1/30/2010 12:08:28 AM
AP - The Taliban on Saturday denied reports that their representatives met with a U.N. official to discuss prospects for peace in Afghanistan, calling them "futile and baseless" rumors.
1/30/2010 12:34:29 AM
AP - Government officials and regulators from several nations met behind closed doors Saturday with a host of international bankers, talking up proposals for regulation that have many in the financial sector concerned.
1/29/2010 11:02:05 PM
AP - China angrily summoned the U.S. ambassador on Saturday and warned that a plan to sell $6.4 billion in arms to Taiwan would harm already strained ties. One Chinese expert said the sale would give Beijing a "fair and proper reason" to accelerate weapons testing.
1/29/2010 11:03:10 PM
AP - American Toyota owners are understandably alarmed about ballooning recalls over faulty gas pedals and floor mats. In Japan, the automaker's home market, where there have been no such recalls, the reaction is — also understandably — muted.
1/29/2010 11:58:12 PM
AP - They are the latest scenes of survival and of death in Haiti's deadliest disaster — a looter shot dead for breaking into an appliance store and crowds erecting new houses on shaky ground.
1/30/2010 12:29:07 AM
AP - A thick band of heavy snow, freezing rain and cold temperatures was spreading across southeastern states early Saturday, promising a messy weekend of slick roads, power outages and prime sledding for kids out of school.
1/30/2010 12:35:34 AM
AP - A letter and a speech may have doomed plans to bring the Sept. 11 terror trial to New York.
1/30/2010 12:39:03 AM
AFP - The Taliban denied Saturday that leaders of the Islamist group fighting to overthrow the Afghan government had met with UN representatives to discuss bringing peace to Afghanistan.
1/29/2010 11:53:47 PM
AFP - Former British prime minister Tony Blair said he had no regrets about removing Saddam Hussein after delivering a robust defence of the 2003 invasion of Iraq at a public inquiry into the war.
1/30/2010 12:27:18 AM
The Taliban denies reports that some of its representatives met UN special envoy Kai Eide to discuss Afghan peace.
1/30/2010 12:27:01 AM
Defending champion Serena Williams takes on former world number one Justine Henin in the final of the Australian Open.
1/30/2010 12:34:31 AM
Mumbai police arrest a second man over an alleged sexual assault on a Russian girl of nine in the Indian resort region of Goa.
1/29/2010 10:42:35 PM
Briton Laura Robson loses in the Australian Open girls' final for the second year running, beaten by sixth seed Karolina Pliskova.
1/29/2010 11:56:16 PM
China warns of a "serious negative impact" on relations with the US, over a planned $6.4bn US weapons sales to Taiwan.
1/30/2010 12:27:18 AM
The Taliban denies reports that some of its representatives met UN special envoy Kai Eide to discuss Afghan peace.
1/29/2010 4:24:51 PM
Google begins to phase out support for Internet Explorer 6, the browser identified as the weak link in a cyber attack.
1/29/2010 3:00:26 PM
More than 100 Haitians are picked up off the Turks and Caicos islands after trying to flee Haiti by boat after the earthquake.
1/29/2010 7:01:59 PM
The last of 4,000 tourists stranded at Machu Picchu after flooding are airlifted to safety by the Peruvian authorities.
1/29/2010 7:26:07 PM
The Nigerian militant group Mend ends a ceasefire in the oil-rich Niger Delta, warning companies to prepare for an "all-out onslaught".
1/29/2010 8:20:37 PM
Argentina's central bank chief Martin Redrado resigns after a bitter public row with the country's president.
1/29/2010 3:04:38 PM
Israel and West Bank Palestinians respond to the UN's Goldstone report which accused both of them of war crimes during Israel's Gaza operation.
1/29/2010 1:31:48 PM
Toyota says it is recalling up to 1.8 million cars in Europe, including 220,000 in the UK, due to an accelerator problem.
1/29/2010 9:20:05 PM
California names the Apollo 11 landing site on the Moon as a state historical resource.
1/29/2010 9:02:43 AM
A struggling football team resorts to asking a priest to bless their pitch in a bid to stop their run of bad luck.
1/30/2010 12:27:01 AM
Defending champion Serena Williams takes on former world number one Justine Henin in the final of the Australian Open.
1/29/2010 11:57:00 PM
England football captain John Terry is named as the sportsman behind a court injunction involving his private life.
1/28/2010 11:22:46 AM
Tony Blair has faced questions in public for the first time about taking the UK to war against Iraq. Your thoughts?
1/29/2010 7:15:42 AM
US economic growth hit 5.7% in the final three months of 2009, more than twice the pace of the previous quarter.
1/29/2010 11:56:05 AM
French media giant Vivendi is ordered to pay potentially substantial damages after a US jury finds it misled investors.
1/29/2010 5:09:48 AM
Honda recalls 646,000 cars globally to fix a switch defect that could, in some cases, cause a fire inside the vehicle.
1/29/2010 1:08:26 AM
The way a UK law firm is pursuing alleged net pirates has been criticised with calls for the Information Commissioner to investigate.
