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August 2007
IN MOST elections, a lurch to the Right indicates a political swing: in Kazakhstan, it has more to do with which side of the car voters want their steering wheel positioned.
Brown under attack for troop deaths and Iraq exit The Sunday Telegraph, 26 August 2007 Gordon Brown has come under fire on both sides of the Atlantic for starving the Armed Forces of funding, leaving them struggling to fight on two fronts, in Iraq and Afghanistan.
'Either you come back, or I marry her.'' The man texting was one of France's most senior politicians, with designs on the presidency. The woman he was addressing was his wife. She had left him; he had bombarded her with text messages.
Two bungling hijackers allow pilots to escape through a cockpit window while the passengers flee by the wing exits The Sunday Telegraph, 19 August 2007 An attempt to hijack a passenger plane and fly it to Iran ended in shambles when the hijackers inadvertently allowed the pilots to get off after it landed to refuel.
In a hangar at an airfield 24 miles south east of Moscow, technicians were yesterday checking over the latest additions to the burgeoning military arsenal which a resurgent Russia hopes can restore its status as a major world power.
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Putin
rearms his Cold War military