President meets today with G7 finance ministers to coordinate economic plans.
The U.S. removes North Korea from a terrorism blacklist after the Asian nation agrees to nuclear inspections.
The U.S. says North Korea has agreed to every nuclear inspection demand the Bush administration has sought, so the North is being dropped from a U.S. terrorism blacklist. The nation will allow experts into all of its nuclear sites. (Oct. 11)
China and Taiwan are to swap rare breeds of animals in a bid to warm up tense relations and quell political rivalries.
A hospital-themed restaurant in Latvia is raising eyebrows and pulse rates.
Austrian far-right politician Joerg Haider has been killed in a road accident in the Austrian province of Carinthia.
French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said Friday Russia had fulfilled its obligation to withdraw from buffer zones around Georgia's rebel regions, as planned by the EU-brokered ceasefire, adding that "a long road" still laid ahead.
Joerg Haider was driving a government car which went out of control and rolled down an embankment.
The United States and India have signed a civilian nuclear co-operation accord to end 34 years of US sanctions.
The United States and India signed a potentially lucrative agreement on Friday that would allow India to buy U.S. civil nuclear technology for the first time in three decades.
World News bus tour traversed thousands of miles through battleground states.
Hundreds of teachers, residents and police clash in Morelos state during a violent protest against a new education plan.
As Golden Mosque in Samarra is restored, some hope it will become symbol of reconcilation and recovery
Russian forces have withdrawn from buffer zones adjoining Georgia's breakaway regions, the EU's foreign policy chief has said.
New drug combinations are being tested to fight sleeping sickness in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Financial meltdown, Obama-McCain debate, voter registration fraud, balloon fire, pacific storms, gay marriage
IBM on Friday opened online doors to a virtual version of the famed Forbidden City in China that served for centuries as an exclusive realm for the nation's emperors. The US technology colossus spent more than three years working with Chinese officials and the Palace Museum to construct an interactive, animated replica of the 178-acre (720,000 square-meter) walled fortress in the Dongcheng District of Beijing.
Former Finnish President Martti Ahtisaari is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. CNN's Atika Shubert reports.
CNN's Frederik Pleitgen interviews 'Curveball' the man at the center of the 'biggest intelligence failure in history.'
Several hundred people, turned out to protest the British government's overnight effort to bailout financial institutions with $10 billion. The plan partly nationalizes major banks and guarantees a further $431 billion of bank loans. (Oct. 10)
And it's no fisherman's imaginary tale because a deep-dwelling fish line caught offshore Taiwan is several metres long.
European stocks plunged by around ten percent on Friday afternoon, after Wall Street started badly as part of a global equities rout.
European and Asian markets experience sharp drop in shares.
The former President of Finland Martti Ahtissari has won the Nobel Peace Prize for a long career of peace mediation work.
Global stock markets went into freefall Friday as pressure mounted for decisive action from world leaders to contain the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. Stock exchanges from Tokyo to London suffered more staggering losses -- adding to the turmoil for finance ministers from the Group of Seven richest nations to discuss in Washington.
Forty young couples from China recently married in their home country have confirmed their union in a joint ceremony in the romantic French town of Tours.
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has been introducing a tiger cub he was given as a 56th birthday present.
Finland's ex-president Martti Ahtisaari was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for his efforts to build a lasting peace from Africa and Asia to Europe and the Middle East. (Oct. 10)
Small factories in downtown Tokyo say the global financial crisis is hitting them hard, and is likely to hit them even harder by the end of the year.
A luxury chocolate called the "Credit Crunch" is proving a hit at one of the biggest department stores in London.
As European stocks tumble once again, markets turmoil is spilling over into the economy of Europe's powerhouse, Germany.
It's all in the family. Snake hunting. For generations the Mawjouds have been plying their dangerous trade in a town near Cairo. The job allows local labs to manufacture antidotes to snake venom and save hundreds of lives.
A 3.5 metre long fish is caught in the east coast of Taiwan.
The 73-year-old Tibetan spiritual leader underwent successful surgery to remove a gallstone. CNN's Sara Sidner reports.
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin gets a rare Amur tiger cub for his 56th birthday.
Leaders of an anti-government campaign in Thailand face reduced charges and are released by police.
Mike London hears how airlines plan to entertain us in the future.
Police have arrested two waiters and a security guard in connection with the killing of an Australian tourist in the Indian resort of Goa.