: our war on Whitehall
- Sweden suicide bomber's British connections under investigation
- Territorial Army faces deep cuts
- Tony Blair says Coalition is soft on crime
- Trident nuclear deterrent upgrade 'nonsensical', says liberal thinktank
- Unpredictable 'lone wolves' pose biggest Olympic security threat
- Young offenders: government plans to put education 'at heart of detention'
Children and Education
- Scandal of class divide at A-level
- Junk food banned in maintained schools is being sold in academies
- Parents won't let their children roam, says National Trust
- Schools that go it alone do best – report
- Teachers speak out against Michael Gove's 'lists of facts' curriculum
- Teenagers risk death in internet strangling craze
- Time for change: How a young woman plans to shake up the school system
- To sleep, perchance to get better grades
- 300,000 pupils missing out on good GCSEs
- 400 primary schools to become academies, says prime minister
- 50,000 A-level students to miss out on place at university
- A fifth of children have never received a letter
- A-level chaos as students fail to turn up for exams
- Academic curriculum may worsen discipline problems say MPs
- Advertising ban won't stop 'brand bullying', says childhood expert
- Almost 12,000 children missing school
- Anonymous complaints by parents to trigger school inspections
- Apprentices more useful than graduates, employers say
- Autistic pupils unfairly excluded from school, study finds
- Bad behaviour in the classroom is being fuelled by parents, union leader says
- Balls's plans for home education should be scaled back
- Battle lines drawn as Lib Dems fight tuition fee rises
- Booze, bags, bangles … Teachers report rise in gifted students
- Border Agency decision threatens thousands of international students
- Cameron opens free school with 'elitist' speech
- Can Sweden teach our schools a lesson?
- Career changers a new force in teacher training
- CBI advises raising university fees to £5,000 a year
- CBI criticises schools over 'inadequate' literacy and numeracy
- Childcare commission to consider longer school days
- Childcare now costs more than top public school
- Children as young as three 'causing hidden crimewave'
- Children failed by 'flawed' maths lessons, warns examiner
- Children go back to basics in maths
- Children's computer and television time linked to psychological problems
- Classroom drive to curb violence in relationships
- Company offers same quality education as top public schools for half the price
- Competition for secondary school places remains tough
- Conservatives want to return to traditional A-level
- Conservatives would give head teachers greater powers
- David Willetts: older people should return to higher education
- Defiant teachers say Gove won't stop strike
- Dumping languages stunts life chances, schools are told
- Education's great class divide
- End to detention of child asylum-seekers
- Every pupil should read Dickens, says minister... (but he's too hard, says the author's biographer)
- Exam board 'pressed by Ofqual to alter GCSE grades'
- Exam board to penalise private school pupils
- Exam boards should not set their own syllabuses, say MPs
- Exam system 'diseased', claims former education adviser
- Exclusive: Revealed - Tory plan for firms to run schools for profit
- Exclusive: The great university clearance sale
- Fear of rising class sizes as schools face funding deficit
- Free school meals may be scrapped by councils under 'tidal wave' of cuts
- GCSEs axed: True test to restore faith in exam system
- Global survey sees English schools rise in reading but slip in science
- Gordon Brown to promise crackdown on bad parents
- Gove faces failure: Clegg to veto return of O-levels
- Gove plans to let schools prioritise poorer pupils over middle class
- Gove tells schools to think local in history lessons
- Gove threatens to close failing academies
- Gove's obsession with bygone era will fail pupils, says schools' chief
- Government accused of 'sleight of hand' over tuition fees
- Government plans £20,000 offer to draw first-class graduates into teaching
- Graduate gloom as 83 apply for every vacancy
- GW Theatre group tackles extremism through performances at schools
- Human rights teaching reduces bullying, study finds
- KFC serves up degree course
- Labour's tuition fees cap would benefit richest graduates, thinktank claims
- Lib Dems target Clegg over tuition fees
- Lord Mandelson must confirm that these cuts to higher education are final
- Michael Gove proposes longer school day and shorter holidays
- Michael Gove: schools failing to promote the classics
- Minister heckled at teachers' conference over pension reform
- More British students choose American universities
- New-style 'nappy curriculum' will damage childhood
- Nick Clegg: pay universities to admit poor students
- Nick Clegg: we’ll push more state pupils into university
- No male teachers at 4,500 primary schools, figures show
- No university places for 50,000 with good grades
- Non-EU postgraduate numbers in UK fall for first time in 16 years
- NUS plans mass student walkout
- Ofqual: exam seminars to be axed after Telegraph probe
- Ofsted chief inspector cautions against growing number of early GCSE entries
- Ofsted: English standards in primary schools 'too low'
- One English village school is closing every month, campaigners say
- One in four young people get no careers advice, survey shows
- One in three academies missing GCSE target
- Optimistic teenagers expect to earn £51,000
- Overcrowded and crumbling: cutbacks leave schools in crisis
- Oxford University admissions favour men, study finds
- Oxford University to campaign for US-style scholarships
- Parents offered guide to teaching body confidence
- Parents to control special education needs budgets
- Penalty for paying off student loan early is lifted
- Public schools threaten university boycott
- Pupils 'spend too little time on Holocaust'
- Pupils going hungry as school meals shrink, teachers warn
- Racism and school exclusion
- Raise the bar for teacher recruits, schools committee says
- Rework A-levels to end 'grade inflation’
- Rise in teachers' injury payouts
- Royal wedding could disrupt exam build-up, teachers warn
- Rules on school expulsions 'will fuel bad behaviour'
- School admissions: nine children competing for top places
- School leavers to join civil service on fast-track apprenticeship scheme
- School reprimands seven-year-old boys for playing 'army game'
- Schools 'offload problem pupils to cut figures for exclusions'
- Schools breaking law by not teaching religious studies, poll finds
- Schools face cuts to pay for £1bn academies overspend
- Schools face millions of pounds in cuts for being prudent
- Schools failing to help girls escape career stereotypes, says Ofsted
- Schools must earn poor pupil payment
- Schools watchdog mauled as critics bite back at 'wasteful' bureaucracy
- Schools win right to turn away middle class children
- Secondary school where every teacher will be a soldier
- Single-sex schools help boys to enjoy arts, says study
- Sixth formers and students to protest about Education Maintenance Allowance cut
- Social class has more effect on children than good parenting, study finds
- Start school at six, key schools report recommends
- Student complaints rise sharply
- Student fees hike 'may cut applications by half'
- Student protests: Police ask colleges for demonstration details
- Student protests: school's out across the UK as children take to the streets
- Sure Start 'has failed to boost children's literacy and numeracy'
- Surge in students studying for UK degrees abroad
- Swedish free schools creator rejects 'flawed' Tory version
- Targets culture puts state schools at Oxbridge disadvantage
- Teachers 'to blame' for lack of ambition among pupils
- Teachers reveal toll of violence against them in schools
- Teachers suspected of abuse given anonymity
- Teachers tempted to rewrite pupils' exam answers
- The really free schools are online
- Third of Britain's elite universities still looking for students
- Third of graduate jobs will go to people with work experience, poll shows
- Third of parents fear upsetting children with weight talk, survey finds
- Thousands of schools lack proper kitchen facilities
- Top 100 universities: British institutions perform badly in league
- Trainee teachers face tougher English and maths tests
- Tuition fees study challenges claim that changes are progressive
- Two hours' homework a night linked to better school results
- UK Border Agency criticised over student visas
- UK Border Agency has let thousands of overseas students overstay
- UK universities likely to follow US model, says leading vice-chancellor
- UK university applications in 'steepest fall for 30 years'
- Undergraduate drop-out rate falls to 7.4%
- Unions bullying heads to shut schools for public sector strikes
- Universities challenged: Further education budget reduced by £573m
- Universities face a long wait for funding increase, minister says
- Universities in crisis as student numbers fall
- Universities launch tuition fees price war
- Universities make £60bn a year for UK economy, study finds
- Universities must engage and debate with extremists, report says
- Universities plan job losses
- Universities report 1,500 concerns over foreign students every month
- University Equality plans at risk, say MPs
- University funding Make students pay back more, Russell Group urges
- University funding slashed by £940 million
- University of Cambridge recruits students to babysit drunken partygoers
- University students expect to graduate with debts in excess of £15,000
- Why single-sex schools are bad for your health
- Witchcraft is growing threat to children in Britain, warn police
- Worst violence contained on national day of protest
- Young people bear brunt as councils reveal cuts to services
- £500m in three years: what you paid to send diplomats' children to school
Politics and Legislation
- General Election 2010 Brown battles to cling on to power
- 'Budget for growth’ claim is questioned by analysts
- 'New generation' eye up posts in Miliband's Shadow Cabinet
- 'Seething' Brown claims moral high ground – but will not attack his old ally
- Brown's legacy may be a party never again able to rule alone
- Budget 2013: Osborne defends his 'Drown Your Sorrows' Budget by saying things could be worse
- Budget figures are not based on reality, say experts
- Cameron's tax pledge leaves £7bn hole in public finances
- David Miliband challenges Lib-Dem MPs to back his plans for electoral reform
- Exclusive: Labour bets the house with pledge to outspend Tories
- Health reforms are ripe for exploitation, says think-tank
- Lib Dem U-turn on nuclear energy sees Huhne announce eight new power stations
- New Labour, new danger: Tony Blair leads party grandees in attack on Ed Miliband
- Osborne tries to win back trust after 'wobble' on spending cuts
- Peter Hain offers Lib Dems chance of four-year 'partnership'
- Three Lib Dems threaten to quit posts over fees
- William Hague warns EU of British disillusion
- 500 soldiers face losing their jobs to help MoD balance the books
- A day that began with Cameron in charge and ended with him in shock
- A new return to Victorian values
- After the Coalition: here is a Tory formula for a better future
- Alistair Darling to launch Scotland's 'no to independence' campaign
- Andrew Neil: 'This is an election in which we might change British politics'
- At last, Mr Cameron calls in the grown-ups
- Back from the brink: EU ministers approve €10bn bailout deal to save Cyprus
- Back me or sack me over NHS reforms, Cameron tells voters
- Bankruptcy hanging like a cloud over Labour's election campaign
- Barack Obama agrees to form joint national security body with UK
- Barack Obama snubs Gordon Brown over private talks
- Big brother refuses to tell Ed if he'll serve on the front bench
- Blair's memoirs: From No10 to No1
- Blair’s last throw of the dice for presidency
- Bonfire of the election pledges
- Boris Johnson appoints £127,000-a-year cost-cutting adviser
- Boris Johnson declares £1.3m earnings
- Boris Johnson's charm offensive
- Boris Johnson: Britain leaving EU would not be cataclysmic
- BP lobbied Jack Straw before he changed mind over Lockerbie bomber
- Britain set for 'sluggish' climb out of recession
- Britain should stay in European Union, says Obama administration
- Britain to vote next year on electoral reform
- British ministers 'spooked' by chief scientific advisor
- Brooks told Cameron: We're in this together
- Brown fires starting gun in race for Downing St
- Brown fumes at Murdoch's sabotage of his big moment
- Brown goes into battle with billions for defence
- Brown signals start of bitter election campaign
- Brown tries to put policy above personality
- Brown tries to win votes with banking greed laws
- Brown's 'reign of terror' at Downing Street
- Brown: I will cut spending
- Brown’s ‘bigot’ blunder plunges Labour campaign into crisis
- Budget 2010: Another day in paradise with Darling
- Budget 2011: £100m science sweetener after last year's £1.4bn cuts
- Budget 2011: £7 pack of cigarettes
- Budget in a fortnight as Britain heads for May 6 election
- Cable ally calls on Clegg to quit as leader before next election
- Call for quotas to boost number of women MPs
- Cameron 'fighting to win' as he embarks on non-stop tour of British Isles
- Cameron accused of letting Britain 'sleepwalk out of Europe'
- Cameron admits U-turn on Lisbon
- Cameron and Clegg face off over reform to voting system
- Cameron attacked for Egypt visit with defence sales team in tow
- Cameron backs body to divide powers if Scots reject separation
- Cameron can't blame it all on Labour
- Cameron faces his first EU challenge: to avoid a row in Brussels
- Cameron hit by Tory backlash on environment
- Cameron hopes public 'business plans' will open up Whitehall's corridors
- Cameron reveals civil servants who earn more than him
- Cameron reveals his vision for 'moral markets'
- Cameron set to challenge convention over hung parliament
- Cameron struggles to make the running
- Cameron to cut seats in Commons by 10 per cent
- Cameron tries to fix 'women problem' in the lower ranks
- Cameron ‘playing with fire’ in plan that may bar Sinn Féin from power
- Cameron: we need to get a grip
- Cameron’s coalition reaches out to Obama
- Chancellor faces down Cabinet 'jitters' about economic strategy
- Chaos in Lib Dem ranks as vote on tuition fees creates party split
- Citizen Dave: Cameron's conference speech
- Clegg defends cuts and calls for 'rebalanced' economy
- Clegg lays down law to Cameron on gay rights
- Clegg risks new rift with call for EU to bypass Cameron's veto
- Clegg risks rift with Tories on tax and human rights
- Clegg steps up pressure over Lords reform
- Clegg to blame big cuts in spending on 'bankrupt' Labour
- Coalition at war over 'plot’ to oust Nick Clegg
- Coalition creates 100 peers with Lords deal
- Coalition reeling as voters flock to Labour
- Coalition remains steadfast and united, insists Cameron (just don't mention Europe)
- Coalition split looms over local pay agreements
- Coalition to rush through £6bn of cuts and give up power to forecast growth
- Comment is free Who will fight for electoral reform?
- Concern over budget cut consequences for police
- Could this be Ukip’s day?
- Crime czar Louise Casey blames Gordon Brown for growth of yob culture
- Cuts will bring civil unrest, says police leader
- Cuts will push jobless to 3m
- Daniel Hannan quits as Tory spokesman over Cameron's U-turn
- Darling urges David Miliband to accept Shadow Cabinet role
- David Cameron accused of 'appeasing' Nick Clegg over EU veto as Conservative MPs start to plot
- David Cameron accused of presiding over 'shambles' on fuel as panic buying gets worse
- David Cameron and Alex Salmond at loggerheads over Scottish independence vote
- David Cameron calls for immigration curbs to keep population below 70 million
- David Cameron defiant on EU treaty veto
- David Cameron fails David Letterman's history test on the Late Show
- David Cameron forced to delay key EU speech warning of Britain's exit
- David Cameron goes to war on Britain's 'coasting schools'
- David Cameron in new assault on green belt planning rules
- David Cameron needs to 'get a grip' of NHS reforms warn Lib Dems
- David Cameron promises to back business and fight poverty
- David Cameron releases EU referendum Bill in bid to quell Tory revolt on Europe
- David Cameron sacks adviser in row over Armed Forces pay
- David Cameron says that immigrants should learn English
- David Cameron signals rethink on child benefit cuts
- David Cameron to end 'state monopoly' in provision of public services
- David Cameron unveils plan to sell off the roads
- David Cameron voices fears over rising inflation ahead of jobs summit
- David Cameron's Europe plan is doomed - EU ministers
- David Cameron's fightback hit by poll slump
- David Cameron: Britain responsible for Middle East instability
- David Cameron: our plan to cut debt is failing
- David Miliband is voters' choice for Labour leader, says poll
- David Miliband mulls Shadow Cabinet job to defuse sibling tensions
- David Miliband: my brother and a return to old Labour
- Defence blunder forces Gordon Brown to beat retreat
- Devolution: Wales points the way
- Dissent grows among Lib Dems as hours of meetings end in deadlock
- Double poll blow casts shadow over Miliband's big day
- Economic crisis 'must not derail health and social equality agenda'
- Ed Miliband admits Labour were wrong over debt and need for cuts
- Ed Miliband pledges to introduce personal 'form of socialism' to Labour Party
- Ed Miliband to call for more prominent Made in Britain label
- Ed Miliband to say Labour was wrong over boom and bust
- Ed Miliband urged to start 'bigger and blunter' debate on public spending
- Ed Miliband uses diamond jubilee buzz to speak up for Englishness
- Election debate: David Cameron wins third leg
- England, Miliband's England, is a lost country
- EU failings can't be 'brushed under the carpet', David Cameron to tell leaders
- EU referendum vote: No 10 may table amendment
- Exclusive: Vote of no confidence in Tory economic policies
- Fiercely contested election campaign begins today
- Firearms laws could cause chaos at 2012 Olympics
- First cracks in coalition as Tories query Europe and vote reform policies
- Follow my lead or Labour is finished, Blair tells Miliband
- Food minister Owen Paterson backs GM crops
- Forget cuts and keep spending, Brown told
- France and Germany unite to push Britain to EU sidelines
- From the economy to education, Labour is squeezing Tory lead
- Furious Tories jeer as Labour MPs condemn impact of Margaret Thatcher's policies
- G20 summit: leaders agree to halve deficits by 2013
- General election 2010: David Cameron eyes the prize
- Geoff Hoon says Gordon Brown starved MoD of cash before Iraq war
- George Osborne backs down on pasty tax
- George Osborne plans to increase retirement age to 66
- George Osborne: UK has run out of money
- George Osborne: we will make work pay
- George Osborne: Why should the taxpayer fund 'lifestyles' like those of the Philpotts?
