CULTURE AND SPORT

Nine men appeared in a London court Monday charged with terrorism offences including plotting bombings in Britain, a week after they were arrested in pre-dawn raids.

The explosion of an Indian space rocket is likely to hit the country's efforts to push further into the global market for launching commercial satellites, experts warned Sunday.

The UN World Food Programme said it had suspended food distribution in a lawless Pakistani tribal district where a woman suicide bomber killed more than 40 people.

Books about Vietnam war written by two US veterans Larry Heinemann and Bruce Weigl, who served in the US-Vietnam war from 1967-68, hit shelves mid-December.

A sea of yellow and red fans witnessed an explosive first-leg AFF Suzuki Cup 2010 final that saw Malaysia storm to a sensational 3-0 win over arch-rivals Indonesia.

A winter storm in the US Northeast stranded thousands of airline, train and bus passengers.

Circuit advisor Hans Geist insists that the FIA are not looking to include Vietnam on the F1 calender despite the Austrian visiting the country.

Ivory Coast strongman Laurent Gbagbo warned West African leaders any attempt to oust him could ruin the regional economy and trigger civil war.

Americans in the deep south were treated to a very rare white Christmas, and several hundred flights were cancelled amid foul weather.

More than 80 were killed in a suicide bombing on a World Food Programme project and a series of helicopter raids against militant camps in northwestern Pakistan.

China plans to invest 30 billion dollars on water conservation projects in 2011 to reduce the impact of natural disasters on grain production, state media said Saturday.

Thousands of travellers were stranded at the main Paris airport Friday after hundreds of Christmas flights were cancelled.

Rome was on high alert on Christmas Eve after parcel bomb blasts left two staffers at the Chilean and Swiss embassies in the Italian capital badly injured.

Pope Benedict XVI says that God is faithful to his promises but often surprises us by how he fulfils them.

Russia was due Friday to give initial approval to a historic nuclear arms pact with the US that opens the way for the former Cold War foes' cooperation.

South Korea's military Thursday held a live-fire drill involving tanks, artillery and jet fighters, in a major show of strength.

The long list of trade disputes between the United States and China lengthened further, as Washington asked the WTO to examine subsidies to the Chinese wind power sector.

India's animators are hoping that a film starring two of Bollywood's biggest stars will revive the sector's fortunes, after earlier efforts to popularise the cartoon genre fell flat.

Oil prices spiked to fresh two-year highs on Wednesday as traders reacted to news of plunging crude reserves in the United States.