FORMER prime minister Paul Keating says there are marked differences between the current global financial crisis and the economic problems experienced during his time in office
THE White House says the global financial leaders should come together in the wake of the US financial storm to improve international regulations to prevent another crisis
THE number of civilians killed in Iraq last month more than halved to 359 compared to a year ago, Iraqi Government figures showed, and the number of US troops killed in action also fell dramatically
MORE than 100,000 workers in Bollywood began an indefinite strike today, protesting against low wages, late payments and the use of non-union members in the Indian film industry
PAKISTANI President Asif Ali Zardari called the recent bombing in Islamabad`s Marriott hotel an assassination attempt he and other top leaders narrowly escaped, in an interview on US television
A CHINESE company at the centre of the scare over tainted milk powder had asked for government help to cover up the extent of the problem, state media said in the newest development in the widening scandal
CHINESE female gymnasts who competed at this year`s Beijing Olympics were not underage, the sport`s governing body says, after investigating claims the Games hosts fielded ineligible athletes
FIVE Russian children were killed today when a staircase collapsed at a school near the Urals Mountains city of Orenburg, news agencies reported, citing officials
SPANISH police have arrested 121 people in the country`s biggest child pornography raid, seizing equipment containing millions of images including some of the suspects` own family members, the Interior Ministry said today
AN unmanned Russian reconnaissance drone crashed near a Russian-controlled buffer zone around Georgia`s rebel region of South Ossetia, Georgia`s interior ministry said today
former British prime minister Tony Blair will go down in history in the same bracket as Winston Churchill, Blair`s wife Cherie claims in a new interview
A CENTURIES-old tradition of wearing a white horse-hair wig in court ended for many British judges on Wednesday when a simpler new dress code came into force
THE "irresponsibility" of the US financial system is to blame for the global economic crisis, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said today, Interfax news agency reported
A ROW about plagiarism embroiled Canada`s Prime Minister Stephen Harper today after his former speechwriter admitted to copying a speech in support of the US-led Iraq war by Australia`s former leader John Howard
DEMOCRAT Barack Obama is building widening leads in battlegrounds Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania, in new polls released today in the trio of states that could be the key to victory on November 4
THE US Senate will vote today on a revised $US700 billion ($882.7 billion) Wall Street bailout after the House of Representatives rejected the original package, sending shockwaves through global markets
