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Iraq report: Secret papers reveal blunders and concealment

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Daily Telegraph - By Andrew Gilligan - Nov. 23 (News Report) - On the eve of the Chilcot inquiry into Britain’s involvement in the 2003 invasion and its aftermath, The Sunday Telegraph has obtained hundreds of pages of secret Government reports on “lessons learnt” which shed new light on “significant shortcomings” at all levels. They include full transcripts of extraordinarily frank classified interviews in which British Army commanders vent their frustration and anger with ministers and Whitehall officials.

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Hostility between British and American military leaders revealed

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Daily Telegraph - By Andrew Gilligan - Nov. 22 (News Report) - The deep hostility of Britain's senior military commanders in Iraq towards their American allies has been revealed in classified Government documents leaked to the Daily Telegraph. In the papers, the British chief of staff in Iraq, Colonel JKTanner, described his US military counterparts as “a group of Martians” for whom “dialogue is alien,” saying: “Despite our so-called ‘special relationship,’ I reckon we were treated no differently to the Portuguese.”

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Murdoch to remove News Corp's content from Google in months

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Daily Telegraph - By Emma Barnett - Nov. 13 (News Report) - Rupert Murdoch, the head of News Corporation, is prepared to remove his company's content from Google's search index "within months" as the pay versus free content debate reaches crisis point.

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Barack Obama sees worst poll rating drop in 50 years

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:38:07 -0700

Daily Telegraph - Oct. 22 - Barack Obama's popularity has fallen steeply since being elected last year Photo: AFP Gallup recorded an average daily approval rating of 53 per cent for Mr Obama for the third quarter of the year, a sharp drop from the 62 per cent he recorded from

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Joe Biden: the worrying rise of Barack Obama’s Mr Wrong

Sun, 18 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Daily Telegraph - By Toby Harnden - Oct. 18 (Opinion) - On all the big questions, he has been – to put it politely – on the wrong side of history. In 1990, he voted against American forces expelling Saddam Hussein from Kuwait. He voted for the invasion of Iraq in 2003, and advocated splitting it into three states along ethnic lines. He opposed the Iraq troop surge of 2007 that pacified the country and rescued the US from the jaws of defeat.

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Binyam Mohamed: full text of David Miliband's statement - Telegraph

Sat, 17 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Daily Telegraph - By David Miliband - Oct. 17 (Statement) - ''The Government is deeply disappointed by the judgment handed down today by the High Court which concludes that a summary of US intelligence material should be put into the public domain against their wishes. We will be appealing in the strongest possible terms.

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Energy crisis is postponed as new gas rescues the world

Sun, 11 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Daily Telegraph - By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard - Oct. 11 (Special Report) - America is not going to bleed its wealth importing fuel. Russia's grip on Europe's gas will weaken. Improvident Britain may avoid paralysing blackouts by mid-decade after all. The World Gas Conference in Buenos Aires last week was one of those

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Spacecraft 'could surf gravitational tubes' to make solar travel more efficient

Sat, 12 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Daily Telegraph - By Andy Bloxham - Sep. 12 (News Report) - Scientists in the US are trying to map the twisting "tubes" so they can be used to cut the cost of space travel. Each one acts like a gravitational version of the Gulf Stream, created from the complex interplay of forces between planets and moons.

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Air travel may have to be rationed in the future says Government climate change advisers

Thu, 10 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Daily Telegraph - By Louise Gray - Sep. 10 (News Report) - Air travel is expected to at least double by the middle of the century as new airlines spring up in developing countries like China and rich countries like Britain expand airports such as Heathrow. However the Committee on Climate Change (CCC) fears unlimited growth of air travel will cause greenhouse gas emissions to increase and therefore cause global warming. In a letter to the Secretaries of State for Climate Change and Transport, the committee calls for global aviation emissions to be capped at 2005 levels by 2050.

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Sentenced to death on the NHS - Telegraph

Wed, 02 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Daily Telegraph - Sep. 02 (News Analysis) - In a letter to The Daily Telegraph, a group of experts who care for the terminally ill claim that some patients are being wrongly judged as close to death. Under NHS guidance introduced across England to help doctors and medical staff deal with dying

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Stop Chield Abuse!

Thu, 27 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

- By Mirela Zivari - Aug. 27 (News) - Association for Therapeutic Intervention during Crisis What determined us to take a step forward in founding this NGO in 2008 was the serious constant problem that came up too often to be ignored: presently in Romania there is a lack of support and assistance for the people in crisis, a support for self-determination and to reach the capacity to stand up for their basic rights.

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Hillary Clinton made security help 'threat' to David Miliband over Binyam Mohamed case

Wed, 29 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Daily Telegraph - By John Bingham - Jul. 29 (News) - Hillary Clinton, the US Secretary of State, warned David Miliband that America would consider cutting security co-operation with the UK if a British court releases information about a former Guantanamo Bay detainee, two judges have been told.

