By Michael Drudge London 12 March 2006 Officials at six-power world trade talks in London say there has been no breakthrough and only incremental progress in their drive to tear down trade barriers in...
By Michael Bowman Washington 07 March 2006 view Global Population report By 2050, world population is projected to reach nine billion people. That would constitute a 38 percent jump from today's popul...
By Kurt Achin Kaesong, North Korea 28 February 2006 North and South Korea gave the international media their first up close look at a joint industrial complex - hailed as the economic future of the di...
By Lauren Comiteau The Hague 27 February 2006 Bosnian survivors demonstrate, carrying banners bearing the names of each of the more than 8,000 victims of the 1995 massacre at Srebrenica, outside the P...
By Scott Stearns White House 24 February 2006 George Bush President Bush says the international community will not allow Iran to develop nuclear weapons. The president is asking Congress for $75 milli...
By Paige Kollock Washington, DC 09 February 2006 watch Biotech Crops Genetically modified corn For years, the European Union has banned the sale of genetically modified foods in most European countrie...
By Cathy Majtenyi Nairobi 26 January 2006 The anti-corruption group, Transparency International, has blasted the World Bank for loaning Kenya $25 million to fight corruption, following allegations imp...
By George Dwyer Washington, DC 25 January 2006 watch Economic Forum report Business leaders from around the world are in Davos, Switzerland this week for the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum...
By Kate Woodsome Phnom Penh 09 January 2006 The World Bank has warned Cambodia that recent arrests of government critics could have a chilling affect on potential foreign investment. But pressure from...
By Joe Bavier Abidjan 08 January 2006 Chadian workers guide a pipe down a well in the Doba oil fields in southern Chad where a $3.7 billion project was officially inaugurated (File photo - Oct. 10, 20...