Summary: The International Committee of the Red Cross announced Thursday that it arranged for the release Wednesday of eight civilians held for a week by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia.
Summary: A Qantas Airways plane made an emergency landing in Manila on Friday after plunging thousands of feet and losing cabin pressure during a flight from Hong Kong to Melbourne
Summary: A Qantas flight from Hong Kong to Melbourne made an emergency landing in Manila, Philippines on Friday after losing cabin pressure, the airline said.
Summary: An internal report on the UN mission in Sudan admits lessons were learned from the way peacekeepers behaved during an attack on a disputed oilrich town in which scores of civilians were killed
Summary: Unwashed unfed and lacking sleep tens of thousands of Chinese shouted pushed and shoved for their last chance at Olympic tickets on a hot and smoggy Friday threatening to break through barricades
Summary: US presidential candidate Barack Obama urged Europe to stand by the United States in stabilising Afghanistan in a speech to over 200000 in Berlin that stressed the need for unity in the face of new threats
Summary: Marathon trade talks limped into another day on Friday but with little progress so far on the tortuous negotiations ministers said it would soon be time to decide whether a deal was at all possible
Summary: Libya and Italy will soon seal a deal worth billions to compensate for the European countrys threedecade colonial rule Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafis influential son said on Thursday
Summary: European Union interior ministers dropped calls for the bloc to take in more Iraqi refugees after Iraqs prime minister said his government was trying to convince refugees to return home to help Iraq rebuild
Summary: Labour lost a parliamentary seat in one of its traditional strongholds a stinging electoral setback for Prime Minister Gordon Brown results showed on Friday
Summary: Reuters - A Qantas Airways plane made an emergency
landing in Manila on Friday after plunging thousands of feet
and losing cabin pressure during a flight from Hong Kong to
Melbourne.
Summary: Interest rates need to rise to prevent the inflation genie escaping the bottle despite the bleakest growth outlook since the early 1990s according to a report by a leading thinktank published on Friday
Summary: British economic growth is expected to slow a little bit more in the second quarter and analysts say it wont be long before the economy flatlines or even starts to shrink
Summary: Retail energy suppliers must ensure their poorest customers are on the cheapest price plan to count towards their multimillion pound social tariff targets UK energy regulator Ofgem said on Friday
Summary: Nuclear operator British Energy has agreed to be taken over by French utility Electricite de France for around 775 pence per share a source briefed on the matter said on Friday
Summary: The Labour Party starts a brainstorming session on Friday to figure out how to win back disillusioned voters make peace with unions and lift Prime Minister Gordon Browns government out of the doldrums
Summary: Reuters - U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama
hopes his visit to Europe and the Middle East will show U.S.
voters that he is a safe pair of hands, the Democrat said in an
interview on Friday.
Summary: Reuters - U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama
hopes his visit to Europe and the Middle East will show U.S.
voters that he is a safe pair of hands, the Democrat said in an
interview on Friday.
Summary: The Chinese Government has granted a major evangelist permission to distribute a Christianatheist book to athletes and coaches during the Beijing Summer Olympics