- Get me Jack Bauer - Labour calls in 24 director to revive election campaign
- Give us any leader but Gordon Brown, say voters
- Gordon Brown and Nicholas Sarkozy attempt a reconciliation
- Gordon Brown plays last card – proffering his resignation
- Gordon Brown to TUC: spending cuts are inevitable
- Gordon Brown's fire sale of public assets to raise £16bn
- Gordon Brown: the snowstorm mutiny melts
- Government 'rows back on defence cuts to fund conflicts in Libya and Afghanistan'
- Government spending: defence and health workers
- Government will continue 'difficult' spending cuts, insists David Cameron
- Greens and NUS to mount electoral assault on Lib Dems
- Hillary Clinton due in Belfast amid growing sectarian tensions
- Hillary Clinton urges Northern Ireland to reach deal on police and justice
- Hired guns take aim at target Tory seats
- Human rights law review body fatally split, leaked papers reveal
- I know it looks bad, admits Fox as career hangs in the balance
- Insults and spin: the election battle starts
- Iraq inquiry urged to recall Alastair Campbell after 'rethink'
- Irrespective of Chilcot, Blair will always remain a pariah
- Jack Straw to outline Lords reforms but warns of 12-year delay
- Job cuts 'could leave MoD lacking the staff it needs to run itself'
- Johnson: we need a debate on migration
- Jon Cruddas backs Ken Livingstone for London mayor
- Labour and Tories neck and neck in marginals
- Labour begs for Lib Dem votes
- Labour claim 'emphatic' victory in two by-elections
- Labour coup: secret letters reveal how Ed Balls plotted to overthrow Tony Blair
- Labour fears Blair will be a liability
- Labour fights planning reforms to win rural vote
- Labour in turmoil as pressure on Brown grows
- Labour missed the bus on transport
- Labour must 'learn from the past but not live in it'
- Labour party urged to abandon tribalism
- Labour peers savage Brown’s free care plan
- Labour puts Coalition on the rack
- Labour tax rise 'will be halved' by Tories
- Labour to leave decision on deficit reduction plan until election runup
- Labour under attack for '£340bn benefits bill'
- Labour's scramble to launch £11bn spree
- Lib Dem defects after 'six months of Clegg U-turns'
- Lib Dem MPs threaten rebellion over forests sale
- Lib Dems roll out big guns for by-election campaign
- Lib Dems to target Tory votes as Clegg sees his constituency slip away
- Lib Dems would keep more seats under Cable
- Liberal Democats' Tory distrust and anguish over the next general election
- Like it or not, an age of austerity beckons
- Lisbon treaty signing leads to new dawn in Europe
- Lords proposed move to Salford meets with cautious welcome
- Mandelson declares new Labour dead and promises to ‘ruffle feathers’
- Met officers round on Boris Johnson over 'politicisation' of police
- Middle-class professionals only losers in Coalition government's tax changes
- Miliband brands Clegg a 'vote-loser' as AV vote row gets personal
- Miliband: the fightback begins
- Minister admits: we got it wrong on immigration
- Minister: tell us your fears about NHS reforms – but we might not listen
- Ministers move to block debate on circus animals
- Ministers set to wrangle over cuts to the last minute
- Ministers take a shine to crime
- MPs urge Cameron to opt out of EU laws on policing
- MPs want immigrant ban to save British jobs
- MPs' expenses claims rise by a quarter in a year
- Mrs Thatcher would have marginalised Ukip
- New blow for Tories as lead slips in marginals
- New Labour strategy: NHS and overseas aid will not be spared cuts
- Nick Clegg attacks Cameron's EU treaty veto as bad for jobs and families
- Nick Clegg to 'unleash power of British cities'
- Nick Clegg: Cancel the Queen's Speech – and save democracy
- Nick Clegg: I want to be Prime Minister
- No boos, no cheers: TV election debates audience participation deal
- No new tax rises to meet pledge, Alistair Darling will say at Budget
- No one will escape the cuts, warns Cameron
- Not fit for purpose? The jargon-laden language of politics
- One room, nine politicians, Britain's future on the table
- Osborne's cuts are 'worst attack on equality for generations'
- Osborne's got it wrong on the economy, warns public
- Osborne's plan to spend his way out of trouble
- Our chance has come to refashion the EU, Cameron tells City
- Paywall UK: Nick Clegg to announce tough new regime on visas
- Plight of people on conference doorstep exposes true impact of Coalition's policies
- PM is protecting banker bonuses, claim Lib Dems
- PM pressed to come clean over secret Brooks emails
- PM targets benefits for EU nationals
- Police on alert as watchdog fears rise in fraud at general election
- Poll shows failed coup hit Labour hopes hard
- Poll: Obama's appeal slides in Illinois
- Prove it! Campaigners deliver petition calling for Iain Duncan Smith to live on £53 a week to his Whitehall office
- Public sector pay freeze ordered by Alistair Darling
- Queen vows to continue serving
- Queen's speech: A liberal but fragile legislative agenda
- Queen's Speech: Coalition reaches out to women with pensions and new rights for carers – if councils can afford it
- Queen's Speech: Lots of style, but very little substance
- RAF under fire as battle for shrinking defence budget turns vicious
- Residential care will be ‘free’ under Labour plan
- Retirement age to be scrapped to 'help' Britons keep earning
- Return to growth will help Brown
- Revealed: Blair's secret Chequers talks with Cameron
- Rocky road to the election as the economy limps forward
- Row over Tory plans to axe £30bn defence projects
- Rowan Williams: no one voted for coalition policies
- Royal mail sale is sign of Conservatives' desperation, says Labour
- Saif al-Islam Gaddafi vows to continue the war and retake Tripoli
- Scotland's post-independence prosperity linked to oil
- Scottish independence campaign has stalled, says Alistair Darling
- SNP leader Alex Salmond faces referendum rethink
- Spending cuts could last a decade – civil service chief
- Spending review: state pension delay will cost taxpayer £8 billion
- Splits emerge in Labour's election strategy
- Steve Richards: Nick Clegg must now face up to the true nature of his Coalition partner
- The Boris bounce: Olympics boost BoJo's leadership hopes
- Three ministerial aides could quit over Lords reform
- Tom Elliott wins Ulster Unionist party leadership
- Top Tory tells PM: make EU pact with Ukip or face defeat
- Tories and Lib Dems discuss bold election pact
- Tories believe Lib Dems would support crisis budget
- Tories cut to the chase as George Osborne heralds age of austerity
- Tories question judgment of 'naive' William Hague
- Tories scent victory as poll lead widens
- Tories to compel peers and MPs to pay UK tax
- Tories warn Cameron that gay marriage will split party in two
- Tory activists prefer Clegg to most of their own Cabinet ministers
- Tory controlled borough of Barnet adopts budget airline model
- Tory MPs go to war over gay marriage
- Tory rebels set to quit government in row over Europe referendum
- UK dismisses bid to expel Ivory Coast ambassador
- UK election results: Liberal Democrats acknowledge failure for Cleggmania
- Ukip achieves highest-ever poll rating at the expense of the Conservatives
- Ulster Unionists to reject devolution deal
- Vince Cable: Britain in need of rich immigrants
- Voter registration reforms could see 10m fall off electoral roll, MPs warn
- Voters declare their anger as thousands are turned back at polling station door
- Voters view tall politicians as better suited for leadership
- Voting system rated not fit for purpose
- We still have a soul, Clegg tells his party
- We won't reverse Coalition cuts, says Balls
- We're nowhere near migration target, admit Tories
- Welcome to the Nasty Party conference
- What are they putting in Ed Miliband's tea?
- What Gordon Brown did next – former PM writing history of the banking crisis
- Why did Brown make this blunder?
- Why politicians fight shy of campaigning on the arts
- William Hague addresses US fears over Tories' EU allies
- You can both go hang, say voters
- £8bn hole in public finances to embarrass Osborne
Arts and Entertainment
- C4 sends the cameras in to Notting Hill to explore unknown reality show territory
- Tories threaten to tear up Lord Reith's BBC legacy
- 'Harry Potter' finale wins Screen Actors Guild Award for best big-screen stunt
- 'Lost' Booker winner is named, 40 years on
- 80 years of the BBC World Service
- A British film industry enriches all our lives
- A Titian masterpiece was yesterday rescued for the nation – for £45m
- Alan Sillitoe: ‘I’ve always strongly believed in a meritocracy’
- Appeal launched for Charles Darwin's Galapagos notebook
- Archbishop of Canterbury warns broadcasters not to ditch religious shows
- Arts Council told to sell off masterpieces in damning report by MPs
- Baftas 2011: The King's Speech sweeps the board at the Baftas
- BBC 'must not make shows for the under-35s'
- BBC launches new political website
- BBC staff told to stop living in the Dark Ages
- BBC to dramatise unholy row over Monty Python's Life of Brian
- BBC's The Voice aims to overpower Britain's Got Talent
- BBC1's The Voice hits new key for second series
- Cardiff: a cultural gem?
- Carry on, your majesty: Charles II and his court ladies
- Cate Blanchett and Sir Ian McKellen may decline Hobbit roles in pay row
- Children's laureate is brought to book by Waterstone's
- Christie's auction house has best year in 245-year history
- Colin Firth receives Hollywood Walk of Fame star
- Colin Firth wins best actor at Screen Actors Guild awards
- Cross and bed found in Anglo-Saxon grave shed new light on 'dark ages'
- Cultural gold? Britain's £100m Olympic jamboree
- Dan Brown's follow-up to 'The Da Vinci Code' went on sale at midnight
- David Beckham to give £4m PSG salary to children's charity
- Defeated Miliband pitches for TV roles
- Discord of the Queen's composer Sir Peter Maxwell Davies over restaurant music
- Downton Abbey Christmas special makes alleged fashion faux pas
- Eurovision: light entertainment in a dark place
- Figureheads go on show under the restored Cutty Sark in Greenwich
- From big names to fringe venues, cuts hit hundreds of arts bodies
- Games developers select smartphones as most popular platform
- Goodbye London 2012, we'll miss you
- Google opens new chapter as millions of books go into its online library
- Government Art Collection to go under public scrutiny for first time
- Great Expectations: Charles Dickens' bicentenary is set to make a fortune
- Hell's bells! The joy of Morris Dancing
- How fireworks night lost its sparkle
- James Daunt: 'Amazon are a ruthless, money-making devil, the consumer's enemy'
- Judi Dench voted the greatest stage actor of all time
- Kate Winslet and Downton Abbey triumph at Emmy Awards
- Key to saving libraries: free internet access and Sunday opening
- King Richard III's medieval inn recreated by archaeologists
- Leveson Inquiry: after Harry Potter I felt like a hostage, says JK Rowling
- London 2012 Olympics: thousands more tickets go on sale
- London 2012: It's almost here – but are we ready?
- Man who defaced Tate Modern's Rothko canvas says he's added value
- MI5 files: Was Chaplin really a Frenchman and called Thornstein?
- More sex, please – it's British history! How the BBC plans to take on Downton
- Museum to show Mary Rose sailors' remains
- NME celebrates its 60th birthday – in pictures
- Noel Gallagher earns godlike status at NME Awards
- Olympic flame to travel to London by trains, boats and planes
- Olympic Games run £2bn over budget
- Olympic Park to rival Silicon Valley in David Cameron's vision for east London
- One last amazing day in a city that doesn't want its party to end
- Our Greatest Team: Olympians and Paralympians to parade in London
- Painting in a damp church is the missing half of a masterpiece
- Paralympic Games - Hawking sparks a celebration of victories against all odds
- Paralympics 2012: a dream come true as Team GB gets off to golden start
- Paralympics 2012: golden girl Ellie Simmonds grants PM an audience
- Plucky Brits in the frame as US big hitters slug it out for Oscars glory
- Robin Gibb, pioneer of disco, dies at 62
- Row erupts over British empire museum's 'lost' artefacts
- Royal Academy calls for Wedgwood Museum to be saved
- Royal Academy to celebrate a century of British sculpture
- Seven out of 10 library authors are children's writers
- Silence reigns again in Hollywood as The Artist sweeps the Oscars
- Sir Elton John claims today's music all sounds the same
- Smarmy Army! Is this the poshest World Cup ever?
- Students put their protests to one side at the Guardian media awards
- Ted Hughes to take place in Poets' Corner
- Ted Hughes' Last Letter to Sylvia Plath published for first time
- Ted Hughes: Who wants to live forever?
- Teletubbies co-creator says BBC move to digital is 'ghettoising' children's TV
- The legacy of 'jaws' that has bitten the dust
- The Olympics are about ambition, not national pride
- The Queen Mother’s letters revealed
- The race problem with the Booker
- Tony Blair scrapped London book signing to avoid protest 'hassle'
- Turner Prize 2011 won by Scottish sculptor Martin Boyce
- Turner Prize is far from picture perfect
- Twilight couple Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart go head to head for the Palme d'Or
- Welcome to the information age – 174 newspapers a day
- Wodehouse prize awarded to US author Gary Shteyngart
- X Factor-style search for 10 academics from generation think
Business and Economy
- Exodus of the bankers
- Takeover will mean job cuts, says boss of Cadbury
- What financial crisis? Number of billionaires hits new high
- 'Never has so much money been owed by so few to so many'
- 10 London boroughs worth more than all the homes in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland
- 4,500 jobs at risk at HMV as it calls in administrators after rescue talks fail
- A year after the crunch, it's boom time again for bankers
- Apple admits it has a human rights problem
- Apple unveils new iPad with 'Retina' display
- Autumn Statement: family tax bombshell over new black hole
- BA staff: we got it wrong over strike
- Banking: King hits panic button
- Barclays review: 3,700 jobs cut and tax unit axed - live
- Barclays shamed by £290m fine for market fixing
- Bentley to recall cars over fears 'Flying B' could impale pedestrians
- Big squeeze hits middle classes and rich
- Britain needs high-speed lines, not Victorian-era railways
- Britain will be 'last advanced economy to exit recession'
- Britain's bankers win double victory on bonuses and charges
- Budget 2012: 'Granny tax' hits five million pensioners
- Cable: I'll force fat cats to justify bonuses
- Cadbury surrenders to foreign takeover
- Cameron tells Greece: buy into austerity or get out of the eurozone
- Chocolate wars: now the ambassador's favourite and a US giant eye Cadbury
- Cities report reveals mixed picture of economic recovery
- Climate change could spark UK rail revival and tourism boom, research finds
- Closure of Japanese plant casts doubt on viability of Sellafield's Mox operation
- Confidence ebbs to two-year low
- Debt crisis: Moody's downgrade of Britain's banks to hit families
- Defence chief attacks Armed Forces cuts
- Don't panic, say the Irish - but Europe is getting nervous
- Economy is too weak to handle cuts, Osborne is warned
- Economy may never recover from banking crisis
- Energy bills 'may double over next decade'
- Energy watchdog tells big firms: cut prices or else
- Engine to drive spacecraft to Mercury being built by British engineers
- EU agrees bailout package for euro
- Euro in danger: Germans trigger panic over future of single currency
- Euro rebounds ahead of EU plan to rescue Greece
- Executive pay keeps rising, Guardian survey finds
- Fall in official unemployment rate masks rise in the 'hidden jobless'
- Families face nuclear tax on power bills
- Families must accept share of blame for Britain's woes
- Fear returns to the eurozone
- Fears that Chancellor's cuts could foster massive rise in unemployment
- Financial Services Authority chairman backs tax on 'socially useless' banks
- Food firms hope to lead Osborne's 'march of the makers'
- Fuel strike: pumps go dry as ministers provoke a panic
- George Osborne reveals sweeping changes to banking system
- George Osborne: Angela Merkel damaging UK economic interests
- Google challenges iPhone with launch of Nexus One mobile
- Governor tells Osborne: you must act now to tame the City
- Higher-than-expected inflation defies City forecasts
- How could the Chancellor fill a £22bn gap?
- Icelanders to vote on whether to repay UK over bank bailout
- Internet overtakes television to become biggest advertising sector in the UK
- Ireland asks for €90bn EU bailout
- Ireland bail-out: British banks hit as Irish rescue falters
- Ireland fights to stave off £77 billion bail-out
- Irish bank flight quickens despite EU rescue
- It is not just the public sector 'fat cats' who will feel the pain of pay freeze
- Keep spending - Darling warns G20 against complacency
- Labour under pressure as Europe tells Britain: Cut deficit faster, deeper
- Leaked document reveals Royal Mail’s plans for union-free future
- London 2012's legacy: diggers and a potential white elephant in the stadium
- Markets surge as £645bn euro bailout warns off speculators and rescues Greece
- Marks & Spencer hit by poor clothing sales over Christmas
- Mary Portas: high streets destined to 'disappear forever'
- Mobile advertising hits £500m in 2012
- Moody's threatens to downgrade Britain's credit rating
- More than 30 chain stores closing a day
- MPs accuse Darling of failing to spell out deficit plan
- Murdoch marches on
- National Citizen Service 'too expensive'
- North-South retail trade divide opens up as high streets decline
- One in five major Post Offices to be run from counters in high street shops
- Osborne set to back Sir Mervyn in bitter battle over Bank rules
- Outlook for jobs worsens in fresh blow to Osborne
- Paying cash in hand is 'diddling the country', says HMRC's Dave Hartnett
- Promise of £10 billion savings from stationery
- Public borrowing expected to rise
- Queen talks of 'lax' bankers and 'toothless' regulators behind financial crisis
- RBS boss bows to pressure and gives up £1m bonus
- Real ale 'helping UK pubs stay open'
- Recession over by Christmas, says CBI
- Retail sales in December up 4% as bargain hunters piled into shops
- Rogue London trader, 31, loses Swiss bank £1.3bn
- Royal Mail in line for 'Tell Sid' privatisation
- Scotch whisky exports up by 22%
- Sellers revolt as Amazon hikes fees for traders by up to 70 per cent
- Single-letter web addresses fetch £39,000 in domain name auction
- Sony announces PlayStation 4
- Supertax to claw back bankers' huge bonuses
- The battle for British Airways
- The BBC backlash: Thompson hits out at Murdoch
- The demise of the dollar
- The experts' view on the euro's future: it doesn't have one
- The last post: Mandelson says Royal Mail strike is 'suicidal act'
- The London Paper set to close
- Top bankers to hold secret talks with Darling in bid to avert tough sanctions
- Tory treasurer wants UK to become more like a tax haven
- Tough talk on bank bonuses comes to nought
- Train firms hire 300 'delay attribution officers' to avoid paying compensation
- UK economy brought to grinding halt by euro crisis
- UK economy is growing at last, says Ernst & Young
- UK government 'should rethink cuts and raise pension age'
- UK in recession: Where is Osborne's Plan B?
- UK manufacturers suffer 'toughest conditions in three years'
- UK must use plutonium stockpile to meet carbon targets, top scientist warns
- UK's credit rating at risk after George Osborne's debt failure
- UK's debt is not something I'd want to have to deal with, says billionaire Buffett
- US rivals aiming to swallow up Cadbury
- Vince Cable hands shareholders power to tackle executive pay
- Wage concern: 'excessive' City pay culture infecting charities
- We are in charge now, Sarkozy tells the City
- Website lets public express anger at City pay
- What chance a functioning banking union after Christian Noyer’s crass remarks?
- What next for the euro if France rejects austerity?
- Will Irish bailout spark contagion?
- Workers warned of job cuts after Vauxhall takeover
- World Cup gives retailers a lift in May
Health
- 'Intolerable' bed-blocking crisis threatens NHS
- 'Shocking' treatment in NHS hospitals and care homes exposed in report
- 'This is a Catholic country': Woman dies of septicaemia after being refused an abortion in Irish hospital
- 'Three-parent baby' fertility technique could be made legal
- 'Toothless' NHS regulator accused over damning safety report
- 250,000 deaths from alcohol abuse 'unless Government acts'
- Aids: the pandemic is officially in decline
- Alcohol and poor diet linked to UK breast cancer rates
- Anger over plan to close small maternity units
- Binge-drinking can go the way of smoking
- Breast implant scandal: Labour calls for clearer lead from coalition
- British maternity wards in crisis
- British women become the fattest in Europe
- Britons enjoy longer lives than Americans
- Cancer cash wasted on NHS salaries
- Cancer more likely to kill people in deprived areas, study shows
- Cancer research at risk in scramble for care funds
- Cancer treatment takes a giant step forward as scientists crack code
- Cannabis smoking 'permanently lowers IQ'
- Change law on organ donation, doctors say
- Charity criticises cancer care for older people
- Cocaine abuse doubles in 4 years
- Consultant 'victimised for exposing cost-cutting'
- Convenience food changes could save 'thousands of lives'
- David Cameron orders merging of health and social care
- David Cameron: 'We save the NHS by changing it'
- David Cameron: even my family is worried by NHS reforms
- Death wish: Routine use of vital antibiotics on farms threatens human health
- Doctor, doctor: why is my GP going on strike?
- Doctors issue health warning over smoking in British film blockbusters
- Drinking beer could help prevent weak bones
- Drug overdose deaths highlight Britain's recent heroin shortage
- Elderly 'robbed of dignity' by failing social care services
- Elderly care cuts are dangerous and short-sighted, says charity
- Experts warned dispersal of Tamiflu would do more harm than good
- Fat, unfit NHS staff top the sick league
- Fears for patient safety as 60,000 NHS jobs face the axe
- Fifth of hospitals failing to treat older patients with dignity, says review
- Foreigners to be offered free treatment for HIV on the NHS
- General hospital under threat as NHS faces post-poll closures
- Genetic breakthrough brings cure for Alzheimer’s a step closer
- GPs fear swine flu jabs for children may hit bonuses
- Health chief warns: age of safe medicine is ending
- Heart surgeons' performance to be posted online in transparency drive
- Hospital guide: death rates 10 per cent higher at weekends
- Hospital suspends child heart surgery after deaths
- Hospitals furious at Lansley's debt claim
- Inadequate care forcing dementia sufferers into homes early, says charity
- Leading cosmetic surgery group refusing to fund new breast implants
- Leading doctors call for ban on smoking in cars
- Leftover swine flu vaccines used to fill flu jab shortfall
- Medical watchdog must ensure that doctors can speak good English, MPs say
- Millions suffer 'home fever' as allergy epidemic begins to bite
- MPs back doctors' right to help their patients die
- Nearly 400 public health experts warn Lords to reject NHS reforms
- New drink code shunned by six key health bodies
- New NHS regulator 'risks failure'
- New strain of MRSA superbug may have spread from cattle to humans
- New study puts mobile users in spin
- NHS criticised for 'production line' approach to childbirth
- NHS cuts patient death rate
- NHS facing 'neurology time bomb'
- NHS hospital 'playing games' with cancer waiting times
- NHS may need to lose 137,000 staff to meet £20 billion savings target
- NHS nurses must have degree under new rules
- NHS patients in England face 'confusing mix' of urgent healthcare
- NHS productivity 'has fallen every year since 2000'
- NHS reform is a 'slash-and-burn approach', says doctors' union
- NHS team to test English of foreign doctors
- Number of A&E patients waiting more than four hours is highest since 2004
- Nurses 'lacking ability and compassion', warns NHS Future Forum
- Nurses to train in basic care for a year
- Older people receive worse NHS cancer care
- One hospital trust in five is struggling for survival
- Patients being treated 'like medical conditions, not people'
- Patients denied key treatments due to NHS cost-cutting, surgeons warn
- Patients unfairly struck off GPs' lists over minor disagreements
- Patients’ lives at risk in NHS hospital wards 'on brink of collapse'
- Pledge that hospitals will improve care for the elderly
- Polluted air' puts Olympic athletes at risk'
- Poor in UK dying 10 years earlier than rich, despite years of government action
- Poor NHS care puts lives of emergency surgery patients 'at risk'
- Rabies case confirmed in UK
- Report highlights concerns over 'alarmingly high' death rates at 'full to bursting' hospitals
- Run the NHS better or scrap it – but give up reforming it
- Scandal of mental illness: only 25% of people in need get help
- Scientists discover what makes us live longer
- Second man dies from legionnaires' disease
- Shocking death toll at flagship hospital
- Sir Liam Donaldson says second wave of swine flu may be on its way
- Small doses of aspirin 'can significantly reduce' bowel cancer risk
- Smoked out: tobacco giant's war on science
- Surgeons separate twins joined at head
- Synthetic cell is a giant leap for science, and could be bigger still for mankind
- Teenage obesity increases later cancer risk
- The NHS is flawed. Here's the evidence...
