Top Stories:
Telegraph – The FTSE 100 jumped more than 8pc, rebounding from last week’s plunge, after the British government delivered a £37bn rescue of the country’s troubled banking system.
Mail – Gordon Brown looks set to scrap plans to extend pre-charge detention of terror suspects to 42 days if it is heavily defeated in the Lords tonight. Tory and Liberal Democrat peers and Labour rebels gave their backing to a move by crossbencher Lord Dear, a former chief inspector of constabulary, to delete the proposals from the Counter-Terrorism Bill.
Times – Army translator Daniel James was ‘Walter Mitty’ character who spied for Iran. A former army interpreter for the British commander of Nato forces in Afghanistan passed confidential information about troop movements and locations to a contact in the Iranian Embassy in Kabul, an Old Bailey trial was told today.
Independent – A political storm blew up today after the French first lady, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, admitted that she had helped to persuade her husband to block the extradition of a hunger-striking, left-wing terrorist to Italy. The Italian-born Mme Bruni-Sarkozy’s intervention, in what was already an explosive Franco-Italian political issue, is the first overt example of the “gut left-wing” First Lady and pop-singer influencing the right-wing French President.
Sky – President Robert Mugabe has sworn in two vice-presidents in a move likely to worsen Zimbabwe’s power-sharing row.
Business:
Guardian – Iraqi government fuels ‘war for oil’ theories by putting reserves up for biggest ever sale. BP, Shell and ExxonMobil are all expected to attend a meeting at the Park Lane Hotel in Mayfair with the Iraqi oil minister, Hussein al-Shahristani. Unprecedented 40bn barrels up for grabs.
Times – Andrew Sentance, a member of the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee, today heightened hopes that another interest cut could be on the way amid forecasts that the UK had already entered a recession.
Also In The News:
Metro – David and Victoria Beckhams housekeepers have been arrested and accused of stealing treasures from the couple’s exclusive Beckingham Palace mansion. The alarm was raised by Victoria’s parents who saw items for sale on an online auction website which were identical to property at the multi-million pounds estate in Hertfordshire.
Evening Standard – Cannabis users will face new penalties when the drug is upgraded to class B from January next year, the Home Secretary has said.
Star – Internet rumours: Aliens are set to land on Earth tomorrow to prove to humans that there really is life out there. Bookmakers have stopped taking bets as wagers have surged for the UFO arrival.
ITN – Insect could halt ’superweed’ growth.
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Tags: News
15, October 2008 at 5:26 am
It’s interesting