Libyans filed past Muammar Gaddafi's decomposing body for a fourth day on Monday, to see for themselves that the dictator was dead, while talks dragged on among emerging local factions over disposing of the corpse. Fighters guarding the darkening body and those of Gaddafi's son Mo'tassim and his former army chief had placed plastic sheeting
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Greek seamen ended on Monday a week-long anti-austerity strike which stranded ferries and passengers at ports, hitting the key tourism sector and disrupting food and fuel supplies to islands. Greece's Socialist government is defying labour union action and implementing further belt-tightening measures prescribed by the European Union and the International Monetary Fund in exchange for
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Nissan Motor Co will launch a plug-in hybrid vehicle developed in-house in 2015 as part of its new five-year environmental plan, Chief Executive Carlos Ghosn said on Monday. Japan's No.2 automaker also repeated its goal of selling a cumulative 1.5 million battery electric vehicles by the business year to end-March 2017 with alliance partner Renault
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Physicians treating Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez disputed on Saturday claims made by a former doctor of the socialist leader that he would die within two years from his undisclosed cancer. In the first official public comments on Chavez's health, three physicians dressed in laboratory coats at Venezuela's main military hospital said Salvador Navarrete was uninformed
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"Cutting Greek debt must be voluntary" — Greece's debt must be lowered and banks must share part of the burden, the country's prime minister George Papandreou said on Sunday, following a meeting of euro zone leaders to try to find a solution to the region's debt crisis. "Our object today is to ease the debt
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European Union leaders made some progress towards a strategy to fight the euro zone's sovereign debt crisis on Sunday, nearing agreement on bank recapitalisation and on how to leverage their rescue fund to try to stop bond market contagion. But final decisions were deferred until a second summit on Wednesday and sharp differences remain over
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Ruling party candidate Rosen Plevneliev is set to lead in the first round of Bulgaria's presidential election on Sunday, but probably will need a run-off to secure the position after a campaign marred by protests and violence. It will tighten the centre-right GERB's grip on power in the European Union's poorest country, though polls show
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Argentina's center-leftist president, Cristina Fernandez, won a landslide re-election victory on Sunday as voters credited her unconventional policies for a long economic boom. The result marks a dramatic change of fortunes for a leader who some critics once said might have to leave power early as angry protests by farmers and middle-class voters battered her
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Tropical Storm Rina formed in the western Caribbean Sea on Sunday and put Honduras on alert for severe weather in the next few days, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said. The swirling mass of thunderstorms was centered about 200 km northeast of Cabo Gracias a Dios on the border of Nicaragua and Honduras and had
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More than 200 people were confirmed killed and hundreds more feared dead on Monday after an earthquake hit parts of southeast Turkey, with rescue teams working until morning to free survivors crying out for help from under rubble. Interior Minister Idris Naim Sahin said the 7.2 magnitude quake on Sunday killed 100 in the city
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