http://news.scotsman.com/NewsFront.aspx?SectionID=7000 news-world:World en-GB Copyright 2007, Johnston Press Plc jpnm.coordinator@jpress.co.uk jpnm.coordinator@jpress.co.uk NS http://news.scotsman.com/GetFeed.aspx?sectionid=7000&format=rss Sat, 06 Sep 2008 18:32:04 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://news.scotsman.com/template/group/images/rss/NS_rss.gif http://news.scotsman.com 281 70 http://news.scotsman.com/world/Neck-and-neck-again-in.4465015.jp JOHN McCain is again level in the polls with his Democratic rival, Barack Obama, whose eight-point lead last weekend has evaporated. http://news.scotsman.com/world/Neck-and-neck-again-in.4465015.jp Sat, 06 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://news.scotsman.com/world/-From-39mad-dog39-to.4465082.jp HALF a century of hostilities between the United States and Libya formally ended last night when Colonel Muammar al-Gaddafi hosted Condoleezza Rice – the US secretary of st http://news.scotsman.com/world/-From-39mad-dog39-to.4465082.jp Sat, 06 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://news.scotsman.com/world/Pakistan-reinstates--three-judges.4465254.jp PAKISTAN'S Supreme Court yesterday reinstated three judges ousted by Pervez Musharraf, the former president, in another victory for the man set to succeed him as head of http://news.scotsman.com/world/Pakistan-reinstates--three-judges.4465254.jp Sat, 06 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://news.scotsman.com/world/US-warship-delivers-aid-to.4465249.jp THE flagship of the US navy's Mediterranean fleet anchored outside a key Georgian port today, defiantly bringing in tonnes of humanitarian aid to a city still partly occup http://news.scotsman.com/world/US-warship-delivers-aid-to.4465249.jp Sat, 06 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://news.scotsman.com/world/Families-can-bury-loved-ones.4465255.jp RELATIVES of American soldiers who died in the Second World War attack on Pearl Harbour by the Japanese have had the remains returned for burial after DNA tests identified the http://news.scotsman.com/world/Families-can-bury-loved-ones.4465255.jp Sat, 06 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://news.scotsman.com/world/Hurricane-death-toll-in-Haiti.4465775.jp THE death toll in Haiti has climbed beyond 500 people after the area was hit by a hurricane. http://news.scotsman.com/world/Hurricane-death-toll-in-Haiti.4465775.jp Sat, 06 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://news.scotsman.com/world/Celebrities-fight-car-park-.4465246.jp SOME of the biggest names in Italian culture and politics – film director Franco Zeffirelli, pop star Adriano Celentano and centre-left opposition leader Walter Veltroni – hav http://news.scotsman.com/world/Celebrities-fight-car-park-.4465246.jp Sat, 06 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://news.scotsman.com/world/Tax-on-agenda-as-.4465776.jp Canada: Prime minister Stephen Harper will dissolve parliament tomorrow and call early elections, with the economy and a proposed opposition tax on energy sources expected to http://news.scotsman.com/world/Tax-on-agenda-as-.4465776.jp Sat, 06 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://news.scotsman.com/world/Youth----missing.4465438.jp A BRITISH teenager has gone missing while on holiday in Tenerife, the Foreign Office confirmed last night. http://news.scotsman.com/world/Youth----missing.4465438.jp Sat, 06 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://news.scotsman.com/world/Insanity-plea-over-shootings.4465781.jp A MICHIGAN man accused of a shooting rampage in July that killed three teenage swimmers at a river on the state's Wisconsin border has entered a plea of insanity to ten fe http://news.scotsman.com/world/Insanity-plea-over-shootings.4465781.jp Sat, 06 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://news.scotsman.com/world/Betancourt-named-woman-of-the.4465256.jp INGRID Betancourt, 46, the former Columbian presidential candidate held captive by the country's Farc rebels for six and a half years, was yesterday named winner of I http://news.scotsman.com/world/Betancourt-named-woman-of-the.4465256.jp Sat, 06 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://news.scotsman.com/world/Zardari-favourite-in-Pakistan-poll.4465780.jp MPs began casting votes today in Pakistan's presidential election, in which the favourite by far is the scandal-tainted pro-US widower of murdered ex-PM Benazir Bhutto. http://news.scotsman.com/world/Zardari-favourite-in-Pakistan-poll.4465780.jp Sat, 06 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://news.scotsman.com/world/Bianca39s-strolling-stone-is-found.4465778.jp AUSTRIAN authorities say an unidentified man has found Bianca Jagger's diamond-encrusted platinum ring worth £160,000 in a small town outside Salzburg and has turned it ov http://news.scotsman.com/world/Bianca39s-strolling-stone-is-found.4465778.jp Sat, 06 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://news.scotsman.com/world/AlQaeda-issues-attacks-warning.4465251.jp AL-QAEDA's commander in Afghanistan has warned of more attacks against the West in a video posted on the internet yesterday. http://news.scotsman.com/world/AlQaeda-issues-attacks-warning.4465251.jp Sat, 06 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://news.scotsman.com/world/Monkey-catchers-hope-for-net.4465252.jp