Clamour for Moss collection gathers speed
Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2007 00:01:00 GMT
The Kate Moss countdown has started. Podcasts, websites, press releases and photography are all helping to build an unprecedented level of retail lust and excitement around the model's first fashion collection for Topshop.
£2bn fortune-teller vanishes over battle of wills
Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2007 00:01:00 GMT
The man who is poised to inherit the £2 billion fortune of Asia's richest women was described yesterday as a "private" person who grew close to Nina Wang when her husband was kidnapped.
Fraud fears overshadow Nigeria vote
Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2007 00:01:00 GMT
Soldiers at a roadblock in central Nigeria yesterday seized a lorry they found to be full of already completed ballot papers for tomorrow's presidential election.
Baghdad wall to divide Sunnis and Shias
Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2007 00:01:00 GMT
A three-mile concrete wall separating Sunni and Shia Muslims is being built by the US military in the centre of Baghdad, in an attempt to stem the growing security crisis.
Bhutto enters coalition talks with Musharraf
Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2007 00:01:00 GMT
A senior aide to Pakistan's military ruler has confirmed that Benazir Bhutto, the former prime minister, could soon return to her homeland and allow her party to join a government of national unity.
Campus killer stalked my stepdaughter
Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2007 00:01:00 GMT
Warning signs that Cho Seung-hui was an erratic and dangerous student were not sufficiently acted on by the authorities, the stepmother of a girl he stalked told The Daily Telegraph yesterday.
Benazir Bhutto factfile
Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2007 00:01:00 GMT
• Benazir Bhutto read politics, philosophy and economics at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, and was president of the Union.
Woolmer twist as tests find poison in his body
Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2007 00:01:00 GMT
A suspicious "concentration of toxins" in the body of Bob Woolmer, the Pakistan cricket coach, has become the focal point of the murder investigation.
Inside the mind of America
Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2007 00:01:00 GMT
Liberty. Brutality. Humbling solidarity. Deadly isolation. The land of the free is also a land of many contradictions. Matt Frei, who has spent the week with the mourning people of Virginia, believes the tragedy reveals much about the national psyche
Cho honed marksman skills at shooting range
Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2007 00:01:00 GMT
Cho Seung-hui practised his firearms skills at a public shooting range weeks before going on the rampage at his university, it emerged yesterday.
Cold-hearted loner diagnosed as autistic
Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2007 00:01:00 GMT
Cho Seung-hui was diagnosed as autistic after he arrived in America from his native South Korea, according to his family.
Hunt for three crew of Mary Celeste yacht
Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2007 00:01:00 GMT
An air-and-sea search was under way yesterday after a yacht was found drifting, Mary Celeste-style, off the Great Barrier Reef with its engine running and food laid out but no one on board.
Royal aide says Blair is her inspiration
Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2007 00:01:00 GMT
Segolene Royal, the Socialist candidate for the French presidency, sees Tony Blair's policies on crime as a key to electoral success, key party allies have revealed.
French voters leave decision to last minute
Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2007 00:01:00 GMT
The presidential election in France was poised for a thrilling outcome last night, with a third of voters still undecided about who they would back to succeed Jacques Chirac.
He wanted to be judge, jury and executioner
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 00:01:00 GMT
An expert's guide to the gunman's grim video.
Violent images in film were echoed by college killer
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 00:01:00 GMT
The images of Cho apparently mimicking scenes from a violent South Korean film highlighted concerns about links between screen brutality and violent crime.
Columbine relatives demand release of papers
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 10:46:00 GMT
Relatives of victims shot by Columbine killers Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold are demanding that documents on the teenage gunmen be unsealed to help avoid a repeat of tragedies such as the carnage unleashed this week at Virginia Tech university.
Virginia holds a day of mourning
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 10:46:00 GMT
Grieving families held the first funerals for students killed in the Virginia Tech university massacre today while officials faced mounting questions over how the killer, whose mental problems were well known, was allowed to stay at the school.
Drama ahead of Bollywood wedding
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 00:01:00 GMT
An Indian backing dancer and small-time actress attempted to steal the show at Bollywood’s "wedding of the decade" today by slitting her wrists in front of the groom’s house.
'I played dead to fool gunman', says Briton
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 10:46:00 GMT
A British-born student who was shot three times by the Virginia Tech gunman has told how he played dead to survive.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/04/20/wboat120.xml" TARGET="_top">'Ghost boat' discovered off Australian coast
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 08:10:00 GMT
Officials are baffled after a yacht was found drifting off the coast of Australia with sails up, engines running and a table laid with food - but no crew.
Amnesty condemns Iraq execution rate
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 00:01:00 GMT
The number of executions in Iraq has risen to make the country the fourth highest executioner in the world, Amnesty International has said.
Seals escape cull as hunters are trapped in ice
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 00:01:00 GMT
Thousands of baby seals were spared from Canada's annual cull yesterday after foul weather left scores of small hunting boats trapped in thick ice off the country's Atlantic coast.
We saw our grandson being carried from the scene, say British couple
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 00:01:00 GMT
A British couple have told how their grandson survived after being shot three times at Virginia Tech.
