World News

EU leaders have ended an emergency summit in Brussels saying they are determined to avoid protectionist moves in response to the economic crisis.

US President Barack Obama is due to announce the withdrawal of most US troops in Iraq by August 2010.

Serbian ex-President Milan Milutinovic has been acquitted on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity in Kosovo by a UN war crimes tribunal.

The United States House of Representatives on Wednesday passed a huge spending bill altering the shape of US-Cuba policy and easing travel to the Caribbean island by Americans.

US Federal Reserve chief Ben Bernanke is warning Congress that the recession now affecting the country could last into 2010.

The United Nations is suggesting that the world\'s poorest countries move away from selling their natural resources and concentrate instead on manufacturing.

More Australian residents have been forced to flee their homes as renewed bushfires destroyed at least one house and injured three firefighters.

Scores of properties said to be farms owned by whites in Zimbabwe have been invaded since the country\'s national unity government took office.

A British resident detained at Guantanamo Bay for more than four years has been returned to the United Kingdom.

Italy\'s government has passed a law on sexual violence and illegal immigration after a series of rapes blamed on foreigners.

The Inter-American Development Bank has launched a new 600 million credit facility to help countries in Latin America and the Caribbean better cope with natural disasters.

The government of Venezuela has announced plans to take control of the Stanford Bank in the country and sell it.