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Marching to world domination: China celebrates 60 years of communism with a display of military might that should worry the West

Thu, 01 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Daily Mail - By Dominic Sandbrook - Oct. 01 (Special Report) - ...China itself is well on the way to becoming one of the world's dominant military powers. Already, its standing army alone has more than 2.25 million men. And for the past 20 years, the Chinese have been modernising at a staggering rate - ploughing the fruits of their industrial revolution not into welfare programmes, health care or the environmental protection their people so badly need, but into guns, guns and more guns. It is no accident that the centrepiece of the 60th anniversary celebrations in Beijing is a massive military parade. Like so many aggressively modernising regimes before them - Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union spring to mind - the Chinese leadership clearly equate economic progress with military spending. Only this week, their Defence Minister Liang Guanglie bragged that the parade would ' display the image of a military force, a civilised force, a victorious force'. With its new J-10 fighter jets, naval destroyers and Cruise missiles, the Chinese army, he said, was a match for any in the Western world. 'This is an extraordinary achievement,' he boasted, 'that speaks of our military's modernisation and the huge change in our technological strength.

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U.S. forces in Afghanistan in dock on two counts over storming of hospital and airstrike death of 70 civilians

Wed, 09 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Daily Mail - Sep. 09 (News) - Alcohol has been banned from Nato's headquarters in Afghanistan in the wake of an airstrike that killed up to 70 civilian ...................... Staff at the Kabul headquarters were 'either drunk or too hungover' to answer his questions.

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Tribesman or gunman, who are we really dealing with?

Tue, 28 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Daily Mail - By Richard Pendlebury - Jul. 28 (Opinion) - The Taliban must be talked to, says David Miliband. He believes that the moderates among the movement can be separated from the 'hardliners' in order to bring peace to Afghanistan. But who is the typical Taliban today?

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U.S. to publish pictures of Iraqi prisoner abuse as Obama faces new Abu Ghraib

Sun, 26 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Daily Mail - Apr. 26 (News Report) - The White House plans to release dozens of photographs depicting abuse of prisoners by U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. Some of the 'substantial number' of pictures from the notorious Abu Ghraib jail in Baghdad show soldiers intimidating or threatening detainees by pointing guns at them. Defence Secretary Robert Gates said it was 'unrealistic' for the U.S. government to keep the photos secret.

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The boy so set on getting to Cambridge he got 22 A-levels

Sun, 01 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Daily Mail - By Paul Harris, Laura Clark - Feb. 01 (News Report) - One ambition was fixed in Ali Moeen Nawazish's mind as he made his way through school in Pakistan. He wanted to win a place at Cambridge. Sitting seven A-levels might easily have done the trick, even though he had started to study some of the subjects only three days before the exam. But he was determined to get some good grades. So he sat another three, and three more. Then another nine. Just in case, he took a couple of AS levels along the way.

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The Real Slumdog Millionaires

Sun, 25 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Daily Mail - By Andrew Malone - Jan. 25 (News Report) - Alone and afraid, Aamir was initially grateful when a ‘kind’ older couple befriended him on his arrival in Mumbai. This chaotic urban sprawl is now India’s largest city and home to more than 20 million people. More than nine million of them live in slums, raising families in shacks built from rubbish on top of open sewers. For a homeless 12-year-old child freshly arrived from the countryside, it is a terrifying place to be. Overcrowding is now so bad in this huge metropolis that shanty towns have even sprung up in the international airport. People in rags scavenge as giant jets thunder past just feet away. But for many on the Indian sub-continent, Mumbai will always be the city of dreams — a place of Bollywood film stars and gold-paved streets. It was certainly the image that brought Aamir here.

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The orange drinks that have 300 times more pesticide than tap water... sold by Coca-Cola

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Daily Mail - By Sean Poulter - Jan. 06 (News Report) - The chemicals detected included carbendazim, thiabendazole, imazalil, prochloraz, malathion and iprodione. They are mainly applied to fruit after harvest to stop it developing fungal infections and rotting. A total of 19 products were bought in the UK, all made by Coca-Cola. Two orange drinks bought in the UK contained imazalil at 300 times the limit permitted for a single pesticide in drinking water.

