The Obama administration has dispatched a team of experts to Asian capitals to report that North Korea appears to have started a program to enrich uranium, possibly to manufacture more nuclear weapons, a senior U.S. administration official said Saturday.
In the official sector lane, representatives of Ireland, the ECB, the EU and the IMF are frantically working together to come up with a rescue financing package.
The other lane, that of the private sector, is dominated by increasingly nervous depositors worried about the safety of the money they have in Irish banks.
Catching the most dangerous strain of E. coli could increase the risk of high blood pressure and heart problems years later, say researchers.
A Canadian study of almost 2,000 who fell ill during an outbreak of E. coli O157 found heart attack risk doubled.
Indonesia has demanded an inquiry into reports that a maid working in Saudi Arabia was killed by her employers and her body dumped on a roadside.
President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said a team had been sent to the Saudi town of Abha to investigate reports of the murder of 36-year-old Kikim Komalasari.
The response to a cholera outbreak in Haiti that has killed nearly 1,200 people has been "inadequate", a major medical charity says.
Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) said despite the huge aid agency presence in Haiti, urgent needs were not being met.
No rescue mission will be launched until at least Sunday morning at the New Zealand coal mine where 29 men are missing after a blast, officials say.
Police say they "remain positive" that the men will be found alive, but the fear of a second explosion is preventing rescuers from entering.
Madagascan troops have stormed an army barracks occupied by rebel soldiers, ending a three-day mutiny.
Gunshots rang out shortly before reports emerged that the rebels had given themselves up for arrest.
David Cameron has insisted that UK combat troops will be out of Afghanistan by 2015.
The prime minister told the Nato summit in Lisbon, where the 28 leaders agreed a strategy to transfer military control to Afghanistan by 2014, that the UK deadline was "firm".
Russia has agreed to co-operate on Nato's programme to defend against ballistic missile attacks, Nato's chief has said.
Anders Fogh Rasmussen said at a Nato summit in Lisbon that the two sides had agreed in writing that they no longer posed a threat to one another.
Argentina and Uruguay both say they are happy after a deal was reached to end their long-running row over a pulp mill on the banks of their shared river.
Police in Brazil say they have arrested 22 people as part of an 18-month effort to break an international drug syndicate.
A Colombian man has been murdered inside a church as he attended a memorial mass for a relative who had also died violently, police say.
Israeli mercenary Yair Klein has been released from prison in Russia and is being repatriated to Israel despite repeated efforts by Colombian authorities to have him extradited, reports Caracol Radio.
"Klein has been released and is currently en route to Israel," an unnamed source told Interfax news agency.
BEIJING, AFP - China says more than 81 million of its people will need government relief this winter, after it suffered one of its worst years for natural disasters in two decades.
China has been particularly badly hit by natural disasters this year, experiencing an earthquake that killed nearly 2700 people, the worst inundations in a decade and a huge mudslide that killed 1500.
LAUTOKA has taken a surprise lead after Day One of the FMF Chow Games at the tfl National Stadium yesterday.
The Sugar City side bagged seven gold, three silver and one bronze medals heading into the final day today.
