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World News
From The Financial Times
- Dora to explore older, racier market
- The wide-eyed cartoon character adored by young children around the world is facing a makeover amid competition from older, racier rivals
- Housing gaffe sparks campaign row
- The tone of the presidential race deteriorated from uncivil into name-calling as Barack Obama and John McCain directly questioned each other's integrity and competence to govern.
- Campaign shift gives McCain momentum
- John McCain takes a break from the campaign trail this weekend at his home beneath the red sandstone peaks of Sedona, Arizona, able to look back with satisfaction on a better summer than many thought possible
- Google and Yahoo tread carefully in Beijing row
- The Chinese firewall brings claims of violation of trading agreements, write James Politi and Richard Waters
- US and Iraq close to troops agreement
- Washington and Baghdad are close to a deal extending the presence of US troops beyond 2008, but any timetable for their withdrawal must be 'feasible', Condoleezza Rice says
- Iran gets around US bank sanctions
- Bank Mellat, the third largest state-owned bank, is getting around sanctions by establishing links with small and medium-sized banks with less US exposure than bigger lenders
- Balancing act keeps a grip on energy costs
- In the third part of a series on the impact of high US fuel prices, Sheila McNulty talks to a Texas delivery company chief learning to live with high utility prices
- The return of the state: How government is back at the heart of economic life
- As financial groups brace for a regulatory backlash, fiscal activism is back in fashion and the independence of some central banks looks vulnerable
- Obama VP speculation rife as lead dwindles
- Speculation over who Barack Obama would choose as his running mate over the next 48 hours was rife as one national opinion poll showed him trailing his Republican rival John McCain by 5 percentage points
- Nato tells Russia: no 'new line' in Europe
- The western alliance has suspended top-level ties with Russia and told the Kremlin that it could not draw a 'new line' in Europe preventing Georgia and other countries from joining Nato
- Google and Yahoo tread careful line in China internet row
- Since the end of last year, the California First Amendment Coalition, a free speech group with ties to the US tech industry, has been pushing the Bush administration...
- China ousts US as biggest Japanese market
- Mainland China overtook the US as Japan's largest export destination for the first time last month, underlining the growing importance of Chinese demand to the world's...
- China now Japan's biggest market
- Mainland China overtook the US as Japan's largest export destination for the first time last month, underlining the growing importance of Chinese demand to the world's...
- Campaign shift gives McCain momentum
- John McCain takes a break from the campaign trail this weekend at his home beneath the red sandstone peaks of Sedona, Arizona, able to look back with satisfaction on a...
- Iraq and US close to pact on military presence
- Hoshyar Zebari, Iraq's foreign minister, said yesterday that Iraq and the US had reached preliminary agreement on a pact to govern the future use of US forces in the...
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