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What we will do and how you can help WHAT WE WILL DO (Sun, 22 Nov 2009 16:58:40 GMT) How the story began: Shams Kareem I first saw Shams Kareem rocking back and forth on the floor of her home in Baghdad last February. At the sound of a visitor, she stood up and fumbled along the wall with her arms stretched out. “Carry, carry,” she called. Then she nuzzled my neck and wrapped her arms around me. (Sun, 22 Nov 2009 16:55:37 GMT) Christmas Appeal: How you can help the children of Iraq Hussein Mohammed Janabi is a loving little boy who adores his younger siblings, Amneh, 3, and six-month-old twins Zeid and Sajad. But his parents find it difficult to answer him when he asks — as he often does — “Why are they beautiful and I am not?” (Sun, 22 Nov 2009 16:48:47 GMT) The children who need a helping hand The first sight of Abdullah Suleiman isn’t for the faint-hearted: when he was six years old the bottom half of his face was blown away by a car bomb. The excruciating cost of war in Iraq is written in the crisscross lines of stitches holding his rebuilt nose and mouth in place. (Sun, 22 Nov 2009 16:36:51 GMT) Second conjoined twin wakes - and blows raspberry The sound of a little girl blowing a raspberry was the sweetest Moira Kelly has ever heard. (Sun, 22 Nov 2009 02:30:35 GMT) Commons Speaker John Bercow's wife lost job over phantom Oxford degree THE wife of John Bercow, the Commons Speaker, was dismissed from a City public relations firm after claims she he had misled the company about having a degree from Oxford University. (Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:14:00 GMT) Lord Ashcroft pays £1.5m for double VC A TORY peer has paid nearly £1.5m for the only double Victoria Cross awarded during the first world war. (Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:05:00 GMT) Family dispute threatens to scupper Little Prince film IT IS one of the biggest selling books of all time but a secret deal over royalties from The Little Prince has come back to haunt the author’s family. (Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:01:00 GMT) The barrow boys done good – ‘street traders’ to net millions THE barrow boy is back. Except this time it is not the man in the pinstriped blazer bellowing share prices in the City but the traditional street trader starting out with a market stall before making millions. (Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:01:00 GMT) Colleges rig immigrants’ English tests IN the windows of the UK Citizenship Centre in Birmingham, posters say it provides “Home Office Approved Certificates”. They boast a “very high success rate” and the process is “quick and easy”. (Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:01:00 GMT) Shamed MG Rover chiefs bank extra £11m FIVE disgraced former directors of MG Rover, the failed Midlands car maker, are to receive an early Christmas present with an £11m-plus payout from the wreckage of the firm. (Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:01:00 GMT) Citizenship language scam exposed Immigrants who don’t understand English have been able to buy language certificates that give them the right to settle in Britain. (Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:01:00 GMT) Bickering parents to get state therapy COUPLES who squabble outside the school gates could be advised to take relationship counselling under a government initiative to stop parents arguing in front of their children. (Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:01:00 GMT) ‘Mrs Expenses’ Ann Keen claimed £12,000 for fourth office THE health minister, Ann Keen, is facing a parliamentary inquiry after receiving £12,000 in expenses for an office at home, despite having three other official workplaces. (Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:01:00 GMT) Mimicking of Sir Trevor McDonald lands ITV with £5m lawsuit AN ITV newsreader has been accused of imitating Sir Trevor McDonald by a female presenter who is bringing a £5m racism and ageism case against the television company. (Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:01:00 GMT) Catholic bishops prepare path for Anglican exodus THE Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales has taken the first steps towards receiving Anglican converts en masse. (Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:01:00 GMT) Afghan pullout is ‘election ploy’ by Gordon Brown GORDON BROWN has ordered defence chiefs to find a way of pulling some troops out of Afghanistan by the end of 2010, according to senior defence sources. (Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:01:00 GMT) Bank customers in line for £6bn refund of overdraft charges MILLIONS of bank customers will be in line for payouts totalling up to £6 billion if a Supreme Court judgment on current account charges goes against the banks this week. (Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:01:00 GMT) Baroness Ashton: EU couldn’t make it up After a byzantine Brussels stitch-up, the appointment to one of the grandest jobs in the European Union was settled by text message. Early on Thursday evening Baroness Ashton, an obscure Labour quangocrat, received a text message from her mentor, Jose Manuel Barroso, the chairman of the European commission. (Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:01:00 GMT) The other belles de nos jours As a highly intelligent child brought up by a single mother of modest means, Anna was determined to succeed. She won a scholarship to an independent school and then a place at Oxbridge. She graduated with upper second-class honours and went on to complete a postgraduate diploma and an MSC. (Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:01:00 GMT) Cheques to be bounced into history BRITISH banks are drawing up plans to stop accepting cheques and instead demand payment by plastic or electronic transfer. (Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:01:00 GMT) First female helicopter crew takes on Taliban THE RAF is to fly its first all-woman combat helicopter crew into action in southern Afghanistan. (Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:01:00 GMT) Armchair army to save the Amazon rainforest SPEND a pound and save the rainforest. A conservation group led by a millionaire sports tycoon and a former Labour minister is launching an appeal today to recruit 100,000 green heroes to protect trees in the Amazon. (Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:01:00 GMT) Women's rights: why too much of a good thing is bad for you Maternity leave is too generous. Mothers do not want full-time work. Maintenance payouts encourage gold-diggers. Positive discrimination has gone too far. And girls can’t have it all. (Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:01:00 GMT) Prosecutors seek life sentences for Meredith Kercher’s killers Italian prosecutors demanded life sentences yesterday for Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito, her former boyfriend, for murdering the British student Meredith Kercher in a hate-and drug-fuelled sexual assault. (Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:01:00 GMT) Copyright 2007 Times Newspapers Ltd. | |||||||||
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