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'Hitler was the perfect boss': Former maid breaks her silence on the 'charming' dictator

Thu, 04 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Daily Mail - By Allan Hall - Dec. 04 (News Report) - And her verdict on her former master: 'He was a charming man, someone who was only ever nice to me, a great boss to work for. You can say what you like, but he was a good man to us.' ...Rosa married in 1939 and had three daughters. She later remarried. A great-grandmother, she now lives in Munich. After the war she had to confront the reality of the man for whom she had worked so willingly. And in particular the reality of the Holocaust. 'That he had ordered such terrible things, I just couldn't believe it,' she said. 'Even now, I prefer to remember the charming facets of his personality.'

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The Wife John McCain Callously Left Behind

Sat, 07 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Daily Mail - Jun. 07 (News Report) - There is another Mrs McCain who casts a ghostly shadow over the Senator 's presidential campaign. She is seldom seen and rarely written about, despite being mother to McCain's three eldest children. She is McCain's first wife, Carol.

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'UN covered up claims corrupt peacekeepers sold arms to rebels in DR Congo

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Daily Mail - Apr. 28 (News Report) - The United Nations were today accused of covering up claims that corrupt peacekeepers in Democratic Republic of Congo sold arms to militias and smuggled gold and ivory.

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How war hero John McCain betrayed the Vietnamese peasant who saved his life

Sun, 23 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Daily Mail - By William Lowther - Mar. 23 (News Report) - In all the tales of wartime courage peppering John McCain's presidential campaign trail, perhaps the most outstanding example of selfless heroism involves not the candidate but a humble Vietnamese peasant. On October 26, 1967, Mai Van On ran from the safety of a bomb shelter at the height of an air raid and swam out into the lake where Lieutenant Commander McCain was drowning, tangled in his parachute cord after ejecting when his Skyhawk bomber was hit by a missile. In an extraordinary act of compassion at a time when Vietnamese citizens were being killed by US aerial bombardments, he pulled a barely conscious McCain to the lake surface and, with the help of a neighbour, dragged him towards the shore.

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Now schools told to teach happiness lessons alongside the three Rs

Sat, 22 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Daily Mail - By Laura Clark - Mar. 22 (News Report) - Schools in Birmingham are being urged to give happiness the same prominence in the curriculum as the three Rs, it emerged today. The city council has told its 440 schools they must give equal priority to children's emotional well-being, literacy and numeracy.

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We aren't grumpy - we just prefer 'negative' humour and that's in the genes

Sun, 09 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Daily Mail - By Barry Wigmore - Mar. 09 (Review) - In a study of 4,000 twins in America and Britain, they confirmed what most British people have believed for years - the two countries really do have a different sense of humour. -- The British, they suggest, may have genes linked to sarcasm, teasing, and self-mockery - "negative humour" - while most Americans do not. -- The researchers say that might explain why the British enjoy irony, and sarcastic put-down found in such shows as Fawlty Towers, Blackadder and The Office. -- Conversely Americans, as borne out by U.S. versions of those shows, generally prefer blander comedy with less insensitive and aggressive characters.

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Why our families are our surest source of happiness

Thu, 06 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Daily Mail - By Fiona Macrae - Mar. 06 (Review) - There are plenty of ways to help yourself feel happier with your lot, according to Dr Alex Linley, of the Centre for Applied Positive Psychology in Coventry. -- "Simple things, like listing your strengths and using them in new ways every day, or keeping a journal where you write down every night three things that you are grateful for, have been shown to deliver improvements."

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Alert over the march of the 'grey goo' in nanotechnology Frankenfoods

Wed, 02 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Daily Mail - By Sean Poulter - Jan. 02 (Special Report) - A breed of Frankenfood is being introduced into human diet and cosmetics with potentially disastrous consequences, experts said last night. Academics, consumer groups and Government officials are warning that the arrival of nanotechnology threatens dangerous changes to the body and the environment. The particles it uses are so small - 80,000 times thinner than a human hair - that they can pass through membranes protecting the brain or babies in the womb.

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The Pope condemns the climate change prophets of doom

Wed, 12 Dec 2007 18:48:10 -0800

Daily Mail - By Simon Caldwell - Dec. 12 (Speech) - Pope Benedict XVI has launched a surprise attack on climate change prophets of doom, warning them that any solutions to global warming must be based on firm evidence and not on dubious ideology.

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Schools must warn of Gore climate film bias

Wed, 03 Oct 2007 10:57:18 -0700

Daily Mail - Oct. 03 (News Report) - Schools will have to issue a warning before they show pupils Al Gore's controversial film about global warming, a judge indicated yesterday. The move follows a High Court action by a father who accused the Government of 'brainwashing' children with propaganda by showing it in the classroom.

