http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/NewsFront.aspx?SectionID=7000 World news and headlines from Europe, America, China the Middle East, Africa, and Russia en-GB Copyright 2007, Johnston Press Plc jpnm.coordinator@jpress.co.uk jpnm.coordinator@jpress.co.uk TS http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/GetFeed.aspx?sectionid=7000&format=rss Fri, 04 Dec 2009 06:56:26 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/template/group/images/rss/TS_rss.gif http://thescotsman.scotsman.com 281 70 http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/world/Silence-is-golden-for-tigress.5883792.jp A NIGHTCLUB hostess said to have had an affair with Tiger Woods cancelled a news conference last night after what were said to be "frantic contacts" from the billiona http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/world/Silence-is-golden-for-tigress.5883792.jp Fri, 04 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/world/What-a-surprise--look.5883830.jp IN AN electric, four-hour solo performance on live television, Vladimir Putin has said he will think about whether to reclaim the presidency – one of the strongest signals y http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/world/What-a-surprise--look.5883830.jp Fri, 04 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/world/Tearful-Amanda-Knox--.5883829.jp AMERICAN student Amanda Knox, fighting back tears, yesterday told the Italian court trying her for the murder of her British flatmate that she did not want to be branded an as http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/world/Tearful-Amanda-Knox--.5883829.jp Fri, 04 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/world/From-celebration-to--massacre.5883847.jp A MALE suicide bomber dressed as a woman attacked a university graduation ceremony yesterday in Somalia's capital, killing at least 19 people, including three cabinet mini http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/world/From-celebration-to--massacre.5883847.jp Fri, 04 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/world/39Stretched39-Gordon-Ramsay-is-.5884067.jp CELEBRITY Scots chef Gordon Ramsay has been forced to sell off his flagship overseas restaurant. http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/world/39Stretched39-Gordon-Ramsay-is-.5884067.jp Fri, 04 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/world/Currency-clampdown-by-North-Korea.5883865.jp NORTH Korea has threatened "merciless punishment" for anyone defying new currency rules, introduced without warning, which have revalued its currency at 100 old won http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/world/Currency-clampdown-by-North-Korea.5883865.jp Fri, 04 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/world/Opening-doors-on-trade-with.5883874.jp NORTH Korea's surprise move to revalue its currency may, some analysts said, be the start of economic reforms, just as the reclusive state readies to resume negotiations http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/world/Opening-doors-on-trade-with.5883874.jp Fri, 04 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/world/Marchers-seek-justice-in-city.5883831.jp HUNDREDS of people marched with torches through Bhopal before dawn yesterday to mark the 25th anniversary of the world's worst industrial disaster and demand the clean-up http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/world/Marchers-seek-justice-in-city.5883831.jp Fri, 04 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/world/39Bin-Laden-not-here-in.5883848.jp PAKISTAN'S prime minister yesterday publicly disputed Gordon Brown's assessment of his country's efforts to fight terrorism and capture the leaders of al-Qaeda. http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/world/39Bin-Laden-not-here-in.5883848.jp Fri, 04 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/world/Sarkozy39s-party-blunders-as-France.5883880.jp A PROMOTIONAL video by France's ruling UMP party showing the joys of the French lifestyle was all shot in the United States, it was revealed last night. http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/world/Sarkozy39s-party-blunders-as-France.5883880.jp Fri, 04 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/world/Five-more-get-death-penalty.5883832.jp A CHINESE court has handed down a further five death sentences to people convicted of murder and other crimes during ethnic rioting in the far western Xinjiang region in July http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/world/Five-more-get-death-penalty.5883832.jp Fri, 04 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/world/Congo-death-penalty-upheld-against.5883878.jp A CONGOLESE military appeal court yesterday upheld death sentences against two Norwegians convicted of murder and espionage, and ordered them and their government to pay more http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/world/Congo-death-penalty-upheld-against.5883878.jp Fri, 04 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/world/Nuns-offer-128m-to-.5883839.jp A MAJOR Irish order of Roman Catholic nuns, the Sisters of Mercy, has offered to pay victims of child abuse, the government and charities nearly 128 million (£115m) to http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/world/Nuns-offer-128m-to-.5883839.jp Fri, 04 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/world/80th-Srebrenica---.5883886.jp FORENSIC experts yesterday opened up the 80th mass grave containing the remains of Muslim Bosnian civilians killed in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre. http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/world/80th-Srebrenica---.5883886.jp Fri, 04 