Egypt hosts Mid-East peace talks
Israeli and Palestinian leaders are to hold a second round of peace talks in the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh.
Cuba’s Public-Sector Layoffs Signal Major Shift
The government plans to lay off more than half a million people, expecting they will move into private businesses.
Yanukovych quietly downgrades European Union ambitions
President Viktor Yanukovych's talks with EU leaders in Brussels steered clear of political controversy, focusing on the dual Ukrainian ambitions of free trade and visa-free travel with the bloc. Both issues will be highlights of the EU-Ukraine summit in Brussels on November 22. Yanukovych met European Council President Herman van Rompuy and European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso
New drug-resistant superbugs found in 3 states
An infectious-disease nightmare is unfolding: A new gene that can turn many types of bacteria into superbugs resistant to nearly all antibiotics
Abu Dhabi pupils will be taught in English and Arabic
Aim of the New School Model – which is to be introduced tomorrow – is to produce students who are better prepared for tertiary education.
Why the Israeli 'consensus' on settlements is not so simple
Israelis often refer to a 'consensus' that several major settlement blocs should be incorporated into Israel as part of a two-state solution. But some Israelis can't even find them on a map.
Israeli settlers threaten to bring down Benjamin Netanyahu's government
Israeli settlers have pledged to bring down the government of Benjamin Netanyahu if the prime minister backtracked on a firm commitment to allow West Bank construction to resume.
Somaliland forces 'corner rebels'
About 200 suspected ONLF rebels are surrounded by Somaliland's forces near the Ethiopia border, a Somaliland minister says.
Sarkozy linked to Roma arrests
Claims by the French government that it is not targeting Roma camps for destruction and deportations have been challenged by a leaked document suggesting police are following president Nicolas Sarkozy's orders.
Yemen to relaunch oil offshore licensing round
Yemen is planning to relaunch its 2008 offshore licensing round in the hope of restarting exploration in the country,
Le Monde sues Sarkozy officials
French newspaper Le Monde is suing the president's office for spying on its reporters, in the latest twist in a party-funding row.
How China's pension system is dancing with disaster
Greenland is a land apart – where many people welcome global warming, dislike Greenpeace, and hope the arrival of Big Oil will transform their lives. But at what price to this pristine wilderness?
Peru backtracks on 'amnesty law'
Peru's president asks Congress to repeal a controversial decree which in effect protects the military from prosecution for abuses, weeks after introducing it.
Liberty medal awarded to Tony Blair
Former British prime minister honoured in Philadelphia for role in conflict resolution, in particular Northern Ireland's Good Friday agreement
'Underpants bomber' fires his lawyers and wants to plead guilty
Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, accused of trying to blow up a plane with explosives in his underpants, has fired his court-appointed lawyers and asked a US judge about the process for him to plead guilty to some of the charges against him.
Did Japan apologize to US POWs in exchange for Hiroshima visit?
In a first, Japan's foreign minister apologized to a group of former US World War II prisoners of war for inhumane treatment. The timing of the apology raises some questions.
3-D Printing Spurs a Manufacturing Revolution
New technology is giving rise to never-before-possible businesses that are selling products like iPhone cases, doorknobs, perfume bottles and architectural models.
Two days before the scheduled end of the door-to-door surveying of Beijing households ahead of the latest national population census, many enumerators who have been pounding the pavements are expressing concern that the exercise will not be finished on time.
The strange and wonderful Hasidic pilgrimage to Uman, Ukraine
Last week, approximately 35,000 Hasidim weren't home for Rosh Hashanah. Instead, they were in Uman, participating in the most intense Jewish pilgrimage since the times of the Second Temple
Plaintiffs file coup d’état charges against ’80 junta leader Evren
A number of individuals and civil society groups filed charges on Monday against retired general and former President Kenan Evren, the general who led the Sept. 12, 1980 coup, after a constitutional amendment allowing legal action against members of the 1980 junta was voted in on Sunday.
Japanese leadership battle todaycould bring new prime minister
The Japanese prime minister faces a leadership challenge today from a veteran powerbroker in his own party that could give the country its third premier in a year.
US $60bn Saudi arms sale close to Congressional notice
Congress has 30 days to reject the proposal once it has been formally submit
Settlers shift pressure from Netanyahu to Obama
ZOA director endorses settler's decision to pressure Obama through English-language media campaign.
Germany haunted again by Nazi scam of selling gold teeth from the dead
German state prosecutors are investigating nine crematorium workers and an accomplice who are suspected of having routinely sold off gold tooth fillings sifted from the ashes of hundreds of corpses in a case that has evoked disturbing memories of the Nazi Holocaust.
Young Israelis moving to Berlin in droves despite Nazi past
Growing community of Jews see the city from which Hilter unleashed the Holocaust as a place of freedom, tolerance, and an anything-goes spirit.
Portuguese official bites traffic policeman for not calling him 'sir'
A senior municipal official in Lisbon's Oeiras suburb bit a traffic police officer during a discussion over a fine, apparently enraged by the familiar form used by the officer to address him.
Fishermen 'to continue blockades'
Scottish fishermen angry at increased Faroes and Iceland mackerel quotas promise to continue blockades.
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