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Nasa finds monster black hole sucking up gas, dust and stars at centre of galaxy

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

Daily Telegraph - By Heidi Blake - Jul. 26 (News Report) - Nasa has found a monster black hole 100 million times the mass of the Sun feeding off gas, dust and stars at the centre of a galaxy 50 million light-years away.

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Households face rise in bills because of Government failure on renewables

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Daily Telegraph - By Louise Gray - Jun. 30 (News Report) - Consumers will have to pay hundreds of pounds more on their electricity bills in future because the Government has failed to invest enough in cheap alternative sources like wind and solar power, the Royal Society has warned.

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Analysis: Barack Obama's call for change rings hollow in Iran

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Daily Telegraph - By Toby Harnden - Jun. 22 (News Analysis) - Change may be the word he made his own during the election campaign but President Barack Obama's uncertain and timid response to the Iran protests suggests he views it as a slogan with little application beyond America's shores.

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Homosexual behaviour widespread in animals according to new study - Telegraph

Thu, 18 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Daily Telegraph - By Louise Gray, Environment Correspondent - Jun. 18 (News Report) - The pairing of same sex couples had previously been observed in more than 1,000 species including penguins, dolphins and primates. However, in the latest study the authors claim the phenomenon is not only widespread but part of a necessary biological adaptation for the survival of the species.

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Iran election: Barack Obama refuses to 'meddle' over protests

Wed, 17 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Daily Telegraph - By David Blair - Jun. 17 (News Report) - French President Nicolas Sarkozy claimed the result, which gave Ahmadinejad 62.4 per cent of the vote, was a "fraud", but President Obama was more muted in his response, saying there may not be a great difference between the incumbent and the main challenger, Mir-Hossein Mousavi.

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Iran elections: The hope that Iran threw away

Mon, 15 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Daily Telegraph - By David Blair - Jun. 15 (Opinion) - The mass protests against the outcome of Iran's election seemed to carry an air of desperate anger. Perhaps the most moving scene involved a group of young demonstrators, displaying the green colours of Mir-Hossein Mousavi, the defeated challenger, breaking into English and chanting: "We want freedom."

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Drinking from Plastic Bottles 'Increases Exposure to Gender-Bending Chemical'

Fri, 22 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Daily Telegraph - By Murray Wardrop - May. 22 (News Report) - Scientists have demonstrated for the first time that polycarbonate containers release the chemical bisphenol A (BPA) into liquid stored in them. BPA has been shown to interfere with reproductive development in animals and has been linked with cardiovascular disease and diabetes in humans.

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We could do with a dose of Barack Obama's honesty

Sun, 10 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Daily Telegraph - By George Osborne - May. 10 (Opinion) - It is a tale of two cities. I have left behind a London stuck in a wasted year as a tired and embittered government desperately limps towards its electoral fate; and I have come to a Washington DC buzzing with the energy, ideas and enthusiasm of a new administration. I am here to talk to the senior members of the Obama economic team. When I congratulated one of them on surviving the first 100 days, he replied: "Survived? I think we have done a lot better than that." That self-confidence is infectious; but in all the meetings I have had, from the White House to the Treasury and the Federal Reserve, I have also seen a humility about the scale of the challenges ahead.

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Lawns will become sign of 'moral decadence' because of climate change

Fri, 01 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Daily Telegraph - By Louise Gray - May. 01 (Special Report) - In the short term, water shortages in the next 12 years will make it difficult to have a lawn. Like in Australia during recent droughts, Prof Dixon said watering a lawn will be seen as an extravagance only experienced by the rich. "Lush, well-watered, English 18th and 19th Century parklands will suffer. Retaining their rural Arcadian charm requires reversion to wild flower meadows managed with traditional hay-cuts without mowing until early September," he said. "Clinging to the grassy elegance of English lawns will be signals of social and moral decadence."

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Drowning in plastic: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is twice the size of France

Fri, 24 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Daily Telegraph - Apr. 24 (Special Report) - There are now 46,000 pieces of plastic per square kilometre of the world's oceans, killing a million seabirds and 100,000 marine mammals each year. Worse still, there seems to be nothing we can do to clean it up. So how do we turn the tide?

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Barack Obama goes ahead with missile defence shield despite disarmament pledge

Mon, 06 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Daily Telegraph - By Toby Harnden, Bruno Waterfield - Apr. 06 (News Report) - "As long as the threat from Iran persists, we will go forward with a missile defence system that is cost-effective and proven," he told a crowd of about 20,000 gathered in Hradcany Square, next to Prague Castle. "Iran's nuclear and ballistic missile activity poses a real threat, not just to the United States, but to Iran's neighbours and our allies."

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Pekingese dog paints abstract art - Telegraph

Fri, 03 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Daily Telegraph - Apr. 03 (Entertainment) - Unlike many struggling artists three-year-old Ziggy is doing a roaring trade, having no problem selling his paintings for as much as £171 each.

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G20 summit: Campaigners claim more money spent on car industry than tackling climate change

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Daily Telegraph - By Louise Gray - Mar. 30 (News Report) - The Government spent seven times more on paying off bankers and 20 times more money bailing out the car industry than on environmental initiatives, campaigners have claimed

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