Agony as father abandons son to rescue wife

It is the choice no parent - or spouse - should ever have to make.

Right-wing rancher Porfirio Lobo wins Honduras election

Porfirio Lobo, a right-wing businessman from Honduras' political old guard has been voted in as the country's new president, in a controversial election which Honduran leaders hoped would turn the page on the June coup that ousted leftist Manuel Zelaya.

Police killed in 'ambush' outside US Air Force base

Four police officers were shot dead in a cold-blooded ambush at a coffee shop on the edge of a US Air Force base in America?s Pacific Northwest on Sunday.

Police killed in 'ambush' outside US Air Force base

Four police officers were shot dead yesterday in a cold-blooded ambush at a coffee shop on the edge of a US Air Force base in America?s Pacific Northwest.

You?ve had eight years, now get us bin Laden, Brown urges Pakistan

Gordon Brown told Pakistan to ?take out? Osama bin Laden yesterday as Western frustration at its failure to capture the al-Qaeda leader burst into the public glare.

Paperwork blunder leaves Vanuatu leader without a job

The Prime Minister of the tiny Pacific nation of Vanuatu has been left red-faced and jobless because he forgot to hand in an absence note before heading to the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Trinidad and Tobago last week.

Swiss voters back right-wing minaret ban

Swiss voters defied their Government and clerics yesterday and approved a ban on building minarets ? reflecting an alarming hostility to a rising Muslim minority.

Iran stokes tensions with huge nuclear expansion

Iran plans to build ten new uranium enrichment plants in a gesture of defiance to the West.

Tiger Woods remaining tight-lipped over early-hours crash

Tiger Woods claimed full responsibility last night for Friday?s mysterious car crash but for the third consecutive day refused to give his side of the story to the police.

How Tiger Woods, the Chosen One, soon buckled under the pressure

Although he is still only 33, Tiger Woods has gone through enough to know more than most about the ages of Man. At birth, his father described him as the Chosen One, a person who in time would be bigger than Buddha and have as much influence as Mahatma Gandhi or Nelson Mandela. When he was 2, Woods putted on The Bob Hope Show on US television.

Now the party is over, Obama?s gatecrashers have to face the music

The central question to emerge from last week?s trip to Washington by the Indian Prime Minister is not whether US relations with Delhi are better off ? but whether Tareq and Michaele Salahi should be jailed.

Swiss minaret ban fits pattern of populist protest in Western Europe

The Swiss vote to ban the construction of minarets fits a wider pattern of populist protest in Western Europe. Parties of the Right have campaigned vigorously against the supposedly alien influence spread by Muslim populations.