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Tsvangirai appeals for U.N. intervention
Zimbabwean opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai urged U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon and African leaders to intervene in his country's post-election crisis on Monday, saying the military were terrorising the people.
McCain to say Ohio city can rebound just as he did
Republican presidential candidate John McCain will tell an economically depressed city in Ohio on Tuesday that it can rebound just like his once struggling campaign came back from the dead.
China defends human rights record as Olympics loom
China mounted a stern defence of its much maligned human rights record on Monday as the clock ticks ever nearer the Beijing Olympics, accusing Western countries of ignoring problems of their own and having double standards.
Zambia asks African states to bar Chinese ship
Zambia's president urged regional states on Monday to bar a Chinese ship carrying arms to Zimbabwe from entering their waters, saying the shipment could deepen the country's election crisis.
Iraqi children desperate to learn in ruined schools
Even after clashes erupted in the Sadr City slum in Baghdad, Thamir Saadoun still tried to go to school, hoping it would be open. When he got there the guard told him to go home. That was more than two weeks ago.
Kosovo Serbs said shouldn't vote in local Serb poll
Serbia's president said on Monday that Serbs in the new state of Kosovo should participate in local Serbian elections next month, but Britain and the United States said this would be unwise and illegal.
Darling wants lenders to pass on lower rates
Chancellor Alistair Darling will meet mortgage lenders on Tuesday to press them to cut the cost of home loans and look at ways of helping people refinance their mortgages.
Britain may push for changes in EU biofuel targets
Britain will push for changes in European Union biofuels targets if a review of British policy shows rising biofuels production drives up food prices and harms the environment, Prime Minister Gordon Brown said on Tuesday.
Targeting clients to fight prostitution
Would the hundreds of men who paid to have sex with "Alicia" have cared if they knew she was being held captive by a trafficker who raped her and pimped her, and that she was infected with HIV?
2012 budget was 'wishful thinking'
The initial budget for the 2012 London Olympics was "unrealistic and wishful thinking", a group of MPs said on Tuesday.
RBS unveils 12 bln pound rights issue
Royal Bank of Scotland announced a record 12 billion pound rights issue on Tuesday to cover a potential 5.9 billion pound writedown on the value of toxic assets and help rebuild a stretched balance sheet.
British soldier killed in blast in Afghan south
A British soldier was killed in the southern Afghan province of Helmand when his vehicle was hit by a suspected minestrike, the Ministry of Defence said late on Monday.
Clients blind to trafficked women's fate
The man who destroyed "Alicia's" life couldn't have done it without the hundreds of others who were willing to pay him to have sex with her.
Bank unveils credit crunch plan
The Bank of England unveiled an ambitious plan on Monday to swap banks' risky mortgage assets for at least 50 billion pounds of government debt in the latest bid to spare the country from the ravages of a global credit crunch.
US dismisses Carter report that Hamas will accept peace deal
The United States brushed off on Monday former US President and prominent Baptist Jimmy Carter's report that Hamas would accept a peace deal with Israel if the Palestinians voted for it, saying the group's basic stance had not changed.
Winehouse gets three Ivor Novello nominations
British singer/songwriter Amy Winehouse has been nominated three times for coveted Ivor Novello Awards, including twice in one category.