- Three-year-old identified as Britain's youngest alcoholic
- Tobacco giants tell Whitehall to hand over its secret minutes
- Top hospital to be closed as cash crisis engulfs NHS
- Tory MPs revolt over Cameron's NHS plans
- Two million children at risk of measles
- UK couples offered Counsyl gene tests for 100 inherited diseases
- UK obesity crisis needs a bold prescription from doctors
- We have two weeks to save the NHS, say leading academics
- World Aids Day: Victory within reach – but cuts could spoil it all
Crime and Justice
- 'Fascist scum': Ukip leader Nigel Farage hits back at hostile crowd in Edinburgh pub
- Oscar Pistorius will be allowed to travel abroad to compete despite murder charge
- 'Police targeting people for their DNA'
- 2,000 under-12s arrested last year, says charity
- Adams accused of ordering murders
- After 50 years, Kelso Cochrane's 'killer' is named in book on notorious Notting Hill race murder
- Age of criminal responsibility in UK is too low, say brain scientists
- Amanda Knox is released after winning appeal
- American accused of smuggling 80 guns into UK
- Anger at arrest of 150 student demonstrators
- Anger at arrest of 150 student demonstrators
- April Jones: police across country co-ordinate to take calls from public
- Barristers’ fees slashed in Government squeeze on legal aid bill
- Belfast courthouse set on fire for second night
- Bloody Sunday killings to be ruled unlawful
- Bloody Sunday: Will the wounds ever be healed?
- Bomb explodes in Derry
- Bomb found in Londonderry ahead of Hillary Clinton's Stormont visit
- British man 'kidnapped and tortured' in Portugal
- Charities fear rise in acid attacks avenging slights on family honour
- Child murder suspect Fiona Donnison was ‘known’ to police
- Children made 'sick with fear' in UK immigration detention centres
- Cumbria shootings: 12 dead as gunman goes on killing spree
- Exclusive: Britain: A 'safe haven' for war criminals
- ExxonMobil British oil boss Nicholas Mockford murdered in Belgium 'hit
- Facebook fears after sex offender logged on to murder
- Gordon Brown's role in release of Megrahi revealed
- Green beliefs win legal protection
- High court rules it unlawful to put hood over suspect's head
- Interpreters stay away from courts in protest at privatised contract
- Jack Straw denies allegations he gave green light to release Megrahi
- Julian Assange: President of Ecuador Rafael Correa to rule on asylum decision today
- Libya rebels arrest man suspected of Yvonne Fletcher murder 27 years ago
- Libyan defector Moussa Koussa interviewed over Lockerbie
- Man leaves £80,000 on top of car and drives off
- Manchester shootings: Police fear criminal gangs may use grenades
- Murderer on the run after escape from Pentonville prison
- Mystery of copper thieves who only strike on Thursdays
- No 10 to publish 'all relevant' Lockerbie correspondence with MacAskill
- Northern Ireland: car bomb explodes outside Londonderry shopping centre
- Oscar Pistorius detective Hilton Botha facing attempted murder charges
- Oscar Pistorius murder charge: bloodied cricket bat 'central piece of evidence against him'
- Pistorius faces court as police reject claims he mistook model for burglar
- Plans to put details of violent men on register
- Police attack Facebook in dispute over child safety
- Police inspector latest to be arrested for alleged racism
- Police surround bank after armed man sparks hostage fears
- Police to question Jack Straw over torture in Libya
- Police to regain power to charge suspects
- Police were tracking Cumbria killer from the third of his 12 murders
- Press has lost self-restraint on criminal cases, says attorney general
- Prominent Pakistan politician murdered outside his London home
- Public school porter's 'plot to poison the Stowe soup'
- Rape case defendants to be given anonymity
- Regulator surprised no bank bosses face charges over financial crisis
- Revealed: Police could have stopped sex offender Jimmy Savile 50 years ago
- Rochdale grooming trial: gang convicted for sex trafficking
- Scale of youth crime suppressed until after election
- Shaker Aamer: Guantanamo's last British detainee
- Stepfather strangles nine-year-old after taking her for 'a treat'
- Teacher Peter Harvey not guilty over dumbbell assault on pupil
- The grievances and grudges that drove Derrick Bird over the edge
- The trial by media of Oscar Pistorius: facts, guesses and spin surround the death of Reeva Steenkamp
- Three teenagers shot on west London estate
- Three terrorists convicted of plotting to blow up jets over Atlantic
- TV cameras to be allowed into criminal trials
- Two Britons among dozens killed in airport suicide attack
- What really happened on Bloody Sunday?
- Yorkshire Ripper 'wrongly convicted of murder'
Social affairs
- Elderly patients will get personal NHS worker to coordinate health care, pledges Jeremy Hunt
- Europe's lost generation costs €153bn a year, study finds
- Gas crisis: consumers face shock £200 rise in bills as cold weather and snow lead to low fuel reserves
- The Shard: Where are all the tenants?
- The truth about Romania's gypsies: Not coming over here, not stealing our jobs
- 'End of the road' for the Argos catalogue
- 'Nation of renters' warning from estate agency chief
- 'Panic Now': the new slogan for our times
- 'True' UK unemployment is 6.3m, says TUC
- 150,000 social care workers paid below legal minimum wage, research reveals
- 999 call takers offered rewards for sending fewer ambulances
- A historic day, a stirring appeal, but can the Pope escape the abuse scandal?
- After the demos, the sit-in begins – in London and beyond
- Almost one in eight people living in UK are born abroad
- Anti-Miss World protesters back after 41 years
- Asylum seekers' survey reveals most find UK 'welcoming'
- BA strike threat puts Gordon Brown on collision course with Unite
- Ban on the sale of cheap alcohol
- Born poor, stay poor: the scandal of social immobility
- Britain to become a nation of renters
- Britain walks out: UK braced for biggest wave of strikes since the 1980s
- Britain's coping classes at breaking point
- Britain's industrial cities turn into tourism powerhouses
- Britain's oldest family business opened when Henry VIII ruled
- British boy Sahil Saeed 'rescued in Pakistan'
- British more afraid of crime than most Europeans
- Britons living longer than previously thought
- Brown to apologise to care home children sent to Australia and Canada
- Care homes guilty of sub-standard practices
- Carers save the country £119bn a year
- Carla Bruni: I’m more in demand than the Queen
- Catholics will be called to oppose gay marriage
- Charities fear end of 'squatters' rights' could lead to big rise in homelessness
- Child poverty reduced if both parents go to work
- Child tax credits to be cut for 2m families
- Children in peril as women are jailed in record numbers
- Children slipping back into poverty
- Christmas post late for thousands
- Church removes power from women bishops
- Coalition to set minimum alcohol price
- Commuters face chaos as the big return to work gets under way
- Consumer confidence falls amid fears over cuts
- Consumers spend £18m on debit card surcharges in two months
- Cross-Channel ferry strike called off hours before Easter getaway
- Crunch time for council workers’ golden pensions
- David Cameron and Chris Huhne urge households to cut their energy bills
- David Cameron: 'don’t complain about welfare cuts, go and find work'
- David Cameron: build your way out of recession with home improvements
- Doctors face ban on denying treatment to elderly
- Don’t tell the Queen, your Royal Highness
- DUP turmoil brings little joy to republican streets of Belfast
- England is 'cesspit of Islamists', says Soyinka
- Facebook starts charging users up to £11 to contact celebrities
- Far-right attacks escalate after BNP election defeats
- Fathers encouraged to take time off with 10-month paternity leave
- Firms will be forced to put customers on the cheapest fuel deal
- First-time buyer numbers are rising, says surveyor
- Football accused in homophobia row
- Forget the picture of Rudolph, just print the postcode, says Royal Mail
- Fourth student protest planned for eve of Commons vote
- Francois Hollande announces French tax grab on holiday homes
- Fury of 'stay at home' mums snubbed by Coalition over childcare tax allowance and child benefit changes
- Gay marriage laws have created 'real sense of anger', Philip Hammond says
- Gay marriage: churches fuel rebellion
- Gay marriages and heterosexual civil partnerships may soon be welcomed
- Get a job, Iain Duncan Smith tells parents on the dole
- Get the skinny on the OMG diet
- Government cuts health and safety red tape to stop charity shops closing
- Happiness is having a job, and the salary doesn't matter
- Higher prices can curb binge drinking, says NHS watchdog
- Home owners threatened by rising interest rates
- Homeless families in B&B accommodation up by 44%
- Homeless households increase by 13%
- Homelessness on the rise as recession and cuts bite
- How the 'perfect storm of cuts' is shrinking one woman's life choices
- Huge elderly care bill threatens family ties
- Immigration agency breaks Clegg's pledge by detaining child
- It's time to give up the dream of home ownership
- Japan nuclear crisis puts UK public off new power stations
- Just 60 babies a year adopted in England
- Landmark ruling backs larger payouts for wounded soldiers
- Leaders differ in their visions for the family
- Legal history made as actor loses £300,000 in gay 'divorce' ruling
- Life begins at 65: workers can now stay on if they want
- Life on benefits 'no longer an option'
- London 2012 Olympics: chaos hits Heathrow as Games approach
- Look back in hunger: Britain's silent, scandalous epidemic
- Losing our religion: The Church of England in decline
- Male doctors earn £15,000 a year more than women, study reveals
- Marseille: Europe's most dangerous place to be young
- Men's pension age up to 66 from 2016
- Middle Britons to forgo holiday abroad
- Middle classes hit again with tax raid on pensions
- Millions in the public sector to pay more for pension
- Millions may lose out in reform of child benefits
- Millions of pensioners will go cold as energy prices soar
- Millions set to strike in battle over pensions
- Minimum alcohol price 'could save 5,000 older people's lives a year'
- Ministers accused of 'sham' consultation over gay marriage
- Months of strikes lie ahead, TUC chief warns
- More Anglicans leave Church of England for Rome
- More than 10,000 people take to the streets to protest against pope
- Nationwide strike over pay, pensions and jobs
- Nearly 40% of Britons to stay at home during summer holidays
- New alcohol restrictions needed, say emergency doctors
- NHS slashes thousands of jobs – despite pledge to protect it from cuts
- Nick Clegg announces £1bn fund to tackle youth unemployment
- Nick Clegg to accuse banks of racism
- No 10 backs down over David Cameron's gay marriage plan
- Now government cuts target disabled workers
- Number of UK breweries tops 1,000
- One in three children who should be taken into care are being left with inadequate parents
- Out-of-work families with four or more children to face cuts to their benefits
- Over 60s must keep working as Britain 'is running out of workers'
- Over-55s entering retirement 'saddled with debt'
- Overworked Britons struggle to find time for themselves
- Parental leave to become flexible under plans set out by Nick Clegg
- Pay gap widening to Victorian levels
- Pedestrian crossing may spell the end for Westminster peace camp
- Pension poverty looms as women fail to save enough for retirement
- Pensioners to be insured against stock market falls
- Pint of beer to hit £3 as VAT increase hits
- Plans to solve elderly care crisis 'blocked by the Treasury'
- Police readied for second fees demonstration
- Police up to 28 times more likely to stop and search black people
- Poor families must pay an extra £1,300 a year for basic goods and services
- Pope visit: Benedict XVI begins trip to Britain
- Prince Harry warned over 'fornicating' in Christian US town
- Prince slips off for a secret country stag
- Princes William and Harry continue Diana's battle to end Aids stigma
- Princess Beatrice holidays in the south of France
- Public sector strikes end in propaganda war
- Public sector workers enjoy 30 years in retirement
- Public-sector pensions: Spot the odd one out
- Rail maintenance workers vote to strike
- Rail passengers face more packed carriages, say MPs
- Rail strike over Easter holiday
- Rail strikes threaten chaos after Easter break
- Recession widens gap between strong and weak regions, report finds
- Records of Victorian women murderers and thieves placed online
- Red Cross study reveals problems with teenagers and drink
- River drowning: father bought rowing boat days earlier
- Royal British Legion minders for young poppy sellers
- Royal Mail faces wave of employment tribunals over delayed Christmas pay
- Seizures of fake alcohol increase fivefold in two years
- Shoppers urged to be savvy as Christmas sales last for weeks
- Single parents 'cannot afford' coalition's child maintenance fees
- Sleep in or work from home: minister's plans to ease rush hour
- Slum UK: housing crisis that shames the nation
- Social care failing disabled over 65s, says report
- Squeeze on cost of living will be worst since 1920s
- Student 'addiction' to technology 'similar to drug cravings', study finds
- Student leader urges 'French-style resistance'
- Teenage schoolgirl, 15, runs away with 30-year-old teacher
- Terror policy has caused stigma, Muslim police warn
- The abortion of unwanted girls taking place in the UK
- The new battle lines of protest
- The old get richer, and the young get poorer
- The Queen celebrates 85th birthday at Maundy Thursday service
- Tube strike: millions face travel chaos with 10 lines affected
- TUC boss: Cameron will seize your EU employment rights to weaken them
- Tuned out to UK poverty
- Two still chained at Dale Farm site
- Two young women die in suspected 'suicide pact'
- Two-thirds support social networking blackout in future riots
- Union boss's private talks with ministers to avert mass strikes
- Unions concerned ahead of pensions report
- Unions to fight tougher laws with 'biggest civil disobedience campaign'
- Upward mobility less likely for women and low earners, says study
- Vitriolic campaign backfires on gay marriage opponents
- We must protect true meaning of marriage, says Roman Catholic leader
- Welfare cuts cast doubt on Coalition's claim of fairness
- Whatever happened to the Labour Party?
- Women and children could die because of legal aid cuts says former attorney general
- Women in crisis as depression fuels binge-drinking and sex - research
- Women will work the rest of the year for free, say equal pay campaigners
- Workers are £1,600 a year poorer because of state of economy, study finds
- Working mothers to get £1,200 per child to help subsidise costs of care
- Worst civil servants to be sacked
- Young women now earn more than men
- £300 a year: the cost to each taxpayer of funding EU
Scandals and Affairs
- Minister who left Muslim wedding attacked
- Special Investigation: Revealed: The secret deal that changed the monarchy
- 'It doesn't add up': Jimmy Savile's victims condemn report by West Yorkshire Police
- BBC Savile probe puts Entwistle under new pressure
- Expenses: They're all in it together
- Extraordinary details of the Queen's finances revealed
- Five Royal Marines charged with murder
- Jacintha Saldanha: nurse found hanged after royal hoax call left three notes, inquest hears
- Now Piers Morgan’s Mirror and The People accused of phone hacking
- Supermarket chain pledges CCTV in abattoirs to stamp out cruelty
- The BBC gave Griffin the oxygen of publicity. He choked
- The billionaire, the minister and a deal shocking Ireland
- Tories 'want Muslims out of London', says shadow minister
- 'Chaos and confusion': BBC forced to replace senior news executives following damning report
- 'Supergrass' takes hacking scandal into new territory
- A legal crisis in 140 characters
- All expenses paid: the full scale of MPs' lavish globetrotting revealed
- Anger grows over Olympic proposal for Fish Island
- Archbishop Rowan Williams urged to retract comments on election of lesbian bishop
- Ashcroft affair: The Tory leader, the tax exile and the promises that led to a peerage
- Asylum-seekers abused by security guards, says report
- Auditor criticises 'save now, pay later' MoD
- Backlash to Hollywood petition demanding release of Roman Polanski
- Barclays chairman quits in bid to stop the bleeding
- BBC 'will lose trust for giving airtime to BNP'
- BBC documentary lifts the lid on offensive code used to describe disabled and jobless
- BNP 'exploiting military charities' as it plans to hijack poppy appeal
- C'est l'amour? Diana and the dedication that launched a thousand speculations
- Cabinet MPs' expenses
- Calls for inquiry into 'MPs for hire' scandal
- Calm Coulson leaves toughest questions at PM's door
- Cameron flies back from Gulf tour amid anger at slow reaction
- Cameron's fundraiser caught in £6,000 corporate deal for House of Lords dinner
- Caught on camera: top lobbyists boasting how they influence the PM
- Coalition ministers spend £40,000 on potted plants
- Costa Concordia: Flee? I just tripped into a lifeboat, says captain
- Councillors for hire who give firms planning advice
- Dave Lee Travis is latest held over sex abuse allegations in Savile inquiry
- David Cameron 'hosted dinners for millionaire donors in Downing Street flat'
- David Cameron banned ministers from speaking to Dalai Lama
- David Cameron's five secret meetings with Rupert Murdoch
- Deputy House of Commons Speaker Nigel Evans denies rape and sexual assault allegations
- Designs for new UK nuclear reactors are unsafe
- Director of Public Prosecutions confirms urgent investigation into failure to prosecute Jimmy Savile over child abuse allegations
- Dossier to show Labour 'complicit' in Lockerbie release
- Exclusive: Brown asks Scotland Yard to investigate if he was hacked
- Exclusive: Brown misled public over Haiti single
- Exclusive: News of the World 'ordered burglary'
- Expenses - the latest list of MPs in the clear, and those paying something back
- Expenses scandal: MPs block details of new expenses
- Families of dead troops ask Chilcot to confront Brown
- Families of war dead criticise bonus payments for MoD staff
- Firefighters criticised after blaze at nuclear weapons plant
- Former Labour MP says News of the World contributed to loss of her baby
- Former News of the World employee accused of bribing prison guard
- Four archbishops colluded to cover up child sex attacks
- Four politicians could be facing 10 years in jail for expenses fraud
- France condemns 'sinister' arrest of Polanski
- French authorities not looking for runaway Megan Stammers
- FSA orders tests of processed beef after horsemeat found in Findus lasagne
- George Entwistle 'was paid double to go quietly'
- Gordon Brown to appear at Iraq inquiry before next election
- Gordon Brown’s cuts ‘cost lives of soldiers’
- Hands Off Our Land: Thousands of new homes and wind farms fast-tracked by planners
- High street brands accused of exploiting Asian workers
- If Murdoch thought the worst was over, he was wrong
- Iraq inquiry: secret documents showing Tony Blair’s frustration published
- Jeremy Forrest 'still desperate to be near schoolgirl lover'
- Jimmy Savile: BBC director-general faces MPs' questions
- Julian Assange seeks to take legal fight to highest UK court
- Kicked and punched to death by cowards
- Labour did 'all it could' to secure release of Megrahi
- Labour's computer blunders cost £26bn
- Lord Goldsmith: Blair did not reflect legal advice on Iraq war
- Ministers spent £1bn on wasteful contracts, says audit office
- Ministry of Defence staff 'used official credit cards in bars and golf clubs'
- MoD spent £1 billion on tank programme which produced no vehicles
- MoD spent £149m on tanks unfit for service
- More MPs bill taxpayer for rent as they let out their homes
- MP hired detectives to check on staff over leaks about expenses
- MP Peter Lilley has received more than $400,000 in oil company share options
- MPs braced for new outcry as more expenses claims released
- MPs exposed for continuing to milk expenses
- MPs' expenses: Why mole leaked details
- Murdoch attacks 'the English' as he rules out Sky bid
- Murdoch's men on the inside
- Nestlé finds horsemeat in pasta meals
- New aircraft carriers will make us 'laughing stock'
- New expenses chaos as MPs clash with watchdog
- NHS computer farce to cost another £2bn
- Nick Clegg calls for Andrew Mitchell to explain himself
- No more cash for home furnishings, MPs told
- Only a different leadership can save the Irish church
- Osborne feels the pain of dominatrix's claims
- Overseas students prop up university finances
- Panic as ministers are warned they may have to disclose personal emails
- Phone giant faces inquiry over sale of customer records
- Phone-hacking test cases could lead to deluge of celebrity claims
- Polanski arrested as he steps off plane at Swiss airport
- Police log reveals details of Andrew Mitchell's 'pleb' rant
- Police raid headquarters of French magazine in hunt for photographer of topless Duchess pictures
- Priest's victims forced into vow of silence
- Prime Minister attacks stores over horse meat scandal
- Prince Charles ‘culprit behind demise of £3bn modern homes project’
- RBS computer failure condemns man to spend weekend in the cells
- Report condemns swine flu experts' ties to big pharma
- Revealed: bankers' secret meetings with ministers
- Revealed: UK sells arms to Sri Lanka's brutal regime
- Salman Rushdie accused of 'unchivalrous behaviour' after Facebook exchange with socialite
- Sarah Ferguson on Oprah: the duchess, the debts and the TV diva
- Scale of the horse meat scandal is 'breathtaking', MPs say
- Scandal and schism leave Christians praying for a ‘new Reformation’
- School 'knew girl and teacher were in relationship' before they ran off together
- Secret memos expose link between oil firms and invasion of Iraq
- Sins of colonialists lay concealed for decades in secret archive
- South Africa versus the world: The Caster Semenya affair
- T-shirts rejoicing over Thatcher's death sold at trades union gathering
- The 'dark arts': Bell Pottinger caught rewriting its clients' Wikipedia entries
- The hypocrisy of America’s moral outrage
- The Iraq war inquiry: will it call Blair to account?
