US President Bush admits the financial system needs reform but insists the credit crisis was not a failure of the free-market.
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The CIA says Osama Bin Laden is isolated from day-to-day operations of al-Qaeda and that survival is his key task.
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Up to 2,000 more British troops are likely to be sent to Afghanistan next year, the BBC learns.
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US authorities issue a nationwide ‘import alert’ for Chinese-made food products due to the melamine contamination scandal.
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Thomas Beatie, the US “pregnant man” who gave birth to a daughter in June, is expecting his second child.
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Thousands of refugees at a camp in eastern DR Congo must be moved before they are caught up in fighting, aid officials warn.
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Two studies show the first direct images of planets outside our solar system, including a three-planet system.
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Some five million Californians “drop, cover and hold on”, in what organisers say is America’s biggest earthquake drill.
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Thieves have made off with a 200-year-old church in central Russia, Orthodox Church officials say.
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India starts crucial state elections that may determine whether an early general election will be called.
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