Toll from Bangladesh cyclone reaches 3,100
The number of people left dead after the cyclone that swept through Bangladesh last week rose to 3,100, the government said, and the UN estimated that a million people had been left homeless, many of them without predictable food supplies.
Sarkozy gives strike the silent treatment in France
As nationwide transit strikes dragged on for the sixth day Monday and as public-sector workers were poised to walk out Tuesday, Sarkozy is gambling that a low-key approach to the crisis will succeed.
- With transit still crippled, French get testy
China banks on hydropower to cut emissions, but at huge human cost
A year after the completion of the Three Gorges Dam, water pollution, landslides and resettlement of farmers have led to questions and concern about hydropower as a solution to China's energy conundrum.
- Part 3: In China, a lake's champion imperils himself
- Part 2: Though water is drying up, a Chinese metropolis booms
- Part 1: As China rises, pollution soars
Germany looks to Asia, at China's expense
Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative bloc is studying a strategic partnership with Southeast Asia that would shift the German government's focus away from China.
- Merkel is criticized over policy toward China and Russia
Swiss Re takes $1 billion subprime hit as crisis spreads beyond banks
The reinsurer said that the write-down came after it booked a loss when it sold two credit-default swaps as protection against declines in the value of investments mainly backed by mortgages.
- Stocks fall on fresh woes in banking sector
- U.K. faces unappealing choices on Northern Rock
Court dismisses challenges to Musharraf
General Pervez Musharraf is now almost guaranteed confirmation for a new term as president.
- U.S. hopes to arm Pakistani tribes against Al Qaeda
- Pakistani Muslim group holds conclave despite ban
EU will identify 23 lagging economic sectors
The review is part of an effort to extend the EU regulatory framework.
Last of top 5 Khmer Rouge leaders is arrested
Khieu Samphan, the former head of state for the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, was arrested at a hospital in Phnom Penh on Monday. He is the last of the top leaders targeted by prosecutors in advance of genocide trials expected to begin next year.
- MIT physicist empowers young Cambodian women by building them a dormitory
For U.S. firms, foreign sales cushion domestic slowdown
Some economists argue that the needs of rapidly developing societies are so vast that they can compensate for slack growth in the industrial countries.
Don't go it alone, EU warns Kosovo
European Union foreign ministers warned Kosovo on Monday against unilaterally declaring its independence, cautioning that such a move threatened to spur secessionist movements in Europe and to plunge the Balkans into crisis.
A Balkan crisis that some see as overblown
International officials and Serb politicians have warned of a threat to the existence of Bosnia and Herzegovina, even raising the possibility of another war, but many political analysts doubt things are that dire.
Former presidential aide describes a bribe from Samsung in 2004
The accusation appeared to support recent allegations by a former chief lawyer at Samsung who said it had run a network that offered bribes to Korean officals.
Politicus: Spring will be crucial on Iran
If new sanctions are enacted against Iran, the United States, France and Britain will evaluate their possible non-effect sometime in the second quarter of 2008.
Cuba, in a campaign against blindness, uses doctors to bolster its image
The campaign, called Operation Miracle, serves as a poignant advertisement for the benefits of Cuban socialism and an ingenuous way to export one of the few things the Cuban state-run economy produces in abundance: doctors.
Britain tunes in to sounds of silence
Wednesday, Nov. 21, has been unofficially declared No Music Day for the third year in a row in Britain.
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