World Politics
Aids: the pandemic is officially in decline
UN and World Health Organisation hail steep fall in number of new HIV infections
Inside World Politics
Obama set to announce plans for Afghan troop deployment
Wednesday, 25 November 2009
President will call for Nato allies to play their part in long-awaited speech next week
America allays Indian fears of neglect with lavish state dinner
Wednesday, 25 November 2009
With lavish food, a live performance by the singer Jennifer Hudson and hours of face-to-face talks, President Barack Obama worked to uphold a tradition of grand hospitality to visiting Indian leaders in Washington while allaying nervousness in Delhi about the future of US-India relations.
Give money to hungry not banks, says UN food chief
Thursday, 19 November 2009
The director of the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation has questioned how world powers could put so much money into fighting the financial crisis and not feed the one billion hungry.
Obama bends knee to Chinese might
Wednesday, 18 November 2009
On a carefully orchestrated tour, his hosts' economic power has limited US options, reports Clifford Coonan in Beijing
Britain 'ready' to send more troops
Tuesday, 17 November 2009
Allied troops must stay in Afghanistan to prevent the Taliban filling any "vacuum", the Foreign Secretary said today.
Greens urge tuna ban
Tuesday, 17 November 2009
Environmentalists called for a global ban on the trade in Atlantic bluefin tuna, after the body responsible for managing stocks cut quotas but did not suspend fishing of the threatened species.
The 40 million children who just didn't exist
Sunday, 15 November 2009
One charity's campaign to register the births of all children in the developing world is transforming millions of young lives.
America's 'first Pacific president' woos China, North Korea, and Burma
Sunday, 15 November 2009
US President Barack Obama pledged yesterday, in the first major speech of his extensive Asia tour, to deepen dialogue with China rather than seek to contain the rising power.
IoS graphic: Where to find the world's missing people
Sunday, 15 November 2009
IoS graphic: UN child report
Sunday, 15 November 2009
|
|
EDITOR'S CHOICE
-
Steve Richards on a hung parliament -
Unlocking the origins of the universe -
France's crisis of national identity -
One of our dinosaurs is missing -
Terry: Chelsea are close to 'invincible' -
Are South Africa as good as they think? -
Does Chaplin merit a museum? -
Meet Bolivia's public enemy No 1 -
Forget Earth - let's move to Mars! -
Very much in fashion: Michael Kors -
The nature of identity: Who are we? -
Apple's Tablet: the future of computing? -
Our choice of the property market -
The ten best headphones -
The 50 best food shops -
Win an trip for 2 to Washington DC
Most popular in World News
Read
1 Feed the world? Band Aid 25 years on
2 Does this picture show British soldiers broke Geneva Conventions?
3 France's crisis of national identity
4 Congolese 'warlords' deny slaughtering entire villages
5 Oscar-winning Pulp Fiction writer tweets from prison
6 Have you seen the earless man? Bolivia's public enemy No 1
7 Philippines declares state of emergency after 46 are killed in election bloodbath
8 The terrifying voyage of Burma's boat people
9 Italian stallions: The sex lives of Mussolini and Berlusconi
10 The joke's on EU: A cartoon history of the European Union
Emailed
1 France's crisis of national identity
2 Asperger's syndrome: The ballad of Nikki Bacharach
3 Italian stallions: The sex lives of Mussolini and Berlusconi
4 US builds up its bases in oil-rich South America
5 Blair bid for EU presidency wins support from Brown
6 Gulf: A choice between liberalisation or recovery?
7 Does this picture show British soldiers broke Geneva Conventions?
8 Saddam's closest aides may be trying to flee to Belarus
Commented
1Dominic Lawson: Europe will always be a foreign land for the British
2US 'discussing Iraq regime change' two years before war
3Leading article: The crucial questions that the Iraq inquiry must answer
4Osborne: we will pay people to recycle
5Italian stallions: The sex lives of Mussolini and Berlusconi
6World on course for catastrophic 6° rise, reveal scientists
7George Osborne: The Treasury should lead the fight against climate change
8Peter Popham: Will Knox find justice in Perugia?
Columnist Comments
• Hamish McRae: A time for giving with a difference
With the recession, there is a shift from giving people things to giving them services
• Mark Steel: Come rain or revo- lution, it's money they want
Haven't the 20th anniversary celebrations of the overthrow of communism been miserable?
• Terence Blacker: Science must never be political or emotional
Politicians and action groups select favourable data, ignoring inconvenient evidence
Register for free to find your perfect partner with Independent Singles