Parts of three remote and uninhabited Pacific island chains are being set aside by President Bush as national monuments. The preserves will be protected from oil and gas extraction and commercial fishing in what will be the largest marine conservation effort in history.

A group of clerics and religious scholars in Pakistan have issued a fatwa or edict that says 'jihad' will be obligatory for every Pakistani citizen in the event of any attack on the country by India.

A Zimbabwe court today postponed for the second time the case of leading rights activist Jestina Mukoko and eight others accused of trying to overthrow President Robert Mugabe's regime. The postponement means the group will remain at the notorious Chikurubi Maximum. . . .

Israeli forces edged closer to Gaza's major population centers and attacked new sites, including a U.N. school, claiming more civilian lives. A Palestinian rocket wounded an Israeli infant.

Attempts to contact Ntaganda, known as `the Terminator` and popular among the rebel rank and file, were unsuccessful.

Crime maps showing offences committed in every neighbourhood in England and Wales have been published by police, the Home Office said today.

KARACHI: Karachi Stock Exchange (KSE) today opened positive, as the investors were seen jostling for buying and selling of shares, which saw the KSE-100 index moving upward from the beginning. The market on Tuesday, the second day of the week went on trading with high sentiments and the benchmark KSE-100 index was seen shot [.

The Central Bank Governor Riad Salameh said, in an interview with the Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Anbaa on Tuesday, that Lebanon intended to raise the issue of a single Arab currency during the prospective Arab Economic Summit in Kuwait. He added that three factors were responsible for the Lebanese....

KABUL (NNI): Civil authorities in west of Afghanistan are warning that if the central government do not dispatch humanitarian aid promptly to these areas, the winter could see last year’s humanitari...

Marks & Spencer is reportedly set to axe more than 1,000 jobs as the economic downturn continues to rock the retail sector.

The Christian Science Monitor - Just inside the gateway of the new United States Embassy in Baghdad, a US Army lieutenant colonel acted as the diplomatic equivalent of a Wal-Mart greeter, welcoming guests Monday afternoon to the dedication ceremony for the largest – and most expensive – American mission in the world.

Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday said the Mumbai attacks had the support of "some official agencies" in Pakistan, in his strongest accusation yet against the neighbouring country.

Not bad for something that was written off in 1991, by the then Labour leader Neil Kinnock, as "a mixture of the belated, the ineffectual, the banal, the vague and the damaging". The Citizen's Charter was, in fact, the first serious attempt to raise standards in public services by listening to the demands of consumers.

Kinshasa, 2 Januray 2009 -- MONUC took high note of the "Bulletin of negotiations" published on 2 January 2009 by the office of the spokesperson of the CNDP. MONUC reiterates the terms of the correspondence which the Special Representative of the Secretary General addressed to the CNDP President,....

(Ξένη δημοσίευση)- ΑΝΑΚΟΙΝΩΣΗ ΤΥΠΟΥ- BW- Hibernia Atlantic to Build a New Submarine Cable Network for the Department of Enterprise, Trade & Investment (DETI) for Northern Ireland and Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources (DCENR) for I Jan.