Berlusconi fights to save coalition

Berlusconi fights to save coalition
Fears euro summit could miss final deal
Israel backs prisoner exchange with Cairo
Nahda to reach out to Tunisian secular rivals
Trade talks offer leadership test for Noda
Obama loses magic for young voters
Questions grow over Gaddafi killing
Surge of support for Irish ‘dragon’
Doubts over Abu Dhabi museums project
Gloom holds back US economy

Posted: 25 Oct 2011 10:39 AM PDT

Silvio Berlusconi's centre-right coalition government appears in danger of collapsing over EU demands for economic reform

Fears euro summit could miss final deal

Posted: 25 Oct 2011 11:45 AM PDT

Eurozone leaders are struggling to reach agreement on a much-anticipated deal to reverse their spiralling debt crisis

Israel backs prisoner exchange with Cairo

Posted: 25 Oct 2011 08:55 AM PDT

The Israeli government voted to back a prisoner exchange deal with Egypt that will see the release of a US-Israeli citizen arrested as a suspected spy in Cairo. In return, Israel will free 25 Egyptian citizens held in Israeli prisons

Nahda to reach out to Tunisian secular rivals

Posted: 25 Oct 2011 10:19 AM PDT

In first free vote of Arab spring, Islamist party repressed for decades by ousted Ben Ali regime claimed absolute majority on constituent assembly

Trade talks offer leadership test for Noda

Posted: 25 Oct 2011 10:16 AM PDT

Regional trade pact has awarded Yosihiko Noda the perfect opportunity to show the kind of decisive leadership that has been so sorely lacking

Obama loses magic for young voters

Posted: 25 Oct 2011 10:17 AM PDT

President faces a challenge to reinvigorate younger supporters, admitting that the next election 'will not be as sexy as the first one'

Questions grow over Gaddafi killing

Posted: 25 Oct 2011 08:05 AM PDT

Libyan officials said that Col Muammer Gaddafi, along with his son Mutassim and defence minister, were buried at dawn in an unmarked grave outside the city of Misurata

Surge of support for Irish ‘dragon’

Posted: 25 Oct 2011 04:01 AM PDT

Businessman Sean Gallagher has 40% support in the latest presidential poll. The election is being held alongside a referendum to amend the country's constitution

Doubts over Abu Dhabi museums project

Posted: 25 Oct 2011 08:41 AM PDT

Emirate's plans to build branches of the Guggenheim, Louvre and two others are hit by spending review and delay to key construction contract

Gloom holds back US economy

Posted: 25 Oct 2011 10:44 AM PDT

Fresh data on weakening US consumer confidence and falling home prices on Tuesday pointed to continuing difficulties in the world's largest economy