Published:Thursday | August 14, 2008 | 11:29 AM The US secretary of state has warned Russia that it risks isolation abroad if it does not observe a ceasefire with Georgia and withdraw its troops.
Published:Wednesday | August 13, 2008 | 12:58 PM 11 people have been killed by a blast in the centre of the Lebanese city of Tripoli.
Published:Tuesday | August 12, 2008 | 7:56 PM Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe has awarded a medal to the country’s election chief as talks to resolve the nation’s political crisis enter a third day.
Published:Tuesday | August 12, 2008 | 7:54 PM Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has ordered an end to military operations against Georgia.
Published:Tuesday | August 12, 2008 | 2:27 PM At least 10 people were killed and many others injured when security forces in Kashmir, India opened fire on stone-throwing Muslim protesters.
Published:Tuesday | August 12, 2008 | 10:30 AM Russian forces have entered Georgia from the breakaway region of Abkhazia in an apparent broadening of the conflict over South Ossetia.
Published:Monday | August 11, 2008 | 2:19 PM Flooding and landslides in northwest Vietnam have killed at least 100 people and left 50 missing.
Published:Monday | August 11, 2008 | 11:37 AM The ousted Thai Prime Minister, Thaksin Shinawatra, has failed to appear before a Bangkok court on corruption charges, amid rumours he has fled to the UK.
Published:Friday | August 8, 2008 | 10:05 AM The mayor of the US city of Detroit has been jailed for violating the terms of his bail in a perjury case.
Published:Thursday | August 7, 2008 | 3:59 PM Pakistan\'s ruling coalition parties said it plans to begin impeachment proceedings against President Pervez Musharraf.
Published:Thursday | August 7, 2008 | 3:59 PM Four current and former British Airways executives have been charged with involvement in fixing the prices of plane fuel surcharges.
Published:Thursday | August 7, 2008 | 3:58 PM A London-based weather research team is predicting that the Atlantic Hurricane season, which began in June, will be a lot busier than expected.
Published:Thursday | August 7, 2008 | 11:04 AM France has denied that its politicans and military helped, prepared and carried out the 1994 Rwandan genocide.
Published:Tuesday | August 5, 2008 | 5:55 PM A female Pakistani scientist accused of links to the al-Qaida leadership is to appear in a United States court.
Published:Tuesday | August 5, 2008 | 5:54 PM Rwanda accused France of playing an active role in the 1994 genocide in which about 800,000 people were killed.
Published:Tuesday | August 5, 2008 | 3:34 PM Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is confident that a deal on liberalising world trade can still be reached despite last week’s collapse of the latest round of talks in Geneva.
Published:Tuesday | August 5, 2008 | 3:34 PM Former United States President, Bill Clinton, has called for more funding to keep down the cost of drugs for people with HIV.
Published:Monday | August 4, 2008 | 2:57 PM 16 Chinese policemen have been killed and 16 others injured in an attack on a border post in the restive Muslim region of Xinjiang.
Published:Monday | August 4, 2008 | 2:56 PM A manhunt is said to be underway in Kenya for an al-Qaida operative.
Published:Monday | August 4, 2008 | 2:41 PM 16 Chinese policemen have been killed and 16 others injured in an attack on a border post in the restive Muslim region of Xinjiang.
Published:Monday | August 4, 2008 | 9:39 AM A human rights group has claimed that Israeli security agents are putting pressure on some Palestinian medical patients to become informants.
Published:Thursday | July 31, 2008 | 2:22 PM Israeli opposition leader Binyamin Netanyahu is calling for snap elections, after Prime Minister Ehud Olmert announced his resignation.
Published:Thursday | July 31, 2008 | 2:00 PM White House hopeful Barack Obama has hit back over a television advertisement, which questions his readiness to lead the United States.
Published:Thursday | July 31, 2008 | 9:43 AM South African President Thabo Mbeki said crisis talks between Zimbabwe\'s government and the opposition will resume on Sunday.
Published:Wednesday | July 30, 2008 | 6:27 PM Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has announced his intention to resign, saying his family is being hurt by corruption allegations against him.
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