Syria was appointed deputy chairman of the UN's International Atomic Energy Agency's General Conference Monday.
The Governor of the Bank of England will fight to salvage his reputation today after a £10 billion U-turn in his handling of the money markets crisis and growing questions about his role in the Northern Rock affair.
Britains's third biggest mortgage lender was last night accused of fuelling the national debt crisis by launching a new home loan worth up to 125 per cent of a property's sale price.
Supporters of the Zionist regime will receive their response during the world Qods Day's rallies, government spokesman, Gholam-Hossein Elham, said Wednesday.
ISRAEL yesterday declared the Gaza Strip an "enemy entity", paving the way for it to reduce electricity and fuel supplies to the territory's 1.5 million inhabitants in a bid to weaken the ruling Hamas government.
Saudi Arabia has refused to cut interest rates in lockstep with the US Federal Reserve for the first time, signalling that the oil-rich Gulf kingdom is preparing to break the dollar currency peg in a move that risks setting off a stampede out of the dollar across the Middle East.
The Fed's "emergency" interest rate cut has reignited concerns that offering cheaper money as a solution to problems rooted in excessive lending and mispriced assets merely stores up problems for the future.
In a move that has stunned New York, the Bloomberg administration is in discussions to escort the Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, to ground zero during his visit to New York next week, Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said today.
Pope Benedict XVI refused a recent request by US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to discuss the Middle East and Iraq, Vatican sources say.
Shares in embattled bank Northern Rock tumbled 20 percent to an all-time low on Wednesday as speculation mounted that potential buyers are not interested or will only pitch a cut-price bid.
The European Commission has requested information from the British authorities over the government bail-out of Northern Rock, concerned that it could violate EU state aid laws if support leads to distortion of the banking market.
Zimbabwe is "closer than ever to complete collapse" as economic meltdown and chronic food shortages threaten to spill over into a regional crisis, according to an independent report.
WENZHOU, Zhejiang -- Typhoon Wipha packing winds of 45 meters per second landed in Cangnan County, Wenzhou of east China's Zhejiang Province at 2:30 a.m. Wednesday.
BELGIUM yesterday chalked up 100 days without a government, and speculation is mounting that the linguistically divided country will break apart.