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A senior Brazilian police officer has been arrested on suspicion of ordering the murder of a judge who investigated police corruption.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has warned that it may not have enough money to bail out larger eurozone countries if the debt crisis were to spread.

The UK has joined five other G20 countries in calling for coordinated action from the world's leading nations to stimulate economic growth.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has warned that continuing political and economic woes in the US and the Eurozone could force them back into recession.

A global BBC poll suggests that more people support UN recognition of Palestine as an independent state than those who oppose it.

WASHINGTON (AP): The United States and Europe yesterday continued their attempt to avert or delay a looming showdown over Palestinian statehood at the United Nations that may crush already dim Mideast peace prospects.

GENEVA (AP):Oswald Gruebel, the chief executive of UBS, has dismissed calls for his resignation even as the Swiss banking giant raised its estimated loss by a rogue trader to US$2.3 billion.UBS had previously put the loss at US$2 billion when news of...

US President Barack Obama has added Belize and El Salvador to a blacklist of countries considered major producers or transit routes for illegal drugs.

Twenty-six people are now dead after a plane crashed in Angola around midday today.

PESHAWAR (AP):Taliban gunmen attacked a school van in northwestern Pakistan yesterday, killing four children and the driver in an assault they said was carried out to punish local tribesman for resisting the insurgent...

NEW DELHI (AP):A passenger train travelling through southern India collided with another train stopped at a signal yesterday, killing seven people and injuring dozens more, police said. Shalendra Babu, a senior police...

Seven anti-Gaddafi fighters have been killed and 10 wounded in a fierce battle for the town of Bani Walid.