World

LONDON (Reuters) – BBC Director General George Entwistle resigned yesterday, just two months into the job, after the state-funded broadcaster put out a programme denounced by the corporation’s chairman as shoddy journalism.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The FBI investigation that led to the discovery of CIA Director David Petraeus’ affair with author Paula Broadwell was sparked by “suspicious emails” that initially did not contain any connection to Petraeus, US law enforcement and security officials told Reuters yesterday.

MIAMI (Reuters) – With almost all ballots in Florida counted, US media yesterday projected President Barack Obama the winner in that state four days after he won Tuesday’s national election.

ANKARA/DOHA, (Reuters) – Thousands of Syrians fled their country yesterday in one of the biggest refugee exoduses of the 20-month civil war after rebels seized a border town, and the United Nations warned that millions more still in Syria will need help as winter sets in.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – President Barack Obama said yesterday he was prepared to compromise with Republicans to avert a looming U.S.

LONDON, (Reuters) – A former oil executive was named leader of the world’s 80 million Anglicans yesterday, ending months of closed-door intrigue as the church struggles with bitter rifts over women bishops and gay marriage.

OSLO, (Reuters) – Norway’s $650 billion sovereign wealth fund has started asking companies it invests in to minimise their impact on rainforests, green groups said yesterday, welcoming a shift they hoped would make it rethink some deals.

LONDON, (Reuters) – The world’s first potential malaria vaccine proved only 30 percent effective in African babies in a crucial trial, calling into question whether it can be a useful weapon in the fight against the deadly disease.

BEIJING,  (Reuters) – President Hu Jintao warned China’s incoming leaders yesterday that corruption threatened the ruling Communist Party and the state, but said the party must stay in charge as it battles growing social unrest.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – In a step toward reining in offshore tax evasion, the U.S.

(Trinidad Express) A criminal investigation against former CLICO executives and several corporate entities aligned to the collapsed insurance giant has begun.

OTTAWA, (Reuters) – Canada’s Supreme Court yesterday struck down the patent on global pharmaceuticals giant Pfizer Inc’s Viagra erectile dysfunction drug and opened the door to generic competition.

MIAMI, (Reuters) – It was all over but the shouting in Florida yesterday, where the presidential race between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney was still too close to call.

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Actress Kirstie Alley described yesterday how she fell in love more than 20 years ago with John Travolta, and rejected widespread Hollywood speculation that the “Grease” star is secretly gay.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Tuesday’s decisive win by Barack Obama in the U.S.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Democrats retained control of the U.S. Senate last night, taking over hotly contested Republican seats in Massachusetts and Indiana while holding on to most of the states they already had, including Wisconsin and Virginia, according to projections.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – President Barack Obama won a second four-year term in office as voters handed him a victory on Tuesday over Republican challenger Mitt Romney, television networks projected.

MIAMI,  (Reuters) – A campaign finance scandal may have cost a South Florida Republican his congressional seat and handed victory to his challenger, who will be Miami’s first Cuban-American Democratic representative.

TORONTO,  (Reuters) – Long convinced the country’s housing boom would never end in a crash, Canadians have watched this autumn as a sharp slowdown in real estate spreads across the country, leaving would-be home buyers hopeful and sellers scared.

JEDDAH/AMMAN, (Reuters) – Bombs exploded in three districts of the Syrian capital Damascus yesterday, killing and wounding dozens, and gunmen shot dead the brother of the parliament speaker in the latest rebel attack on a figure associated with the ruling elite.