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| As U.S. moves to buy bank stock, Europeans plan to guarantee loans |
(Sun, 12 Oct 2008)
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| Struggling to contain a credit crisis. European countries have reached a deal to guarantee future loans among private banks and Washington is set to buy ownership stakes in a broad array of American banks.
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| U.S. removes North Korea from terrorism blacklist |
(Sat, 11 Oct 2008)
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| The United States has removed North Korea from its terrorism blacklist after the Asian nation agreed to comply with full inspections of its nuclear facilities. |
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| 100 militants reported killed in Afghanistan |
(Sun, 12 Oct 2008)
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| About 100 militants have been killed in two separate battles in southern Afghanistan's Helmand province, Afghan and NATO officials said. |
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| 2,500 flee toxic leak at Pennsylvania chemical plant |
(Sat, 11 Oct 2008)
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| A leak of a corrosive material at a chemical plant in western Pennsylvania forced about 2,500 people to flee the toxic fumes Saturday. |
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| Austrian far-right leader dies in car crash |
(Sat, 11 Oct 2008)
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| Austrian politician Joerg Haider, whose far-right rhetoric drew international criticism, died Saturday morning after the car he was driving veered off the road and overturned several times, police said. |
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| Palin abused power: ethics report |
(Fri, 10 Oct 2008)
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| Sarah Palin abused her power as Alaska's governor by trying to have her former brother-in-law fired as a state trooper, according to an ethics probe report released Friday.
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| NATO agrees troops in Afghanistan can target drug trade |
(Fri, 10 Oct 2008)
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| NATO defence ministers decided Friday that their troops in Afghanistan can attack drug facilities and traffickers supplying money to Taliban fighters.
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| President Osama? U.S. election ballot misspells Obama's name |
(Fri, 10 Oct 2008)
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| A typographical error on a New York county absentee ballot gives voters there the option of electing "Barack Osama" as president in the upcoming U.S. election, instead of Barack Obama. |
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| U.S. signs pact with India that opens civil nuclear trade |
(Fri, 10 Oct 2008)
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| The United States and India signed an accord Friday that will allow U.S. businesses to sell nuclear fuel, technology and reactors to the South Asian country for the first time since 1974. |
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| Finland's Martti Ahtisaari wins Nobel Peace Prize |
(Fri, 10 Oct 2008)
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| Former Finnish president Martti Ahtisaari has won the Nobel Peace Prize. |
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| Portuguese parliament votes down gay marriage |
(Fri, 10 Oct 2008)
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| Portugal's Parliament rejected two motions on Friday that would have allowed same sex marriages in the conservative Roman Catholic country.
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| U.S. expected to remove North Korea from terrorism blacklist |
(Fri, 10 Oct 2008)
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| The United States is likely to remove North Korea provisionally from a terrorism blacklist to try to salvage talks aimed at ending Pyongyang's nuclear program, a source close to the negotiations said Friday. |
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| 100 migrants missing after being forced overboard near Yemen: UN |
(Fri, 10 Oct 2008)
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| About 100 migrants believed to be from Somalia might have drowned off the coast of Yemen after smugglers forced them off the boat they were on, the UN refugee agency said Friday. |
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| Leak in Nobel deliberations suspected after bettors pick Le Clézio |
(Fri, 10 Oct 2008)
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| The jury for the Nobel Prize for literature suspects a leak after a surprising number of bettors tapped French writer J.M.G. Le Clézio as the winner. |
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| Montreal artist lights up New York, London with interactive displays |
(Fri, 10 Oct 2008)
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| Mexican-Canadian artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer opened an exhibit in London's Barbican Gallery on Thursday and makes his U.S. public art debut later this month in New York's Madison Square Park. |
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