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/world/75-years-for-mugger-who.5883863.jp A NEW York man who mugged a 101-year-old woman on her way to church has been sent to jail for 75 years. http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/world/75-years-for-mugger-who.5883863.jp Fri, 04 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/world/Two-tonnes-of-snakes-and.5883889.jp CAMBODIAN police have confiscated two tonnes of live snakes and tortoises and arrested two men trying to smuggle the cargo up a river to Vietnam. http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/world/Two-tonnes-of-snakes-and.5883889.jp Fri, 04 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/world/Tiger-Woods-39I-regret-those.5879380.jp TIGER Woods' squeaky-clean image was in tatters last night as he confessed to "personal sins and failings" after a week spent denying claims that he had cheated http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/world/Tiger-Woods-39I-regret-those.5879380.jp Thu, 03 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/world/Nato-allies-urged-to-do.5879355.jp BRITAIN last night stepped up calls for Nato allies to send more troops to Afghanistan, after President Barack Obama finally announced his long-awaited 30,000-strong US troop http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/world/Nato-allies-urged-to-do.5879355.jp Thu, 03 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/world/New--charges-over-mass.5879537.jp THE US army psychiatrist arrested after a mass shooting at a military site in Texas was yesterday charged with 32 counts of attempted premeditated murder. http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/world/New--charges-over-mass.5879537.jp Thu, 03 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/world/Chechen-president---.5879361.jp RAMZAN Kadyrov, the president of Chechnya, recently proposed to Ahmed Zakaev, a leader of the nationalistic and comparatively moderate Chechen opposition, that he return to Ch http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/world/Chechen-president---.5879361.jp Thu, 03 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/world/39Expose-traders-of--albino.5879354.jp TANZANIA must lift a shroud of secrecy surrounding those who commission the killings of albinos so their body parts can be used in witchcraft, rights campaigners have said, http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/world/39Expose-traders-of--albino.5879354.jp Thu, 03 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/world/Designer-jeans-have-130-price.5879351.jp DESIGNER jeans labelled "Made in North Korea" will go on sale this Friday at a trendy department store in Sweden, marking a first foray into western fashion for the r http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/world/Designer-jeans-have-130-price.5879351.jp Thu, 03 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/world/Carbon-pollution-trading-scheme-crashes.5879389.jp AUSTRALIA'S senate has defeated the government's plan to implement an ambitious carbon pollution trading system to fight global warming, dashing hopes of setting an e http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/world/Carbon-pollution-trading-scheme-crashes.5879389.jp Thu, 03 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/world/Germany-still-owes-50m-in.5879378.jp GERMANY has still to pay off about £50 million of the notorious "reparations" demanded from it after the end of the First World War more than 90 years ago. http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/world/Germany-still-owes-50m-in.5879378.jp Thu, 03 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/world/Google-in--39fiveclick39-limit.5879381.jp GOOGLE is to limit the amount of free news content available to its users to five articles a day, it was announced yesterday. http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/world/Google-in--39fiveclick39-limit.5879381.jp Thu, 03 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/world/Emails-show-White-House-.5879371.jp E-MAILS between a couple accused of gatecrashing president Barack Obama's first state dinner and a Pentagon official undermine their claims they were invited to the White http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/world/Emails-show-White-House-.5879371.jp Thu, 03 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/world/Torture-call-doctor-died-after.5879386.jp A DOCTOR who exposed the torture of jailed protesters in Iran died of poisoning from an overdose of a blood-pressure drug in a salad, prosecutors said yesterday. http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/world/Torture-call-doctor-died-after.5879386.jp Thu, 03 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/world/Polanski--set-for-house.5879394.jp SWISS authorities will release film director Roman Polanski into house arrest at his luxury Alpine chalet tomorrow, the government has confirmed. http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/world/Polanski--set-for-house.5879394.jp Thu, 03 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/world/Islamists-admit-train-bombing.5879353.jp ISLAMIST militants claimed responsibility yesterday for a bombing that derailed a Russian train, killing 26 people, and vowed further "acts of sabotage" in a letter po http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/world/Islamists-admit-train-bombing.5879353.jp Thu, 03 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/world/Wonder-wins-UN-peace-role.5879586.jp UN SECRETARY-GENERAL Ban Ki-moon has selected musician Stevie Wonder to be a United Nations Messenger of Peace. http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/world/Wonder-wins-UN-peace-role.5879586.jp Thu, 03 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT