Venezuelan President, Hugo Chavez has announced plans to improve the terms of the Petro Caribe oil agreement with Jamaica and several other Caribbean countries.
Police have widened an investigation into allegations of corruption against Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to also look at whether he may have committed fraud.
Pakistan and the United Nations have agreed in principle to set up a UN panel to investigate the killing of Pakistani ex-Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.
41 people are now dead and more than 140 injured after a suicide bomber reportedly crashed a car full of explosives into the gates of the Indian embassy in the Afghan capital.
A United States federal judge has temporarily blocked a new Florida law that would have imposed a stiff bond and other restrictions on travel agencies booking trips to Cuba.
Zimbabwe\'s opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai has rejected forming a unity government if he is not recognised as the winner of presidential elections.
The authorities in Iraq said security contractors working in the country would no longer receive immunity from prosecution in that nation under a deal being brokered by Iraqi and US officials.
The owner of the World Trade Center in the United States abandoned the timetable for rebuilding work at the site of the 9/11 attacks, saying it was not realistic.
