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Bush's Grandfather Planned Fascist Coup In America
A BBC Radio 4 investigation sheds new light on a major subject that has received little historical attention, the conspiracy on behalf of a group of influential powerbrokers, led by Prescott Bush, to overthrow FDR and implement a fascist dictatorship in the U.S. based around the ideology of Mussolini and Hitler.

Britain Sounds Air Raid Warning
Great Britain has opened a new front in the battle against Russia. Yesterday the British press reported that London is swarming with Russian agents who tried to kill Boris Berezovsky, and that Russian bombers have appeared over the country's borders. In essence, London has begun an information war aimed at convincing the European Union to voice more decisive support for the UK in its conflict with Russia.

A 21st century catastrophe
Flood-ravaged Britain is suffering from a wholly new type of civil emergency, it is clear today: a disaster caused by 21st-century weather. This weather is different from anything that has gone before. The floods it has caused, which have left more than a third of a million people without drinking water, nearly 50,000 people without power, thousands more people homeless and caused more than £2bn worth of damage have no precedent in modern British history.

Pakistan 'no' to Bin Laden strike
Pakistan has again said it opposes any military strike by the United States against Osama Bin Laden, if he is confirmed to be in Pakistan. Foreign minister Khurshid Kasuri told the BBC public opinion in his country would not tolerate such an attack. He said he was concerned that any US operation against Bin Laden could lead to dozens of civilian deaths

Turkey steps back from Iraq invasion after poll
As Turkey's government savoured an overwhelming electoral victory yesterday, regional analysts agreed that the immediate impetus for an invasion of northern Iraq had receded. Sunday's clear mandate for the Islamic-rooted AKP of the Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has been received as a snub to his secularist and nationalist opponents, who put the fight against Kurdish separatist guerrillas across the border at the centre of their failed campaign.

Nerve gas antidote made by goats
Scientists have genetically modified goats to make a drug in their milk that protects against deadly nerve agents such as sarin and VX. These poisons are known collectively as organophosphates - a group of chemicals that also includes some insecticides used in farming.

Conditions for Iraqi children worsen sharply: UNICEF
UNICEF said the information gleaned from people leaving Iraq, and from the agency’s “quite limited” access within the country, indicated that the number of female-headed households has increased “dramatically” because mostly men have been killed in the violence there.

New WTC Collapse Video Analysis Highlights Unmistakable Implosions
A new video analysis of the collapse of the World Trade Center's south tower provides unmistakable evidence of implosions that trace a diagonal path across the building and appear well below the collapse point. The clip shows the collapse of the south tower viewed face on from the side on which Flight 175 struck the building.

Yobs 'making towns no-go areas'
Drunken yobs behaving "like occupying armies" are turning town centres into no-go areas after dark, the chairman of an influential committee of MPs says.
Conservative MP Edward Leigh said anti-social behaviour in England and Wales was costing £3.4bn a year. The public accounts committee said the Home Office had not researched which anti-social behaviour measures brought in since 1997 were most effective.

Ministers warned three years ago over flood defence failings
The government has been accused of failing to act on its own advice to overhaul UK flood defences and drainage systems which first highlighted deep-seated problems three years ago. As large tracts of central and southern England remained under water, leaving tens of thousands of homes without power or drinking water, the environment minister, Hilary Benn, announced an independent review into what is being billed as the worst episode of flooding in modern British history.

Aids sentence medics leave Libya
Five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor sentenced to life in prison in Libya for allegedly contaminating children with the Aids virus left Tripoli today on board a plane with the French president's wife, France's presidential palace said. The delegation, which arrived in Tripoli on Sunday to negotiate their release, included European Union commissioner for foreign affairs Benita Ferrero-Waldner and chief French presidential aide Claude Gueant.

Kamikaze survivors express regret and anger in new film
Trying to imagine Toshio Yoshitake as a wild-eyed 21-year-old hunched over the cockpit of a flying bomb is not easy. Yet this kindly pensioner with the easy laugh was once one of a legendary squad of Japanese pilots who terrorised the United States Navy fleet in the Pacific as it inched its way toward invasion of the Japanese mainland.

US relations will not change, pledges Brown
Gordon Brown has sought to reassure the Bush administration that he will not depart from Tony Blair's approach by distancing himself from the United States. At his first regular Downing Street press conference, the Prime Minister even spoke of forging a stronger link between the two countries, describing it as 'our strongest bilateral relationship'.

Chavez threatens to throw out foreigners who criticise him
Hugo Chavez has served notice that foreign dignitaries visiting Venezuela will be deported if they presume publicly to criticise him as he attempts to transform the country into a single-party state dedicated to his vision of '21st century socialism'.

Obama, Clinton clash in YouTube debate
Hillary Clinton pounced on rival Barack Obama on Monday for his willingness to meet with some troublesome world leaders during a Democratic U.S. presidential debate starring a parade of questions posed through YouTube videos.

We hacked into Apple's iPhone, claim security researchers
It arrived in a blaze of publicity and had frenzied gadget fans queuing for days before its launch last month. But just weeks after Apple's iPhone was unleashed on American shoppers, researchers say they have discovered how to hack into it and steal personal information.

Law failing animals used in medical research, says scientist
Government legislation aimed at minimising the use and suffering of animals in medical research was branded a failure yesterday by the scientist father of cabinet minister Ed Balls. Michael Balls, emeritus professor at Nottingham University, called for an urgent review of the way animal experiments are licensed, and criticised the government for granting scientists permission to conduct animal research even when the benefits were in doubt.