Campaigning like it was 2008 all over again, Barack Obama on Saturday rounded off his longest swing through battleground election states since his victorious charge for the White House.
The president, who is scheduled to set off on a twice-postponed Asian tour with his wife Michelle after next week's midterms, has reportedly block-booked all 570 rooms in the Taj Mahal hotel as a security measure. On top of that, US navy ships will also be deployed, as the president is staying in a hotel by the ocean.
SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea sent its first shipment of rice aid to rival North Korea in more than two years on Monday and said it would consider holding monthly talks with Pyongyang if it was committed to denuclearisation.
SLEMAN, Indonesia (Reuters) - Authorities will evacuate more than 11,000 villagers living on the slopes of the Mount Merapi volcano near Yogyakarta on Java after the alert status for an eruption was raised to the highest level, officials said.
MANILA, Philippines- It seems like actress-host Kris Aquino is not heeding the love advice of her eldest sister, Ballsy Aquino-Cruz.
LJUBLJANA, Slovenia - Slovenia elected its first black mayor on Sunday, an immigrant from Africa known as the "Obama of Piran," the town where he lives.
RAMALLAH/GAZA, Oct. 24 (Xinhua) -- A senior Fatah official said Sunday that the second round of meeting for reaching an inter- Palestinian reconciliation deal with Islamic Hamas movement might be held in Syria's capital of Damascus next week.
By Alan Wheatley, Global Economics Correspondent
WASHINGTON, AFP - The United States said Friday that it has "great concern" about the situation in Kashmir but indicated it would not try to mediate over the Himalayan territory divided between India and Pakistan.
GENEVA, Switzerland - Physicists probing the origins of the cosmos hope that next year they will turn up the first proofs of the existence of concepts long dear to science-fiction writers such as hidden worlds and extra dimensions.
