Obama Returns to an Unpredictable Congress
Republicans are poised to try to force an extension of Bush-era tax rates and to block a range of initiatives.
North-South Sudan framework set
North and South Sudan agree on a framework to resolve outstanding issues ahead of January's vote on possible southern independence, the AU says
Haiti cholera death toll tops 900
The death toll in Haiti's cholera outbreak rises to 917, says the health ministry, as efforts continue to contain the disease.
Israel to let in 8,000 Ethiopians
Israel's cabinet approves a scheme to allow into the country nearly 8,000 Falash Mura, Ethiopians of Jewish descent.
Ministers back 'ultra-flexible' work
Ultra-flexible work system, which allows people to sell their labour in small blocks of time, is placed at the heart of the government's welfare reforms
How the hajj has become big business for Saudi Arabia
• Country's religious tourism industry booming
• New luxury hotels prove huge draw for pilgrims
With political support now on both sides of the aisle on Capitol Hill, nuclear energy's long-awaited American "renaissance" is lacking one positive factor: the economy.
Rare Earths in Focus as China Cuts Sales
Russia and the United States are the most likely sources to help fill a shortage of rare earths as China cuts output of the minerals needed for electronics, wind turbines and smart bombs, an Australian academic said.
Gazprom Find in Algeria
Successful drilling of an exploration well in the El Assel license area in the oil- and gas-bearing Berkine Basin, its first such discovery in northern Africa, will produce a flow of 60,000 cubic meters of gas a day.
Mongolia Uranium Dispute
Mongolian authorities not to reinstate the Canadian miner’s licenses at the Dornod uranium deposit, but go with Russia’s Rosatom unit ARMZ Uranium Holding Company
Speculators look to silver lining
The number of investors in silver has increased because of soaring gold prices but fears that the central bank will further tighten monetary policy this month could lower the value of their holdings.
It makes no economic or political sense to hang on to the Falklands, but no one will face the truth
Bush accused of lifting anecdotes
Now it appears that Decision Points is not so much the former president's memoirs as other people's cut and pasted memories. Bush's account is littered with anecdotes seemingly ripped off from other books and articles, even borrowing without attribution – some might say plagiarising – from critical accounts the White House had previously denounced as inaccurate.
Cultural desert: Will Abu Dhabi censor its new museums?
What do you need to create one of the world's most spectacular cultural centres from a piece of waste ground? The best architects in the world, the biggest museum names in the world and an awful lot of money.
The holocaust survivor whose life is in danger again
First they threatened to burn his house down. Then they pinned leaflets to his front door, denouncing him as a Jewish traitor. But Eli Tzavieli, an 89-year-old Holocaust survivor, is defiant. His only "crime" is to rent out his rooms to three Arab students attending the college in Safed, a religious city in northern Israel that was until recently more famous for Jewish mysticism and Madonna.
The Plot to Cheat Germany's Holocaust Survivors Fund
The FBI presses conspiracy charges against 17 people who allegedly forged claims for people apparently ineligible for compensation from the German government
Why Iraqi Christians Are Running Scared -- in Sweden
While other European nations have called a halt to deporting Iraqi Christians back to their native country, Sweden is taking a harder line
Parents invoke Napoleonic law to foil son's wedding
The parents of a French man were so desperate to stop their son marrying a girl from Hong Kong that they invoked a law from Napoleonic times to put a stop to it.
Oklahoma Surprise: Islam as an Election Issue
An amendment on Islamic law put Democrats of a secular bent at odds with conservative Christian Republicans.
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