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• Spooked by Obama's CIA pick

  6 Jan 2009:

  Robert Dreyfuss: Leon Panetta opposes torture, but his lack of experience in the intelligence community makes him a bad choice to fix the CIA

• Lancing Ghana's boil

  6 Jan 2009:

  Cameron Duodu: The elections were free and fair, but it was touch and go whether ethnic divisions would lead the country 'on the way to Kenya'

• US court orders Enron fraudster Jeffrey Skilling to be resentenced

  6 Jan 2009: A US court upholds the conviction of the Enron fraudster Jeffrey Skilling but gives him a chance to cut his 24-year sentence.
  

• The Gray Lady shows some ankle

  6 Jan 2009:

  Dan Kennedy: The New York Times has decided to sully its front page with advertising. What took it so long?

• Obama refrains from making detailed comment on Gaza conflict

  6 Jan 2009:

  President-elect said he was postponing further comment on the conflict until after his inauguration

• German billionaire left 'broken' by financial crisis kills himself

  6 Jan 2009:

  Family tell how credit crunch left Germany's fifth richest man devastated and cost him hundreds of millions of euros

• Israel needs an international bail-out

  6 Jan 2009:

  Simon Tisdall: This could be an opportunity for the world to respond effectively – is turning Gaza into a protectorate the answer?

• Israeli shelling kills dozens at UN school in Gaza

  Video (30 sec), 6 Jan 2009:

  More than 40 Palestinians are believed to have died when Israeli missiles exploded outside a UN school being used as a shelter from the ongoing Gaza offensive

• Guardian Weekly: Bloodshed in Gaza

  Audio (25min 08sec), 6 Jan 2009:

  Middle east editor Ian Black analyses the conflict in Gaza. Plus, Daniel Nasaw reports on Minnesota's new senator, Al Franken. And Deborah Hargreaves on the economic propects for 2009

• Bill Richardson's guilt by association

  6 Jan 2009:

  Ian Williams: Barack Obama should fight Republican attacks rather than let the mere whiff of scandal derail is cabinet appointments

• Digital archive of papers rescued from Hemingway's home in Cuba is released

  6 Jan 2009: US deal enabled preservation of writer's artefacts that had sat for decades in dank basement

• Pipe down, price up

  6 Jan 2009:

  Tomas Valasek: Ukraine will end up paying more – but it needs to wean itself off Russian gas soon

• Atheist bus campaign spreads the word of no God nationwide

  6 Jan 2009:

  Donations totalling more than £140,000 to fund adverts on 600 buses across UK as well as in London tube stations

• We'll fight them in the headlines

  6 Jan 2009:

  Rachel Shabi: War on the home front brings out the patriot in a nation's media. Israel is no exception

• Internet database links African Americans to ancestors' voyages

  6 Jan 2009:

  African Americans will be able to trace routes of slave ships that transported ancestors from Africa

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