World News

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has raised its global economic forecast after the impact of a credit crunch was not as severe as had been first feared.

The leader of Britain\'s main opposition party of the Conservatives is calling for black fathers in the United Kingdom to take more responsibility for their families.

A two-decade ban on people with HIV visiting or immigrating to the United States may end soon through a Senate bill aimed at fighting AIDS and other diseases in Africa and other poor areas of the world.

For the first time since last month’s elections in Zimbabwe church leaders have raised serious concerns about the results.

Barack Obama\'s team has decried The New Yorker magazine for a cartoon cover depicting him in traditional Muslim garb and his wife as a terrorist.

Venezuelan President, Hugo Chavez has announced plans to improve the terms of the Petro Caribe oil agreement with Jamaica and several other Caribbean countries.

Police have widened an investigation into allegations of corruption against Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to also look at whether he may have committed fraud.

Pakistan and the United Nations have agreed in principle to set up a UN panel to investigate the killing of Pakistani ex-Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.

An HIV-positive Kenyan woman has won US$35,000 in a landmark ruling against her employer for unfair dismissal.

The US senate has passed a bill to shield telephone companies that helped in the White House\'s controversial warrantless wiretaps programme.

Kenya’s finance minister resigned after being named in a corruption scandal which threatened to damage the nation’s fragile new unity government.

Ecuador\'s government has seized two private TV stations in a long-running dispute over debts.