Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is confident that a deal on liberalising world trade can still be reached despite last week’s collapse of the latest round of talks in Geneva.
Iraq will be allowed to participate in the Beijing Olympics after the International Olympic Committee (IOC) yesterday rescinded its suspension of the country’s Olympic association.
Former Bosnian Serb President Radovan Karadzic is to be transferred today from a detention facility in Belgrade, Serbia, to The Hague to answer war crimes charges.
The Greater Manchester Police in the United Kingdom said they have launched an investigation into the theft of 3,000 passports and visas worth approximately 2.5 million pounds.
Human rights group, Amnesty International said the human rights situation in China has deteriorated, instead of improved, with its hosting of the Olympic Games this year.
At least 47 persons are now dead and more than 200 injured following several suicide bombings in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad and the northern city of Kirkuk this morning.
The authorities in the Metropolitan areas of India remain on high alert after a wave of synchronised bombs hit the western Indian city of Ahmedabad on the weekend.
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is urging his Labour Party to have confidence in policies, which he said would persuade voters to back the party at the next general election.
