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Early reports indicate the meeting between President Ronald Reagan and the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in Geneva has got off to a good start. Their first get together this morning -
The film world has celebrated the celebrity wedding of the year in New York, as Hollywood leading man Michael Douglas married Welsh actress Catherine Zeta Jones. The lavish ceremony took place
More than 60 people have been killed after an attack on a group of foreign tourists visiting a temple in southern Egypt. The tourists’ bus was fired on as they visited
He collapsed as he was leaving the BBC’s Broadcasting House in London after a recording session. His chauffeur waiting to collect him saw him slump to the ground with a
Anti-government rebels have ambushed and killed 11 people in an attack on a rubber plantation in Malaya. The dead include a London director visiting the area, the manager of the estate
The English pound note is to disappear after more than 150 years. News of the familiar green £1 note’s withdrawal came when Chancellor Nigel Lawson made his autumn statement in parliament
The man who led his people’s struggle for more than 40 years suffered multiple organ failure at 0330 local time (0230 GMT). He had been in a coma since 3 November
The country’s military rulers ordered the execution of Mr Saro-Wiwa and eight other dissidents should go ahead at 0730 local time (0830 GMT). They were taken in chains to a prison
Prince Charles and Princess Diana have ended the first day of their much-vaunted trip to the USA at a gala dinner in the Washington, hosted by President Reagan and his
The result of the American presidential election is still hanging in the balance hours after the last polls officially closed. Votes are still being counted in the key state of Florida
Nicaragua’s ruling Sandinista Front (FSLN) has claimed a decisive victory in the country’s first elections since the revolution five years ago. Within hours of the count beginning, the leader of the
The former Hollywood actor and Republican governor of California Ronald Reagan is to be the next president of the United States. He has defeated Democrat Jimmy Carter in the US presidential
Former South African defence minister General Magnus Malan has been charged with murder. General Malan was arrested today with 10 other former senior military officers. They were charged with murdering 13 black
There has been a catastrophic fire at a chemicals factory near Basel, Switzerland, sending tons of toxic chemicals into the nearby river Rhine and turning it red. The fire broke out
The move comes as a result of the general’s continuing illness. He has suffered a massive series of heart attacks and internal bleeding in the last three weeks. The 37-year-old prince
The world has breathed a collective sigh of relief after the superpowers reached an agreement ending the immediate threat of nuclear war. Russian leader Nikita Khrushchev has agreed to dismantle all
Professor Pontecorvo and his family arrived in Finland at the beginning of September but they have since disappeared. There is speculation the family may have gone to the Soviet Union. The
The President of South Korea, Park Chung Hee, has been “accidentally” shot dead by the chief of his intelligence service, Kim Jea Kyu. Five other people, including the president’s bodyguard, were
The action, which has shocked the world, was ordered by President Ronald Reagan following a bloody coup by Cuban-trained military who executed Prime Minister Maurice Bishop, and at least 13
One of Britain’s most notorious double-agents, George Blake, has escaped from prison in London after a daring break-out believed to have been masterminded by the Soviet Union. Wardens at Wormwood Scrubs
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