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News and Media RSS FeedsMugabe 'gives Zanu-PF key posts' - Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe gives key ministries to his own party - in defiance of a power-sharing deal, reports say....Feed Source: news.bbc.co.uk Palin abused power, probe finds - John McCain's running mate Sarah Palin abused her power as Alaska's governor for personal ends, a report concludes.... G7 nations pledge to fight crisis - Top finance ministers promise to take "decisive action and use all available tools" to tackle the world economic crisis.... Austria's Haider dies in accident - Austrian far-right politician Joerg Haider, known for his anti-immigration policies, has been killed in a car crash, aged 58.... GM and Chrysler 'in merger talks' - Struggling US car giants General Motors and Chrysler are in talks about a possible merger, US media say.... PM launches Kashmir train service - India's PM launches Kashmir's first train service amid heavy security and after protests that left two people dead.... New Kim Jong-il images released - North Korea releases pictures of reclusive leader Kim Jong-il apparently looking well, despite reports he has been ill.... Aceh guerrilla leader flies home - Former rebels flock to Banda Aceh to welcome home one of Indonesia's best-known guerrilla leaders, Hasan di Tiro.... Oil row brings down Peru cabinet - Peru's President Alan Garcia accepts the government's resignation over alleged bribes for oil contracts.... In pitch black and alone - world's most solitary bug found in Africa - A bug which lives entirely on its own without oxygen and in complete darkness could offer clues to life on other planets.... Hamilton snatches pole in Japan - Lewis Hamilton secures pole position for Sunday's Japanese Grand Prix in Fuji with title rival Felipe Massa back in fifth.... Live text - India v Australia - India avoid the follow-on but are six wickets down in reply to Australia's 430 in Bangalore.... Credit crunch glee - Iran celebrates the global meltdown, but for how long? ... On track - Kashmir gets set for its first ever railway service ... Divisive career - Joerg Haider split political opinion, in Austria and abroad... Week in pictures - Some of the most striking images around the world... What crisis? - Political face-off overshadows Thai financial woes ... Shattered calm - Jewish-Arab clashes rock mixed Israeli town... Pirates threaten to blow up ship - Somali pirates holding a Ukrainian cargo ship carrying military tanks threaten to blow it up if they are not paid a ransom.... Argentina's Videla moved to jail - Argentina's ex-military head, Jorge Videla, accused of human rights abuses, is transferred from house arrest to jail.... 'No decision' on US-N Korea deal - The US says there is "no decision" on removing North Korea from its terror blacklist - a part of a nuclear disarmament deal.... Ahtisaari wins Nobel Peace Prize - Finnish ex-President Martti Ahtisaari wins this year's Nobel Peace Prize for three decades of mediation around the world.... Deadly bomb attack at Iraq market - A vehicle bomb in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, kills 13 people and injures 27 others, say police.... Dozens killed in Pakistan bombing - Twenty-seven people are killed and more than 80 wounded in a suicide bombing on Pakistani tribal elders near the Afghan border.... Deal sought for UK-Iceland funds - A UK Treasury delegation is in Reykjavik in a bid to resolve the dispute over UK funds invested in failed Icelandic banks.... Venezuela shuts down McDonald's - Venezuela shuts all branches of restaurant chain McDonald's for 48 hours, citing tax irregularities, officials say.... Repossession 'is mental threat' - House repossession poses the greatest threat to people's mental health, a charity has warned.... Nature loss 'dwarfs bank crisis' - The global economy loses more money from deforestation than the current banking crisis, says an EU-commissioned report.... Britney Spears set to speak out - Pop star Britney Spears is to discuss the ups and downs of her life in an MTV documentary to be shown next month.... Bank turmoil fuels phishing boom - Scammers and fraudsters are capitalising on the changes sweeping through global financial markets and sectors.... Send your video, pictures and story ideas - Have you got a good story? BBC News wants to hear from you.... Studying Japan's Dark Decade to See How U.S. Might Fare - The sky over Tokyo seemed to fall in September of 1990, when the Nikkei stock index dove almost 20 percent in one month. Real estate prices would plummet and the financial sector would crack, trapping Japan in a "lost decade" of economic growth. Is the United States now set for its own?
... Western Journalists in Iraq Stage Pullback of Their Own - BAGHDAD -- The number of foreign journalists in Baghdad is declining sharply, a media withdrawal that reflects Iraq's growing stability and the financial strains faced by some news organizations.
... $20 Million Job-Skills Ladder Created for Girls in Poor Nations - For years, global development experts have believed that if young women received the same schooling as young men, their families would have a path out of poverty. Now, with countries across the developing world documenting rapid progress toward gender equality in education, experts are focusing o
... Wall Street Greed? Not in This Neighborhood. - NEW DELHI -- With freshly cut keys to their new brick-and-cement homes, families in an impoverished settlement on the outskirts of India's capital honored a surprising hero this week: Richard S. Fuld Jr., head of the now-defunct Wall Street giant Lehman Brothers.
... Ex-President Of Finland Is Awarded Peace Prize - PARIS, Oct. 10 -- Martti Ahtisaari, the former Finnish president who has been a tireless mediator in conflicts around the world for more than three decades, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday and expressed hope that the prize will help him raise funds for further peacemaking in hot spots to
... NATO to Target Afghan Drug Lords Who Aid Taliban - BUDAPEST, Oct. 10 -- NATO defense ministers reached a compromise agreement Friday that allows forces operating in Afghanistan to target heroin networks funding the Taliban. The deal, viewed by the Pentagon as critical to beating back a resurgent Taliban, essentially allows some members of the
... 24 Killed, 45 Injured in Bombings and Shootings Across Iraq - BAGHDAD, Oct. 10 -- A car bomb exploded in a market in southern Baghdad late Friday afternoon, killing at least 14 people and prompting an outburst of sectarian rioting, according to police and witnesses.
... Global Markets Fall Despite Reassurances - BERLIN, Oct. 10 -- Fear seized investors around the world Friday as stock markets dropped to levels not broached for several years. National leaders tried to intervene with reassurances and stopgap measures, to no avail.
... Malaysia's Self-Prescribed Rescue Debated - As more countries become enveloped by the financial pandemic that began in the United States, some in the Southeast Asian nation of Malaysia are warily watching the events with a dose of schadenfreude.
... Asian, European Stocks Plummet - TOKYO, Sept. 10 -- Punctuating its worst week in history, Japan's main stock index plummeted nearly 10 percent Friday, as a mid-size Japanese life insurance company went bankrupt and fear-driven selling drove markets down across Asia.
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