US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton disclosed a four-point plan to tackle piracy in the Gulf of Aden.
China\'s annual gross domestic product growth has reportedly slowed in the first quarter of 2009 to 6.1 percent.
Eleven pirates have been captured off the coast of Kenya, hours after a failed attack on a US ship.
Colombian authorities say they have arrested the country\'s most wanted drug lord.
Switzerland\'s biggest bank, UBS, said it will cut 8, 700 jobs by next year in a bid to save money.
An attempt by pirates to seize another US cargo ship off the coast of Somalia has failed.
North Korea has ended co-operation with UN nuclear inspectors and ordered them to leave the country.
Thai authorities have issued arrest warrants for 13 protest leaders and the man the protesters support, former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra.
US President Barack Obama says he has seen signs that the recession affecting the country is easing, although times remain tough.
Somali pirates have hijacked a fourth vessel in 48 hours, seizing a Lebanese-owned cargo ship.
Another vessel has been seized by pirates off the coast of Somalia.
The French government has annulled the election of Franz Gumbs as leader of the local government of French St Martin.
North Korea has said it will boycott talks over its nuclear programme in protest at UN criticism of its recent rocket launch.
Two men were executed in Beiijing, China earlier today for an attack on police that killed 17 people in the run-up to the 2008 Olympics.
The U.S cargo ship Maersk Alabama is now heading to port in Mombasa, Kenya, a day after it was hijacked off Somalia\'s coast.
The US cargo ship Maersk Alabama is now heading to port in Mombasa, Kenya, a day after it was hijacked off Somalia\'s coast.
Britain\'s top counter-terrorism officer has quit after admitting he could have jeopardised an operation to thwart a possible UK al-Qaeda terror plot.
At least 29 people have been killed in Colombia as drug traffickers fight for control of an organisation set up by Pablo Escobar of the Medellin cartel.
African, Caribbean and Pacific countries are intensifying their efforts in the lobby against planned cuts in Europe\'s banana import duties.
At least seven were killed and 23 wounded when a bomb exploded near a Shiite holy shrine in northern Baghdad, Iraq yesterday.
Ten men have been arrested across the north west of England as part of a counter-terrorism operation.
The captain of US vessel has been held hostage by Somalian hijackers, even though the crew members have retaken control of the vessel.
Fresh earthquake aftershocks have rattled central Italy, killing at least one more person and hampering the search for survivors.
