Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe and his main political rival have failed to break their impasse on a power-sharing deal, but say talks have made progress.
John McCain has clashed with Democratic front-runner Barack Obama in a last-chance presidential debate, hoping to launch a comeback 19 days from election day.
North Korea has threatened to cut all ties with South Korea, citing what it called the hostile policy of the new conservative Seoul government.
A Costa Rican who mistakenly washed a winning lottery ticket worth 112,000 dollars lost a court appeal to obtain the prize, a report said Wednesday.
Hurricane Omar has been churning toward the Virgin Islands, gaining strength as authorities issued warnings across much of the northeastern Caribbean.
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has stolen the limelight at a European Union summit in Brussels by proposing new rules for global capitalism.
Thailand and Cambodia have exchanged fire on the border in a clash over disputed land which left two soldiers dead and several wounded.
Leaders of the 27 European Union nations have approved a rescue plan for the troubled financial sector, French President Nicolas Sarkozy announced.
Growing fears that the financial crisis will morph into a worldwide recession prompted a new bloodbath on stock markets on Wednesday.
Britt Lapthorne's father and brother will honour her memory with a quiet ceremony on the sea where her body was found in the Croatian resort of Dubrovnik.
Leaders of the Group of Eight (G8) major economies pledged in a joint statement to hold a global financial crisis summit "in the near future".
US President George W Bush says the US government intervention in banking did not threaten the free market and would revive the economy over the long haul.
Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi has threatened to torpedo the EU's climate change plans, branding them too big a burden for business amid the financial crisis.
An Austrian and a Briton have made history at Vienna's Spanish Riding School by becoming the first female riders to pass the entrance exam and trial period in 436 years.
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