BBC | US rescues giant mortgage lenders

Shares in Europe and Asia have rallied after the US government said that it was taking over troubled mortgage giants Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae.

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Times | London halts trading after shares surge on US bailout

Times | US bazooka for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac trumps Brown’s peashooter

BBC | Cuba hammered by Hurricane Ike

Hurricane Ike battered northern Cuba overnight with giant waves and torrential rain, but has weakened slightly as it moves over the island.

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Times | Harrowing video film backs Afghan villagers’ claims

As the doctor walks between rows of bodies, people lift funeral shrouds to reveal the faces of children and babies, some with severe head injuries.

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Times | Georgia starts legal fightback against Russia

Georgia will launch a fightback against Russia today, not on the battlefield but in the rarified confines of the Peace Palace which hosts the International Court of Justice in The Hague.

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Times | Turkey and Armenia start to mend old emnities

It was a football game that could set the ball rolling to resolve one of history’s most bitter enmities.

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Times | ‘Delayed justice’ fear as OJ Simpson faces fresh trial

A large majority of Americans remain convinced that OJ Simpson got away with murder when he was acquitted of killing his ex-wife and her friend in the “Trial of the Century”.

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Telegraph | Gordon Brown hit by ‘winter of discontent’ strike threat

Schools and local services could grind to a halt this winter as more than a million public sector workers threaten to strike over pay.

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Telegraph | Reduce net immigration to zero, say MPs

Immigration to Britain would be dramatically scaled back under plans for a “one in, one out” policy published today.

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Telegraph | Irregular English spelling should be scrapped

Irregular English spellings hold back schoolchildren and should be abandoned, a leading academic has said.

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