1/29/2010 2:56:26 AM
Cyber conmen are launching attacks that trade on surging interest in Apple's iPad tablet computer.
1/28/2010 3:12:53 PM
A potential obstacle to producing energy by laser fusion is swept aside, along with the record for the highest-energy laser pulse.
1/29/2010 3:38:51 AM
American novelist JD Salinger, author of classic 20th Century book The Catcher In The Rye, has died aged 91, his son says.
1/29/2010 3:01:29 AM
Funk musician Sly Stone files a $50m (£30.9m) legal claim against his former manager, alleging fraud and stolen royalties.
1/29/2010 3:31:38 AM
Scientists reveal how frogs perform the architectural feat of building floating foam "meringue" nests.
1/29/2010 10:37:24 AM
Almost 60% of the people killed by natural disasters in the past decade lost their lives in earthquakes, data shows.
1/29/2010 6:29:22 AM
Bill and Melinda Gates say they will donate $10bn over 10 years to develop vaccines for children in developing countries.
1/29/2010 10:05:29 AM
The wife of South Africa's intelligence minister is arrested and charged with arranging drug smuggling.
1/29/2010 9:59:36 AM
Schoolgirl absenteeism in Ghana could be cut by half by providing free sanitary towels, a study shows.
1/29/2010 7:36:58 AM
Bolivia's president declares a state of emergency in areas of the country, as thousands are affected by flooding.
1/29/2010 8:14:09 AM
Canada's Supreme Court rules the government is not required to seek the repatriation of Omar Khadr from Guantanamo Bay.
1/29/2010 4:17:23 AM
Prices in Japan fell at a record level in December, official figures show, heightening concerns about deflation.
1/29/2010 6:54:24 AM
The US expresses deep concern about the fate of 20 Uighur asylum seekers deported from Cambodia back to China.
1/29/2010 11:17:35 AM
A defiant Tony Blair tells the Iraq inquiry it was right to remove Saddam and says he would take the same decision again.
1/29/2010 9:37:03 AM
Russia unveils its new stealth fighter, meant to rival the radar-evading US F-22, in a test flight over the country's far east.
1/29/2010 12:51:23 PM
Dubai says it has identified several "European passport holders" as suspects in the killing of a Hamas military commander.
1/28/2010 2:46:37 PM
Egypt stroll to the Africa Cup of Nations final with their great rivals finishing the game with eight men.
1/29/2010 8:25:06 AM
Sri Lankan special forces raid the campaign office of defeated Sri Lankan presidential candidate Sarath Fonseka, his aides say.
1/30/2010 12:34:31 AM
Mumbai police arrest a second man over an alleged sexual assault on a Russian girl of nine in the Indian resort region of Goa.
1/29/2010 9:16:16 PM
The mother of two toddlers found dead in holdalls in the boot of a car in East Sussex is charged with their murders.
1/29/2010 8:02:31 PM
The government has "significantly underestimated" the cost of delivering free social care, council chiefs say.
1/29/2010 10:42:35 PM
Briton Laura Robson loses in the Australian Open girls' final for the second year running, beaten by sixth seed Karolina Pliskova.
1/29/2010 1:41:11 PM
Talks continue at Hillsborough Castle in a bid to break the deadlock over the devolution of justice powers.
1/30/2010 12:52:40 AM
The UK's big supermarket chains are breaking disability laws by having strict time limits in car parks, charities say.
1/29/2010 1:34:55 PM
A WWI soldier killed in France at the age of 16 and buried in a mass grave is to be formally laid to rest.
1/29/2010 9:56:27 PM
In a modest office in the neighborhood of Petionville, Haiti, engineers, architects, aid workers and government officials are working on the earthquake-ravaged country's future. They call it Haiti 2.0. 
1/29/2010 6:10:20 PM
A humanitarian mission to aid Haitian earthquake victims turned into a major embarrassment in Puerto Rico on Friday when pictures emerged of doctors drinking, mugging for the cameras and brandishing firearms amid the victims' suffering. 
1/29/2010 7:28:09 PM
Toyota's president Akio Toyoda apologized for the gas pedal problems that have forced the recall of millions of vehicles in the United States and Europe, Japanese media reported. 
1/29/2010 9:54:54 PM
Overriding objections from China, the Obama administration unveiled a $6.4 billion arms deal with Taiwan -- including about $2.85 billion in missiles. 
1/29/2010 1:06:04 PM
The North Korean government informed the State Department on Friday that it is holding a second American citizen who the North Koreans say entered the country from China, a State Department spokesman said. 
1/29/2010 6:44:52 PM
Russia tested its fifth-generation Sukhoi fighter jet in the Russian Far East on Friday. 
1/29/2010 4:13:04 PM
Police have identified human remains found buried under recently added concrete at a Florida home as a missing lottery millionaire, police said. 
1/29/2010 7:13:17 PM
In a messy drug bust this week, investigators uncovered more than 700 pounds of marijuana stuffed in a septic tank truck full of human waste, Arizona police said Friday. 
1/29/2010 2:19:08 PM
Google's move to include social networking information in its searches has gotten personal. 
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