Sandy reveals Atlantic City’s deeper woes

Sandy reveals Atlantic City’s deeper woes
Obama wins backing from NY mayor
Voters ready to call candidates’ bluff
Syria plan hits fierce resistance
China’s fire chief set to climb higher
Van Rompuy presses on with budget talks
China’s manufacturers return to growth
Nigeria seeks to beef up farming industry
Data point to sluggish US jobs market
Judges face drug tests in Indonesia

Posted: 01 Nov 2012 06:35 AM PDT

The city's 12 casinos will reopen soon, but the resort has been struggling to rebrand itself in the face of competition in other east coast cities and abroad

Obama wins backing from NY mayor

Posted: 01 Nov 2012 12:46 PM PDT

With just four days until election day, polls continue to show the two men running neck-and-neck, with the two men tied on 47.4 per cent support each

Voters ready to call candidates’ bluff

Posted: 01 Nov 2012 11:29 AM PDT

The Obama and Romney camps are each convinced their candidate will be president. They cannot both be right, so how is their self-confidence to be explained

Syria plan hits fierce resistance

Posted: 01 Nov 2012 10:45 AM PDT

Opposition to US-backed efforts highlights obstacles to uniting the uprising against Bashar al-Assad as country slides deeper into civil war

China’s fire chief set to climb higher

Posted: 01 Nov 2012 09:29 AM PDT

Good media sense, a strong grasp of finance and a willingness to tackle thorny problems make Wang Qishan a shoo-in for promotion

Van Rompuy presses on with budget talks

Posted: 01 Nov 2012 11:36 AM PDT

EU officials faces choice between compromising with British prime minister or isolating UK by striking a deal with the other 26 members of bloc

China’s manufacturers return to growth

Posted: 01 Nov 2012 10:01 AM PDT

Renewed optimism about the Chinese economy will form a much-wanted positive backdrop for the ruling Communist party at its Beijing congress next week

Nigeria seeks to beef up farming industry

Posted: 01 Nov 2012 11:46 AM PDT

A Nigerian governor offered another chance to dispossessed white Zimbabwean farmers whose farms were confiscated under its land reform programme

Data point to sluggish US jobs market

Posted: 01 Nov 2012 09:22 AM PDT

Friday's payrolls report is the last big economic indicator due before next week's presidential election, while manufacturing in September continued to expand

Judges face drug tests in Indonesia

Posted: 01 Nov 2012 09:50 AM PDT

'We've got a lot of information from the public which indicates the use of illicit drug among judges' says chairman of Judicial Commission