Little hope for miners in latest China disaster
There is little hope of finding alive 11 missing coal miners trapped after a gas leak in central China that already killed 26 people, state media said Monday of the country's latest mining disaster.
Japan PM worried over safety of Japanese in China
Japan's prime minister on Monday urged China to ensure the safety of Japanese citizens and firms and called for calm after Chinese protesters took to the streets over a territorial feud straining ties between Asia's top economies.
Fast yuan rise will be short-lived: report
The accelerated yuan appreciation of recent weeks will not last long because China's trade surplus will soon peak, an official state newspaper reported on Monday.
France 'warned of terror threat'
Saudi Arabia has warned France it is the target of an imminent al-Qaeda attack, French Interior Minister Brice Hortefeux says.
Dozens killed in Karachi poll violence
Gunmen have killed at least 25 people in Karachi in the past 24 hours, raising tensions in Pakistan's largest city as voters cast ballots to replace a provincial MP murdered in August.
Afghan government allows some private security firms to stay
The Afghanistan government decided on Sunday to let some of the private security firms that protect Nato military bases and embassies maintain operations in the war-torn country.
Palestine 'ready to end all claims against Israel'
The Palestinians are ready to end all historic claims against Israel once they establish their state in the lands Israel occupied in the 1967 Middle East War, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said on Sunday, addressing a long-standing Israeli demand.
Bağış calls for ‘taboo-breaking’ debates on Turkish-Greek relations
A new approach to some long-standing matters between Turkey and Greece will help further improve ties between the two Aegean neighbors, Egemen Bağış, Turkey’s chief negotiator for European Union accession talks, has said.
Junior partner quits Kosovo coalition
The junior partner in Kosovo’s ruling coalition said on Saturday it was quitting the government, depriving it of a parliamentary majority and setting the stage for an election in as little as 45 days.
Pentagon braces for new Wikileaks
The US military assembles a large team to prepare for the expected publication of thousands of Iraq war documents on the Wikileaks website.
France's petrol pumps could run dry by Wednesday
Pilots told to refuel abroad and pension reform stand-off reaches crunch point amid fears that pumps could run dry within days.
Mega-storm heads for Philippines
Thousands in the Philippines flee their homes as Super-Typhoon Megi lashes the north of the country with strong winds and heavy rain.
US Reform rabbis decry – but misread – ‘loyalty oath’
Central Conference of American Rabbis calls cabinet-approved amendment as contrary to Jewish and democratic values.
Has multiculturalism failed in Germany?
Chancellor Angela Merkel has said that attempts to build a multicultural society in Germany have "utterly failed", bringing the issue of immigration back into the spotlight.
Belgian army denies cuts favor Dutch speakers
Belgium's military commander denied Sunday that sharp cuts in the armed forces favor the country's Flemish region at the expense of the French-speaking Wallonia region.
Russia calls the shots in Kyrgyz election
Russia is taking the lead role in deciding the new government in Kyrgyzstan, making last week's historic election, which President Barack Obama last week praised as "genuinely democratic", look like less of a positive for US interests in the small but strategic Central Asian republic.
Basque separatist urges lasting truce
Arnaldo Otegi, the jailed leader of the banned political wing of ETA, called on the rebel group to declare a permanent cease-fire and said an independent Basque region could only be secured through peaceful, democratic means.
Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov has ordered an end to the practice of bride kidnapping, saying it violates the laws of Russia and goes against Islam, the dominant religion in the republic.
Mob attacks Kuwait TV station after 'royal insult'
A crowd angry about a programme they deemed insulting to some members of Kuwait's ruling family stormed a Kuwaiti private television station on Sunday, ransacking its offices, station officials said.
Spain: Morocco-EU agricultural agreement is important
Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos said, on Saturday, that the agricultural agreements between Morocco and
‘Culture of Poverty’ Makes a Comeback
Decades after Daniel Patrick Moynihan, scholars are conceding culture and persistent poverty are enmeshed.
Sterilisation 'bribe' for addicts
Drug addicts across the UK are being offered cash by an American charity to stop having children.
Loss of water well means cold winter
Residents from more than 1,300 households in a neighborhood named Tianxin Home in Dongxiaokou township, Changping district, are dreading the prospect of winter without proper heating, something that may happen because the community's well failed five months ago.
Anglican church turns towards Rome
The first Anglican vicar to take up the Pope's offer of conversion to Catholicism over the issue of women bishops has said there is nothing left to fight for.
Cambridge University 'may go private'
Cambridge University may be forced to go private amid fears a rise in tuition fees is not enough to allow it to compete with elite institutions in the United States, it was claimed yesterday.
84 year-old Erbakan elected to Felicity Party's leadership
The 84 year-old honorary leader of the Felicity Party (SP), Necmettin Erbakan, at the demand of the party's delegates, was elected to the party's leadership at the SP's extraordinary party congress
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