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India police in row over interview of terror suspects
10-15 23:48 (World)
A court in New Delhi on Wednesday asked the city police to explain how a leading magazine managed to interview Muslim men arrested for alleged involvement in...
UN court orders Russia and Georgia not to target ethnic groups
10-15 23:36 (World)
The UN's highest court ordered Russia and Georgia on Wednesday not to target ethnic groups in the breakaway regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, the sc...
US, Iraq agree to let troops stay until 2011
10-15 23:25 (World)
Washington and Baghdad have reached a final agreement after months of negotiation on a landmark pact to allow US troops to stay in Iraq until the end of 2011, ...
Canada voter turnout lowest on record
10-15 23:13 (World)
Canadians shunned the polls during their general election with the lowest voter turnout on record, even as a global financial crisis threatened to plunge the natio...
Cheney suffers abnormal heart rhythm
10-15 22:53 (World)
US Vice President Dick Cheney canceled a planned political event and will see his doctors after experiencing a recurrence of an abnormal heart rhythm, his ...
Dow below 9,000 after weak US data
10-15 22:35 (Business)
US stocks tumbled Wednesday amid weak US economic data, with the Dow industrials dipping below 9,000 points amid increasign recession fears. The blu...
European stocks down sharply on recession fears
10-15 22:14 (Business)
Europe's main stock markets were sharply lower in afternoon trade following a weak opening in New York on fears the financial crisis will lead to a global rec...
Officials investigate illnesses at kindergarten
10-15 22:10 (China)
China's Health Ministry sent experts to investigate how 233 children at one Chinese kindergarten developed abdominal problems, state media reported. The...
Geneva talks end with Russians, Georgians failing to meet
10-15 21:59 (World)
Talks on the Russia-Georgia conflict have ended, a United Nations spokeswoman said, after an Abkhaz official said the Russians and Georgians failed to mee...
Wall Street pulls back after weak data
10-15 21:50 (Business)
Wall Street shares slumped in opening trade as weak economic US reports reminded investors of a likely recession stemming from the credit crisis despite extr...
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