![]() Telegraph.co.uk | Profile: First EU President Herman van Rompuy BBC News The EU's first permanent president, Belgian Prime Minister Herman van Rompuy, is a camera-shy man who has been catapulted from relative obscurity. After his selection at a Brussels summit, he stressed his credentials as a consensus politician and made ... Lady Ashton: Principled, charming ... or just plain lucky Unlike Lord Mandelson, Baroness Ashton 'doesn't know any oligarchs' The new EU chiefs: Rompuy-pumpy and Cathy Who? |
![]() BBC News | Gordon Brown visits flood-stricken Cumbria Times Online Gordon Brown today visited flood-stricken communities in Cumbria hit by the heaviest rainfall since records began. The torrential downpour has destroyed homes, businesses and claimed the life of a policeman, swept away as he helped motorists off a ... Prime minister Brown meets Cumbria flood victims Britain's Brown visits flood-hit Cumbria Flood-hit Cumbria braces for more rain |
![]() Washington Post | China mine explosion kills 42, traps 66 Reuters HARBIN, Nov 21 (Reuters) - A gas explosion killed 42 miners in a Chinese mine on Saturday and 66 remain trapped hundreds of metres (yards) underground after the latest accident to hit the world's deadliest mining industry, ... 66 still trapped, as China mine blast toll hits 42 Death toll rises in Chinese mine explosion China Coal-Mine Explosion Death Toll Rises to 42 |
![]() TIME | UN official urges countries to learn from Cuba on children's protection Xinhua HAVANA, Nov. 20 (Xinhua) -- The representative of UNICEF, or the UN Children's Fund, in Cuba said here Friday that Cuba is among the countries that have best implemented the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, and that countries in the world ... Children's Rights Still Violated 20 Years After Convention UN marks 20 years of Convention on Rights of the Child UNICEF: world's children face lottery |
![]() Times LIVE | Six powers 'disappointed' as Iran rejects nuclear deal BBC News The six major powers negotiating with Iran over its nuclear programme have said they are disappointed with Iran's response to an offer of a deal. After talks in Brussels, the six said Iran had not responded positively to the offer, which would allow it ... 6 world powers press Iran on nuclear issue Frustration as Iran Stalls on Deal France rejects Iran's new demand on nuclear program |
![]() Sydney Morning Herald | Life in Jerusalem's city of three faiths BBC News Jerusalem's Old City is a district containing a number of holy sites venerated by Muslims, Christians and Jews. The bbc's Heather Sharp, who moved into a home within its walls last year, reports on daily life in a dense tangle of narrow, ... Let's share power, says moderate Arab In Jerusalem, two sides to a holy site Why Jerusalem matters on the road to peace |
![]() The Associated Press | Sri Lanka to relax Tamil camp restrictions ABC Online Internally displaced people (IDPs) walk inside the Ananda Kumarswami camp at Manik Farm in northern Sri Lanka on August 19, 2009. (Reuters, file photo) The Sri Lankan government has announced that from the beginning of next month all Tamil refugees ... Sri Lanka 'to free Tamil refugees' Sri Lanka Tamil refugee camps 'to be opened next month' Sri Lanka allows freedom of movement for war displaced civilians |
![]() CBC.ca | UN condemns Iran's response to post-election unrest BBC News A key UN committee has voted to approve a non-binding resolution condemning Iran for its crackdown on protesters following June's disputed elections. The resolution also repeated annual criticism of Iran's human rights record, including the use of ... 'Israeli supporters vote for anti-Iran resolution' UN committee targets Iran's rights violations UN panel condemns Iran for post-election crackdown |
![]() Sydney Morning Herald | I know I'm like a ghost: a cry for help before dying Sydney Morning Herald FANS and friends expressed shock yesterday at the death of a South Korean model who was found hanged in her central Paris apartment. Daul Kim's friends remembered her talent and the difficulties she had trying to battle depression, swamping her ... South Korean model Daul Kim found dead in Paris Supermodel Daul Kim found hanged after posting web messages Korean supermodel found hanged in Paris: embassy |
![]() Los Angeles Times | Afghan official escapes attack, 4 guards killed Xinhua KABUL, Nov. 20 (Xinhua) -- Afghan parliament member Abdul Rasoul Sayaf on Friday escaped a roadside bomb attack in capital city Kabul, but his four bodyguards were killed and six injured. Witnesses said the bomb hit Sayaf's convoy in Paghman district, ... Suicide bomber kills 16 in western Afghanistan Afghan MP Escapes Assassination Attempt in Kabul Motorbike bomber kills 12 in Afghan town |