Questions behind the senseless carnage
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 00:01:00 GMT
In life, Cho Seung-hui insisted to his English class that he be known as "question mark". Four days after his death, the riddle of what drove him to wreak such carnage remains.
How Cho spent the two hours between killings
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 00:01:00 GMT
At 7.15am on Monday campus police at Virginia Tech received an emergency call from West Ambler Johnston Hall reporting that two people had been shot outside their bedrooms.
Johnston is alive, says Palestine chief
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 00:01:00 GMT
The Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas said yesterday that he believed that Alan Johnston, the kidnapped BBC reporter, was still alive despite a claim by an Islamist group to have murdered him at the weekend.
School bullying clue to killer's motive
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 00:01:00 GMT
The student who carried out the worst mass shooting in American history had been bullied at the high school which two of his 32 victims at Virginia Tech also attended.
Russian super rich continue to thrive
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 00:01:00 GMT
Russia's super rich shrugged off a year of divorce, estrangement and scandal to become substantially wealthier, according to the latest survey of the country's elite businessmen.
Kremlin revives plan for tunnel to Alaska
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 00:01:00 GMT
The Kremlin is considering reviving a 19th century dream of linking Russia and the United States by building the world's longest railway tunnel under the Bering Strait.
French presidential rivals make final votes plea
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 00:01:00 GMT
France's presidential candidates made their final pleas to millions of undecided voters in meetings around the country last night, three days before the first round of voting.
Fatherhood hopes for cancer kids
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 18:21:00 GMT
Young boys about to undergo cancer treatment that will make them infertile are to have tissue stored so that one day they may be able to have their own children.
'He knew what to do with his life on the line'
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 00:01:00 GMT
A survivor of the Virginia Tech shooting massacre saved his life by calling on skills he learned as a boy scout.
Virginia Tech killer's chilling video taunts
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 00:01:00 GMT
The gunman who carried out the worst mass shooting in American history paused after killing his first two victims to send a disturbing "multi-media manifesto" to a television network.
Professor links Cho to violent Korean film
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 00:01:00 GMT
The gunman who carried out the worst mass shooting in American history reportedly re-enacted scenes from a violent South Korean film before killing 32 student and teachers at a Virginia Tech university.
Virginia Tech killer's chilling video taunts
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 00:01:00 GMT
The gunman who carried out the worst mass shooting in American history paused after killing his first two victims to send a disturbing "multi-media manifesto" to a television network.
Timeline: The day of the killings
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 00:01:00 GMT
The killer's rant
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 00:01:00 GMT
Cho Seung-hui sent a disturbing note, accompanied by still pictures and video to American television station NBC on the day that he massacred 32 fellow students and professors at Virginia Tech. He are some extracts from his chilling message:
Australian emerges after two weeks in underwater box
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 00:01:00 GMT
An Australian adventurer emerged from the bottom of a lake yesterday after spending nearly two weeks living underwater, riding a bike to generate electricity and using algae to produce oxygen.
'Smelly' Beijing taxi drivers warned
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 00:01:00 GMT
Criticised for smelling of garlic, spitting and threatening Beijing's Olympic image, the Chinese capital's taxi drivers have now been told what to wear and when to wash.
Chinese make first artificial snowfall
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 00:01:00 GMT
China claimed yesterday to have caused a snowfall for the first time as part of its increasingly ambitious attempts to control the weather.
Britain and US threaten sanctions over Darfur
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 00:01:00 GMT
Britain and America escalated the pressure on Sudan's regime yesterday by threatening new sanctions and a "no-fly zone" over Darfur unless Khartoum allows peacekeepers into the region.
Anti-graffiti MP scrubs off Australian's art
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 00:01:00 GMT
A crusade by an Australian MP against graffiti backfired after he spent five hours scrubbing off what turned out to be a specially commissioned piece of street art.
25 die in battle over Nigerian elections
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 00:01:00 GMT
At least 25 Islamic militants were killed yesterday in a three-hour gun battle with Nigerian police, the latest violence in the build-up to this weekend elections.
Surfboard girl fought off sea lion with punches
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 00:01:00 GMT
A teenager who was mauled by a huge sea lion said she survived the attack by kicking and punching the animal.
Christian workers' throats slit in Turkey
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 00:01:00 GMT
Three staff at a bible publishing company in Eastern Turkey were killed yesterday in a brutal attack on the country's Christian minority.
Abortion ruling is hailed by pro-lifers
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 00:01:00 GMT
Pro-life campaigners yesterday welcomed a US court ruling that restricts abortion rights by banning a controversial type of late-term termination.
US to swap asylum seekers with Australia
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 00:01:00 GMT
Australia and the United States will swap asylum seekers under a contentious scheme to deter migrants from seeking asylum in either country.
200 killed as province returns to Iraqi control
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 00:01:00 GMT
Nearly 200 people were killed in Baghdad yesterday in the worst carnage since the US boosted troop numbers two months ago in a bid to secure the city from attacks.
Death of the American dream
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 00:01:00 GMT
"We never thought he'd go to the United States to die," said a cousin of Juan Ramon Ortiz.
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