The latest results from Afghanistan\'s presidential election show President Hamid Karzai with 54.1 per cent of the vote after 92 per cent of polling stations were declared.
The editor of Avvenire, a leading Italian Catholic newspaper, has quit in a bitter row involving the country\'s Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi, according to a report by Duncan Kennedy on www.news.bbc.co.uk.
US employers cut 216,000 jobs in August, pushing the unemployment rate up to 9.7%, a 26-year high, official figures show, according to a report on www.bbc.co.uk.
Gunmen shot and killed 17 patients and wounded two others in a drug rehabilitation center in northern Mexico late yesterday, according to a report on www.edition.cnn.com.
Rescue workers in Indonesia are now searching for survivors after an earthquake in the Indonesian town of Cianjur triggered a landslide, trapping residents inside their homes.
US drugmaker Pfizer has agreed to pay US$2.3 billion in the largest healthcare fraud settlement in the history of the United States Department of Justice.
Published:Wednesday | September 2, 2009 | 12:09 PM
The lawyer representing ex-billionaire Sir Allen Stanford said his client is back in a Houston jail after medical tests detected a non-life-threatening aneurysm in his leg.
The lawyer representing ex-billionaire Sir Allen Stanford says the Texan financier is still hospitalized and will undergo tests to determine if there is blockage of veins or arteries in his heart.
