World News
18 Nov 09 | PARIS: A French woman whose fiance asked her to marry him two days before he was killed in a car crash has been granted a posthumous white wedding in their village.
18 Nov 09 | MADRID: Somali pirates have released 36 crew members and their Spanish fishing vessel even as authorities said pirates had seized a tanker with a crew of 28 North Koreans.
18 Nov 09 | LOS ANGELES: The film star Nicolas Cage is being sued by his former business manager, who claims lavish spending, not his advice, is to blame for the actor's financial problems.
18 Nov 09 | NAIROBI: Western Sahara's most prominent human rights activist has gone on a hunger strike at a Spanish airport after being expelled from her home country by Moroccan authorities.
18 Nov 09 | JOHANNESBURG: Tens of thousands of goldminers in South Africa have contracted lung diseases because employers failed to protect them from harmful dust, it was claimed.
18 Nov 09 | BAGHDAD: Iraq's general election, planned for January, was thrown into doubt yesterday after Vice-President Tareq al-Hashemi announced his veto of the election law.
18 Nov 09 | KABUL: The Afghan Minister of Mines accepted a $US30 million ($32 million) bribe to award the country's largest development project to a Chinese mining firm, according to a US official who is familiar with military intelligence reports.
18 Nov 09 | BEIJING: Barack Obama's inaugural tour of China achieved no prize policy results but from Beijing's point of view it was worth ''a thousand pounds of gold''.
18 Nov 09 | Al-WALAJEH, WEST BANK: No one disputes Abdel Fattah Abed Rabbo owns the 50 hectares of land he calls home. He has the Ottoman, Jordanian and Israeli government papers to prove it.
18 Nov 09 | THE Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has brushed aside international anger over the expansion of Jewish neighbourhoods in east Jerusalem by defining the new plans as ''standard procedure''.
18 Nov 09 | THE Indonesian Government has reversed its policy to swiftly deport Sri Lankan asylum seekers refusing to get off a boat in Merak and will now allow the UN to process them, a decision that may prove decisive in ending a five-week stand-off at the port.
18 Nov 09 | WASHINGTON: If you are wondering whether Sarah Palin is planning a run for the White House in 2012, do not look for answers in her book Going Rogue: An American Life, which went on sale in the US yesterday.
17 Nov 09 | LOS ANGELES: An Australian faces five years in a US prison after admitting his role in a kickback scheme in Afghanistan.
17 Nov 09 | LONDON: Britain's aspirations to become a spacefaring nation inched a little closer as thousands of microscopic worms boarded the Atlantis space shuttle at Cape Canaveral and blasted off for a mission to the international space station.
17 Nov 09 | LONDON: British soldiers should buy off potential Taliban recruits in Afghanistan with cash, a new army field manual says.
17 Nov 09 | PARIS: For Nicolas Sarkozy, a 1.65-metre head of state with a statuesque wife, a penchant for Cuban heels and an arch-enemy who refers to him as ''the dwarf'', size most certainly matters.
17 Nov 09 | ROME: When the hostess agency put out the call for attractive, well-dressed women, under the age of 35 and over 1.7 metres tall, it was inundated with responses from hundreds of Roman women.
17 Nov 09 | BEIJING: With the US President in town, the Chinese Government seems to have adopted a two-track policy towards Barack Obama memorabilia.
17 Nov 09 | BEIJING: The presidents of the world's two most powerful countries have promised to co-operate on pressing challenges, including climate change and Iran's nuclear program.
17 Nov 09 | WASHINGTON: The number of Americans who lack dependable access to adequate food shot up last year to 49 million, the largest number since the Government has been keeping track.