- The Lords will provide: Bishops paid up to £27,000 for attending Parliament
- The Sun on Monday: Shocking scale of paper's corruption exposed at Leveson
- Theresa May to face questions over order to relax border checks
- Tony Blair to tell Chilcot inquiry: war stopped Saddam building WMDs
- Tony Blair wrote to Gaddafi 'to suggest investment projects'
- Tony Blair: I could cash in a lot more than I do
- Tories accuse senior police of giving political cover to Labour
- Tory 'paid his own company £100,000 from expenses'
- Toxic shame: Thousands injured in African city
- Toyota knew of accelerator pedal problem in UK a year ago
- Twenty MPs pocket up to £180,000 each on taxpayer-funded second homes
- Undercover officers stole identities of dead children
- Up to 500 assaults: Extent of Savile child abuse to be revealed
- Warning to universities in foreign student grades scandal
- WikiLeaks founder threatens to sue 'The Guardian' for libel
- WikiLeaks: Duke of York's 'candid' attack on British Government
- WikiLeaks: US chiefs blamed British failures for high levels of violence in Sangin
- William Hague hid Lord Ashcroft's tax status for months
- Wilshire to stand down amid expenses allegations
- Woman soldier was 'unlawfully killed after inadequate training'
International
- Libya in talks over cash for IRA victims
- Benedict XVI: the revolutionary Pope? Resignation seen as 'eruption of modernity'
- Britain and France may share nuclear deterrent
- MI6 made secret plan for anti-Saddam coup in December 2001
- North Korea nuclear strike could hit UK, warns David Cameron
- On the brink of an historic agreement: EU leaders poised to agree cut to seven-year budget
- The new Afghan plan: buy off Taliban
- 'Free' Libya shamed by new torture claims
- 'Substantial’ troop pull-out from Afghanistan planned for early 2013
- 'Suicide bomber' targets British Ambassador to Yemen
- A giant step backwards for Nasa's lunar missions
- Afghan man 'was tortured in jail after UK troops handed him over'
- Afghanistan poll thrown into chaos as Karzai’s rival says: I won’t stand
- Africa Rising: A big day for football. A giant leap for a continent
- Algeria hostage crisis: Britons die in bungled rescue
- Algeria hostage crisis: fate of missing Britons to be determined
- Algeria hostages escape Islamist militant captors
- All eyes on Hollande as first-round victory leaves Sarkozy on brink
- America's deadly obsession with guns
- Amnesty urges rethink on counter-terrorism measures
- An era ends as Japan's LDP is swept from power
- Argentina hits back at David Cameron over colonialism jibe
- Argentina pulls out of Falklands talks
- Army draws up plan to send 1,000 more troops to Afghanistan
- As Falklanders go to the polls, memory of war looms large
- Attack on US defence chief at British base
- Barack Obama: Israel settlements 'not constructive'
- Battered Libya sues for peace
- Bloody betrayal raises fresh doubts about Britain's campaign in Afghanistan
- Bond-style weapons carried by North Korean assassin unveiled
- Boston Marathon explosions: British witness tells of joy 'ripped to shreds'
- Britain faces payout shame as hundreds of detainees claim soldiers abused them
- Britain in talks with 10 more Gaddafi aides
- Britain on brink of severing diplomatic ties with Iran
- Britain to train 10,000 more Afghan troops
- Britain turns off Haiti aid and delivers a snub to New York donor conference
- British aid worker Khalil Dale found dead in Pakistan
- British hostage killed in failed SBS rescue bid
- British sailors detained by Iran en route to Gulf yacht race
- British soldier dead in fresh 'green on blue' attack in Afghanistan
- British soldiers engage Taliban as bodies of six fallen comrades are flown back from Afghanistan
- British tourists die in Nepal plane crash
- British troops 'could withdraw from Afghanistan before next Christmas'
- British troops could be killed in revenge attacks after Afghan massacre
- British troops face longer tours in Afghanistan
- British troops to join Mali conflict
- British troops withdraw from deadly Sangin in Afghanistan
- Brown appeals to Labour MPs over Afghan war
- Brown: I will urge Libya to compensate IRA victims
- Canadians apathetic about visit from the Queen
- Children are safer in Kabul than in London, says Nato envoy
- China accused of threatening to boycott Leeds over Dalai Lama visit
- Col Gaddafi killed: no mercy for a merciless tyrant
- Costa Concordia: operation complicated by unregistered passengers
- David Cameron 'less powerful' than Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg, claims Forbes list
- David Cameron arrives in US buoyed by Russian signals on Syria
- David Cameron fails to cut EU bureaucrats' pay and perks
- David Cameron pledges UK support in Libya visit
- David Cameron refuses to rule out role for British ground forces in Libya
- David Cameron set to decide on Afghanistan withdrawal timetable
- David Cameron to meet François Hollande for first time at G8 summit
- David Cameron to urge world leaders to protect civilians
- David Cameron to visit Russia as diplomatic relations improve
- David Cameron wins 'no Greek bailout' battle
- David Cameron: world on brink of new economic crisis
- Death of two soldiers in Aghanistan takes British casualties total to 284
- Debt crisis: Germany caves in over bond buying, bank aid after Italy and Spain threaten to block 'everything'
- Eight suspected hijackers of cargo ship Arctic Sea arrested by Russian authorities
- Election monitors cry foul as Karzai vote hits 54 per cent
- EU set to ban Iranian oil imports
- Euro chaos: Britain prepares for worst
- Euro is facing disintegration, Commission warns
- Europe referendum question will be 'in or out’, says Cabinet minister
- Europe's top judge: Cameron is wrong about human rights
- Eurozone crisis: Greek left leader renounces bailout deal
- Eurozone divided as time runs out for Spain
- Eurozone set to abandon Greece – and austerity
- Eurozone's ultimatum to Greece: put up or get out
- Evacuated Britons tell of Cairo 'war zone'
- Exclusive: UK military in talks to help Syria rebels
- Falkland Islands claimed as 'Argentine soil' in secretly filmed Olympic advert
- Falkland Islands referendum: overwhelming yes to staying British
- Fears for World Cup security after three journalist are robbed
- Financial markets reeling after France and Greece elections
- Four British soldiers die for sake of 150 votes
- Four British soldiers killed in road accident in Afghanistan
- Four Britons die in Peru air crash
- France shooting: Seven-year-old wakes from coma to learn parents are dead
- Franco-German deal on European council president causes anger
- François Hollande ousts Nicolas Sarkozy to become president
- French aggression drove extremists out. Then one brought the war home
- French leaders declare a war of words on Britain
- French ministers sign up to austerity wages and sober code of conduct
- French writer says Anders Breivik was 'what Norway deserves’
- Gaddafi compound hit by missile
- Gaddafi regime produced chemical weapons, David Cameron confirms
- Gaddafi's intelligence chief 'cornered as he hid at his sister's house'
- Get troops out of Afghanistan now, says Paddy Ashdown
- Government view of Britain's role in the world unrealistic, says report
- Greek bank workers strike over deaths of colleagues
- Hague tells Britons to leave Yemen now ahead of mass protest
- Hamid Karzai faces another ballot after 1m votes ruled out
- Hillary Clinton 'worried' by UK defence cuts
- Hope fades for 90 feared dead in Ethiopian aircraft fireball
- Iain Duncan Smith calls for referendum on European 'fiscal union'
- Iran ducks out of nuclear confrontation with West
- Iran releases British sailors
- Iraq: The inquiry cover-up that will keep us in the dark
- Japan nuclear crisis severity level upgraded
- Jeremy Hunt hints at rules to curb Murdoch media dominance
- Kevin Rudd dumped as Julia Gillard becomes Australian prime minister
- Lady Ashton appointed as new EU foreign minister
- Libya live: Muammar Gaddafi 'killed' as Sirte falls
- Libya: Gaddafi's billions to be seized by Britain
- Libya: Mousa Kousa, Gaddafi's foreign minister, defects to UK
- Libya: Nato targets Tripoli with heaviest strikes yet
- Libya: Saadi Gaddafi tracked down to playboy hideaway in Niger
- Libya: Tony Blair defends 'deal in the desert' with Colonel Gaddafi
- Libya: UN security council backs no-fly zone and air strikes
- Libyan dissidents sue MI6 officer over abduction and torture claims
- Libyan papers show UK worked with Gaddafi in rendition operation
- Libyan rebel leader says MI6 knew he was tortured
- Lockerbie bomber’s private jet to freedom courtesy of Gaddafi
- Lockerbie release could topple SNP government
- Lord Lawson: David Cameron must lead Britain out of the EU
- Majority of British public wants to leave Europe
- Marine Le Pen scores stunning result in French presidential election
- Military campaign in Afghanistan mishandled, says ex-MI6 chief
- Ministry of Defence's 'disastrous' decision over Chinooks
- Mitt Romney lost because hardline Republicans betrayed him
- Most Britons want troops withdrawn from Afghanistan - new poll
- Nato Afghan strategy in disarray after joint ground operations suspended
- Navy chief: Britain cannot keep up its role in Libya air war due to cuts
- Negotiators shocked by special forces rescue raid on Taleban
- New 'Iron Lady' orders Cameron to win back powers from Brussels
- New call for Lockerbie inquiry as Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi dies
- Nicolas Sarkozy booted out of office having exhausted France
- Nicolas Sarkozy hammers at François Hollande in live debate but fails to land killer blow
- No room for dissent as China presents proud face to the world
- Now the real battle begins: ‘fiscal cliff’ looms for Obama with Congress deadlocked
- Obama and Cameron set to end troops' lead combat role in Afghanistan
- Obama's Newtown speech - full text
- One by one, the milestones on the road to Tripoli are falling
- One in five vote for Marine Le Pen as Nicolas Sarkozy is beaten into second place
- Opposition leader Abdullah calls for criminal inquiry into vote rigging
- Osama bin Laden dead: Taliban suicide bombers kill 70 in Pakistan revenge attack
- Portugal asks for bail-out which could cost Britain £4.4 billion
- Pressure on to freeze ex-dictator's assets in UK
- Prince Harry to return to front line
- Protests could hit Prince of Wales's visit to Morocco
- Queen begins historic Ireland visit
- RAF plane sent to evacuate Britons
- Revealed: how French raid killed 12 Malian villagers
- Rising clamour for British troops to pull out of Afghanistan
- Royal Navy captures pirate vessel
- Scrambled – the EU 'threat' to British eggs
- Secret document exposes Iran’s nuclear trigger
- Shortage of RAF pilots for Libya as defence budget cuts bite
- Soldier killed in Afghanistan blast
- Stockholm bomber: family blame Britain for radicalisation
- Syria: 'I am the real dictator', declares Asma al-Assad
- Syria: Bashar al-Assad must obey peace plan or other countries will arm opposition
- Taliban infiltration fears grow as 'rogue' Afghan police gun down British soldiers
- Terror in North Africa: are Westerners pulling the strings?
- Terrorist alert on mainland over Queen's visit to Dublin
- The harrowing details of how the Newtown massacre began
- The homecoming: Lockerbie bomber arrives in Tripoli
- The horror and mystery of the Annecy killings
- The ugly truth about the beautiful game
- Times poll: 61% think al-Megrahi release was about oil, not compassion
- Tony Blair gave secret promise to George Bush over Iraq invasion
- Top brass warn No 10: avoid Mali escalation
- Toulouse shooting: killer 'was on US no-fly list'
- Troops fear defeat at home
- Tug-of-war looms over fate of Gaddafi's heir
- UK 'to stay out of Greece bailout' - Osborne
- UK paves way for flight of Libyan defectors
- UK refuses to suspend Egypt arms sales
- UN condemns Israel for attack on aid convoy
- UN tells Iran: sanctions are coming
- US accepts Hamid Karzai as Afghan leader despite poll fraud claims
- US adds to pressure as British soldiers die in Afghanistan
- US election 2012: the US political playing field tilts against Republicans
- US military chiefs 'planned to blow up the moon with nuclear bomb' as show of Cold War muscle, physicist claims
- Vladimir Putin welcomes Gerard Depardieu to Russia
- Voices from inside Homs
- We may leave EU if we do not get powers back, Grant Shapps warns
- What if Britain left the EU?
- Why did you kill my son? Backlash against Afghan rescue operation grows
- Will Afghans defy Taliban and flock to the ballot box?
- William and Kate's Canada visit will retread old ground
- Women kidnapped in Ecuador: we feared being killed
- World braces itself for Greek euro exit
Other topics
- Heathrow must be expanded or replaced, airport chief announces
- Margaret Thatcher's funeral: Grassroots mingle with the great and the good
- Tale of Henry's favourite is a winner with the bookies – and the Booker
- 'A heroine and a hate figure' - for better or worse, Baroness Thatcher remade our nation
- 'Administration problems' blamed for Pope Benedict's ticket slump
- A 25-year adventure: The Independent celebrates a quarter of a century
- After Richard III, archaeologists set their sights on Alfred the Great
- Airports reopen after another day of frustration
- Alarm bells for Apple as glitch hits new year wake-up calls for iPhone users
- All government websites could be scrapped and replaced by single domain
- Animal exports suspended by Thanet council
- April Fool! A round up of the best (and worst) hoaxes
- Ashes of Charlotte Gray heroine scattered in France
- BBC chief refuses to ban Margaret Thatcher death song
- Bought for £1, the mysterious tower that inspired JRR Tolkien
- British tourist catches girl in fall from Florida hotel balcony
- British tourist grabbed shark by tail to save bathers
- Burial ground of Bunyan, Defoe and Blake earns protected status
- Calls to grant astronaut Neil Armstrong a state funeral
- Campaign launched to raise awareness of Census
- Carriage fit for the Queen: landau readied for diamond jubilee procession
- Church may split over women bishops and gay priests, warns Rowan Williams
- Church warned over women bishops
- Churchill: The blood sweat and tears behind his finest hour speech
- Cruise disaster: Captain 'neared Italian rocks to greet friend on shore’
- Derailed train left hanging over 15-metre ridge
- Diamond Jubilee: The day a nation pushed the boat out
- Doctor offers diagnosis in Charles Darwin medical mystery
- Duke and Duchess of Cambridge announce they are expecting first baby
- Duke of Cambridge leaves visit to wife as he bids farewell to nanny
- Duke of Kent being treated in hospital after 'mild’ stroke
- Eight-year-old found hanged in her bedroom
- Face of Richard III to be revealed
- First drug addict sterilised under 'cash for vasectomy' offer
- French PM to Irish leader: keep out of Thierry Henry scandal
- Fresh ash cloud stops flights ahead of BA strike
- Give Queen a new royal yacht for diamond jubilee, says Michael Gove
- Gordon Brown predicts a decade of decline for the west
- Guernsey files reveal how islanders defied Nazi occupation
- Hands Off Our Land: Property firms that fund Tories to build thousands of green belt homes
- Hilary Mantel portrays Duchess as a 'shop window mannequin’
- Hollywood director James Cameron's sub reaches deepest point of the ocean
- Internet cut-off threat for illegal downloaders
- It could have been you: lottery winner loses unclaimed £64m
- Jubilee concert: big noise and a big gap as duke misses date with pop royalty
- Kate to use Diana's carriage on wedding day
- Kidnapped British boy found safe and well in Pakistan
- King Richard III facial model goes on display in Leicester
- Last Night: Diamond Jubilee Concert, Buckingham Palace, London
- Life on both sides of the divide
- London Olympics 2012: ticket site temporarily crashes as it stuggles to cope with second-round demand
- London's transport system ready for 'extreme' demands of 2012 Olympics
- Margaret Thatcher funeral dress rehearsal takes place
- Margaret Thatcher funeral procession: How applause drowned out the jeers
- Margaret Thatcher taught Britain to love business, poll finds
- Margaret Thatcher's funeral: Family veto Argentine officials at service
- Margaret Thatcher: A champion of freedom for workers, nations and the world
- Margaret Thatcher: we disliked her and we loved it
- Mayan apocalypse 21/12/12: 'The planets are aligned the sun will activate, let the deluge come'
- Mayan apocalypse is a shot in the arm for tourism in Central America
- Mayan apocalypse: are there any facts behind this doomsday scenario? (No)
- McDonald’s: the world’s local restaurant
- Medieval plague victims unearthed in City of London square
- Metal detector man finds massive Anglo-Saxon hoard
- MPs push to turn House of Commons into tourist attraction
- Nazis tried to flood Europe with fake British banknotes, MI5 files show
- Neil Armstrong passing prompts US yearning for past glories
- Neil Armstrong: 'One of the greatest American heroes of all time'
- New royal yacht proposal backed by David Cameron
- New Trojan virus poses online banking threat
- Occupy London protesters free themselves from St Paul's Cathedral pulpit
- Paradise regained as England capture the Ashes once more
- Pope Benedict XVI to make first ever official papal visit to Britain
- Pope's gambit could see 1,000 quit Church of England
- Preserved gladiatorial relics are discovered in the suburbs of York
- Pressure grows for circus ban on wild animals
- Prince Charles pays tribute to "Mummy"
- Prince Harry likely to return to active frontline service in Afghanistan
- Prince of Wales tells Vogue readers to wear old clothes
- Privacy under a pergola for Will and Kate
- Queen's diamond jubilee brings out the royal colours
- Queen's Diamond Jubilee china goes on sale
- Real ale revival continues as women and young buy more
- Reasons to be cheerful
- Remains of first king of England's sister found in German cathedral
- Royal wedding set to be bank holiday
- Royal wedding: Queen and Charles 'to pay their share' of the bill
- Sarah Ferguson admits to Oprah she was 'in the gutter'
- Second home owners are creating 'apartheid' in the countryside
- Spyclists: how Hitler Youth's cycling tours caused panic in prewar Britain
- St David's Day celebrated around the world - and on Google
- Survivors gather to pay tribute to 'British Schindler'
- Thatcher funeral's military pomp raises concerns at Buckingham Palace
- The core of truth behind Sir Isaac Newton's apple
- The Queen's Diamond Jubilee concert: Pop royalty gathers to pay tribute
- The Queen: from glamorous princess to the country's oldest ever monarch
- Time to talk, says Brown, as three-day Royal Mail strike looms
- Trapped miners: major rescue operation to save four men from flooded colliery
- Two centuries of non-conformist history go online
- Women bishops: House of Laity chairman faces no-confidence vote
US news headlines
Environment and Energy
- A Fourth of July in the dark for many in Washington area days after storm
- A year after BP oil spill, fate of gulf ecosystem remains murky
- BP makes headway in containing oil leak
- BP repair work releases more oil into gulf
- BP to try smaller dome against oil leak
- Bush-era EPA document on climate change released
- Climate negotiators eye the 'forgotten 50%' of greenhouse gas pollutants
- EPA clears path for emission limits
- EPA proposes ‘first ever’ emissions standards for power plants
- Interior secretary orders division of federal oil regulator
- Southern California beach erosion is worst in a decade
- "Storm of epic proportions" hits Alaska coast
- 1 step forward, 1 step back: Cap collects more oil, but BP's Gulf spill could go until autumn
- 100-ton contraption lowered into Gulf in unprecedented attempt to divert massive oil spill
- 12 deaths from violent storms that rip through South; survival tales show toll could be worse
- 5 times more oil leaking from well in Gulf of Mexico
- A year on, Gulf still grapples with BP oil spill
- After 1st effort to siphon gulf oil leak fails, BP considers using smaller containment box
- Arizona wildfire threat grows, with no end in sight
- As BP captures some Gulf oil, scientists worry that current will carry it to Fla. Keys
- As businesses collapse, claimants still waiting for checks from BP
- As Obama makes another visit to Gulf, documents show BP cut corners in days before blowout
- As oil hits more beaches, politicians make more waves
- At least 12 killed as tornadoes strike Midwest
- Atlantic's 1st hurricane of season slams Mexico's Gulf Coast; largely spares Texas
- Blizzard's snow and ice weigh heavily on New Englanders
- Boat with 100-ton containment contraption to capture Gulf oil gusher sails to disaster site
- BP begins more aggressive response to spill as Obama prepares to make another visit to Gulf
- BP encounters another setback in effort to contain the blowout; oil threatens Fla. beaches
- BP in talks with Interior Department to resume Gulf of Mexico deep-water drilling
- BP oil spill poses PR dilemma for nonprofits
- BP oil spill trial delayed for settlement talks
- BP report on well disaster faults mechanical, human failures
- BP royalty payments in gulf spill face scrutiny
- BP seats cap on blown-out Gulf well as oil still spews; Obama to make 3rd trip to La. coast
- BP to pay $4-billion criminal fine in Deepwater Horizon spill
- California: Urging Water Rules Change
- Chief of oil spill inquiry sees no proof BP skimped on safety to save money
- Climate bill politics are heating up
- Cold snap continues to inundate nation
- Crews on huge rigs drill deep into the Gulf to build relief wells, stop gushing oil leak
- Deadly explosion, fire rips through Texas fertilizer plant
- Deadly tornado outbreak among largest in U.S. history
- Deadly tornadoes rip through Midwest
- Developing nations hold the key to Copenhagen climate agreement
- Fears for vulnerable as Britain faces sub-zero temperatures
- FEMA denies aid for southern Illinois towns hit by tornado
- Firefighters battle 800-acre blaze near Corona
- Firefighters in Colorado grapple with strong winds
- Five killed in Connecticut power plant blast
- Flooded Georgia hopes worst is over
- Frantic drive to spare Gulf Coast from oil spill
- Global warming protesters ramp up with climate talks' failure
- Google gets bike-friendly
- Gov. Jerry Brown is facing tricky environmental and energy issues in California
- Government issues tighter rules for deep-water drilling
- Gulf May Avoid Direst Predictions After Oil Spill
- Gulf of Mexico oil spill a threat to Florida
- Gulf Oil Spill Is Bad, but How Bad?
