The leaders of veteran allies Russia and India agreed Monday, during Kremlin talks, to launch a joint unmanned mission to the moon on boosting military and trade ties.
Gordon Brown has said Britain's "most important" relationship is with the US, in his first major foreign policy speech since becoming prime minister.
Police in Pakistan have strengthened the cordon around a house in Lahore where the opposition leader Benazir Bhutto has been placed under arrest.
The credit squeeze was the first trial of the Bank of England's framework for market operations introduced last year. Unfortunately, the verdict is "guilty", with the smoking gun found in the Bank's own "red book", as the framework is known.
Crude oil revenues for the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries are this year set to reach $658bn (€448bn, £315bn), an increase of almost 9 per cent from 2006 levels, as prices reach records and the group starts to reverse last year's production cuts, according to US government data.
The risk of a worldwide banking crisis - one that is particularly damaging to mortgages, private equity, hedge funds and the banks themselves - is higher than it was a month ago, and the storm is rising.
A technical breakthrough has enabled scientists to create for the first time dozens of cloned embryos from adult monkeys, raising the prospect of the same procedure being used to make cloned human embryos.
EU Justice Commissioner Franco Frattini has said he wants to act now as though the revised Constitution is already in force by involving the European Parliament in justice and policing decisions.
EU Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson yesterday threatened Kenya with "devastating" consequences for its key export industries if it refused to sign up to a controversial trade opening deal - an Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) - by the 1 January 2008 deadline.
FOREIGN OFFICE officials have turned on Lord Malloch-Brown, their minister, describing him as a "liability" for the government.
The drugs are not working. Unprecedented generic competition, growing price pressure, a looming 2010-12 patent cliff and stagnant research productivity spells hard times for the $700 billion-a-year drugs industry.
BARCLAYS is bankrolling President Robert Mugabe's corrupt regime in Zimbabwe by providing substantial loans to cronies given land seized from white farmers.
Spain's King Juan Carlos told Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez to "shut up" as the Ibero-American summit drew to a close in Santiago, Chile.
The United States could unleash vastly superior firepower if it attacked Iran but Tehran could strike back against its forces in Iraq and threaten oil supplies crucial to the world economy.
Indonesia's Anak Krakatau volcano lets out a massive roar as it blasts a gigantic cloud of smoke and flaming red rocks hundreds of meters into the night sky.