AFP - Sony said it posted record profit and sales in the third quarter thanks to a swift recovery in its core consumer electronics sector, declaring it no longer expected to end the year in t

AFP - Palestinian prime minister Ahmed Qorei has announced his resignation, saying the radical Islamist group Hamas must form the next government after its general election victory.]]>{br}{br}Vi

AFP - China expressed support for a plan to have Iran's uranium enriched in Russia as a way to end the global impasse over the Islamic republic's nuclear program.]]>{br}{br}View the Enti

AFP - British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw has arrived in Turkey and welcomed Istanbul's proposals to help end Cyprus's three-decade division, a major stumbling block for Ankara's b

AFP - A judge ordered the US government to hand some classified documents to the attorneys of Zacarias Moussaoui, the French Al-Qaeda member who could face the death penalty after admitting his ro

AFP - More than 400 detainees being held in Iraqi and US-run prisons, including five women, have been released in a move which could help free abducted US reporter Jill Carroll.]]>{br}{br}View t

AP - Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qureia and his Cabinet ministers submitted their resignations Thursday as the Islamic militant group Hamas appeared to have captured a large majority of seats

AP - The U.S. military said Thursday it would release five Iraqi women detainees, a move demanded by the kidnappers of an American reporter to spare her life. A U.S. official said the release h

AP - A European Parliament investigation into alleged CIA secret prisons could ask Vice President Dick Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to testify, although it has no legal power

AP - Kidnappers of two German engineers seized their captives only two days after they arrived in Iraq, gaining access to their compound by pretending to be soldiers, police sa

FT.com - To understand how big the appetite is for emerging market debt these days, one should look at what has been happening to prices of bonds newly issued by Iraq, a country that has suffered o

AFP - Siemens, the German electronics and engineering giant, has said that restructuring costs in the first three months of its current business year resulted in a fall in net profit.]]>{br}{br}Vi

AP - Iran's Civil Aviation Organization said Thursday it has proposed resuming direct flights between Iran and the United States after more than 25 years, despite political hostilities betwe

AP - The men dressed in military garb who crossed the border and confronted Texas law officers this week were drug smugglers, not Mexican soldiers, officials said Wednesday, illustrati

Reuters - Nigeria's President Olusegun
Obasanjo said on Thursday that contacts with the kidnappers of
four foreign oil workers were making progress, and played down
the impact of the cris

Reuters - The U.S. military in Iraq freed five
women prisoners on Thursday, but American and Iraqi officials
stressed their release was pre-planned and not linked to the
case of kidnapped U.