TEHRAN (Reuters) – Iranian hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, whose campaign pledge was to combat corruption, is facing a fresh political blow over the biggest financial scandal in Iran’s history.
BAKU/YEREVAN (Reuters) – Armenia and Azerbaijan traded accusations yesterday after three soldiers were killed on a ceasefire line near the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region before a visit to the Caucasus by French President Nicolas Sarkozy.
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – An attorney for Michael Jackson’s in-house doctor challenged a crime scene investigator yesterday and suggested she conducted a shoddy examination of the bedroom where the “Thriller” singer stopped breathing in 2009.
LONDON (Reuters) – Fleet Street’s finest jostled furiously at the start on Thursday of a government inquiry, trying to grab public attention with tales of shock and horror.
OSLO (Reuters) – The award of the Nobel Peace Prize today has autumnal Oslo turning thoughts back to the Arab Spring, but Africans, from Liberia, or perhaps Sudan, offer a strong challenge in perennial speculation on who will win the global accolade.
BERLIN (Reuters) – A young fashion designer from the German city of Hanover is revolutionising high fashion by designing clothes with a staple she can find in her fridge— milk.
PARIS (Reuters) – Palestinians moved a step closer to full membership of the UN cultural agency yesterday when its board decided to let 193 member countries vote on admission this month.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – US President Barack Obama hailed President Porfirio Lobo of Honduras for his “strong commitment to democracy” yesterday, endorsing the Central American nation’s rehabilitation after a coup in 2009.
CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuela will begin repatriating its gold reserves from Western nations by mid-November, the central bank head said yesterday.
SANTO DOMINGO (Reuters) – US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton promised Latin American leaders yesterday that pending US free trade deals with Colombia and Panama would power growth in the region and pledged $17.5 million for new programmes to expand economic ties.
HAVANA (Reuters) – Cubans are finding that working for private employers instead of a paternalistic communist state is putting more money in their pockets, but they are still struggling to make ends meet.
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Disturbing sounds and images from Michael Jackson’s life and death played a key role yesterday in the manslaughter trial of his doctor, with jurors hearing a recording of the self-styled King of Pop speaking in a slurred voice and viewing a photo of his dead body.
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Johnny Depp apologized yesterday for comparing photo shoots to being raped.
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Watch out Oprah, there’s a savvy pop star and an ambitious real housewife nipping at your financial heels.
NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Anti-Wall Street protests that took shape in New York weeks ago, prompting hundreds of arrests, have spread across the United States with one organizer saying their message had “captured everyone’s imagination.”
UNITED NATIONS, (Reuters) – U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice said Washington was outraged that the Security Council yesterday failed to approve a resolution condemning Syria and hinting that it could face sanctions.
STOCKHOLM, (Reuters) – The “astounding” discovery that the expansion of the universe is speeding up won the Nobel physics prize on Tuesday for three astrono-mers whose observations of exploding stars transformed our view of the world, and of how it may end.
JOHANNESBURG, (Reuters) – The Dalai Lama, the Tibetan spiritual leader, cancelled a trip to South Africa planned for this week that had put Pretoria in a bind between its biggest trading partner China and one of its modern heroes, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Desmond Tutu.
CUPERTINO, Calif., (Reuters) – Apple Inc’s newest iPhone left Wall Street and fans wishing for more than a souped-up version of last year’s device, igniting a rare storm of criticism and disappointment on the Internet.
GENEVA, (Reuters) – The world’s wealthiest families have embarked on damage limitation rather than seeking to boost their fortunes as financial turmoil erodes their riches, with some so worried they are putting their money in ‘catastrophe’ portfolios.
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