- Heat wave adds to misery of storms, power outages in East
- Homeowners forced to buy flood insurance
- Huge Los Angeles Fire Was Arson, Officials Say
- Hurricane Bill strengthens to Category 3 storm
- Hurricane Earl Bears Down on Carolina Coast
- Hurricane Earl Nears Atlantic Coast
- Hurricane Jimena weakens to a Category 2 storm
- Hurricane Sandy growing stronger as it nears Cuba
- I.B.M. Sets Out to Make a City in Iowa ‘Smarter’
- In Joplin, threat of more tornadoes keeps residents on edge
- In Louisiana, residents along the Mississippi River await the inevitable
- Japan's nuclear problems pose little danger to U.S., Nuclear Regulatory Commission chief says
- L.A.'s hottest day ever
- L.A.'s latest storm brings heavy flooding
- Lack of information on key test before explosion heightens rig mystery
- Lawsuits fly in BP's Gulf spill blame game
- Legal showdown over Asian carp invasion
- Louisiana - Isaac weakens to tropical storm but still threatens major flooding
- Louisiana towns put their faith in sandbags
- Louisiana's love-hate relationship with the oil industry
- Manager says safety issues are ignored at Hanford nuclear site
- Mass evacuations ordered as wildfires rage in Colorado
- Mexico struggles to evacuate thousands as fierce Hurricane Jimena nears Los Cabos resorts
- Military spearheads clean-energy drive
- Mississippi cresting in Memphis as key spillway opened
- Missouri officials continue identifying tornado dead
- More oil diverted to ship, but damage from slick spreads
- More than 5,500 acres burn in Arizona wildfires
- New Tactic in California for Paying Pollution Bill
- New York Assesses Violent Storm’s Toll
- Northern front of Station fire flares up
- Obama administration sues BP, other companies in gulf oil spill
- Obama green-tech program that backed Solyndra struggles to create jobs
- Oil flow could be curtailed soon
- Oil platform explodes off Louisiana
- Oil slick is spoiling Gulf Coast's comeback year
- Oil spills after two barges strike Mississippi River bridge
- Oklahoma shaken up after earthquakes
- On New Environmental Scoreboard, U.S. and China Plummet While Iceland Leads
- One street, five deaths: Harrisburg tornado fatalities concentrated in close-knit neighborhood
- Panel Suggests Signs of Trouble Before Rig Explosion
- Power restored to most left in dark by Superstorm Sandy
- Powerful blizzard takes aim at Northeastern United States
- President Obama tours tornado-stricken Joplin, Mo.
- Quantcast Gulf oil spill figures may be double earlier estimates
- Relief bore reaches BP's damaged well; endgame in sight
- Rescuers search for survivors, at least 14 dead
- Rescuers struggle to save oil-soaked pelicans
- Researchers see a pattern in rise of deadly tornadoes
- River lays siege to historic Vicksburg, Miss.
- Sandy’s damage to wildlife refuges adds to questions about federal spending
- Scientists seek clues in Mexicali earthquake
- Shell Makes Reassurances on Drilling
- Shrimp and oil are still king at this Louisiana festival
- Sites to Refuel Electric Cars Gain a Big Dose of Funds
- Snow forecast shuts down federal government for 2nd straight day
- Snow, shovel, repeat: East Coast digs out again as new storm adds to relentless winter
- Snowstorm debilitates the Midwest
- Some clean-energy firms found U.S. loan-guarantee program a bad bet
- Storm Batters East, Closing Schools and Grounding Planes
- Storm departs L.A. with a bang
- Strong solar storm heading for Earth
- Strongest typhoon in years dumps rains in Philippines and kills at least 10
- Texas tornadoes: Hundreds of homes damaged in Dallas-Fort Worth
- Texas wildfires destroy at least 500 homes
- Thick oil from blown-out well washes into La. marshes for the first time
- Tornadoes from Tropical Storm Debby hit Florida, one dead
- Toxic legacy of the Cold War
- Tropical Storm Lee spawns tornadoes on Gulf Coast
- Two years after BP oil spill, offshore drilling still poses risks
- U.S. blames BP for Gulf spill
- U.S. nuclear officials suspect Japanese plant has a dire breach
- U.S., China seek to reignite global talks on climate change
- U.S., China, others join Copenhagen Accord on climate
- Utah blaze sparked at firing range burns 300 acres, 2 homes SW of Salt Lake City
- Wake of Tropical Storm Lee inundates D.C. region
- Waters recede but storm victims suffer in East
- Weather aids firefighters; Mt. Wilson still threatened
- Western wildfires rage, forcing evacuations
- Winter storm smacks cities, businesses
Freedom and Security
- Travelers into U.S. feel increased security measures
- U.S. learned intelligence on airline attack suspect while he was en route
- Web browsers consider limiting how much they track users
- 'Invasive' airport pat-downs not going away for the holidays
- A decade after the 9/11 attacks, Americans live in an era of endless war
- Ahmadinejad takes center stage as nuclear treaty conference opens at the United Nations
- Altered Movie Poster Puts the Spotlight on a San Francisco Agency’s Gun Ban
- Animated News Clips Fuel Debate on Media Freedom
- Arizona couple near border have complex view of illegal immigration
- Arrest made in N.Y. bomb case
- Assange's lawyers arranging with British police to bring in WikiLeaks founder for questioning
- Bloomberg at center of gun control debate
- Border agency's rapid growth accompanied by rise in corruption
- C.I.A. Abuse Cases Detailed in Report on Detainees
- Cables Obtained by WikiLeaks Shine Light Into Secret Diplomatic Channels
- CIA to search bin Laden compound
- CIA website goes down, hackers claim responsibility
- Click here to find out more! U.S. issues travel alert for Europe amid threat of Al Qaeda attack
- Costly virtual border fence in tatters
- Defense Bill Clears Senate Hurdle
- Defense plans precautionary cutbacks
- Drone belonged to CIA, officials say
- Ending a cruel immigration twist
- Even before Newtown tragedy, NRA was losing Democratic support
- Every 9/11 anniversary a reminder of grief, healing
- Ex-CIA officer charged with disclosing classified information
- Ex-Navy SEAL who wrote Bin Laden book gets warning from Pentagon
- FBI analyzing new explosive from Al Qaeda
- FBI cuts back on GPS surveillance after Supreme Court ruling
- From World Trade Center steel, a ship is born
- FTC looks at mobile apps firms over child privacy concerns
- Google says 4.5 million people signed anti-SOPA petition
- Google unified privacy settings unsettle users
- Googling the Censors
- Guantanamo Bay detainees’ family members may be allowed to visit
- Gun rights group endorses Manchin-Toomey background-check bill
- Gun ruling may trigger new legal fights
- Gun-control overhaul is defeated in Senate
- High-seas piracy drama plays out in U.S. courtroom
- Illegal immigrant numbers plunge
- Illinois Prison For Guantanamo Detainees Faces Tough Vote In Congress
- Immigration officials admit releasing thousands of detainees
- Justice Dept. Report Advises Pursuing C.I.A. Abuse Cases
- Man arrested with explosives at airport was Army expert
- Marine awarded Medal of Honor
- Marines in Afghanistan take 'The Village' to heart
- Mental Stress Training Is Planned for U.S. Soldiers
- Military refines a 'constant stare against our enemy'
- Naperville gets a reality check
- New counterterrorism guidelines permit data on U.S. citizens to be held longer
- New Jersey Governor Christie slams NRA ad as 'reprehensible'
- Obama gun plan may feature background checks on all buyers
- Obama makes gun control top priority
- Obama warns of national security peril as GOP showdown over US-Russia nuclear pact deepens
- Officials helped makers of Osama bin Laden film, documents show
- Oregon Islamic center fire raises fears that foiled bomb plot will turn Muslims into targets
- Panetta indicates future detainees could be held at Guantanamo
- Pentagon to boost cybersecurity force
- Police arrest second man in Colorado prison chief slaying probe
- Powders on planes: Passengers face new scrutiny
- Report warned Boston Marathon was vulnerable to terrorism
- Secret report raises alarms on intelligence blind spots because of AQ focus
- Seized Times Reporter Is Freed in Afghan Raid That Kills Aide
- Senate moves ahead on nuclear arms treaty, clears initial hurdle on Obama priority
- Senate poised to debate gun control measure
- Showcase: The World, as of 9/10/01
- State program to seize illegal guns gaining notice
- States move quickly, divergently on gun laws
- Supreme Court strikes down California video game law
- Supreme Court to hear arguments over government spying
- Supreme Court to weigh in on immigration battle
- Teen baseball player shoots coach after argument
- Terror Verdict Tests Obama’s Strategy on Detainees
- The B61 bomb: A case study in costs and needs
- TSA: Children pose little risk, can keep shoes on during security check
- U.S. charges 11 as Russian agents
- U.S. civilian court acquits ex-Guantanamo detainee of all major terrorism charges
- U.S. Closes Mexico Border Crossing After Shootout
- U.S. concerned about former Guantanamo prisoners in Yemen
- U.S. Is Working to Ease Wiretaps on the Internet
- U.S. jury convicts four in Mexico cartel money laundering scam
- U.S. looks at ways to control militant websites
- U.S. may not make January deadline for closing Guantanamo
- U.S. on guard for attacks ahead of bin Laden anniversary
- U.S. said to be target of massive cyber-espionage campaign
- U.S. to hold first test of cyber-blitz response plan
- U.S. to house Guantanamo detainees in Illinois
- U.S. urged dealer to continue gun sales despite concerns, inquiry finds
- U.S. victims of mass shootings seek control over donations
- War on terrorism a priority to California voters, poll finds
- Weapons made with 3-D printers could test gun-control efforts
- White House says confident will pass some gun control legislation
- WikiLeaks founder freed from custody, to keep spilling US secrets from English country mansion
- WikiLeaks has a new batch of classified files
- With Al Qaeda shattered, U.S. counter-terrorism's future unclear
- YouTube is letting users decide on terrorism-related videos
Business and economy
- Hollywood studios in midst of their own horror show
- Obama to unveil offshore drilling plans for oil, natural gas
- Some L.A. council members resist spending cuts, layoffs
- $100 Billion Increase in Deficit Is Forecast
- A Local Push, Timed to Holidays, to Loosen Wallets
- A Magazine Promises Ads Will Register
- A Trillion for Europe, With Doubts Attached
- A Venture Integrating Skype Into the Family Room
- Administration to order big pay cuts for top executives at bailed-out firms
- After Madoff: Fees for lawyers, others untangling mess expected to top $1 billion
- Airbus to open factory on rival Boeing's U.S. turf
- Airlines ride new fees, cost cuts to big profits
- Analysts Ask if the iPad Can Live Up to Its Hype
- Apple Buys a Start-Up for Its Voice Technology
- Apple CEO Jobs says next version of the iPhone will have clearer screen, high-def recording
- Apple launches ad system for mobile devices in race with Google
- Apple shares touch new high
- Apple's Jobs takes another medical leave, raising questions about firm's future
- April hiring seen picking up
- As Japan seeks to finance reconstruction, U.S. debt costs could rise
- At Box Office, 'Avatar' Cast As Savior
- At some big retailers, Black Friday comes a day early
- At Summit, Banks Avoid New Global Regulations
- At YouTube, Adolescence Begins at 5
- Australia Raises Rates for a Third Time
- Big-box stores attempt to lure online shoppers
- Boycott BP? That's easier said than done
- Budget deal would close California's deficit but makes rosy projections
- Bush tax cuts helped the rich get richer
- Bush-era oil-shale decision under review
- Class, not race, seems to be D.C.’s great divider
- Colorado pot growers gear up for ‘green rush’
- Companies ask to end drilling moratorium; head of spill victims fund pledges fast payments
- Could the ‘platinum coin option’ solve the U.S. debt crisis?
- Deadly Spanish train crash offers lessons for U.S. rail plan
- Deal to head off year-end tax increases taking shape; jobless benefits may be extended, too
- Debt supercommittee might turn out to be a useful failure
- Digging a pension hole
- Dodd Calls Obama Plan Too Ambitious
- Dr. Martens Kicks Off 50 Years of Boot Business With ‘Cover’ Campaign
- E.U. Finds Trade Barriers Rising Since Global Crisis
- Early start to "Black Friday" shopping welcomed by some, not all
- EBay Is Said to Have Deal to Sell Skype
- Economists, Obama administration at odds over role of mortgage debt in recovery
- Economy Is Forcing Young Adults Back Home
- European debt crisis: Investors’ confidence shows signs of crumbling
- Europe’s troubles affect wide variety of U.S. firms
- Eviction pushes Occupy protesters in new directions
- Facebook Offers Translation Tool to Other Sites
- Facebook stock plunges 9.1% as doubts rise again
- Facebook teams with U.S. to help the unemployed find jobs
- Facebook’s market debut draws criticism from lawmakers
- Federal Reserve survey shows worst recession since 1930s may be over
- File-Sharing Pioneers Now Selling Music
- For black Americans, financial damage from subprime implosion is likely to last
- Frenzy in Washington grows over nation's debt
- G-20 leaders agree to refrain from competitive devaluation of currencies
- Google Aims to Wrest Display Ads From Yahoo
- Greece's fiscal woes threaten the U.S.
- Greyhound’s Buses to Roll in London
- Holiday travel heavy, but not landmark
- How the IMF reasserted its power in Greece’s debt crisis
- I.M.F. Upgrades Forecast for World Economies
- In E-Book Era, You Can’t Even Judge a Cover
- Investors can soon make bets on movie box office
- Japan Puts Forth an $80.6 Billion Stimulus Package
- Justice Dept. opens criminal investigation of Goldman Sachs
- Lawmakers debate the effects of stimulus spending
- Leaving North Las Vegas no option for many 'underwater' homeowners
- Markets surge after central banks announce move to ease global credit crunch
- Mayor lashes out at Occupy Wall Street protesters
- Microsoft tackles iPad with Surface tablet
- Microsoft’s Ballmer announces new Windows Phone devices
- Microsoft’s Bing Gets a Social Lift From Facebook
- More shoppers open to giving personal info: survey
- No, This Is Not the Best iPhone Ever
- Obama Decries ‘Fat Cat Bankers’
- Obama says Republicans 'hold the purse strings' on jobs package
- Obama's deficit proposal marks a move away from compromise
- Obama's multitrillion-dollar budget would deepen record pool of red ink, urge jobless help
- Occupy D.C. protesters arrested in standoff over makeshift shelter at McPherson Sq.
