UK Daily Mail
Sunday, February 7th, 2010
Nearly 2ft of snow fell on Washington today with President Barack Obama dubbing the whiteout ‘Snowmageddon’.
And as the blizzard hit the US capital forecasters warned tonight that some of it could be heading to the UK this week.
Flights were cancelled and roads blocked. But Mr Obama managed to venture out [...]

Andy Sullivan
Reuters
Monday, February 1st, 2010
The White House will predict a record budget deficit in the current fiscal year and more big shortfalls for the next decade in its upcoming budget proposal, a congressional source told Reuters on Sunday.
In its budget proposal to be released on Monday, the White House predicts a record $1.6 trillion budget [...]

Stephen C. Webster
Raw Story
Sunday, January 31st, 2010
“I have embraced the vision of John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan through a strategy that reverses the spread of [nuclear] weapons, and seeks a world without them,” President Barack Obama claimed during his first State of the Union speech.
“To reduce our stockpiles and launchers, while ensuring our deterrent, [...]

On the spot: Tony Blair as he is grilled today by the Iraq inquiry
As he began his evidence, he looked uncharacteristically nervous, with his hands shaking.
Daily Mail | Jan 29, 2010
By James Chapman
An unrepentant Tony Blair was heckled and jeered by families of Britain’s war dead last night as he declared he had ‘not [...]

Carol Driver
Daily Mail
Friday, January 29, 2010
Barack Obama has allocated £4.3billion to spend on maintaining the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile – £370million more than what was budgeted by George Bush.
The budget will also be increased by more than £3.1billion over the next five years.
The announcement comes despite the American President declaring nuclear [...]

London Evening Standard
Wednesday, January 27th, 2010
Bankers stood shoulder-to-shoulder at the Swiss ski resort of Davos to try to prevent a scatter-gun approach to new financial regulation by different countries.
They united against Barack Obama’s threat to break up banks and Gordon Brown’s growing enthusiasm for a Tobin tax on all financial market transactions.
The Standard Chartered chief [...]

Larry Elliott and Jill Treanor
London Guardian
Saturday, January 23rd, 2010
Gordon Brown plans to exploit Barack Obama’s surprise crackdown on Wall Street banks to step up Britain’s campaign for a new global transaction tax on financial products.
The prime minister believes the dramatic US move to curb risky activities by major US banks indicates a new-found willingness on [...]

Haiti, once called the Jewel of the Antilles, was the richest colony in the entire world. It was estimated that in the 1750s Haiti provided as much as 50% of the Gross National Product of France. The French imported sugar, coffee, cocoa, tobacco, cotton, the dye indigo and other exotic products. In France they were refined, packaged and sold all over Europe. Incredible fortunes were made from this tiny colony on the island of Hispaniola. How did “The Jewel of the Antilles” become the Caribbean’s hell-hole?

AFP
Monday, January 18th, 2010
US President Barack Obama Sunday mobilized military reserves to help quake-hit Haiti, particularly medical staff to work on hospital ships and Coast Guard staff to secure the ports.
In a presidential order, Obama wrote it was “necessary to augment the active Armed Forces of the United States for the [...]