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Burma: Thousands dead in the massacre of the monks dumped in the jungle

Mon, 01 Oct 2007 01:00:34 -0700

Daily Mail - By Marcus Oscarsson - Oct. 01 (News Report) - Thousands of protesters are dead and the bodies of hundreds of executed monks have been dumped in the jungle, a former intelligence officer for Burma's ruling junta has revealed. The most senior official to defect so far, Hla Win, said: "Many more people have been killed in recent days than you've heard about. The bodies can be counted in several thousand." Mr Win, who spoke out as a Swedish diplomat predicted that the revolt has failed, said he fled when he was ordered to take part in a massacre of holy men. He has now reached the border with Thailand.

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Pesticides can 'double' the risk of asthma

Mon, 17 Sep 2007 22:41:04 -0700

Daily Mail - By David Derbyshire - Sep. 17 (News Report) - In the first study of its kind, scientists discovered adults who come into contact with pesticides are at a higher risk of developing respiratory problems. The findings will further heighten concerns about the impact of chemical sprays on food and the proximity of schools and homes to farms where they are used.

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Bush the Jihadist: How the world was plunged into an apocalyptic war

Sun, 16 Sep 2007 08:59:23 -0700

Daily Mail - By Correlli Barnett - Sep. 16 (Opinion) - For George W Bush's proclaimed "global war on terror", this has been a week to remember - but also a week that should make us challenge the basic assumptions behind this so-called "war". Last Tuesday, the world commemorated the sixth anniversary of 9/11, when the ultimate totems of America's capitalist pride, the 110-storey Twin Towers of the World Trade Centre, were attacked by Al Qaeda terrorists using hijacked airliners as guided missiles, and then, with the world watching on TV, collapsed one by one like broken Lego.

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Seven-year-old Muslim boy stopped in US on suspicion of being a terrorist

Mon, 20 Aug 2007 06:10:00 -0700

Daily Mail - By Jaya Narain - Aug. 20 (News Report) - 'Intelligence-based analysis has been used to compile the list but it is unlikely a sevenyear- old child is a suicide bomber. I think there must be a right balance to counter terrorism without alienating people."

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Sex for the motherland: Russian youths encouraged to procreate at camp

Sun, 29 Jul 2007 20:15:41 -0700

Daily Mail - By Edward Lucas - Jul. 29 (Special Report) - The real aim of the youth camp is not to improve Russia's demographic profile, but to attack democracy. Under Mr Putin, Russia is sliding into fascism, with state control of the economy, media, politics and society becoming increasingly heavy-handed. And Nashi, along with other similar youth movements, such as 'Young Guard', and 'Young Russia', is in the forefront of the charge....Nashi fits perfectly into the Kremlin's newly-minted ideology of "Sovereign democracy". This is not the mind-numbing jargon of Marxism-Leninism, but a lightweight collection of cliches and slogans promoting Russia's supposed unique political and spiritual culture.

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I was a fanatic...I know their thinking, says former radical Islamist

Mon, 02 Jul 2007 09:28:13 -0700

Daily Mail - By Hassan Butt - Jul. 02 (News Analysis) - When I was still a member of what is probably best termed the British Jihadi Network - a series of British Muslim terrorist groups linked by a single ideology - I remember how we used to laugh in celebration whenever people on TV proclaimed that the sole cause for Islamic acts of terror like 9/11, the Madrid bombings and 7/7 was Western foreign policy.

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Two doctors held over bomb attacks

Sun, 01 Jul 2007 23:49:48 -0700

Daily Mail - Jul. 01 (News Report) - An Iraqi junior doctor and a brilliant neurologist working for the NHS are among the suspects being quizzed over the series of bomb attacks across Britain, it emerged today. Details of the suspects were revealed as police staged a controlled explosion at a hospital near Glasgow today. The junior doctor has been named as Bilal Abdulla, who is said to have completed his medical training in Baghdad.

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Hitchens vs Hitchens - Am I my brother's reviewer?

Sat, 02 Jun 2007 05:55:04 -0700

Daily Mail - By Peter Hitchens - Jun. 02 (Review) - Am I my brother's reviewer? A word of explanation is needed here. Some of you may know that I have a brother, Christopher, who disagrees with me about almost everything. -- Some of those who read his books and articles also know that I exist, though they often dislike me if so.

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