World News
11 Nov 09 | PARIS: Nicolas Sarkozy has been accused of rewriting history by French journalists who have found no evidence that he was in Berlin on the day the wall fell, despite his claims he was.
11 Nov 09 | BERLIN: Tens of thousands of people, including dissidents, songwriters, priests and political leaders who helped engineer the collapse of communism in the former eastern bloc, braved a cold, persistent drizzle to mark 20 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Cold War.
11 Nov 09 | LONDON: The world is much closer to running out of oil than official estimates admit, says a whistleblower at the International Energy Agency who charges it has been underplaying a looming shortage for fear of triggering panic buying.
11 Nov 09 | For more than 60 years Jack Atkinson, a former US submariner, has carried in his wallet a faded news clipping.
10 Nov 09 | The suspected shooter accused of killing 13 people at a US military base has regained consciousness and can talk, raising hopes he may soon reveal the motive behind the attack.
10 Nov 09 | US authorities have announced a recall of a million baby strollers made by Britain's Maclaren, saying they posed a risk of "fingertip amputation" to young children.
10 Nov 09 | The US Supreme Court has refused to block Tuesday's scheduled execution of sniper mastermind John Allen Muhammad.
10 Nov 09 | British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has apologised to the mother of a soldier killed in Afghanistan after she accused him of disrespect in a sloppily-written letter of condolence, his office said Monday.
10 Nov 09 | Somali pirates have attacked on oil tanker farther out at sea than any previous assault, suggesting that pirate capabilities are growing as they increase activity off East Africa.
10 Nov 09 | Soldiers and townspeople dug through rock and debris on Monday in hopes of finding dozens of people missing in a mudslide that swept down on a town, part of a wave of floods and landslides that killed at least 124 people in El Salvador.
10 Nov 09 | US authorities are investigating whether the Cleveland man who owned the home where several bodies were found is connected to any killings in places he lived while in the military, including Japan.
10 Nov 09 | Chancellor Angela Merkel and former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev crossed a former fortified border on Monday to cheers of "Gorby! Gorby!" as a throng of grateful Germans recalled the night 20 years ago that the Berlin Wall gave way to their desire for freedom and unity.
10 Nov 09 | BERLIN: The US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, has urged Europeans and Americans to see the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall as a call to joint action against new global threats.
10 Nov 09 | FOR the relatively novel threat of swine flu, South Koreans seem to have mustered some level of alarm. A noticeable number of the citizens of Seoul are wearing surgical face masks on trains, planes and in lifts.
10 Nov 09 | BANGALORE: THE Dalai Lama arrived in the Indian border town of Tawang, where he first crossed into exile 50 years ago, straining relations with China over the visit.
10 Nov 09 | WASHINGTON: Relatives of eight victims of an Air France flight that crashed en route from Rio de Janeiro to Paris have filed lawsuits seeking damages in two US states.
10 Nov 09 | LONDON: Britain is set to hand an expanded role to the nuclear industry and suggest more sites for new reactors as it unveils controversial guidelines for fast-tracking big energy projects through the planning process.
10 Nov 09 | MOSCOW: Russia's Prime Minister, Vladimir Putin, says he feels nostalgia for the former East Germany, recalling with fondness his five years as a KGB agent in Dresden.
10 Nov 09 | WASHINGTON: The US President, Barack Obama, says Iraq has achieved a breakthrough with an election law that will help keep the US on schedule to withdraw troops next year.
10 Nov 09 | BOGOTA: Colombia will seek help from the United Nations after neighbouring Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez told his military to prepare ''for war''.