Snowden set to ‘co-operate’ with Germany

Snowden set to ‘co-operate’ with Germany
France under few illusions on US spying
Somalia central bank chief resigns
Berliners to vote in energy referendum
Loss of Juncker gives bankers tax jitters
US manufacturing data support taper case
Alarm over jihadist influence in Syria
Iran’s female musicians hope for change
Four killed as Israel targets Gaza tunnels
Singapore pawn shops shine in middle class pinch

Posted: 01 Nov 2013 09:19 AM PDT

Relations between the US and Germany have come under strain following claims the NSA bugged Angela Merkel's phone

Posted: 01 Nov 2013 07:32 AM PDT

Angry response to Washington seen as little more than political theatre in a country with a shrewd understanding of US surveillance capabilities

Somalia central bank chief resigns

Posted: 01 Nov 2013 11:55 AM PDT

Yussur Abrar resigns after seven weeks on the job, citing corruption concerns, in a blow for donors who have promised to pour billions of dollars to rebuild the failed state

Berliners to vote in energy referendum

Posted: 01 Nov 2013 10:24 AM PDT

In the latest initiative to decentralise energy production, the capital's residents are to decide whether to take over the electricity grid from Sweden's Vattenfall

Loss of Juncker gives bankers tax jitters

Posted: 01 Nov 2013 11:23 AM PDT

The end of the former prime minister's 18-year rule caused mild panic among financial services chiefs, but his successor has sought to reassure them

US manufacturing data support taper case

Posted: 01 Nov 2013 10:17 AM PDT

Index reaches highest level since April 2011. 'Underlying message appears to be that political turmoil in Washington had no impact on real' economy

Alarm over jihadist influence in Syria

Posted: 01 Nov 2013 08:33 AM PDT

Jihadist groups benefit from fragmented opposition to Bashar al-Assad, with Isis, al-Qaeda's fiercest offshoot, working to build local support

Iran’s female musicians hope for change

Posted: 01 Nov 2013 06:53 AM PDT

International attention has focused on the softening of his rhetoric on the nuclear crisis but within the Islamic Republic, many hope that there will also be an easing of restrictions on cultural life

Four killed as Israel targets Gaza tunnels

Posted: 01 Nov 2013 06:58 AM PDT

Israeli army moved in to destroy part of 1.7km-long tunnel dug by militants that was discovered last month, and was ambushed by an improvised bomb

Singapore pawn shops shine in middle class pinch

Posted: 01 Nov 2013 05:02 AM PDT

Cash-strapped southeast Asians are turning to pawnbrokers as an alternative to unsecured bank loans, and the group is the third to list in Singapore