AFP - Determined batting and heavy rain stopped South Africa's push for victory on the third day of the first Test against Bangladesh at Springbok Park on Friday.
AFP - A senior US diplomat will travel to South Korea and Japan next week to discuss negotiations aimed at disarming North Korea's weapons-grade nuclear programs, the State Department said Friday.
AP - Out of the hundreds of Tibetan leaders who have flocked here for a pivotal summit on Tibet's future, few understand the hardships there better than a recently arrived barley farmer.
AFP - Chinese President Hu Jintao met here Friday with a senior Taiwan envoy in the highest-level meeting to take place overseas between the rivals since their split in 1949, officials said.
AP - The voyage of the cruiser Peter the Great, scheduled to arrive in Venezuela next week with a squadron of other Russian warships, was meant to showcase the Kremlin's ability to project naval power abroad and reassert its claim to great power status.
AP - The State Department has renewed an appeal to Iran for information about a former FBI agent, Floridian Robert Levinson, who went missing in Iranian territory 20 months ago.
WASHINGTON - With no end in sight to economic bad news, President George W. Bush on Friday ensured that millions of laid-off workers will keep getting their unemployment checks as the year-end holidays approach. Bush signed an extension of jobless ...
AP - NATO is unlikely to follow the European Union in quickly re-establishing contacts with Russia that were suspended after the war in Georgia, senior U.S. officials said Friday.
A heap of evidence from around the world that the economic crisis is worsening will offer little comfort to potential investors who had hoped the worst was over
BEIJING: US election fever has long subsided, but half a world away in China, bookworms are still snapping up titles on Barack Obama as many hope to take a page from his meteoric rise in politics.
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