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Published:Tuesday | May 11, 2010 | 12:58 PM

A travel expert is warning that more planned strikes by British Airways cabin crew could wreak havoc for holiday makers.

Published:Tuesday | May 11, 2010 | 8:58 AM

US President Barack Obama has revived a civilian nuclear energy pact with Moscow.

Published:Monday | May 10, 2010 | 6:05 PM

UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown has announced that he will be resigning as Labour Party leader following his loss in last week’s election.

Published:Monday | May 10, 2010 | 6:04 PM

British Airways cabin crew have announced plans to mount a series of four strikes between May 18 and June 9.

Published:Monday | May 10, 2010 | 1:10 PM

US President Barack Obama has nominated Solicitor-General Elena Kagan as the 112th justice to the Supreme Court.

Published:Monday | May 10, 2010 | 1:09 PM

Gordon Brown has said he is stepping down as Labour Party leader as his party opens formal talks with the Liberal Democrats about forming a government.

Published:Monday | May 10, 2010 | 9:30 AM

European Union (EU) finance ministers have agreed on emergency measures worth €500 billion to prevent the Greek debt crisis from affecting other countries.

Published:Saturday | May 8, 2010 | 12:00 AM

TORONTO (AP): The Supreme Court of Canada ruled yesterday that journalists do not have a blanket right to shield confidential sources.

Published:Saturday | May 8, 2010 | 12:00 AM

BEIJING (AP): The pompadour was gone, along with much of the paunch. North Korea's 68-year-old dictator Kim Jong Il appeared shrivelled and worn during this week's scaled-down visit to China, signs that his health has deteriorated.

Published:Friday | May 7, 2010 | 6:12 PM

Talks between senior Conservatives and Liberal Democrats in the UK are continuing as the parties try to broker a deal to form the next government.

Published:Friday | May 7, 2010 | 6:10 PM

The US State Department has extended its travel warning for Mexico because of concerns over drug-related violence.

Published:Friday | May 7, 2010 | 1:42 PM

Oil from a massive slick in the Gulf of Mexico has started washing ashore on an island chain off the coast of Louisiana.

Published:Friday | May 7, 2010 | 1:42 PM

There are now talks of a coalition government in the UK after general elections yesterday resulted in a hung parliament.

Published:Friday | May 7, 2010 | 9:02 AM

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has given no indication that he will step down despite exit-poll predictions that his Labour party placed second in elections for the House of Commons yesterday.

Published:Friday | May 7, 2010 | 12:00 AM

PORTSMOUTH, N.H: Authorities were yesterday in a stand-off with a man on a Maine-to-New York Greyhound bus hours after a passenger called 911 to report an explosive device on board.

Published:Friday | May 7, 2010 | 12:00 AM

NEW ORLEANS (AP) : Petrochemical giant BP didn't file a plan to specifically handle a major oil spill from an uncontrolled blowout at its Deepwater Horizon project because the federal agency that regulates offshore rig...

Published:Friday | May 7, 2010 | 12:00 AM

NASHVILLE, Tennessee (AP):Three couples who had been wedded for decades and were enjoying their retirements died together in the deadly floods that ravaged Tennessee.The state's 20th death from weekend...

Published:Friday | May 7, 2010 | 12:00 AM

NASHVILLE, Tennessee (AP)James Turner Leeson Jr, a Nashville journalist who wrote about race relations and education, has died.

Published:Thursday | May 6, 2010 | 6:52 PM

David Cameron\'s Conservative Party is projected to win the majority of seats in the UK election, but the the first exit poll after the end of voting has indicated that the country could be heading for a hung parliament.

Published:Thursday | May 6, 2010 | 2:13 PM

The US House of Representatives has approved trade breaks for Haiti’s textile industry, the latest of several actions aimed at aiding recovery in the earthquake-ravaged nation.

Published:Thursday | May 6, 2010 | 9:02 AM

Voters in the United Kingdom go to the polls today to determine the fate of Gordon Brown\'s Labour government, which has run the UK for the past 13 years.

Published:Wednesday | May 5, 2010 | 5:46 PM

The US has tightened its flying restrictions after Saturday\'s failed bomb attack on New York\'s Times Square.

Published:Wednesday | May 5, 2010 | 5:46 PM

German Chancellor Angela Merkel is urging the German parliament to support the European Union’s emergency loan package for Greece.

Published:Wednesday | May 5, 2010 | 12:57 PM

The United States and Trinidad and Tobago have concluded a new air services agreement.

Published:Wednesday | May 5, 2010 | 12:54 PM

At least three people have been killed in the Greek capital as protesters set fire to a bank during a general strike over planned austerity measures.

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