Washington Post April 30, 2009 British combat operations in Iraq formally ended Thursday, a month ahead of schedule, winding down a six-year mission that cost the lives of 179 British troops and was deeply unpopular in Britain. more
New York Times Global Edition April 30, 2009 The U.S. attorney general, Eric H. Holder Jr., made a public appeal Wednesday night for European governments to accept inmates freed from Guantánamo Bay, saying the United States and its allies must overcome divisions of the past and “make unpopular choices.” more
Associated Press April 30, 2009 Global health authorities warned Wednesday that swine flu was threatening to bloom into a pandemic, and the virus spread farther in Europe even as the outbreak appeared to stabilize at its epicenter. A toddler who succumbed in Texas became the first death outside Mexico. more
Financial Times April 29, 2009 Nato ordered the expulsion of two Russian diplomats on Wednesday in retaliation for a spy scandal in which a senior Estonian official was jailed for passing on top-level secrets about the western alliance to Moscow. more
New York Times Global Edition April 29, 2009 European antitrust regulators could levy their largest fine ever in a market-dominance case against Intel, in what would be their latest shot at leveling the playing field in the global technology market. more