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  • Nigeria's ruling party denies poll was rigged

    Police escort officials transporting election results at the Independent National Electoral Commission headquarters in Kano yesterday. Senate president Ken Nnamani said Nigeria will face a legacy of hatred because of its flawed election and has lost the opportunity to be an example for Africa. NIGERIA: The Nigerian government has accused opposition politicians and election monitors of trying to foment a coup by demanding a rerun of the weekend's tarnished presidential election. p

  • Speculation mounts on Blair departure

    Tony Blair BRITAIN: There is renewed speculation in political circles that prime minister Tony Blair could spring a surprise and announce his resignation in the next week, ahead of the devolved and local elections on May 3rd. p
Virginia Shootings

  • Obama turns unfathomable grief into political fodder

    Opinion:  What can be said about the Virginia Tech massacre? Very little. What should be said? Even less. The lives of 32 innocents, chosen randomly and without purpose, are extinguished most brutally by a deeply disturbed gunman. p
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  • France's richest borough stays true to Sarkozy

    FRANCE: Lara Marlowe was in Neuilly-sur-Seine as the right-wing candidate arrived to cast his vote p

  • Expatriates still queuing as poll closes

    FRANCE: If the French expatriates gathered in Frazers pub in O'Connell Street, Dublin, had their way, Ségolène Royal would already be French president. p

  • Mogadishu death toll rises in intense shelling

    SOMALIA: Rotting corpses lay in the open and explosions shook Mogadishu yesterday for a fifth day of fighting between insurgents and allied Somali-Ethiopian troops that has killed at least 230 people. p

  • Israelis kill nine Palestinians in violent flare-up

    MIDDLE EAST: Israeli forces killed nine Palestinians, at least five of them militants, over the weekend, in the most serious flare-up of Israeli-Palestinian violence in months. The deaths drew a threat yesterday from a spokesman for Hamas, the Islamist group that heads the Palestinian coalition government, to strike back through "all means of resistance". p

  • 23 shot after being forced off bus

    IRAQ: Car bombs killed 18 people in Baghdad yesterday and gunmen shot dead 23 workers after pulling them off a minibus in Iraq's northern city of Mosul in an apparent revenge attack. p

  • Scientists mystified as billions of bees disappear in US

    US: Billions of bees in the US have vanished without trace, leaving the crop fields unpollinated and scientists mystified. p

  • Five babies killed, 17 injured in fire at Sarajevo orphanage

    BOSNIA: An early morning fire tore through an orphanage in Bosnia's capital Sarajevo yesterday, killing five babies and injuring 17 others. A nurse was also burnt, police and hospital officials said. p

  • China will soon be the world's biggest emitter of CO2

    CHINA: For a long time it's been a question of when China would become the world's largest producer of greenhouse gases, rather than if, but the International Energy Agency (IEA) said yesterday it believed China would overtake the United States as the world's biggest emitter of carbon dioxide (CO2) either this year or next. p

  • NBC producer among jury chosen for Phil Spector trial

    US: The jury selected to hear the Phil Spector murder trial in Los Angeles includes an NBC producer who has covered the OJ Simpson and Michael Jackson trials and who has already reported on this case. p

  • Violence and intimidation of Japanese politicians on increase

    JAPAN: Murderous gangsters and right-wing thugs have forced politicians to keep their heads down, writes  David McNeill in Tokyo p

  • In short

    A roundup of today's other stories in brief. p
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