- On ‘fiscal cliff,’ both sides lay groundwork for debate’s next phase
- Out of Work, Too Down to Search On
- Payroll tax break: Extension proposals from both parties fail in Senate
- President Obama calls for one-third cut to oil imports
- Putting Obama on Hold, in a Hint of Who’s Boss
- Record $16M fine leveled against Toyota over slow recalls
- Report: Online news consumption only area of industry showing growth
- Retailers ready as Black Friday dawns
- Retailers see only a little more green on Black Friday
- Rising fuel prices could cramp economic recovery
- Senate Passes Broader Rules for Overseeing Wall Street
- Social Networks Exhibit Senior Appeal
- Some lawmakers frown on museum spending
- Steve Jobs Muses on All Things Apple
- Still Needed: A Sheriff of Finance
- Stocks nosedive as Europe's woes mount
- Supreme Court blocks huge class-action suit against Wal-Mart
- Taxmageddon sparks rising anxiety
- Tech firms look to tap tablet's potential
- The ‘War’ Between Fox News and the White House
- Thousands of Occupy protesters shut down operations at Oakland port
- To boost flagging economy, U.S. wants to import more shoppers
- Toyota’s Chief Returns to His Blog
- U.S. foreign arms sales reach $34.8 billion
- U.S. in standoff with Beijing over Chinese currency
- U.S. may strengthen identity verification system for workers
- Veterans’ unemployment outpaces civilian rate
- Wall Street protesters hope to plant seeds of a national cause
- Wealthy, business-savvy Mexican immigrants transform Texas city
- Web Shopping Rush Sticks to Top Sites
- With Criminal Charges for Oil Spill, Costs to BP Could Soar
- Workers bracing to say goodbye to Toyota auto plant
- Yen Rises to 14-Year High Against Dollar
Politics
- A sharper tone in second presidential debate
- Democrats may use shortcut to pass healthcare overhaul
- Details and deadlines test budget negotiators
- Fight over Wisconsin unions heats up
- Health-care ruling motivates Romney supporters
- Inside story of Obama’s struggle to keep Congress from controlling outcome of debt ceiling crisis
- Obama speaks from pulpit, noting progress and difficulty in America
- Obama urges immigration reform at July 4 citizen ceremony
- Obama, on the campaign trail, urges people to not be disillusioned
- Republicans mobilize healthcare opposition
- White House, lawmakers speed up debt-reduction talks
- "Fiscal cliff" talks turn sour, Obama threatens veto
- 'Super PACs' largely funded by a wealthy few
- 'Tea party' activists keep watch on Congress' new class
- 10 years after Salt Lake City Olympics, questions about Romney’s contributions
- 2 Democratic senators, 1 Democratic governor dropping out of re-election races
- 2012 GOP contest shaping up to be cheapest race in years
- 3 Contests on Election Day Could Signal Political Winds
- A daunting Obama ground game awaits Romney
- A Favorite Villain in Election Ads: New York City
- A few states could decide Obama-Romney battle
- A Push to Supplement Tuesday Voting With Weekends
- A year later, healthcare reform still in contention
- Abortion battle moves to the Senate
- After decades of fighting, Democrats show unified front
- After House passage of GOP budget cuts, lawmakers head home to hear from voters
- Aggressive Mitt Romney gets the best of Newt Gingrich in Florida debate
- Alabama enacts anti-illegal-immigration law described as nation's strictest
- Amid Thaw, Obama Talks With Chinese Leader
- Amid the acrimony, Congress has consensus on some healthcare issues
- Among likely voters, Obama-Romney close
- An Obama win on taxes for rich could still mean middle class takes a hit
- Apathetic voters, the silent majority
- Arizona's relentless conservative voice
- As fuel prices rise, Obama starts energy blitz
- As Mitt Romney surges, Republican divisions sharpen
- Assailed from all sides, Obama defends his health care plan
- At Facebook headquarters, Obama seeks 2008 campaign energy
- At GOP gathering, divergent directions
- At prayer breakfast and with birth-control decision, Obama riles religious conservatives
- At second presidential debate, pressure will be on Obama
- At Thanksgiving, Obama calls on country to do what's required to make a better tomorrow
- Bachmann off, Perry on Republican roller coaster
- Back to Ohio, Romney faces uphill battle in key state
- Barack Obama support a bit shaky in Illinois
- Baucus presents healthcare overhaul plan
- Before debate, Romney calls Obama weak on foreign policy
- Biden to meet House members on gun proposals on Monday
- Big Margin for Cuomo, but Short of Historic
- Brief ceremony begins Obama's second term
- California's budget plan balanced with risky assumptions
- California’s Democrat Is Elected to Congress
- Campaign 2012 lends new urgency to economic debates
- Cheney lashes out at Obama administration
- Click here to find out more! Health bill picking up key votes
- Climate Change Doubt Is Tea Party Article of Faith
- Clinton touts Obama and warns against Romney
- Combative Obama insists on ending Bush-era tax cuts for nation's wealthiest, would keep others
- Congress and Obama face new budget fights
- Congress approves final changes to health plan
- Congress comes back Tuesday to confront 'fiscal cliff'
- Congress edges toward a compromise on spending
- Congress faces an agenda full of front-burner issues
- Congress passes extension of Bush-era tax cuts
- Congress pulls back state aid package, leaving a $2-billion hole in California budget
- Congressional leaders reach spending deal to avoid government shutdown
- Court seems to be leaning against Defense of Marriage Act
- Critics slam Chuck Hagel's likely nomination as Defense secretary
- Debt Plan Ideas Draw Scorn of Liberals and Tea Party
- Defiant Boehner presses for 'fiscal cliff' cuts
- Democratic convention has new tone
- Democrats give special interests a role at convention
- Democrats reluctant to campaign with Obama
- Democrats seek healthcare consensus
- Democrats seize on candidate's pregnancy, rape comments
- Eastwood's 'Invisible Obama' skit amuses some, confuses others
- Economic anxiety threatens Obama in 2012, but in poll he edges GOP rivals
- Evangelical support grows for Romney
- Financial reform bill passes House, 237-192
- Firearms advocates target gun-control measures
- Florida says no to two healthcare law features
- For GOP, storm's timing makes it harder to be anti-government
- For Obama and Romney, Virginia could hold the key
- For Romney and Paul, a strategic alliance between establishment and outsider
- Fresh from victory in vote to debate a health care bill, Democrats at odds over the details
- From Obama, the Tax Cut Nobody Heard Of
- G.O.P. Forces New House Vote on Package of Health Bill Changes
- Gabrielle Giffords to resign from Congress
- Gay rights bill clears a hurdle in Wyoming
- Gays may have the fastest of all civil rights movements
- Giffords leads Tucson shooting anniversary remembrance
- Gingrich and Santorum battle for GOP votes in Deep South
- Gingrich defiant as Romney's lead grows in Florida
- Gingrich sees a South Carolina surge
- Gingrich, Romney set sights on Obama in Iowa debate
- Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin draw the faithful in Anchorage
- GOP budget plan cuts deeply into domestic programs, reshapes Medicare, Medicaid
- GOP debate features stymied Rick Perry, defiant Herman Cain
- GOP governors back away from Romney remarks
- GOP holds reins in debate over tax cut extension
- GOP House to vote to repeal health care law before Obama's State of the Union
- GOP resolve dominates the agenda in Congress
- GOP wants deep cuts before raising U.S. debt limit
- GOP’s Red America forced to rethink what it knows about the country
- Governors cut taxes — and medical aid to the poor
- Grand deficit-cutting effort ends with whimper
- Handful of House Democrats indicate they haven't ruled out switch to 'yes' on health care vote
- Healthcare bill's tough sell in the House
- Healthcare is a headache for GOP candidates in California
- Healthcare reform wins over doctors lobby
- Higher health care bills ahead
- Home state remains true blue for Obama
- Hopes of Compromise on Health care Seem to Fade for Negotiators
- House approves spending measure opposed by Senate; shutdown possible
- House Democrats to Obama: Don't cave on Medicare
- House GOP blocks extension of jobless benefits
- House lawmakers reach tentative deal to revamp immigration
- House OKs $3.9 billion in earmarks in spending bill
- House passes historic healthcare overhaul
- House puts spending-cut knife to Pentagon
- House Republican leaders agree to payroll tax holiday extension without offsets
- House to vote on GOP plan that would forestall Pentagon cuts
- House votes against already-approved increase in debt ceiling
- How Obama became black
- How the right wing lost in 2012
- Hundreds of pastors back political candidates, defy tax rules
- Ill. gov. candidate Whitney spelled as 'Whitey' on Chicago voting machines, to be corrected
- Illinois primary win may have turned the tide for Romney
- Immigration reform's first hurdle: Is the border secure?
- In campaign for tougher gun laws, Obama and allies work to tilt public opinion
- In Colorado, 'anybody but Obama' may not be good enough
- In Dublin, Obama cites Irish peace accord as model for other conflicts
- In early Obama White House, female staffers felt frozen out
- In final debate, Obama and Romney to offer differing views of America’s role in the world
- In first post-election news conference, Obama lays out second term
- In gay rights victory, Obama administration won't defend Defense of Marriage Act
- In Indiana, ripples of discontent with Obama
- In Michigan, Mitt Romney faces day of reckoning
- In Obama's inaugural speech, a sweeping liberal vision
- Inside Obama’s War on Terrorism
- Iowa caucuses: One day out
- Is Obama overrated as a candidate?
- Is Occupy Wall Street a tea party for Democrats?
- It’s Time for Democrats to Attack, Pelosi Says
- Jerry Brown to announce bid for governor Tuesday
- Jobs, debt and, yes, health care still, top an American to-do list on eve of Obama speech
- Joe Biden leads Obama campaign assault on Mitt Romney
- John Murtha dies at 77; Pennsylvania Democrat forcefully opposed Iraq war in Congress
- Jon Huntsman will leave Republican presidential race, endorse Mitt Romney
- Judge blocks New York City ban on large sugary drinks
- Judge won't block Alaska abortion notification law
- Justices to Weigh Law on Gaining Citizenship via Parents
- Key Senate panel votes down 'public option' for healthcare
- Latino voters take center stage in both presidential campaigns
- Lawmakers reach tentative deal to fund government
- Marco Rubio endorses Mitt Romney
- Midterm election's big loser is the political center
- Millions Spent to Sway Democrats on Health Care
- Mitt Romney 'trying to walk a tightrope' on immigration
- Mitt Romney can't count on home-state advantage in Michigan
- Mitt Romney cruises to victory in Puerto Rico
- Mitt Romney exited Bain Capital with rare tax benefits in retirement
- Mitt Romney may have to run against his own image
- Mitt Romney may win the GOP presidential nomination by default
- Mitt Romney prepares to challenge Obama on foreign policy
- Mitt Romney says healthcare plan's individual mandate is a tax
- Mitt Romney steps up attacks on Newt Gingrich
- Mitt Romney to officially clinch Republican nomination Tuesday
- Mitt Romney tries out potential running mates
- Mitt Romney’s dog-on-the-car-roof story still proves to be his critics’ best friend
- Mitt Romney’s tax returns shed some light on his investment wealth
- Moderate Americans Elect group hoping to add third candidate to 2012 election ballot
- Native American leaders express mixed views on Obama administration's progress on promises
- New York a vote away from approving gay marriage
- Newt Gingrich to end presidential campaign
- Now in Power, G.O.P. Vows Cuts in State Budgets
- Obama adds fire to healthcare debate
- Obama administration moves ahead with sweeping rules requiring cleaner gasoline
- Obama aggressive in foreign policy debate with Romney
- Obama appeals for 'common sense' on gun measures
- Obama backs Senate tax on high-value insurance plans over House opposition
- Obama backtracking on detainee rights, critics say
- Obama begins campaign-style jobs tour in key states
- Obama Cabinet may not meet his own diversity standards
- Obama campaign attack ad calls Romney a 'job destroyer'
- Obama campaign spends more in May than it raises
- Obama campaign tailors message for key states and voters
- Obama challenges Republicans to explain opposition to jobs bill
- Obama chooses former Clinton staffers in a move to the center
- Obama confronts jobs "crisis" with $447 billion plan
- Obama considering John Kerry for job of defense secretary
- Obama courts business with Chamber of Commerce address
- Obama demands historic health care vote quickly
- Obama digs in heels, refuses to negotiate debt ceiling
- Obama finds key asset in Bill Clinton’s support
- Obama gets win as Congress passes free-trade agreements
- Obama holds edge over Romney in general election matchup, poll finds
- Obama honors military in Veterans Day address
- Obama jobs speech creates conflict with GOP
- Obama keeps Romney on his heels in last debate
- Obama loses bin Laden bounce
- Obama losing chance to reshape judiciary
- Obama makes a vow to veterans of today's wars
- Obama meets with Boehner on fiscal cliff: aides
- Obama opens up about drone strikes in Pakistan
- Obama order could make corporate political spending public
- Obama outlines tax cut deal that extends jobless aid
- Obama pitches need for health overhaul to Congress
- Obama plans to change approach before next presidential debate with Romney
- Obama presents larger vision for a second term
- Obama pressures Republicans on federal debt ceiling
- Obama proposes two-year pay freeze for federal workers
- Obama pushing behind scenes to win over big-dollar donors
- Obama ratings sink to new lows as hope fades
- Obama Rejects Afghanistan-Vietnam Comparison
- Obama releases a budget plan with a simple goal: Ending the debt standoff
- Obama responds to criticism with 'fix it' strategy
- Obama reverses roles, comes out swinging at Romney in final debate
- Obama seeks $50 billion in transportation spending to create jobs
- Obama Seeks Time for Policies to Take
- Obama seeks ways around Congress to boost economy
- Obama set to make final healthcare push
- Obama shifts from consensus to instincts on key calls
- Obama signs bill to provide aid to Sept. 11 survivors and first responders who became ill
- Obama speech frames a 2012 choice for the country
- Obama spending plan criticized for avoiding deficit commission's major proposals
- Obama strives to revive the spirit of 2009
- Obama strongly leads GOP candidates in California poll
- Obama supports gay marriage, taking a risky stand
- Obama takes 'fiscal cliff' battle to social media
- Obama team targets Romney over taxes, Republicans cry foul
- Obama tells '60 Minutes' that health care overhaul cost more politically than he'd expected
- Obama thanks military, volunteers on Thanksgiving
- Obama to name Kagan to Supreme Court
- Obama to seek spending freeze, more aid to middle class
- Obama to tread carefully in immigration debate
- Obama to use two bibles for oath
- Obama touts healthcare law as new provisions take effect
- Obama tries to reclaim advantage on gas prices, health care
- Obama unveils new foreclosure measures to resuscitate housing market
- Obama urges patience as new law kicks in
- Obama warns against "loose talk" of war on Iran
- Obama's 2013 budget a campaign call to arms
- Obama's back-to-school speech handled differently in each district
- Obama's budget focuses on job creation
- Obama's healthcare speech helps unify Democrats
- Obama's healthcare trade-off
- Obama's job-creation panel includes job-cutting executives
- Obama's jobs bill falls to pieces in Congress
- Obama's plan to slash $3 trillion from deficit
- Obama, by pitching jobs plan before Congress, again turns to the Big Speech
- Obama, Clinton to promote jobs, energy savings through new public-private commitment
- Obama, Dems consider pared-back health care bill
- Obama, fresh from re-election, has little time to savor win
- Obama, GOP candidates more hopeful about factory jobs
- Obama, Republicans reposition for shift in power
- Obama, Romney to meet over lunch at the White House Thursday
- Obamas honor Mexico at state dinner
- Obama’s high-dollar donations lagging
- Obama’s Remarks on House Health Bill Passage
- Obama’s second-term blues set in
- Obama’s Supreme Court comments lead some to question his strategy
- Occupy Wall Street: Newcomers bring their worries and hopes to New York protest
- On gay marriage, Obama’s critics and supporters alike think he may shift again
- On supercommittee, growing doubts about reaching a debt deal
- On tax cuts, a deal begins to take shape
- On the road, Obama flashes a little frustration
- Palin Endorses Conservative in Divisive New York Race
- Party leaders may decide their strategies have hit a wall and turn to compromise.
- Patrick Kennedy decides against re-election
- Pentagon budget set to shrink next year
- Perry takes fire on immigration at debate
- Poll shows widening racial gap in presidential contest
- Poll: Obama, Romney in dead heat
- President Obama takes second oath of office at inauguration
- President Obama's influence on gay marriage will be tested
- President Obama's road to reelection runs through Pennsylvania
- President Obama: Black and more so
- President Obama’s base of support remains solid heading into 2012
- Presidential debate: A lackluster Obama, a revived Romney
- Presidential inauguration: Obama lays out battle plan for second term
- Reducing the deficit and growing the economy will be the hot topics in 2011
- Reform Plan for Pensions Has Critics
- Rep. Anthony Weiner exits politics, but is it forever?
- Republican front-runners Mitt Romney, Rick Perry come from different worlds
- Republican funding surge provides crucial advantage
- Republican image on taxes takes a hit
- Republican National Committee says party needs an overhaul
- Republican policy demands threaten budget talks
- Republican presidential candidates attend New Hampshire debate
- Republican rivals rip Romney on eve of New Hampshire primary
- Republican wins Massachusetts Senate race
- Republicans abandoning Romney over 'gifts' remark
- Republicans Are Clear Underdogs to Flip Senate
- Republicans are spoiling for a healthcare fight
- Republicans caught between a tax break and a hard place
- Republicans counter Democratic accusations on fundraising
- Republicans counter with their own 'fiscal cliff' plan
- Republicans decline to compromise on tax cuts
- Republicans grow anxious for primary race to end
- Republicans hammer Obama over Libya attacks
- Republicans lay groundwork for healthcare repeal
- Republicans object to Obama's plan to pay for jobs package
- Republicans ready to flex new muscle in Congress
- Republicans sweep governor races
- Republicans' 'head vs. heart' battle moves to Florida
- Republicans' hopes for recapturing control of Senate dim
- Research ties economic inequality to gap in life expectancy
- Rick Santorum defends views on working women
- Rick Santorum faced with strategy shift that will test his shoestring campaign
- Rick Santorum’s strategy of focusing on low-key races paid off
- Rightly targeting income inequality
- Romney adviser goes all out to rally Hispanics in Florida
- Romney and Gingrich policy ideas mirror their personalities: Pragmatic vs. epic
- Romney and Gingrich stage final bitter blitz in Florida
- Romney attributes loss to 'gifts' Obama gave minorities
- Romney campaign begins quiet push for African American voters
- Romney campaign had $25.7 million left after U.S. election
- Romney campaign turns to shallow pockets
- Romney campaign urges rivals to back out, saying delegate gap is too big
- Romney can't escape the economic divide
- Romney derides Obama supporters in hidden-camera speech
- Romney draws battle lines in GOP acceptance speech
- Romney endures battering in South Carolina
- Romney faces a narrow path to 270 electoral votes, but his team remains optimistic
- Romney reaches out to Latinos
- Romney says his 47 percent comment was 'completely wrong'
- Romney sharpens his attack, says Obama is running a ‘hide-and-seek campaign’
- Romney tells Latino audience he would fix immigration system
- Romney to pick up scores of delegates in five states
- Romney tries to regain footing and focus on economy
- Romney's political success is a mixed blessing for Mormon Church
- Romney, an active man of faith
- Romney, seen as most electable, still struggles to break out of pack, poll shows
- Romney’s principled, radical view for America
- Romney’s subtle shift to general election mode
- Ruling against health insurance mandate is a 'tea party' milestone
- Ryan leads GOP assault on Obama
- Santorum and Romney play to Wisconsin conservatives at their peril
- Santorum reports four years of tax returns
- Sarah Palin emails: Alaska set to release new trove of documents from Palin's governorship
- Sarah Palin says she won’t run for president, ending months of speculation
- Sarah Palin says U.S. 'on a road to ruin'
- Sarah Palin won't rule out 2012 run
- Secret Service prostitution scandal said to involve 20 women
- Senate approves extended unemployment benefits
- Senate blocks $60 billion infrastructure plan, another part of Obama jobs bill
- Senate GOP leader joins House effort to stop adding pork-barrel projects to spending bills
- Senate legislation may slow, but quorums continue
- Senate OKs funding bill that may prevent government shutdown
- Senate Passes Bill That Would Extend Unemployment Benefits
- Senate rejects bid to repeal healthcare law
- Senate Republicans filibuster Hagel nomination
- Senate Republicans stand by plan to overhaul Medicare
- Senate votes to consider gun control laws
- Senators agree on immigration overhaul plan
- Senators expect deal on tax cuts, unemployment aid
- Spirit of unity after Arizona slayings may be fleeting
- Splitting healthcare tab is a balancing act
- State of the Union 2011: 'Win the future,' Obama says
- State of the Union: Obama calls for unity, yet challenges GOP
- State of the Union: Obama speech aims to energize economic plans
- States, not Congress, can thwart healthcare law
- Stung by gas prices, Obama seeks new oil market crackdown
- Super Tuesday looks less super this time
- Supercommittee announces failure in effort to tame debt
- Support for Higher Tax on Wealthiest
- Supreme Court could rule for both sides on healthcare, immigration
- Supreme Court extends 2nd Amendment protection to state, local levels
- Supreme Court may reveal healthcare verdict Thursday
- Supreme Court puts healthcare law in campaign spotlight
- Supreme Court rejects key parts of Arizona immigration law
- Supreme Court set to open crucial term
- Supreme Court to hear arguments on timing of health-care ruling
- Supreme Court upholds Arizona immigration law targeting employers
- Supreme Court upholds Obama's healthcare law
- Surging Newt Gingrich draws fire from rivals in GOP debate
- Swing voters: Diverse, misunderstood and crucial in 2012
- Tax cuts will pass despite Democratic uprising, Obama advisor says
- Tea Party Set to Win Enough Races for Wide Influence
- Tensions escalate over Republican budget cuts
- The (86,000) budget-cutting ideas that got away
- The fight's back in John McCain
- The Palin puzzle: Just what is she running for?
