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Brown apologises for Britain's 'shameful' child migrant policy

by The Guardian UK

Wed, Feb 24, 2010

Gordon Brown today offered a "full and unconditional" apology to tens of thousands of British children exiled overseas who suffered physical and sexual abuse in orphanages and labour farms in Commonwealth countries including Zimbabwe.

Zimbabwe novelist finds a safe haven in Miami

by Staff reporter and agencies

Wed, Feb 24, 2010

The death threats? Too numerous to count. The serious attempts on his life ranged from make-believe doctors offering potentially fatal ``medicine'' to a traffic accident that was no accident at all.

‘Netanyahu authorised Dubai hit’

Sun, Feb 21, 2010

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met members of a hit squad at Mossad headquarters shortly before they went to Dubai to kill a Hamas commander, Britain's Sunday Times newspaper reported.