Summary: Member church representatives from around the global Lutheran World Federation LWF are in Tanzania for a sixday meeting on climate change and its impact on Africas highest mountain
Summary: Wage settlements picked up to 33 percent in the three months to May but held a full percentage point below retail price inflation a survey showed on Friday
Summary: Zimbabweans began voting in a onesided presidential runoff on Friday after President Robert Mugabe defied mounting world condemnation and calls to postpone an election which the opposition says is a farce
Summary: North Korea is set to blow up the cooling tower at its nuclear plant on Friday a symbolic move to show its commitment to a disarmament deal a day after it handed over a longdelayed account of its nuclear programme
Summary: AP - Asian stock markets tumbled Friday after Wall Street plunged overnight and crude oil spiked above $140 a barrel for the first time, reigniting fears of a global economic slowdown.
Summary: The Philippines halted the search for hundreds of bodies feared trapped on a capsized ferry on Friday after salvage divers discovered 10 tonnes of toxic pesticide on board
Summary: Democrats Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton take the first step toward healing the wounds of their bruising presidential nominating fight with a joint appearance on Friday in the symbolically named New Hampshire town of Unity
Summary: Russia and the European Union will try to mend frayed relations by discussing a new partnership pact at a summit on Friday but a trade dispute could sour the atmosphere
Summary: A Mexican police chief and his bodyguard were shot to death as they ate lunch in Mexico City on Thursday the latest police slaying in a drug war that has killed more than 1600 people this year
Summary: Afghanistans snow leopards have barely survived three decades of war But now the few remaining mountain leopards left in Afghanistan face another threat foreigners involved in rebuilding the wartorn country
Summary: AP - The gray cooling tower stands 60 feet above North Korea's main nuclear reactor complex, the most visible symbol of its atomic weapons program.
Summary: Reuters - Zimbabweans began voting in a one-sided
presidential run-off on Friday after President Robert Mugabe
defied mounting world condemnation and calls to postpone an
election which the opposition says is a farce.
Summary: Zimbabweans went to the polls Friday in the country's presidential runoff election -- one expected to end in victory for President Robert Mugabe.
