Times Online

Website:http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/ The Times is a daily national newspaper published in the United Kingdom since 1785 when it was known as The Daily Universal Register. The Times and its sister paper The Sunday Times are published by Times Newspapers Limited, a subsidiary of News International. News International is entirely owned by the News Corporation group, headed by Rupert Murdoch. Though traditionally a moderately centre-right newspaper and a supporter of the Conservatives, it supported the Labour party in the 2001 and 2005 general elections.In 2005, according to MORI, the voting intentions of its readership were 40% for the Conservative Party, 29% for the Liberal Democrats, 26% for Labour. The Times is the original "Times" newspaper, lending its name to many other papers around the world, such as The New York Times, The Times of India, The Times of Malta and The Irish Times. For specificity it is sometimes referred to outside of (though never within) the UK as the London Times or The Times of London. The paper is the originator of the ubiquitous Times New Roman typeface, originally developed by Stanley Morison of The Times in collaboration with the Monotype Corporation for its legibility in low-tech printing. The newspaper was printed in broadsheet format for 219 years, but switched to compact size in 2004 partly in an attempt to appeal to younger readers and partly to appeal to commuters using public transportation. An American edition has been published since June 6, 2006.

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• Second George Medal for Gary O'Donnell, a soldier 'brave as a lion'  03-06
• Passenger flights diverted after North Korea threats  03-06
• Protester throws green custard in the face of Lord Mandelson and walks away  03-06
• Internal crisis gives Pakistan reason for hope  2008