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Today's Comments
Posted on March 11, 2010
Steve Richards: Step forward the minister with a scheme to make a difference
  • Africa review
    Posted on March 11, 2010
    Has Nigeria's First Lady seized control of the nation?
  • Iraq has moved forward. It’s time we did too
    Posted on March 10, 2010
    Seven years on, these elections are a miracle. But the anti-war brigade is too blinded by prejudice to see it
    Today's Comments
    Posted on March 10, 2010
    Mathew Norman: A very stoppable force about to meet a very moveable object
  • Europe review
    Posted on March 10, 2010
    Shipwrecks found during pipeline work
  • Point Omega--Leo Robson
    Posted on March 9, 2010
    Twenty-five years ago, in White Noise, Don DeLillo perfected a distinctive, paranoid style. His new novel is a distant echo of that masterpiece.
    Asia review
    Posted on March 9, 2010
    Cyberwar declared as China hunts for the West’s intelligence secrets
  • China picks mothers for astronaut training              
  • Today's Comments
    Posted on March 9, 2010
    Robert Fisk: Living proof of the Armenian genocide
  • Green Oscars
    Posted on March 8, 2010
    Once again, a handful of green films will be competing for this year's Academy Awards.
  • Americas review
    Posted on March 8, 2010
    Starbucks sticks to its guns
  • Studying life in Ecuador            
  • Today's Comments
    Posted on March 8, 2010
    What does it matter if Samantha Cameron voted Labour once?
  • Bigelow makes Oscars history as Hurt Locker flies
    Posted on March 8, 2010
    Kathryn Bigelow last night made Oscar history when she was named Best Director for The Hurt Locker, the first woman to be crowned the queen of Hollywood in the 82-year history of the Academy Awards.
  • Telling the Afghanistan war story
    Posted on March 7, 2010
    This week on The Listening Post: The 'hearts and minds' side of Operation Moshtarak in Afghanistan and the proposed legislation that could make Iceland a haven for journalists.
  • Weekend Interviews
    Posted on March 7, 2010
    James Bulger's mother speaks
  • Oscars Babylon: Tales from the Academy awards
    Posted on March 7, 2010
    Tonight, Hollywood's red carpet is rolled out once again for the annual orgy of self-congratulation. But not everything in the history of the Oscars is a cause for back-slapping
  • Today's Comments
    Posted on March 7, 2010
    Nick Clegg: Your choice: the old politics, or the new
  • Today's Comments
    Posted on March 6, 2010
    Simon Carr: Another witness is let off the hook
  • Weekend Travel Guide
    Posted on March 6, 2010
    Independent
  • Weekend Cinema: Film News and Reviews
    Posted on March 6, 2010
    Independent
    Telegraph
    New York Times
    Guardian
    Times
    Film trailers
  • Weekend book reviews
    Posted on March 6, 2010
    Independent
  • Today's Comments
    Posted on March 5, 2010
    Johann Hari: The worst thing about Ashcroft is that his behaviour is legal
  • Middle East review
    Posted on March 5, 2010
    UAE defies ban on child camel jockeys
  • The scandalous history of Cyprus                     
  • Dubai attempts image makeover          
  • Iran's journalists under pressure           
  • Digital economy bill likely to be pushed through before election
    Posted on March 5, 2010
    Senior industry figures expect controversial measures against illegal filesharing to become law before general election
    Africa review
    Posted on March 4, 2010
    For Mugabe's children, life gets tougher and tougher
  • Bomb disposal expert claims makers of The Hurt Locker stole his story
    Posted on March 4, 2010
    Master Sergeant Jeffrey S. Sarver, 38, has filed a lawsuit claiming that the film makers turned an account of his tense experiences defusing bombs in Iraq into the highly regarded action-thriller without his consent.
  • Today's Comments
    Posted on March 4, 2010
    Steve Richards: Michael Foot – a combination of idealism and pragmatism
  • Bob Geldof rages at BBC over claim Live Aid millions were used to buy arms
    Posted on March 4, 2010
    Bob Geldof reacted angrily yesterday to claims broadcast on the BBC that millions of dollars raised by Band Aid were diverted to Ethiopian rebels.
  • Europe review
    Posted on March 3, 2010
    French bishops condemn premium-rate confession hotline 
  • Today's Comments
    Posted on March 3, 2010
    Hamish McRae: Now it's the BBC's turn to experience a dose of reality
  • TV series Der Krieg gives Germans a coloured view of black-and-white war
    Posted on March 3, 2010
    The first episode, broadcast on Monday night, was gentle on the German psyche: it recorded their initial military successes, the Wehrmacht soldiers climbing the Eiffel Tower to hang a swastika from the top. As the series progresses, though, German audiences will see how their grandparents died in the snow during the retreat from the Soviet Union.