Summary: Britains top official in Hong Kong on Tuesday expressed concern about new preOlympics visa curbs on foreigners entering mainland China from Hong Kong which have sparked widespread criticism from businessmen
Summary: Indonesian police dispersed about 100 antiChina protestors and detained a foreign activist on Tuesday as the Olympic torch makes another restricted relay in Jakarta the latest stop on its fraught journey around the world
Summary: Pushing for a strong win to keep her White House hopes alive Democrat Hillary Clinton touted her toughness on Monday on the eve of a showdown with presidential rival Barack Obama in Pennsylvania
Summary: Zimbabwean opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai urged UN chief Ban Kimoon and African leaders to intervene in his countrys postelection crisis on Monday saying the military were terrorising the people
Summary: Republican presidential candidate John McCain will tell an economically depressed city in Ohio on Tuesday that it can rebound just like his once struggling campaign came back from the dead
Summary: Zambias president urged regional states on Monday to bar a Chinese ship carrying arms to Zimbabwe from entering their waters saying the shipment could deepen the countrys election crisis
Summary: Even after clashes erupted in the Sadr City slum in Baghdad Thamir Saadoun still tried to go to school hoping it would be open When he got there the guard told him to go home That was more than two weeks ago
Summary: Serbias president said on Monday that Serbs in the new state of Kosovo should participate in local Serbian elections next month but Britain and the United States said this would be unwise and illegal
Summary: Chancellor Alistair Darling will meet mortgage lenders on Tuesday to press them to cut the cost of home loans and look at ways of helping people refinance their mortgages
Summary: AFP - China and France sought to patch up their differences Tuesday amid anger over protests surrounding the Olympic torch relay but a Paris city honour for the Dalai Lama threatened to scupper efforts.
Summary: Britain will push for changes in European Union biofuels targets if a review of British policy shows rising biofuels production drives up food prices and harms the environment Prime Minister Gordon Brown said on Tuesday
Summary: Would the hundreds of men who paid to have sex with Alicia have cared if they knew she was being held captive by a trafficker who raped her and pimped her and that she was infected with HIV
Summary: Royal Bank of Scotland announced a record 12 billion pound rights issue on Tuesday to cover a potential 59 billion pound writedown on the value of toxic assets and help rebuild a stretched balance sheet
Summary: A British soldier was killed in the southern Afghan province of Helmand when his vehicle was hit by a suspected minestrike the Ministry of Defence said late on Monday
Summary: The Bank of England unveiled an ambitious plan on Monday to swap banks risky mortgage assets for at least 50 billion pounds of government debt in the latest bid to spare the country from the ravages of a global credit crunch
Summary: The United States brushed off on Monday former US President and prominent Baptist Jimmy Carters report that Hamas would accept a peace deal with Israel if the Palestinians voted for it saying the groups basic stance had not changed
Summary: AP - A hospital did nothing wrong when it tried to examine the rectum of a construction worker who had been hit on the head by a falling wooden beam, a jury found Monday.
Summary: AP - Hillary Rodham Clinton invoked Pearl Harbor, the Berlin Wall and Osama bin Laden as she reached for a victory in Pennsylvania's Democratic presidential primary to recharge her comeback effort.
