Merkel risks rebellion on euro rescue fund
2011-09-28 11:04:19
German Chancellor Angela Merkel may fall short of a majority in her own coalition for a crucial reform of the euro zone rescue fund meant to stop a sovereign debt crisis spreading.
Putin appoints acting financial minister
2011-09-28 09:04:14
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Tuesday appointed finance ministry official Anton Siluanov as acting finance minister after the resignation of Financial Minister Alexei Kudrin.
Jackson death trial opens with grim photos
2011-09-28 07:13:06
Grim photos of Michael Jackson lying dead in a hospital bed juxtaposed with a picture of the "Thriller" singer rehearsing the day before his demise brought an emotional opening on Tuesday to the manslaughter trial of the doctor hired to care for him.
Amanda Knox is a 'she-devil', Italian court told
2011-09-27 10:30:39
Amanda Knox is at heart a "she-devil" who loved to play dangerous games, the lawyer for a man falsely accused by the American student of killing her roommate told an Italian court on Monday.
Berlusconi rejects calls for him to quit
2011-09-26 11:03:34
Italy's Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi on Sunday rejected opposition and lobby groups' calls for the government to resign over the country's economic woes.
Poll woes don't slow Obama's campaign money train
2011-09-21 11:22:17
President Barack Obama is raising millions of dollars for his re-election campaign, keeping the support of big and small donors despite the sputtering economy and slumping opinion poll numbers.
Former Afghan president killed
2011-09-21 09:25:39
A suicide attacker with a bomb in his turban assassinated a former Afghan president who for the past year headed a government council seeking a political settlement with the insurgents.
Brazil tourism minister quits, fifth this year
2011-09-15 09:09:45
Brazil's tourism minister resigned on Wednesday over allegations of ethics violations, a departure that President Dilma Rousseff hopes will signal the end of months of scandals and negative headlines.
'Cameron would have made good KGB agent'
2011-09-13 10:25:11
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev joked on Monday that visiting British Prime Minister David Cameron would have made a very good KGB agent, after Cameron suggested that the Soviet security service tried to recruit him when he was a student.
Historypin app lets people create a "time machine"
2011-09-12 18:48:33
Historypin, on iOS and Android platforms, strives to create a collection of memories about locations by counting on people to dig up and digitize old photographs and other media of the places, along with personal recollections of the past.
Castro says rumors of his death make him laugh
2011-09-10 20:59:58
Fidel Castro, in an audio aired on Venezuelan state television late on Friday, joked about rumors circulating in the capital, Miami and on Twitter over the past few weeks that he was gravely ill or had died.
Two-million-year-old S Africa fossils show links to man
2011-09-08 22:56:14
A well-preserved set of 2-million-year-old fossils shows a part-human, part-ape species had hands similar to man, sophisticated ankles that helped in movement and a surprisingly tiny but advanced brain, a report released on Thursday said.