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France's Socialist party is to elect a woman as its leader in a vote that pits Segolene Royal, the former presidential candidate, against Martine Aubry, the architect of the country's 35-hour working week.
21/11/2008
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US economic and political power is set to decline over the next two decades and the world will grow more dangerous as the battle for scarce resources intensifies, a report by US intelligence agencies has predicted.
21/11/2008
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Thailand's public sector unions have threatened to call a nationwide strike next week unless the current government quits.
21/11/2008
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The US attorney-general Michael Mukasey, has collapsed while making a speech in Washington DC.
21/11/2008
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Mexican emigration has fallen by 42 per cent during the last two years, according to a government study.
21/11/2008
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A US court has convicted a Syrian-born arms dealer for plotting to sell arms, including anti-aircraft rockets, to Colombian rebels.
21/11/2008
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A US judge has ruled that five Algerians held in the US prison facility at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba for almost seven years had been illegally detained and must be freed.
21/11/2008
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The accused head of a Colombian pyramid finance scheme has been captured and extradited from Panama to face charges over a growing financial scandal that has sparked deadly clashes and caused thousands of investors to lose money.
21/11/2008
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Vladimir Putin, the Russian prime minister, has said in a keynote speech that the country's large foreign currency, gold reserves and anti-crisis measures would prevent a sharp fall in the rouble.
20/11/2008
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The Sri Lankan military says it has overrun a strategically important Tamil Tiger defensive line in the north of the country.
20/11/2008
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The European Union has said it will take "appropriate measures" to punish Mauritania after failing to restore constitutional rule, the French foreign ministry has said.
20/11/2008
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An attack on anti-government protesters occupying the Thai prime minister's office has left one protester dead and 23 wounded.
20/11/2008
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French judicial officials have charged a key aide of Rwanda's president over the assassination of a former president of the country, amid national protests over her arrest.
20/11/2008
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South Korean activists have sent another batch of propaganda leaflets across the border into North Korea, ignoring calls from the South Korean government to stop the airdrops which it says are inflaming already tense relations on the peninsula.
20/11/2008
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Barack Obama, the US president-elect, has chosen Tom Daschle, the Democratic former majority leader of the US senate, to be health and human services secretary in his new administration, US media sources say.
20/11/2008
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