Summary: Prospects that the G8 would reach a meaningful agreement to how best to fight global warming at their annual summit dimmed on Sunday as leaders began arriving in northern Japan with a raft of global problems on their minds
Summary: A unique collection of royalty memorabilia amassed over half a century by a household family servant sparked an international bidding frenzy on Saturday that doubled its value when it went under the hammer
Summary: Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said on Saturday his plan to end the Iraq war was unchanged and he was puzzled by the sharp reaction to his statement this week that he might refine his timetable for withdrawing US combat troops
Summary: Democrats in Hong Kong urged Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping to allow swifter implementation of direct elections on Sunday during Xis first visit to the city since taking charge of its affairs as a state leader
Summary: Julia Galvin came to Finland looking for a man that would carry her 120 kg over a 253metres track the incentive being the chance to win the wifecarrying world title and beer worth her body weight
Summary: Israel was reopening some border crossings with Gaza on Sunday an official said after it closed them on Thursday following the launch of a rocket into the Jewish state by Palestinian militants
Summary: South African President Thabo Mbeki met Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe on Saturday to try to help end a political crisis after a violent election that extended Mugabes 28year rule
Summary: Colombia found explosives set to be used in bombs across the capital in reprisal for this weeks rescue of leftist rebels highestprofile hostages including Ingrid Betancourt military officials said on Saturday
Summary: Private television was back on the air alcohol on sale and restaurants open after the end of Mongolias emergency rule but a week after a disputed election the countrys political problems were still far from resolved
Summary: News of the offer from more than 80 retired northern California clergy in the United Methodist Church to perform samesex marriages has riled conservative Christians who say such an action is silly and merely a move towards the latest fad
Summary: The patriarch of a Vietnamese Buddhist group that has peacefully campaigned against successive governments and Communist Party controls on religion died in his monastery at the age of 87 on Saturday the organisation said
Summary: Mexicans went out and planted more than 8 million trees across the country on Saturday as part of a government push to shed its reputation for environmental mismanagement and rampant illegal logging
Summary: Police arrested a man on Saturday in connection with the macabre murder of two French students who were bound and stabbed repeatedly in a case which has shocked the city
Summary: Hungarian riot police used water cannon and tear gas on Saturday to stop farright extremists from throwing petrol bombs and breaking up the annual gay parade in the capital Budapest
Summary: Leaders of the Group of Eight rich nations meet this week in northern Japan to grapple with a raft of problems from soaring food and fuel prices to African poverty and global warming amid doubts about how much the annual diplomatic pageant can achieve
Summary: Lebanese leaders are finalising a deal on the formation of a national unity government as stipulated in an agreement that ended the countrys political crisis political sources said on Saturday
Summary: Iran vowed on Saturday to pursue its uranium enrichment programme a day after delivering its response to an incentives package by world powers trying to curb its nuclear ambitions
Summary: Northern Irelands Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness a former top IRA guerrilla urged Iraqis on Saturday to learn from the experience of his homeland which suffered decades of sectarian conflict then found peace
Summary: A Malaysian detective has gone missing after retracting allegations he made linking Deputy Prime Minister Najib Razak to the brutal murder of a Mongolian woman police said on Saturday
Summary: While supporters of gay ordination say a recent vote by the highest governing body of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) gives the green light for gay clergy, one professor is arguing that the decision changes nothing.
Summary: The American Family Association is asking its two million supporters to boycott popular fast food chain McDonald?s for its promotion of the homosexual agenda, which the group says includes same-sex "marriage."
Summary: News of the offer from more than 80 retired Northern California clergy in the United Methodist Church to perform same-sex ?marriages? has riled conservative Christians who say such an action is ?silly? and merely a move toward ?the latest fad.?
Summary: The Primate of All Ireland Archbishop Alan Harper has called on Anglicans to revise their approach to the debate on homosexuality according to traditional Anglican methods
