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Paul Harding: No one called me. I found out on the website and within 30 seconds of finding out the Associated Press was on the phone. It was astonishing. It’s strange—I have not yet experienced my own reaction to this...
Goldman has denied the allegations and stated in a press release that it will “vigorously contest” the SEC’s charges...
...Britain's jingoistic press always likes to revisit the Battle of Waterloo, but such fulminations obscure the deeper significance of the Green Paper and the Strategic Defence Review it foreshadows. The SDR, expected this autumn, will be the first such exercise in 12 turbulent years. Any decisions Britain takes on the future role and capacity of its military - on exactly what the country expects of those bright-eyed Sandhurst cadets - will help determine the way Britain is perceived in the world. And that will determine the way Britons see themselves. The biggest challenge for this once great imperial power lies...
...which began Thursday night, Norway's King Harald, Spain's King Juan Carlos and Sweden's King Carl Gustav have yet to appear in Copenhagen. Elsewhere, Norway's Prime Minister, Jens Stoltenberg, who had been attending President Obama's nuclear summit, is stuck in New York. According to his press secretary, the Premier is "running the Norwegian government from the United States via his new iPad." As for Obama, he and other world leaders are facing difficulties in attending the state funeral Sunday of President Lech Kaczynski of Poland and his wife. Warsaw's airport is currently closed...
...after Bhutto was killed, Brigadier Javed Iqbal Cheema, a senior official at the Interior Ministry, held a press conference, on Musharraf's instructions, to pin the assassination on Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud, who was killed last August in a rocket strike in South Waziristan - a claim later supported by the CIA. According to the report, it was no secret that Pakistan's militants loathed Bhutto and her stance against Islamist violence. But the Musharraf government's "hasty" announcement, the report says, "was premature at best" and "prejudiced the police investigations which had not yet begun...