EDINBURGH’S biggest affordable housing project will see a six-storey block of flats built on the city’s waterfront.
The project cleared its first hurdle last week when councillors approved plans for more than 100 new homes for families and first-time buyers. for more click here
What on earth is going on? Watford soccer player Al Bangura who came to this country at the age of fifteen from Sierra Leone is gainfully employed, paying taxes and making a positive contribution to this country. The Home Office ordered his deporation and the court has upheld the previous decision. for more click here
For a lot of people on Wall Street, this year can’t end soon enough.
But long after the calendar has turned, here are four memories of 2007 that will linger: for more click here
MADRID — Belgian police arrested 14 suspected extremists Friday on suspicion of plotting the prison break of a charismatic Al Qaeda operative serving a 10-year sentence for planning a suicide bombing of a NATO base. Amid the most urgent terrorism alert in Belgium in years, police rounded up a group that they suspect had intended to use guns and explosives to aid the escape of Nizar Trabelsi, one of the first extremists imprisoned in Europe after the Sept. 11 attacks. for more click here
SACRAMENTO — Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is expected next month to seek immediate major cuts in state services, including a plan to take back $1.4 billion budgeted for schools this year and a proposal to slash the prison population by releasing tens of thousands of inmates. for more click here
BAGHDAD — “Abu Abed, you’re a hero,” the retired Shiite teacher shouted from the home she had fled last winter, when the bodies of Shiites were being dumped daily in the streets of her Amiriya neighborhood.
The fighter, wearing green camouflage and dark wraparound sunglasses, kept walking, his hand swinging a black MP-5 submachine gun. for more click here
NKAYI, ZIMBABWE — We are puttering along in an ancient pickup with no brakes to speak of, dodging the potholes. Every bolt seems to groan with effort, but Max Mkandla says the car is doing well. He speaks rather like a proud father discussing his brightest child.
“I’m trying to protect these tires,” Max says. There’s a pause. “Because I haven’t got a spare.” for more click here
MADRID — Staring at their accusers from a glass courtroom cell, the 30 defendants look more like thugs, laborers or fundamentalists than writers.
But they fought their jihad with the pen as well as the sword, prosecutors say. The men are charged with plotting to bomb the high-security courthouse where they are now on trial. The evidence centers on about 500 letters they wrote, mostly behind bars. for more click here
JERUSALEM - Israel’s prime minister Sunday pledged a war against Gaza militants, rejecting feelers from Hamas for a truce, while an Israeli cabinet minister angered moderate Palestinians with another plan for new Jewish housing in a disputed part of Jerusalem, complicating renewed peace talks. for more click here
It all sounds familiar. A newly proclaimed war in a far-off land, the suspension of habeas corpus, and mass arrests of “potentially dangerous” individuals to protect the nation from “treason, espionage and sabotage”. Those detained would eventually have the right to a hearing, but one not bound by the rules of law. for more lick here