Russia would cross "a redline for the United States of America" if it were to base nuclear capable bombers in Cuba, a top US air force officer warned on Tuesday.

It feels like the summer of 1931. The world's two biggest financial institutions have had a heart attack. The global currency system is breaking down. The policy doctrines that got us into this mess are bankrupt. No world leader seems able to discern the problem, let alone forge a solution.

My wife and I took my 4-year-old son to a children’s theater this weekend to watch a live presentation of Robin Hood (rob from the rich, give to the poor). The mother of one of my young son’s playmates said she is ready to go on a long-planned vacation. I asked where she does her banking. Her answer: Downey Savings and Washington Mutual (WAMU).

Abu Dhabi’s state investment fund said yesterday that it would become one of the largest investors in General Electric (GE) and that the two companies would set up an $8 billion (£4 billion) joint commercial finance venture in the Middle East and Africa.

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British Foreign Secretary David Miliband says the EU will not support a military strike on Iran over the country's nuclear program.

After a Tuesday meeting between EU foreign ministers and foreign policy chief Javier Solana, Miliband said the union supports dialogue to resolve the issue.

Alok Jha, science correspondent

A tiny rectangle superimposed on the vast expanse of the Sahara captures the seductive appeal of the audacious plan to cut Europe's carbon emissions by harnessing the fierce power of the desert sun.

The Jang

By our correspondent

MIRANSHAH: The Nato gunship helicopters again violated Pakistani airspace at the border town of Lwara Mandi and hovered over the area for 25 minutes late on Tuesday night. Tribal sources told 'The News' that gunship helicopters flied one kilometre deep into the tribal region and returned without taking any action.

The human rights organisation, Amnesty International, has called on Pakistan's new government to provide information about hundreds of disappeared people.

THE Indian Government has shrugged off a dramatic bribery scandal, winning a crucial no-confidence vote in parliament and opening the way for a landmark nuclear pact with the United States.

A US lawmaker is seeking to extend a previously-proposed resolution which labels several TV channels as terrorist and include Press TV.