Summary: The Coen brothers' brutal tale "No Country for Old Men" won best picture at the 80th Academy Awards. The Coens also won best directing and adapted screenplay for "No Country," while the four acting Oscars went to Europeans.
Summary: The government hopes to recruit an extra 4000 midwives over the next three years with returning midwives to be offered an incentive package worth up to 3000 pounds Health Secretary Alan Johnson said on Monday
Summary: The energy regulator has fined National Grid 416 million pounds for restricting the development of competition in the market for domestic gas meters
Summary: Daniel DayLewis won the second Oscar of his career on Sunday for his role as a homicidal oilman in the drama There Will Be Blood as foreigners completed a rare sweep of all four acting awards
Summary: British police collected CCTV footage as they continued their search for missing nineyearold Shannon Matthews West Yorkshire Police said on Sunday
Summary: British police focussed their search on a second area of a former Channel Islands childrens home on Sunday after a body was found there Jersey police said
Summary: Israel is prepared to use deadly force to stop Palestinian protesters from forcing their way into Israel during a planned rally along the Gaza Strips frontier on Monday a senior Israeli defence official said
Summary: Cubas new president Raul Castro faces a delicate balancing act as he tries to improve living standards and food supplies while staying faithful to his brother Fidel Castros communist revolution
Summary: An Iraqi militant group posted a video on the Internet on Monday showing the killings of 12 Nepalese men who it said worked for a Nepalese company with a US contract
Summary: Sounding like a man in a hurry Lee Myungbak became South Koreas new president on Monday promising pragmatism over ideology to achieve his most pressing task reviving the economy
Summary: Three Islamic militants on death row for the 2002 Bali bomb attacks began court proceedings in a Bali court on Monday in a lastditch attempt to avoid execution
Summary: South Africas leading human rights agency is investigating why white journalists were barred from a briefing with Jacob Zuma the leader of the ruling African National Congress ANC media reported on Monday
Summary: Antiwhaling activists said on Monday they had chased the flagship of Japans whaling fleet out of waters near Antarctica after tracking it with hightech bugs planted by two protesters who boarded the vessel last month