POLICE in Tokyo are using nets to try and catch a monkey that has eluded capture for nearly a month. http://news.scotsman.com/world/Monkey-catchers-hope-for-net.4465252.jp Sat, 06 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://news.scotsman.com/world/Chicago-deaths-higher-than-Iraq.4465250.jp SOME 65 American soldiers were killed in Iraq between the start of the Memorial Day weekend on 26 May and the end of the summer on Labour Day, 1 September. http://news.scotsman.com/world/Chicago-deaths-higher-than-Iraq.4465250.jp Sat, 06 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://news.scotsman.com/world/Washington-police-hold-bomb-man.4465429.jp POLICE detained a man yesterday near the US Capitol building after a rifle and an improvised explosive device were found in his vehicle. Washington police said an officer not http://news.scotsman.com/world/Washington-police-hold-bomb-man.4465429.jp Sat, 06 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://news.scotsman.com/world/Last-legal-brothel-closes-its.4465253.jp CENTRAL Taiwan's last legal brothel was closed yesterday after the death of its pimp aged 87. http://news.scotsman.com/world/Last-legal-brothel-closes-its.4465253.jp Sat, 06 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://news.scotsman.com/world/World39s-oldest-gorilla-dies.4465779.jp THE oldest gorilla in captivity, a 55-year-old female named Jenny, has died at Dallas Zoo – her home for more than half a century. http://news.scotsman.com/world/World39s-oldest-gorilla-dies.4465779.jp Sat, 06 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://news.scotsman.com/world/McCain-promises-radical-change.4462423.jp JOHN McCain urged Americans to fight for their country, to make history, and to rid Washington of its "constant partisan rancour" today as he accepted the Republican P http://news.scotsman.com/world/McCain-promises-radical-change.4462423.jp Fri, 05 Sep 2008 08:35:59 GMT http://news.scotsman.com/world/America--will-stand-by.4461923.jp DICK Cheney, the US vice-president, yesterday vowed to support Georgia in its showdown with Russia, calling Moscow's war against the former Soviet state an illegitimate http://news.scotsman.com/world/America--will-stand-by.4461923.jp Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://news.scotsman.com/world/Sumulikoski-ready-to-risk-ire.4462021.jp VELICHE Sumulikoski is more than happy to risk the wrath of everyone at Ipswich Town by helping to inflict defeat on Scotland in George Burley's first competitive match a http://news.scotsman.com/world/Sumulikoski-ready-to-risk-ire.4462021.jp Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://news.scotsman.com/world/London-taxi--to-.4461894.jp LONDON Taxis are as British an icon as it is possible to get. But the latest models coming off this new assembly line are unlikely to ever touch a road in the UK. http://news.scotsman.com/world/London-taxi--to-.4461894.jp Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://news.scotsman.com/world/The-day-that-small-town.4461963.jp SARAH Palin was midway through her electrifying speech to the Republican convention on Wednesday night when she abruptly wandered off script. http://news.scotsman.com/world/The-day-that-small-town.4461963.jp Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://news.scotsman.com/world/Thousands-cheer-return-of-obelisk.4461913.jp TENS of thousands of Ethiopians cheered yesterday as a 1,700-year-old giant stone obelisk taken to Italy by fascist invaders in the 1930s was restored to an ancient northern t http://news.scotsman.com/world/Thousands-cheer-return-of-obelisk.4461913.jp Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://news.scotsman.com/world/Spain-to-withhold-visas-for.4461943.jp SPAIN, where unemployment is rising rapidly, will stop issuing visas to most migrant workers. http://news.scotsman.com/world/Spain-to-withhold-visas-for.4461943.jp Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://news.scotsman.com/world/Taleban--39trophies39-call-into.4461914.jp THE French magazine Paris Match published pictures yesterday of Taleban fighters with "trophies" taken from French soldiers killed last month in Afghanistan. http://news.scotsman.com/world/Taleban--39trophies39-call-into.4461914.jp Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://news.scotsman.com/world/Tropical-storm-heads-to-US.4462631.jp TROPICAL Storm Hanna roared past the edge of the Bahamas today ahead of a possible hurricane hit on the Carolinas, leaving behind at least 137 dead in Haiti. http://news.scotsman.com/world/Tropical-storm-heads-to-US.4462631.jp Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://news.scotsman.com/world/Briton-among-seven-killed-in.4461961.jp A BRITON died when a helicopter crashed into an oilrig off the coast of Dubai, the country's civil aviation authority said yesterday. http://news.scotsman.com/world/Briton-among-seven-killed-in.4461961.jp Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://news.scotsman.com/world/Pirates--hijack-Egyptian-ship.4461925.jp SOMALI pirates have hijacked another ship and are taking it and a French yacht with two French nationals aboard to their remote coastal base. http://news.scotsman.com/world/Pirates--hijack-Egyptian-ship.4461925.jp Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT