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

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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.

FALLUJAH - United States and Iraqi forces are preparing another siege of Fallujah under the pretext of combating "terror", residents and officials say.

The failure of the Palestinian national movement and its shaken credibility in the public eye are giving strength to religious movements, which are expanding to fill a widening gap. But the movements that are gaining are not Hamas or Islamic Jihad, which gained their legitimacy more or less as other Palestinian movements did: by taking part in the liberation struggle while upholding the aspiration to establish an independent national state. Rather, there are now other Islamist parties and groups that deny the national project and are hostile toward democratic and social freedoms.

Radovan Karadzic, one of the world’s most wanted men, was arrested yesterday 13 years after he was first indicted by the United Nations War Crimes Tribunal.

After single day of custody, soldier who fired at bound Palestinian demonstrator released, returned to brigade. Soldier's comrade: He feels betrayed; they want to place responsibility on him to cover up mistakes of others

Hanan Greenberg

The Military Advocate General's Office on Monday decided to release from custody the soldier who was documented firing rubber bullets at a bound Palestinian man. Ynet has learned that a confrontation between the soldier, Staff Sgt. L., and his commander, Lieutenant-Colonel Omri, during questioning by the Investigating Military Police (IMP) revealed no new findings.

ISRAEL plans to build a new city for Arab citizens in the Galilee region, the first housing project of its kind since the creation of the Jewish state in 1948.

Zbigniew Brzezinski, the former US national security adviser and prominent supporter of Barack Obama, has warned the Democratic presidential candidate that he risks repeating the defeat suffered by the Soviet Union in Afghanistan.

A commander with Somalia's army told the BBC Somali Service on Monday that two foreign fighters were killed alongside 10 local rebels during clashes yesterday in Lower Shabelle region.

MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) -- Hours of fighting in the Somali capital killed at least seven civilians, including three young siblings who were leaving a religious school when a mortar landed nearby, witnesses said Monday.

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Strong suggestions by the United States that it could resort to unilateral intervention against Al Qaeda and the Taliban in Pakistan are generating increasing anxiety in the Pakistani press and among government officials, who warn that such an action could backfire.

The Bush Administration may be preparing to lash out at old ally Pakistan, which Washington now blames for its humiliating failures to crush al-Qaida, capture its elusive leaders, or defeat Taliban resistance forces in Afghanistan.