- The strategy that paved a winning path
- There'll be quick gains from new health law, but bigger changes are still four years away
- This week, the world is watching Obama
- Threat from mounting public job losses tested Obama’s economic strategy
- To claim Virginia, Obama’s hopes rest on women
- U.S. 'fiscal cliff' talks picking up pace
- Undecided voters lean from Romney toward Obama
- Unemployment benefits expire as Congress debates extension
- Voice rising, Obama pitches health care as Democrats say they're close to agreement on a bill
- Voting laws may disenfranchise 10 million Hispanic U.S. citizens: study
- War savings and debt reduction: Take two
- Washington fires back at Schwarzenegger
- Washington Post-ABC News poll shows Americans torn over raising debt limit
- Washington state Senate approves same-sex marriage bill
- White House considers broader U.S. gun control
- White House fears gas prices could tank Obama
- White House moves into full reelection mode
- White House visitor logs provide window into lobbying industry
- White House weighs appeal of ruling on gays in military
- Will national Republican wave drown state's Democratic strength?
- Will Obama's 'Sputnik moment' fly?
- With an eye on legacy, Obama developing second-term strategy
- With campaign season here, Obama shows some swagger
- With Hagel and Brennan, Obama picks longtime advisors he trusts
- With more control over campaign cash, Obama gets more discounts on advertising
- Women’s issues help shape presidential debate
- Worried Democrats scramble to close fundraising gap with GOP
- ‘Fiscal cliff’ talks at a stalemate over tax hikes
- ‘Fiscal cliff’: Consensus on increasing tax revenue, a wide gulf on how to do it
- ‘Little America’: Infighting on Obama team squandered chance for peace in Afghanistan
Education
- Federal agency to investigate L.A. schools
- Finger guns, toy guns and threats: The fallout of Sandy Hook
- Sandy Banks: A retired L.A. teacher ponders her rating
- 'Pink slime' in school burgers? Food advocates have heard worse
- 23 Private College Presidents Made More Than $1 Million
- 3 new guidelines for ‘healthy homework’
- A Mission to Transform Baltimore’s Beaten Schools
- A Tablet to Let Students Replace Notebooks and Textbooks
- A View From Both Ends of the Educational Spectrum
- Activists protest education cuts at Capitol; about 70 arrested
- Affluent Indians Sending More Students Abroad
- At Leo High, a Gathering and a Mission
- Bankruptcy Ruling in Student Loan Case
- Both sides see progress as teachers strike reaches Day 4
- Chicago parents prepare for possible teachers strike
- Chicago Public Schools may shake up magnet schools with new policy
- Chicago selective enrollment high schools face huge demand
- Chicago teachers overwhelmingly approve new contract
- Chicago teachers strike continues, Emanuel says he will sue to force end
- CPS, teachers fail to reach deal to prevent strike
- Digital technology lets libraries share their fragile treasures with the world
- Exercise balls get education rolling
- Female teachers may pass on math anxiety to girls, study finds
- Gates Urges School Budget Overhauls
- Harvard investigates allegations of widespread cheating on exam
- Illinois school budgets at the breaking point
- In a New Role, Teachers Move to Run Schools
- In Ward 7, men’s morning patrols aimed at giving kids ‘Safe Passage’ to school
- Inquiry Is Sought Into Practices of For-Profit Colleges
- Investment Losses Cause Steep Dip in University Endowments, Study Finds
- Johns Hopkins hoping to revive East Baltimore neighborhood on its border
- Kevin Ware, Mike Rice situations are latest college sports maladies
- L.A. schools chief orders weak new teachers ousted
- Learning to Teach to Bridge the Achievement Gap
- Mandatory school age could fall from 7 to 5 in Illinois
- Miracle worker in the school kitchen
- More Professors Give Out Hand-Held Devices to Monitor Students and Engage Them
- NAACP to file complaint over entry test for elite New York high schools
- Number of CPS students shot rises, as does fear of more to come
- Obama calls for end of 'firewall' rules that shield teachers
- Obama's speech to high school also a subtle jobs bill pitch
- Parent, student groups criticize charter schools' student fines
- Proficiency of Black Students Is Found to Be Far Lower Than Expected
- Public Schools Face Lawsuit Over Fees
- Reed College’s President Is Told to Crack Down on Campus Drug Use
- Report shows increase in those with student debt, loans
- Report: Many Illinois colleges don't prepare teachers for the classroom
- Rethinking the Classroom: Obama’s overhaul of public education
- Rihanna's visit is Barrington High's chance to sparkle, parents and students say
- School again tests its gender theory
- Schools taking serious look at putting armed police in schools after massacre
- Senate blocks money for teachers, firefighters
- Senior citizens continue to bear burden of student loans
- Stimulus saved 6,000 education jobs in L.A., report says
- Strike - CPS deal up in air as talks extend into early morning
- Strike ends, but Emanuel's campaign continues
- Student loan plan fails in the Senate
- Study Shows Better Scores for Charter School Students
- Supreme Court may limit use of race in college admissions
- Teacher resolve being tested in strike authorization vote
- Teachers strike heads into second day
- Teachers unions' alliance with Democratic Party frays
- Teen suicide: More schools bring issue out of shadows
- Ten Commandments in school stirs fight in Va. district
- Thousands protest California education cuts
- To lock classroom doors or not?
- Today's teacher layoffs threaten tomorrow's college classrooms
- U.S. may spare schools from harsh penalties in exchange for reforms
- U.S. School Graduation Rate Is Rising
- UC panel proposes three-year bachelor's degrees, other big changes
- Why school lunch gets some kids sick
- Wikipedia goes to class
- You can lead kids to broccoli, but you can't make them eat
- ‘The Big Freeze’: One small college’s tuition strategy
Health and Science
- Abortion language complicates Democratic health efforts
- About 1 in 4 in California lack health insurance, a UCLA study finds
- Awaiting a puff of moon dust
- Healthcare triumph gives way to heightened battle
- Senate Democrats reach healthcare deal
- 'Pink slime': Kroger joins others in dropping beef product
- A new frontier in quest to understand the cosmos
- A New Web Tool to Take Control of Your Health
- AIDS Vaccine Shows Some Success in Trials
- Anti-HIV drugs prove highly effective in preventing transmission of virus
- Behavior: Addicted to Indoor Tanning
- Checkup finds Obama 'fit for duty,' but hasn't kicked smoking habit, should eat better
- Chicago chefs spice up schools' new push for healthy eating
- Chicago school officials plan to ditch doughnuts, Pop-Tarts
- Click here to find out more! Obama's big gamble on healthcare debate
- Climate change may bring drought to temperate areas, study says
- Congressman says pizza is NOT a vegetable, introduces SLICE Act
- Defunct NASA satellite to crash to Earth this week
- Evidence suggests water exists on the moon
- FDA advisors recommend more study of food dyes
- FDA approves H1N1 vaccines from four manufacturers
- G.O.P. Cites Tax Cuts and Health Care as Main Focus
- H1N1 swine flu: Vaccine faces setbacks
- H1N1 vaccine a tough sell to pregnant women
- Haiti takes on dreaded disease elephantiasis one mouth at a time
- Healthcare co-ops emerging as viable alternative
- Healthcare costs to rise 7.5 percent in 2013: report
- Healthcare insurers get upper hand
- Healthcare reform bill clears Senate Finance Committee
- Healthcare rule found to burden California counties
- Heart failure: 'Temporary' pumps could become a permanent treatment
- HIV vaccine feat leaves more questions than answers
- House Democrats Back Off Plan to Pass Senate Bill
- Justice Dept. asks Supreme Court to review health-care law
- More than one in 10 Americans use antidepressants
- NASA lunar mission combines romance of moon with lust for cosmic violence
- NASA unveils plan for space vehicle to go beyond low-Earth orbit
- Navajo Nation confronts HIV and AIDS
- New Mars theory casts doubt on planet's habitability
- New Rules on Changes to Benefits
- No longer pandemic, H1N1 still hangs on in new flu season
- Number of Uninsured Rises, Report Says
- Obama's health care overhaul thrown into doubt as judge rules key provision unconstitutional
- Pall lifts along with AIDS travel ban
- Phys Ed: Can You Be Overweight and Still Be Healthy?
- Plaintiff challenging healthcare law went bankrupt – with unpaid medical bills
- Senate committee approves food safety bill
- Senators Debate Expanding Medicaid
- Smoking, drinking too much, inactivity and poor diet can age you by 12 years, study suggests
- Social Security is slipping closer to insolvency
- State siphons tobacco-settlement funds
- States cut back efforts to provide drugs for HIV, AIDS
- Study disputes long-term medical savings from bariatric surgery
- Study Projects Increase in Obesity and Its Costs
- Supreme Court to weigh key constitutional issues with healthcare law
- Swine Flu Vaccine Will Be Too Late to Prevent Pandemic, Experts Say
- The next healthcare battle: cutting Medicare Advantage
- TU.S. farmers, processors not required to test for deadly E. coli strain
- U.S. panel advises HIV tests for everyone ages 15 to 64
- Universal healthcare coverage appears elusive
- We may be fatter than we think, researchers report
- White House relies on core healthcare team
- ‘Public Option’ in Health Plan May Be Dropped
Scandals and Affairs
- Actress sues California man behind anti-Muslim film
- Anti-Muslim film puts Christian TV in global spotlight
- Associated Press says U.S. government seized journalists' phone records
- Aviation official quits over sleeping controllers
- Big Oil goes to college: a conflict of interest?
- Blagojevich: Arrest, ouster and now author's tour?
- Boy Scouts' opposition to background checks let pedophiles in
- Can Herman Cain’s campaign weather latest sexual harassment allegations?
- Click here to find out more! Mine operator accused of abusing safety appeals process
- Congressional earmarks sometimes used to fund projects near lawmakers' properties
- Congressman Weiner admits online affairs
- Corruption flows freely along U.S.-Mexico border
- Court Dismisses a Case Asserting Torture by C.I.A.
- D.C. Council Chairman Kwame Brown resigns after he is charged with bank fraud
- Dominique Strauss-Kahn pleads not guilty in sexual assault of hotel maid
- Effects of judge's Katrina ruling could be huge
- Ex-Swiss banker says he'll hand files on alleged tax evasion in offshore havens to WikiLeaks
- Florida pastor says he may burn Korans after all
- Former Interior Secretary Gale Norton is focus of corruption probe
- Gen. John Allen investigated for emails to Petraeus friend
- Hagel hearing reopens Senate wounds
- IMF chief sent to notorious jail in sex assault case
- In an Amish village, the SEC alleges a Madoff-like fraud
- In-app purchases in iPad, iPhone, iPod kids' games touch off parental firestorm
- Inspection Flaws Led to Collapse of Subway Ceiling, Report Finds
- Jackson pleaded with doctor for powerful anesthetic
- King Siblings Settle Estate Lawsuit
- L.A. County district attorney defends pursuit of Polanski case
- L.A. Unified schools' chief works for district supplier
- Lance Armstrong admits doping in Oprah Winfrey interview
- Lance Armstrong confession gets specific in Oprah Winfrey interview
- Lance Armstrong steps down from charity, Nike drops him
- Los Angeles Catholic archdiocese releases priest abuse files
- Man bleeds to death as people walk past
- Obama calls for thorough inquiry in Secret Service prostitution scandal
- Obama steps up pressure on Weiner to resign
- Sheriff: Boy-In-Balloon Was Hoax, Charges Expected
- State officials cancel access to welfare benefits on cruise ships and at all casinos
- Suburbs Unite in Quest for Federal Housing Aid, but Are Shut Out
- Tiger Woods will return to the Masters
- Trayvon Martin case: Texas student's cartoon causes controversy
- U.S. sues Arizona sheriff in civil rights probe
- Vatican details sex abuse defense in key US case; bishops aren't employees
- Web of Shell Companies Veils Trade by Iran’s Ships
- WikiLeaks disclosures are leading to diplomatic cracks for U.S.
- With Leno, Palin Pushes Back Against ‘Family Guy’
- With new revelations, outrage spreads about IRS targeting
- Woods takes ownership of scandal that cost him sponsors and fans
Miscellaneous
- 2009 Finalists For TIME's "Person of the Year"
- A new push to outlaw abortion
- A very vegan Thanksgiving
- Americans saw wealth plummet 40 percent from 2007 to 2010, Federal Reserve says
- Leaders of 4 California employee unions agree to pension rollback
- Pondering meaning of changing D.C. demographics
- Quakes in Chile and Haiti raise concerns about Southland preparedness
- "Unabomber" journals sell for $40,000 in auction
- 'Avatar': A dazzling revelation
- 'Avatar,' 'Inglourious Basterds,' 'Up in the Air' fall short (Oscars)
- 'Best Mother's Day' ever for mother of freed Cleveland captive
- 'Mad Men,' 'Modern Family' take top Emmys
- 2 firefighters killed fighting Los Angeles County blaze
- 2009 U.S. Open Men’s Draw
- 2012 Emmys: ‘Homeland’ unseats 'Mad Men’ as telecast drags
- 25-foot wave puts surfer in hospital
- 6 feared dead in Arizona plane crash
- A Lament for the Blues in Their Backyard
- A Night of Round Table With Monty Python
- A second chance for the turkey named Cobbler
- A Special Visa Program Benefits Abused Illegal Immigrants
- A torch goes out: Edward Kennedy, Senate legend and last in a storied line of brothers
- A U.S. Moment for Yves Klein
- Ackerman McQueen PR firm has been behind NRA’s provocative ads for decades
- After 43 Years, a Party in New Orleans (Super Bowl)
- America mourns Sept 11 dead with somber ceremonies
- Americans across globe celebrate Thanksgiving with feasts, parades
- Americans to spend more on Halloween this year: survey
- Apple CEO Steve Jobs introduces new $499 iPad
- April Fool's Day 2012: Don't trust the media (seriously)
- Armstrong: a never-read eulogy recalls danger of his feat
- As gay marriage debate rages on, Massachusetts couple enjoys married life
- At 9/11 ceremonies, tearful storytelling and still-vivid memories
- At 9/11 ceremonies, tearful storytelling and still-vivid memories
- At Sept. 11 sites, a powerful day of remembrance
- Atheists in U.S. military seek official recognition
- Attendance at L.A. museums lags behind
- Big storm sweeps out of West
- Catholic bishops say fight with Obama is over freedom of religion
- Chicago 2016 team: Was it misled or did it miscount?
- China targets members of doomsday cult
- Click here to find out more! The site where Chinese laborers were interred, their graves later forgotten, gets a memorial
- Death Toll Hits 12 in West Virginia Coal Mine Explosion
- Delta flight to L.A. makes emergency landing after N.Y. takeoff
- Despite Ray Bradbury’s Efforts, a California Library Closes
- Despite Recession, the Met and Moma Have a Year of Increased Attendance
- Disco balls of days gone by: Mourning the loss of Donna Summer
- Discovery sheds new light on Stonehenge
- Edvard Munch’s ‘The Scream’ fetches record $119.9 million at NYC auction
- Edward Kennedy dies at 77; 'liberal lion of the Senate'
- Elizabeth Taylor dies; screen legend was 79
- Elton John is sued over lyrics to 'Nikita'
- Emergency landing at NJ airport; no one hurt
- Emmy Awards embrace something old and something new
- Endeavour to arrive in Los Angeles
- Engineers to rappel down Washington Monument to inspect damage
- Exhausted passengers disembark stricken Carnival ship in Alabama
- Facebook's latest facelift of profile pages plays up photos, key relationships
- Flowers and heart for homeless veterans
- Food for a Dollar
- For Her, the Long and Winding Road Led to the Street
- For post-9/11 veterans, employment picture is bleak, survey finds
- For sail: 200 homes on a cruise ship
- For Sandy survivors, a Thanksgiving they'd never expected
- Four killed in Texas as train hits parade float carrying veterans
- From the darkness emerges a Super Bowl with so many bright moments
- G.I. joe: Veterans-turned-baristas serve a strong brew
- Gay marriage fight may hinge on Supreme Court's Anthony Kennedy
- George McGovern, liberal standard-bearer against Nixon in '72, dies
- George W. Bush's return to spotlight won't last
- Giants edge Patriots to win Super Bowl
- Global themes at Golden Globes
- Golden Globes : list of winners
- Golden Globes: Tina and Amy made it bearable, while Jodie made it bizarre
- Graciela Peréz-Gutierrez, Afro-Cuban Singer, Dies at 94
- Grammy Awards 2011: Lady Antebellum nears a rout with 'Need You Now'
- Grammy Awards: Mumford & Sons takes best album, Gotye best record
- Growing up without a father after 9/11
- Handicapping the 2016 Olympic Bids
- High-speed rail officials rebuffed proposal from French railway
- Housing project for hard-core homeless pays off
- Hyman Bloom, a Painter of the Mystical, Is Dead at 96
- Illinois smoking ban: Some bars give smokers a sanctuary
- In Kennedy, Democrats lose a top warrior for healthcare reform
- In Mobile Age, Sound Quality Steps Back
- Insuring the 2016 Summer Olympics
- J.D. Salinger: a gift of words and silence
- Jacqueline Kennedy's pink hat is a missing piece of history
- Janet Maslin’s Top 10 Books of 2010
- Jennifer Hudson delivers moving tribute to Whitney Houston
- JFK items auctioned 50 years after his assassination
- Jobs authorized biography so his kids can know him
- Ladies night at the Grammys
- Larry King signs off
- Leslie Nielsen dies at 84; serious actor became a comic star
- Lifeguards' special-status pensions under scrutiny in California
- Man survives plunge over Niagara Falls
- Mandela's great-granddaughter killed in crash after World Cup concert
- Memorial Day had its beginnings in Civil War
- Michael Jackson is laid to rest
- Michelle Obama’s posterior again the subject of a public rant
- Millions are staying home this year amid tight economic times
- Missing Bronx Zoo Cobra Captured
- Modern Dallas coming to grips with Kennedy assassination
- More Men Marrying Better Educated, Richer Wives
- Most U.S. readers unaware of e-books at libraries: poll
- Mythical End for Legendary Route 66
- N.Y. Poverty Data Paint Mixed Picture
- NASA makes a splash: Last year's moonshot kicked up plenty of water
- Native-born Californians regain majority status
- Neil Armstrong, first man to step on the moon, dies at 82
- Neil Armstrong: Tributes pour in for first man on the moon
- New Kindle to Download Books Beyond U.S.
- New Yorkers celebrate marriage law at Gay Pride Parade
- Nightmares Next Door
- Nine-foot alligator loose in Arkansas
- Nintendo Wii to Add Netflix Service for Streaming Video
- Nobel winner dies before receiving prize
- Number of Americans in poverty jumps to 43.6M; working-age poor at highest level since 1960s
- NY police try to evict anti-Wall Street protesters
- Obama eulogizes West Virginia mine blast victims
- Obama gives away $1.4 million in Nobel prize money to charities
- Obama, Kanye West and the trouble with Twitter
- Occupy protests put spotlight on police tactics
- Occupy Wall Street activists cool to celebrities' visit
- Occupy Wall Street protesters driven by varying goals
- Olympic opposition getting second wind as support in Chicago fades
- On Memorial Day, Obama talks of closure for wars old and new
- On the court and off, Joakim Noah not your typical NBA player
- On Winfrey’s Channel, a Show About Her Show
- One black woman's personal mission to reelect Obama
- One in five Americans reports no religious affiliation, study says
- Paralysis doesn't stop ex-football players from giving back
- Patrick Swayze dies at 57
- Peaceful Celebration in Vancouver, but Police Take No Chances
- Pentagon expands military benefits for same-sex couples
- Plane carrying 90 people crashes off Lebanon coast
- Pockets of poverty grow in the United States: study
- Police tight-lipped on strategy for clearing Occupy LA encampment
- Pope opens solemn Holy Week amid 1 of worst church crises in decades
- President Obama gets enthusiastic welcome at L.A. gay event
- Priceless musical instruments are silent victims of Nashville flooding
- Queen Mary is getting a long-overdue makeover
- Ranchers Find Hope in Flightless Bird’s Fat
- Readers’ Photos: Burning, but Breathing
- Remains of war dead dumped in landfill
- Rescue, search for missing under way after boat sinks far off Australian coast
- Rescuers again search W.Va. mine for possible blast survivors
- Residents return to ruined Calif hillsides after blowout of gas line that was ranked high-risk
- Roy E. Disney Dies at 79; Rejuvenated Animation
- Saints’ Risky Decisions Were Both Calculated and Crucial (Super Bowl)
- Salvation Army Loses Donations as Giant Limits Bell Ringing
- Same-sex couples eagerly await first day of Illinois civil unions
- Sarah Palin takes Fox News commentator job
- Scientists work hard to avoid declaring a species extinct
- SEAL who killed Bin Laden met with lawmakers to talk veteran care
- Severed underground gas pipe led to fatal Kansas City explosion
- Ship wreck reveals ancient secrets of medicine
- Showcase: National Geographic Image Collection
- Silicon Valley, celebs pay tribute to Steve Jobs
- Small theater operators weigh digital conversion
- Social Security checks stay at same rates next year; trustees don't see inflation as a factor
- Space shuttle Discovery goes late but launches for final flight
- Steve Jobs dies at 56; Apple's co-founder transformed computers and culture
- Still Hoping to Sell Music by the Month
- Subway death photos -- what do they say about us?
