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Canal network could be used to transport biomass for power plants
Canals are a cleaner way of moving fuel than by road, says energy group DalkiaBritain's network of Victorian canals could once again play a major industrial role, in a revival driven by the demand for...
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Republican primaries: oops, here comes a candidate
The field is a fair reflection of a party so divided, so dominated by ideological demons, so beholden to the dangerous concept of fundamental truth, that they fear each other more than they do the...
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Exxon Mobil wins hollow victory in court battle with Hugo Chávez
Oil company Exxon to receive less than 10% of the $10bn it was seeking from the Venezuelan government when its assets were nationalisedExxon Mobil will receive less than 10% of the $10bn (£6.4bn) in...
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Lloyds Banking Group's bosses were 'reckless', say lawyers for US investors
Aggrieved investors are suing Sir Victor Blank and Eric Daniels, the former chairman and chief of Lloyds Banking GroupLloyds Banking Group's former chief executive, Eric Daniels, and previous chairman,...
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The 2012 news: read it here first
Tim Dowling has convened a panel of expert forecasters and professional psychics in order to bring you the headlines of 2012 today. Enjoy!JanuaryHeather Mills McCartney leaked US embassy cables, claims...
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Salford shooting: 20-year-old man charged with murder of Anuj Bidve
Kiaran Stapleton to appear at City of Manchester magistrates court over point-blank shooting of Indian student on Boxing DayA 20-year-old man has been charged with the murder of an Indian student who...
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US primaries promise little – and this year could deliver even less | Gary...
Obama has become increasingly vulnerable, but the Republican establishment still can't find a decent candidate'They are in a terminal panic," said Pat Buchanan in February 1996 of the Republican...
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Foreign policy's imperial shadow
Simon Jenkins (Imperial echoes have led us to a ruinous decade of wars, 28 December) punctures some of the hubris of the UK's foreign policy. He is right to identify the "imperial echoes" that formed...
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Falkland Islanders should have their say
Richard Gott (Asleep over the Falklands, 23 December) criticises the Foreign Office for failing to address the vexed question of sovereignty. He adds, somewhat contentiously, that Argentina and Britain...
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Row over ethics as judge orders college to surrender IRA tapes
Today's Belfast Telegraph splash headline, "Fury as IRA tapes turned over" (not online) follows a piece in yesterday's Irish edition of the Sunday Times, "Tale of the tapes" (behind a paywall).Yet the...
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Spain's first gay retirement home passes its first hurdle
Madrid suburb cedes land for project as gay NGO plans home 'where no one will have to hide their sexuality'A group of elderly Spanish gay men are rebelling against the homophobia of their generation by...
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Occupy Iowa caucus protesters storm Democrats' war room
Protesters escorted away by police after visiting Democrats' headquarters in Iowa and demanding to meet senior officialsA newly-opened Democrat "war room" in Iowa found itself under siege on Sunday...
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Coca-Cola accused of propping up notorious Swaziland dictator
Swaziland's King Mswati III accused by activists of human rights abuses and of looting national wealthCoca-Cola has been accused of propping up one of Africa's most notorious dictators.The multibillion...
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Fish and chip fever batters South Africa
South Africans are discovering the joys of the British-style chippy, although the dish has some history in their countryWhen the first one opened in 2002, South Africans had never seen anything like...
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LA police question 'person of interest' as more fires break out
Twelve more arson fires broke out on Monday as police take into custody man wanted in connection with blazesTwelve more suspected arson fires broke out early on Monday in the Los Angeles area, and a...
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Missing cat comes home after four years
Willow, 10, identified by microchip after making 20-mile journey across moors to PlymouthThe owners of a cat that went missing four years ago got a late surprise Christmas present when they were...
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John Rex obituary
In 1970 my father, John Rex, who has died aged 86, founded the sociology department at the University of Warwick, where he was research professor on ethnic relations from 1984 until 1990 (latterly...
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Immunisation push propels India towards victory in war against polio
Support from initially hostile Muslim clerics means disease is rapidly vanishing, even in city where it had the strongest holdMoradabad is a nondescript and scruffy city, 110 miles north of the Indian...
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Where next for Occupy Wall Street? | Prachi Patankar and Ahilan Kadirgamar
How Occupy responds to the opportunities and problems presented by the 2012 presidential election will be criticalOver the last three months New York City has been electrified by the Occupy Wall Street...
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