Spy claims hurt trade talks, says Merkel

Spy claims hurt trade talks, says Merkel
Paris police launch manhunt for gunman
US hospitals look to pay for poorest patients
RBI chief plans ‘dramatic’ overhaul
Details of Nairobi mall terror plot emerge
Restless Chile awaits returning Bachelet
Figueres urges coal industry to go green
Yanukovich: Ukraine’s enigma
Libya’s oil production hostage to unrest
Top Syrian rebel commander killed

Posted: 18 Nov 2013 11:14 AM PST

Chancellor urges Washington to provide 'a clarification' of its alleged mass surveillance as 'a basis for building new transatlantic trust'

Paris police launch manhunt for gunman

Posted: 18 Nov 2013 09:46 AM PST

Attacker shot and wounded a photographer's assistant at Libération, and opened fire on Société Générale before escaping in a hijacked car

US hospitals look to pay for poorest patients

Posted: 18 Nov 2013 05:50 AM PST

Left carrying a $40bn-a-year bill, US hospitals are considering buying healthcare plans for the poorest uninsured patients

RBI chief plans ‘dramatic’ overhaul

Posted: 18 Nov 2013 09:47 AM PST

Governor says there will be an expanded role for foreign groups, more licences for domestic private sector institutions and a push to shake up state-backed banks

Details of Nairobi mall terror plot emerge

Posted: 18 Nov 2013 09:53 AM PST

Findings indicate attack was well-planned over course of many months and went on under radar of city bristling with foreign spy networks

Restless Chile awaits returning Bachelet

Posted: 18 Nov 2013 10:19 AM PST

Expectations are high that former president will be able to push through laws to pacify widespread discontent with high levels of inequality

Figueres urges coal industry to go green

Posted: 18 Nov 2013 06:49 AM PST

UN climate chief calls for coal industry to diversify towards cleaner energy, saying fuel has 'unacceptably high cost to human and environmental health'

Yanukovich: Ukraine’s enigma

Posted: 18 Nov 2013 05:30 AM PST

EU foreign ministers are fretting over why – after months of talks – Ukraine has failed to satisfy conditions for an association and trade pact

Libya’s oil production hostage to unrest

Posted: 18 Nov 2013 02:01 AM PST

Oil executives find themselves powerless against politically motivated shutdowns as Tripoli avoids armed response amid fears of protests escalating

Top Syrian rebel commander killed

Posted: 18 Nov 2013 08:54 AM PST

Death of Abdelqader Saleh, the popular head of leading rebel group Liwaa al-Tawhid, is a blow to the armed opposition to President Bashar al-Assad