- Super Bowl 2013: Joe Flacco, Ray Lewis and Ravens hold on to beat 49ers, 34-31
- Super Bowl photos: Ravens 34, 49ers 31
- Supreme Court decision may open up other gun laws to challenges
- Survey paints portrait of black women in America
- Texas fight over cheerleader banners reaches biblical proportions
- Texas talk is losing its twang
- The Blue People May Soon See Oscar Gold
- The Gatorade Shower: The victory ritual that can’t be ducked
- The world didn't end -- yet
- The Worst Job in the World? She Loves It.
- These turkeys won't be gobbled up
- Thinking can undermine religious faith, study finds
- Thousands of abortion opponents rally in march on Mall
- Three faces, three unknowns for Northern Virginia skeletal remains
- Titanic: Life, death aboard the ship that sank 100 years ago today
- To Afghanistan, in Darkness and Secrecy
- Tony Curtis, Film Star, Is Dead at 85
- Toyota temporarily halts sales of eight models
- Traffic deaths and injuries plummet in 2009
- U.S. Hispanic population tops 50 million
- U.S. population growth slowed, still envied
- Vancouver wrestles with homelessness
- Vatican scolds Catholic nuns' group for deviating from doctrine
- Virginia student graduates from high school, braces for deportation
- Virginians are almost evenly split on gay marriage, Post poll finds
- Visitors flock to Turkish town to escape doomsday
- Wall Street protest grows as unions swell ranks
- Washington state gears up for wave of same-sex marriage applications
- West booed for outburst after Swift's MTV win
- What Can Strangers Learn About You Online?
- White House is dressed in holiday style
- Woody Allen is already thinking beyond 'You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger'
- Yo, parents! Back away from the Easter eggs! (Or the hunt's off)
- ‘Anything Goes’ Returns to Broadway
- ‘Iron Man 3’ is latest Hollywood movie to court Chinese censors
International affairs
- Diplomacy in the lead on Iran nuclear issue
- Iran's nuclear move may derail U.S. efforts on sanctions
- Japan's nuclear crisis widens as a second blast shakes nuclear plant
- Samoa Islands and Indonesia quake death tolls continue to rise
- Several hundred gather at Los Angeles vigil to show support for Japan earthquake victims
- "Iron Lady" Thatcher mourned, but critics speak out
- 14 injured in grenade attack on crowd in Guadalupe, Mexico
- 2 Army brigades to leave Europe in cost-cutting move
- 23 European Union leaders agree to fiscal curbs, but Britain blocks broad deal
- 5 U.S. Soldiers Injured in Afghan Suicide Attack
- 52 Confirmed Deaths in Philippines Massacre
- 7.0 earthquake hits Haiti
- 9 NATO Members Killed in Afghan Copter Crash
- Added forces will be concentrated in southern Afghanistan
- Afghan and U.S. Forces Begin Effort to Reclaim Remote Area From Taliban
- Afghan Election Called a Success Despite Attacks
- Afghan opposition candidate waits for results
- Afghan president says he wants people from "all parts of the country" in his government
- Afghan vote fraud allegations mount, threatening credibility of election
- Afghanistan's early returns point to a tie, possible runoff
- Afghanistan’s Parliamentary Elections – Candidates Everywhere
- African Union says Kadafi has accepted peace 'road map'
- After massive aid, Haitians feel stuck in poverty
- After visit to Israel, Obama faces Palestinian discontent
- Agreement in Afghanistan offers hope
- Ahmadinejad Says Iran Is Now a ‘Nuclear State’
- Al-Qaida announces death of its No. 3; US says missile strike
- Americans convicted in Iran say they were hostages
- Anxiety grows over Japan’s food and water supply
- Arrest of IMF chief raises questions about organization‘s leadership
- As bodies burn, Haitians pray, cry for help, shout in anger at world's response
- As Pakistan Makes Gains, Resistance From Taliban
- Assad opponents unite, ask world for help
- At a Haiti school's reopening, a lesson in sharing
- At U.N., Obama’s rejection of Palestinian bid offers strongest embrace of Israel
- Australia apologizes for abuse in military going back to 1950s
- Backing up Obama’s warnings to Syria creates tough challenges on two fronts
- Blown-out BP well is declared dead
- Boehner credits Obama for handling of Egypt crisis
- Bomb blast kills 10, wounds 25 in Iraqi town
- Bombing toll rises in southern Iraq city of Basra, bringing total dead across nation to 114
- Brazil gunman kills 12, self at Rio school
- Britain's Prince Philip hospitalized with bladder infection
- Britons join their queen for a floating celebration of her reign
- Car bomb kills six after Obama leaves Afghan capital
- Cardinals head to conclave to elect head of a church beset by woes
- Chavez's ally Maduro wins in Venezuela, opposition protests
- Chicago parents welcome Haitian adoptees
- Chicago to host NATO, G-8 next year
- Chile Calls for Outside Aid as Devastation Sinks In
- Chinese Children Hurt in New Attack
- Chinese cyberspies have hacked most Washington institutions, experts say
- CIA officers working with Libya rebels
- CIA shifts focus to killing targets
- Clinton chides Pakistan on insurgent havens
- Clinton heads to West Bank to consult with Palestinian chief, then to Jordan to meet with king
- Clinton in Prague to lobby for Westinghouse nuclear bid
- Concern grows over militant activity in Libya
- Conservative Appears to Have Won in Honduras
- Conservative leader says Greece voted to stay in euro
- Continent Should Look Beyond Itself
- Coordinated Attacks Target Multiple Sites in Pakistan
- Cost of war in Afghanistan will be major factor in troop-reduction talks
- Demise of Iraqi water park illustrates limitations, abuse of U.S. funding program
- Despite attacks, Pakistan official denies need for operations
- Diamond Jubilee: Surprising facts about Queen Elizabeth II's 60 years
- Drone base in Niger gives U.S. a strategic foothold in West Africa
- Ecuador soldiers rescue president amid revolt by police
- Egypt diplomacy: White House races to keep pace with events put in motion by protests
- Egyptian officials launch crackdown on foreign journalists, rights activists
- Elite U.S. Units Step Up Effort in Afghan City Before Attack
- Equal Rights for Women? Survey Says: Yes, but . . .
- Europe acts to rein in its debt crisis
- Europe turns to corporate sponsors to preserve treasures amid financial crisis
- Following Suicide Attacks, Early Voting Begins in Iraq
- For first time since Depression, more Mexicans leave U.S. than enter
- For Obama, trip is a chance to repair relations with disappointed Israelis
- Four reactors at Fukushima nuclear complex will have to be scrapped
- France's Francois Hollande changes the mix in Europe
- Francis quickly emerged as perfect conclave candidate
- Frantic rescue effort in Indonesia after major earthquake kills hundreds
- French youths clash with police, protesters block airport amid tensions over retirement age
- French, Greek voters say no to austerity
- G-20 is set to replace Group of 8, U.S. says
- G.O.P. and Tea Party Gains Are Mixed Blessing for Israel
- Gaddafi vows fight as world backs new leaders
- Gates Says Taliban Must Take Legitimate Afghan Role
- Germany offers vision of federalism for the European Union
- Google executive released in Egypt
- GOP splitting over U.S. role in Libya and Afghanistan
- Greece backs first austerity package, violence worsens
- Greek elections haven’t calmed fears about Europe’s financial health
- Greek parties agree to form unity government
- Green card lottery, a ticket to hope for many, could be eliminated
- Gunmen battle Jamaican security forces searching for drug lord wanted by US
- Hackers apparently break into North Korean social media sites
- Haiti quake survivors sought amid 'unimaginable' destruction
- Haiti: Exodus to Countryside Reverses Long Trend
- Hillary Clinton's stop in Congo strikes a chord in Africa
- History Lessons and Counterinsurgency
- Hollande and Sarkozy Head to Runoff in French Race
- Hollande defeats Sarkozy in French presidency vote
- Hollande, Sarkozy heading for runoff in France presidential vote
- Holocaust Museum in negotiations to maintain loaned exhibitions
- House to vote on Afghan troop withdrawal
- Ikea's Saudi Arabia catalog erases women; company expresses regret
- IMF boss faces sex charges, France in shock
- In Afghanistan, a drive to lure Taliban with jobs
- In Brazil, Google is in the middle of a battle over free speech
- In divided Egypt, U.S. plays all sides
- In Iraq, U.S. troops aren't yet in the clear
- In Kabul, Obama urges President Karzai to step up
- In northern Mali's war, al-Qaeda affiliate is directing the fight
- In Pakistan, pro-American sentiment is rare
- In South Korea, the Republic of Samsung
- In test for euro zone, Ireland votes on fiscal treaty
- Iran captures U.S. drone in its airspace: media
- Iran has technical means to make nuclear bomb, IAEA says
- Iran says its military has U.S. drone in its possession
- Iran test fires missiles amid global flap over its nuclear ambitions
- Iran’s nuclear program suffering new setbacks, diplomats and experts say
- Iraq bombings target reconciliation meeting, killing 26
- Iraq, a decade after U.S. invasion, torn between progress and chaos
- Ireland: Protestant Group Disarms
- Israel sees no need to apologize for raid
- Israel, Egypt easing blockade on Gaza after 9 activists killed in Israeli raid on aid flotilla
- January election in Iraq? Doubtful
- Japan finds plutonium in soil at stricken nuclear plant
- Japan tackles hydrogen build-up, radiation concerns spread
- Japan tries desperate new measures at nuclear plant
- Japanese tsunami debris proves dangerous: Invasive species found
- Japan’s nuclear crisis grows more dire after third explosion, reactor fire
- Kadafi is another notch on Obama's lethal-force belt
- Karzai bows to pressure, OKs runoff
- Kayakers represent USA in queen's Diamond Jubilee flotilla
- Korean Talks End With No Progress
- Large Blast Strikes in Center of Afghan Capital
- Largest royal security effort in U.K. history for Queen’s Jubilee
- Letting go in Afghanistan as mission winds down
- Libya fighters amass near pro-Gaddafi town
- Libyan army convoy in Niger may be Gaddafi deal
- Libyan fighting goes on after peace bid fails
- Many Allies of U.S. Share Pain of Afghan War’s Toll
- Margaret Thatcher, Britain's first female prime minister, dies at 87
- Margaret Thatcher’s revolution
- Massacre makes Obama "more determined" to leave Afghanistan
- Megaupload founder refused bail in New Zealand
- Michelle Obama arrives in Africa on second solo trip
- Mired in Crises, Haiti Struggles to Focus on Election
- Moammar Kadafi gives U.N. his opinions on Obama -- and more
- More pressure on Pakistani military over bin Laden
- More protests break out in Muslim world as U.S. appeals for calm
- More than 150,000 Haiti quake victims buried; food reaches survivors, but 'we need more'
- Mubarak defiance puts U.S. on the defensive
- Mubarak holds talks, pushed by army, U.S. and protests
- Muslim anti-American violence complicates Obama campaign
- NATO admits Libya air strike led to civilian deaths
- NATO Anticipates Sending More Troops to Afghanistan
- NATO says Gaddafi forces are using human shields
- NATO to take over enforcing of Libyan no-fly zone
- Navies of 2 Koreas Exchange Fire
- New Iran sanctions target industry in bid for deal curbing nuclear program
- New pope to inherit demystified office
- New Zealand puts quake toll at 98, many more missing
- North Korea confirms third nuclear test
- North Korea cuts off hotline with South Korea
- North Korea readies rockets after U.S. show of force
- North Korean leader dials down hostile rhetoric
- Obama administration aligns itself with protests in Egypt with call for 'orderly transition'
- Obama administration announces second straight year of record deportations from U.S.
- Obama and China's Hu Jintao pledge stronger ties
- Obama authorizes Predator drone strikes in Libya
- Obama calls for sanctions on Iran
- Obama Cancels Asia Trip as Concern on Spill Mounts
- Obama cautiously hopeful after convening first direct Israeli-Palestinian talks in 2 years
- Obama could face party revolt on Afghanistan
- Obama faces challenge of defining Libya strategy
- Obama faces competing demands on Afghanistan strategy
- Obama Interviewer in China Is Said to Be Demoted
- Obama is reevaluating Afghanistan war strategy
- Obama makes surprise trip to Afghanistan to sign key pact, mark bin Laden raid
- Obama mulls middle ground in Afghanistan war strategy
- Obama offers new U.S. partnership with Latin America
- Obama orders rapid drawdown of U.S. troops from Afghanistan
- Obama Pushes Rights With Chinese Students
- Obama Sticks to a Deadline in Iraq
- Obama to China: Behave like "grown up" economy
- Obama vows to break Taliban
- Obama warns Syria amid rising concern over chemical weapons
- Obama's foreign policy approach: Act cautiously, and not alone
- Obama: U.S. had responsibility to act in Libya
- Obama’s Afghanistan plan gets mixed reviews from grunts at Fort Campbell
- Obama’s national security team was sharply divided over Osama bin Laden raid
- Obama’s policy on Iran bears some fruit, but nuclear program still advances
- Opposition forces close in on Libyan capital
- Osama bin Laden's journal contains his thoughts on killing Americans
- Outside Haiti's capital, help trickles in
- Pakistan detains American in shooting of two men in Lahore
- Pakistan says 60 militants killed; Taliban says it pushed back troops
- Pakistan shuts down U.S. 'intelligence fusion' cells
- Pakistan's prime minister rejects backlash on Bin Laden
- Pakistan-U.S. security relationship at lowest point since 2001, officials say
- Pakistani court sentences 5 Americans to 10 years in prison for terror offenses
- Pakistani General Assassinated in the Capital
- Pakistani government denies talks with Taliban
- Palin says Haiti needs 'military airlift' of supplies, urges Americans to volunteer
- Paper says loss of Google would harm China
- Peña Nieto is winner of Mexican election, exit polls show
- Pentagon to drastically cut spending on Afghan forces
- Pentagon: North Korea has capacity to make nuclear warhead for ballistic missile
- Petraeus Is Now Taking Control of a ‘Tougher Fight’
- Philippines calls for foreign aid
- Phone gives clues to bin Laden's Pakistan links: report
- Plan devised to stabilize crippled Japanese nuclear plant
- Pope meets Cuba's Fidel Castro, slams U.S. embargo
- Powerful aftershock puts Japan on high alert
- President Obama arrives in Myanmar after Thailand visit
- President Obama shows signs of frustration with Pakistan
- Putin wins election as Russian president; opponents claim widespread fraud
- Queen Elizabeth has her day
- Questions about Al Qaeda's next move
- Radiation levels at Japan nuclear plant reach new highs
- Report: General Calls for More Afghanistan Troops
- Reported Israeli airstrikes in Syria could accelerate U.S. decision process
- Rescuers search for Chile quake survivors; death toll jumps to 708
- Romney's quick criticism on Libya draws rebuke
- Russia defends weapons sales to Syria, says U.S. arming rebels
- Russia: Syria’s Assad could be defeated by rebels
- S. Korea Reportedly Begins Naval Firing Drills
- Sanctions begin taking a bigger toll on Iran
- Sarkozy, favorite Hollande advance to runoff in French presidential vote
- Saudi, Qatari plans to arm Syrian rebels risk overtaking cautious approach favored by U.S.
- Scores killed in quake, ensuing tsunami at Samoa islands
- Sectarianism in Iraq stoked by Syrian war
- Senate report says US hires Afghan warlords and thugs as security contractors, helping Taliban
- Senior Afghan peace negotiator shot dead in Kabul
- SKorea says it returns fire and scrambles jets after NKorea fires artillery onto island
- SKorea to boost troops after tense artillery skirmish; NKorea warns against any provocation
- Smoke plumes set back Japan's efforts to contain nuclear crisis
- Soldier held in Afghan killings was from troubled U.S. base
- Some states consider cutting 2012 primaries to save money
- South Korea Agrees to Visit by North
- South Korea, U.S. remain on missile watch as North lauds Kims
- Staff Sgt. Robert Bales to face murder charges in Afghanistan killings
- Suicide Bomber Rams a Pakistan Building
- Survivors ask, 'Have we been abandoned?'
- Survivors remember Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor 70 years ago
- Suspect in Afghan killings didn't expect 4th deployment, lawyer says
- Taiwan to Allow Dalai Lama Visit
- Taliban Attack American Base Outside Kabul
- Taliban Leader in Secret Talks Was an Impostor
- Taliban say Marine tape won't hurt Afghanistan talks
- Toll Expected to Rise in Philippine Flooding
- Turnout appears low as Afghans vote for president under Taliban threat; Karzai favored
- Two Americans killed in confused Afghan shootout
- Two Americans killed in unusual gunfight involving several Afghan soldiers
- Two U.S. hikers convicted as spies leave Iran on bail
- Two U.S. troops killed as Baghdad hit by bombs
- U.N. to Move Staff From Afghanistan
- U.S. appears ready to acknowledge a long haul in Afghanistan
- U.S. call for "cool heads" in China-Japan island dispute goes unheeded
- U.S. comes to agreement with Japan to move 9,000 Marines off Okinawa
- U.S. diplomatic security unit under scrutiny after Libya attack
- U.S. drone targets two leaders of Somali group allied with al-Qaeda, official says
- U.S. Envoy Calls North Korean Rights Record ‘Appalling’
- U.S. expands secret intelligence operations in Africa
- U.S. Is Reining In Special Forces in Afghanistan
- U.S. Is Seeing Policy Thorns in Japan Shift
- U.S. jets strike Gaddafi’s forces; coalition continues hitting Libyan air defenses
- U.S. launches airstrike in Yemen as new details surface about bomb plot
- U.S. Military Orders Less Dependence on Fossil Fuels
- U.S. military struggles to teach troops to respect Koran
- U.S. moves to bolster French military campaign in Mali
- U.S. nears deal for $1 billion in Egypt debt relief: source
- U.S. offered crucial evidence in Pakistani meeting on Times Square plot
- U.S. officials look at scenarios for Afghanistan 'middle path'
- U.S. scrambles to contain WikiLeaks damage
- U.S. soldier held in shooting rampage that killed 16 Afghans, officials say
- U.S. speeds up direct talks with Taliban
- U.S. Tries to Calm Pakistan Over Airstrike
- U.S. troops will not leave Afghanistan abruptly
- U.S. walks the line on Egypt
- U.S. wants to interrogate Osama bin Laden's wives
- U.S., Afghan forces 'destroying Taliban fighting positions'
- U.S., Europeans step up efforts to aid Libyan rebels
- U.S.-led forces prepared to comply with Afghan airstrike limits
- Ukraine's Yulia Tymoshenko under pressure to concede in presidential race
- Under airstrikes and missiles, Gadhafi forces roll back; rebels and NATO struggle to organize
- US and allies get toughest sanctions against Iran, but not the crippling penalties US wanted
- US, Britain close Yemen embassies over al-Qaida threat
- Using the All-American Canal for another nation's benefit
- Venezuela President Hugo Chavez wins reelection by wide margin
- Venezuela rebuffs Obama, repeats case against U.S. "spy"
- Violence in wake of Koran incident fuels U.S. doubts about Afghan partners
- Vladimir Putin accuses Clinton of inciting protests in Russia
- Voters queue in Egypt's first post-Mubarak election
- Who is Robert Bales? Friends, comrades thought they knew
- With earthquake, Japan faces toughest crisis since WWII, prime minister says
- With floodwaters finally gone, a Japan town searches for tsunami victims
- World’s News Media Enters Port-au-Prince
- Zawahiri faces hurdles as bin Laden successor
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