The Italian and U.N. hosts of a U.N. crisis summit on rising food prices on Monday left the presidents of Zimbabwe and Iran off the guest list of a ceremonial dinner for the leaders attending the meeting.Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe is able to...

After two decades of being mocked as the “toothless one”, Habiba Anhasan used her first earnings this week to buy a set of dentures. Until a year ago, the £130 price of the false teeth would have been only a dream for a woman such as Mrs...

Gordon Brown today insisted that he was the right person to lead Britain through difficult economic times. Responding to a warning from the governor of the Bank of England, Mervyn King, that the economy may be heading into a recession, the prime...

Seven years ago this winter, Annie Maw’s horse bucked while she was galloping across a field with the Mendip Farmers’ Hunt, of which she had once been joint-master. She sailed over its head, landed heavily in the mud, and broke her back....

When Luke Kibet won the world marathon championship last August, he became a favorite to achieve what no Kenyan has despite this country’s istance-running brilliance — an Olympic gold medal in the 26.2-mile race. With the Summer Games in...

Gordon Brown’s woes deepened yesterday when the former cabinet minister Charles Clarke mounted a strong attack on his leadership and demanded an urgent change of course. Mr Clarke said the Prime Minister should stop using “bullying”...

Haring across London in the back of a people carrier, sitting between Alex Turner and Miles Kane, is not an altogether comfortable place to be. It isn’t that they aren’t affable; on the contrary, the Arctic Monkeys front man and the lead singer of...

The rubbish crisis in Naples, where heaps of toxic and foul-smelling waste have been left rotting in the streets since Christmas, is heading for the courts after the European Commission announced yesterday that it was taking Italy to the European Court...

The foreign minister of Taiwan and two other top officials resigned Tuesday over a botched attempt to win diplomatic recognition from Papua New Guinea, a scandal that has stirred public outrage against the outgoing government just two weeks before it is...

Rev. Jeremiah Wright has proven to be Barack Obama’s cross to bear. Wright’s recent road show, specifically his National Press Conference speech and subsequent press conference, raises questions for some about Obama.