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Times Online World News, 07.01.09 21:32 UTC

Guantánamo prison 'could close quickly' if Britain takes inmates

Britain has been asked formally by the Bush Administration to take Guantánamo terrorist suspects in an effort to close down the controversial detention centre in Cuba within weeks. Robert Tuttle, the ...

Times Online World News, 07.01.09 16:10 UTC

Tony Blair prepares to receive Congressional Gold Medal

Tony Blair is at last ready to receive the highest honour that the American Congress can bestow on a foreign leader. The former British Prime Minister will next week be given the Presidential Medal ...

New York Post, 07.01.09 11:38 UTC

PUB'S SEX DEFENSE

Last updated: 2:21 am January 7, 2009 Posted: 1:36 am January 7, 2009 A former floor manager at the Times Square eatery Hawaiian Tropic Zone, who says she was raped by her boss, wasn't the ...

Los Angeles Times, 07.01.09 05:02 UTC

LAPD tried to reverse a coroner's verdict in girl's death

After a 19-month-old child was killed by police in a shootout, a high-ranking official pushed a campaign to reopen the investigation into her death. The intense lobbying failed.

Times Online, 07.01.09 00:30 UTC

Private bail hostels being set up in residential areas on the quiet

Hundreds of bail hostels are being opened in residential neighbourhoods without public consultation as part of moves to ease jail overcrowding. People living next door to properties earmarked for ...

Times Online Business, 07.01.09 00:08 UTC

As sales promotions end, fall in pound will drive up prices

Shoppers face a “price shock” in the coming months as merchandise sold at record discounts in the sales gives way to stock made more expensive by the slump in sterling. Next, one of the ...

Times Online, 07.01.09 00:02 UTC

Thousands bankrupted over unpaid council tax

Thousands of vulnerable people are being forced into bankruptcy as town halls use increasingly aggressive tactics to chase council tax arrears. Some households owing hundreds of pounds are saddled ...

Times Online Sport, 06.01.09 23:01 UTC

Graham Ford keen to put his name in frame for England job

Must England sack Moores to regain Ashes? Graham Ford has thrust himself into the frame to succeed Peter Moores if the England head coach pays with his job for a split with Kevin Pietersen, the ...

Times Online, 06.01.09 22:32 UTC

Israel claims Hamas fired from school as death toll hits 640

Israeli mortar rounds blasted a United Nations-run school that had been converted into a refugee shelter for hundreds of Palestinians displaced by the ten-day war in Gaza, killing more than 40 people ...