The world needs a "global New Deal" to haul it out of the economic crisis it faces, Prime Minister Gordon Brown of the United Kingdom said Sunday. “We need a global New Deal — a grand bargain between the countries and continents of this world — so that the world economy can not only recover but… so the banking system can be based on..
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Oscars getting down to magic moment
The cameras are in place, the stars are starting to stroll the red carpet, and the countdown to the 81st Academy Awards has begun. Hollywood’s biggest night is scheduled to start at 8 p.m. ET from the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles, California.
1 killed, 21 others wounded in Egypt bombing
A bombing in one of the Egyptian capital’s busy tourist districts killed a French tourist Sunday and wounded 21 other people, including 14 Europeans, the country’s Interior Ministry reported. Goody, 27 tied the knot with boyfriend Jack Tweed, 21, in Hatfield Heath, Essex, east of London, U.K
Terminally-ill reality TV star Jade Goody marries
British reality TV star Jade Goody married Sunday after being told by doctors last week that her cancer is terminal, UK media have reported. Goody, 27 tied the knot with boyfriend Jack Tweed, 21, in Hatfield Heath, Essex, east of London, UK media report. After the ceremony Max Clifford, the couple’s publicist, told waiting reporters that there had been “lots of tears and smiles and laughter” and that the congregation gave the newlyweds a standing ovation after the signing of the register
BBC: Iran held ‘backroom’ talks with Western diplomats
Iran offered to stop attacking coalition troops in Iraq nearly four years ago in an attempt to get the West to accept Tehran’s nuclear program, a British diplomat told the BBC in an interview aired Saturday. “The Iranians wanted to be able to strike a deal whereby they stopped killing our forces in Iraq in return for them being allowed to carry on with their nuclear program — ‘We stop killing you in Iraq, stop undermining the political process there, you allow us to carry on with our nuclear program without let or hindrance,” said John Sawers, now the British ambassador to the United Nations, in the documentary, “Iran and the West: Nuclear Confrontation.” The United States and other Western nations believe Iran is pursuing a nuclear weapons program, but Iran says it is developing nuclear capability to produce energy.
Clinton: China and U.S. must have a positive relationship
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton met with China’s top leaders Saturday, the last and most crucial stop-over in her Asia trip, signaling the new U.S.
Mayhem of meeting ‘Mr. India’
It’s been said that India is full of beggars. I became one of them, before I even arrived My assignment – for CNN’s ‘My City_ My Life’ travel program – was to fly to Mumbai to film with the Bollywood legend Anil Kapoor
Stanford scandal spreads
Antiguan and Barbudan regulators Friday took control of U.S.financier Robert Allen Stanford’s financial institutions on the twin-island nation, a day after federal agents served the Texas businessman with papers accusing him of running an investment fraud scheme.
Why Europe Is Fuming About the Stimulus Package
Europe’s euphoria over Barack Obama is fading fast. As Congress wrangles over the President’s $819 billion stimulus package, a “buy American” clause has the European Union threatening legal action and retaliatory sanctions and opening up the prospect of an explosive trade war. Just weeks after hailing Obama’s election, E.U
China Buys Australia On the Cheap
Earlier this decade, the Chinese began what they called their “Go Out” strategy.