Picture Mogadishu in 1992. Marauding militias loyal only to Somali clan leaders stalk the city, looting aid shipments bound for the 1.8 million Somalis facing starvation. Then, from the green-blue Indian Ocean waters, there materializes a flotilla of U.S. transports bearing aid and armed men to deliver it. In the skies overhead, U.S. attack helicopters appear, providing cover for food shipments, while... 

In an article in American Vogue magazine in which Mr Miliband was described as “tall and dashing”, the interviewer joked about developing a crush on the 44-year-old Foreign Secretary after hearing his British accent on the telephone. “Well, if you saw him it would be a big crush. I mean, he is so vibrant, vital, attractive, smart,” said Mrs Clinton, 18 years Mr Miliband’s... 

Mr Obama walked along the popular Badaling section of the wall outside Beijing under tight security in wintry temperatures following a working lunch with Wen Jiabao, China’s prime minister. “It’s a reminder of the ancient history of the Chinese people,” Mr Obama said of the structure designed to keep foreign invaders out of the country “It gives you a good perspective... 

The road from Nairobi winds 100 miles to Entasopia, a town deep in Masai country. The asphalt gives way to sand and dust, until finally it is just a dirt track climbing over broken hills and plunging back to desert flats. The going is slow. The outpost, with about 4,000 inhabitants, is at the end of that road and beyond the reach of power lines. It has no bank, no post office, few cars and little... 

Gordon Brown is to make an embarrassing climbdown on plans to abolish a childcare tax break, after a rebellion by female Labour MPs. The prime minister is to announce that childcare vouchers, which benefit working families by up to £2,390 a year, will now be saved. The U-turn follows a letter to Brown signed by nine former ministers warning that scrapping the scheme, which helps 340,000 parents, would... 

Parliament on Wednesday failed to debate a Bill seeking to establish a local tribunal due to lack of quorum. The Bill, tabled by Imenti Central MP Gitobu Imanyara, seeks to establish a tribunal to try the masterminds of last year’s post-election violence. Only 30 out of 222 MPs were required to debate it, but only 18 were present. MPs from Rift Valley — the epicentre of the violence — as well... 

Terror suspects are to be excluded from plans to delete DNA profiles from the national database after six years, under government proposals published today. Those arrested on suspicion of terror offences but released without charge could have their DNA profile kept on the national database indefinitely. Under the plans the samples of under-18s arrested on suspicion of involvement in terrorism could... 

Indian Army Chief, General Deepak Kapoor arrived in Israel on Saturday (November 7) on a three day working visit where he is scheduled to hold talks with Defense Minister Ehud Barak and top military officials including IDF Chief of General Staff Lt.-Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi, the Deputy Chief of the General Staff, Maj. Gen. Benny Gantz among others. The general was welcomed in a festive ceremony at the... 

Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir pulled out of an Islamic summit in Istanbul today — a trip that the European Union had objected to because of his indictment by the International Criminal Court (ICC). President Bashir, against whom the ICC has issued an arrest warrant for crimes against humanity in Sudan’s Darfur region, had announced plans to attend a meeting of the Organisation of the... 

The Prime Minister used a speech at a meeting of G20 finance ministers in St Andrews to call for the new tax to fund future bank bailouts – despite previous government opposition to such a move. However, within hours of his speech, both the US and Canada rejected the plan. Timothy Geithner, the US Treasury Secretary, said: “That’s not something that we’re prepared to support.” Canada’s...