Posted: 10 Nov 2010 05:54 PM PST President Obama is emphasizing that future global growth depends on a rebalancing of trade. But other leaders favor a much slower pace than he is urging.
President Obama arrived here on the defensive Wednesday for a two-day meeting with leaders of the world's biggest economies, a summit that had raised hopes of charting a common path to a more balanced global recovery but instead threatened to founder amid competing national interests.
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Posted: 11 Nov 2010 12:00 AM PST About 50,000 crowd the streets of London around Parliament and the ruling parties' offices to protest the plan to raise public college fees to $14,000 a year as part of an austerity drive. Some protesters vandalize property.
Tens of thousands of students waving placards and chanting anti-government slogans marched through central London on Wednesday to protest plans to triple university costs as part of Britain's radical deficit-reduction program.  |
Posted: 11 Nov 2010 12:00 AM PST Yuri Lyubimov, now 93, was one of the earlySoviet dissidents and ended up in exile, stripped of his citizenship. He returned just before the Soviet collapse, and he's dismayed by the scant progress since.
Legendary Russian stage director Yuri Lyubimov was born in 1917, the year of the Russian Revolution.  |
Posted: 11 Nov 2010 12:00 AM PST Incumbent Nouri Maliki appears headed to a second term as prime minister after his main rival, Iyad Allawi, accepts his terms for limited power-sharing. The deal will end an eight-month impasse.
Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki appeared to lock up a second term in office Wednesday after a lengthy closed-door meeting of Iraq's political elite in which foes buckled to his demands for ending a dangerous eight-month impasse and forming a new government.  |
Posted: 10 Nov 2010 04:01 PM PST One of two package bombs from Yemen intercepted last month would have detonated Oct. 29 over the eastern seaboard if it had not been removed from a cargo plane in England, Scotland Yard says.
One of the bombs hidden last month in two U.S.-bound packages from Yemen was timed to explode over the East Coast of the United States, British authorities said Wednesday.  |
Posted: 11 Nov 2010 12:00 AM PST A 7-foot bulletproof wall going up around the summit site in Seoul is seen as repressive. Other measures are extensive, including 60,000 security forces to help handle the hundreds of activist groups that have applied to stage protests.
The barricade rose under cover of darkness, a mile-long wall of tough polyurethane and bulletproof glass that transformed the nation's largest mall and convention center into a South Korean version of Fort Apache.  |
Posted: 11 Nov 2010 12:00 AM PST Results have not been officially announced, but the Union Solidarity and Development Party says it has won up to 80% of the seats in parliament. Opposition parties have accused it of election fraud.
Any slim hope that a modicum of political change might come to Myanmar after Sunday's election were dashed as the size of the pro-military party's victory slowly became apparent amid allegations of fraud.  |
Posted: 10 Nov 2010 03:22 AM PST The 11 roadside explosives are detonated less than two weeks after an attack on a church.
A string of bombings targeting Baghdad's Christian community killed at least four people and wounded 19 others Wednesday, officials said, less than two weeks after a bloody siege at a Baghdad church left scores dead.  |
Posted: 10 Nov 2010 12:00 AM PST 'We are all God's followers,' the president tells the crowd gathered to see him in Jakarta, where he lived for four years as a child. He also calls on Muslims worldwide to reject terrorist organizations.
President Obama on Wednesday called on Muslims worldwide to reject Al Qaeda and other terrorist organizations, saying they had no claim to leadership in the Islamic world.  |
Posted: 10 Nov 2010 12:00 AM PST Hundreds have succumbed to the disease in a nation all too familiar with death and ill-equipped to deal with disaster.
A mother cradled her limp 2-year-old boy, gently bouncing him on her knee as though she would lose him if she stopped. Her lap was soaked.  |
