Summary: Wearing an Italian soccer cap and sipping an espresso Moroccan Abbes Mohamed is certain that a centreleft victory in Italys election on Sunday and Monday would improve life for immigrants
Summary: Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki and opposition leader Raila Odinga struck a deal on a powersharing cabinet on Saturday after secret oneonone talks to end a sixweek impasse sources close to the talks said
Summary: Germanys foreign minister on Saturday said the next US administration should not expect significantly greater participation by the German army in Afghanistan
Summary: The International Monetary Funds steering committee said on Saturday that global financial instability has increased since last autumn and monetary policy should be flexible and aim for mediumterm price stability
Summary: British mortgage lenders need to pass on Bank of England interest rate cuts to their consumers to reduce pressure on the slowing housing market finance minister Alistair Darling told Reuters on Saturday
Summary: Haitis government fell on Saturday when senators fired the prime minister after more than a week of riots over food prices ignoring a plan presented by the president to slash the cost of rice
Summary: Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama tried to quell a political furor on Saturday over his comments about smalltown Pennsylvanians saying he used the wrong words to describe their mood
Summary: Nigerian security forces on Saturday detained four US citizens and a Nigerian who were travelling in the western Niger Delta the scene of numerous militant attacks a military commander said
Summary: A bomb exploded in a mosque in southern Iran on Saturday killing at least eight people and wounding more than 60 others Iranian media reported
Summary: Peruvian police and civil defense officials worked on Saturday to rescue seven miners trapped under a landslide at a small independent mine near the Andes mountains a regional government official said
Summary: Archbishop Vincent Concessao of Delhi has expressed his deep anguish over the Tibet uprising and the crackdown on the predominantly Buddhist people
Summary: British bookmakers on Saturday halved the odds on Prince William getting engaged this year to girlfriend Kate Middleton now their onoff relationship looks to be very much back on course
Summary: Most American Christians regardless of their denomination and background say they feel a moral and biblical obligation to support the State of Israel according to a new survey conducted by a Washington DCbased evangelical organisation
Summary: The New International Version of the Bible is by far the most preferred translation of the Scripture according to a new survey of US evangelical leaders
Summary: US Catholics angered and demoralized by the priest sex abuse scandal say one man can help revitalize the Church with bold action Pope Benedict
Summary: Following a wave of comments by Christian viewers criticising Wednesday nights American Idol performance that replaced Jesus with shepherd in their finale song Idol contestants stepped back on stage Thursday this time singing Jesus
Summary: If you have heard of the new documentary Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed, opening April 18, chances are you have heard all kinds of distortions and myths about it. So let me set the record straight about some of the most common ...
Summary: Officials of a Catholic liberal arts college shut it down indefinitely Friday and told students to leave campus after threatening messages were found scrawled in the bathroom of a freshman ...
Summary: Several conservative groups, including the American Family Association, are asking Marriott International Inc. to stop giving hotel guests the option of ordering pay-per-view movies with strong sexual ...
Summary: Most American Christians – regardless of their denomination and background – say they feel a "moral and biblical obligation" to support the State of Israel, according to a new survey conducted by a D.C.-based evangelical ...
Summary: Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said Friday that he would fight an initiative to amend the California Constitution to ban same-sex ''marriage'' if it qualifies for the November ...
Summary: Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe will meet South African leader Thabo Mbeki on Saturday before a southern African summit called to discuss Zimbabwes election stalemate the Harare government said
Summary: Chinas conflict with the Dalai Lama was purely a question of national unity and nothing to do with ethnicity religion or human rights Chinese President Hu Jintao said on Saturday
Summary: Finance chiefs from rich nations offered a gloomier assessment of the global economy on Friday and vowed to act swiftly on wideranging reforms aimed at moving beyond a credit crisis that threatens world growth
Summary: Nepals Maoist former rebels took a surprising early lead on Saturday in an election aimed at cementing a peace deal that ended a decadelong civil war
Summary: US and Iraqi forces killed at least 13 gunmen in heavy battles overnight around Baghdads Sadr City the US military said on Saturday but authorities went ahead and eased a twoweekold blockade of the slum
Summary: Afghan President Hamid Karzai met French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner on Saturday days after France promised to send an extra 700 soldiers to help battle the Taliban
Summary: US Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama came under fire on Friday for saying smalltown Pennsylvania residents were bitter and cling to guns or religion in comments his rivals said showed an elitist view of the middle class
Summary: Suspected Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout is being treated well in a Thai prison and there are no plans yet to extradite him to the United States Foreign Minister Noppadon Pattama said on Saturday
