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Roderick Thomson / AFP 10:25 PM | November 20,2009
Van Rompuy said he regretted giving up the Belgian premiership, but accepted the challenge of managing member states frequently at odds over competing national agendas
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Martin Dokoupil / Reuters 06:54 PM | November 20,2009
The IMF has urged countries to refrain from slashing extraordinarily lax policies in what is referred to as an ‘exit’ strategy
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Richard Ingham / AFP 10:08 PM | November 19,2009
Its 104-page document emphasizes that population policies be driven by support for women, access to family planning, reproductive health and other voluntary measures
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Alister Doyle and Anna Ringstrom / Reuters 10:31 PM | November 18,2009
The US is the second greenhouse gas emitter behind China, but US carbon-capping legislation is stalled in its Senate
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Alan Wheatley and Simon Rabinovitch / Reuters 12:33 AM | November 18,2009
Strauss-Kahn sees basket of currencies replacing the dollar; restates need for a stronger yuan
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Reuters 05:57 PM | November 16,2009
US President Barack Obama, whose difficulty in passing a domestic climate change package has been one of the main obstacles to a global deal, quickly fell in behind the plan
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Reuters 02:53 PM | November 12,2009
India has slammed the so-called “Australian Proposal” on climate change that seeks to remove the distinction between rich and poorer nations, calling on both sides to cut emissions
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Manny Mogato / Reuters 02:40 PM | November 12,2009
Says, Suu Kyi had every right, as any person should have to participate in the active democratic life of her country
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NYT 11:03 PM | November 11,2009
Shah’s appointment, if confirmed by the US Senate, would bring an end to 10 months of leadership drift at the agency that has deeply frustrated Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton
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Patricia Wilson and Matt Spetalnick / Reuters 10:26 PM | November 11,2009
Says, the US Senate would not pass climate change legislation before Copenhagen
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Reuters 11:27 AM | November 09,2009
Ida was expected to weaken gradually on Monday as it heads toward some of the oil and gas production facilities in the central Gulf, the US National Hurricane Center said
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PTI 03:50 PM | November 08,2009
The world’s leading developed and emerging economies committed to have peer review and “more specific policy recommendations” in place by next November
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Reuters 10:08 AM | November 06,2009
Global Campus Management Group, which owns four private colleges in Sydney and Melbourne, was placed into voluntary administration on Thursday
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Reuters 03:52 PM | November 03,2009
“My government will be for all Afghans and all those who want to work with me are most welcome,” Karzai said in a nationally televised victory speech
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Susan Fenton / Reuters 11:33 PM | October 28,2009
Confidence in most of Europe remains low, rises in the US for the first time since 1977
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Rod Mcguirk / AP 10:16 PM | October 26,2009
Escalating fuel costs, climate change and falling incomes take number of the hungry to highest ever
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Reuters 01:09 PM | October 26,2009
The upturn in growth has also put China on track to meet its budget targets after a difficult start to the year, giving it the fiscal firepower to continue supporting the economy
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Caren Bohan / Reuters 12:05 PM | October 21,2009
The US President also expressed frustration at criticism he has taken over the unpopular $700 billion bailout of the financial industry
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Reuters 01:58 PM | October 19,2009
Beyond 2014, the upper limits of industrial growth rates will make it impossible for market economies to meet the lower carbon targets required to keep global warming below 2 degrees Celsius, said the report by Climate Risk Ltd
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David Lawder and Axel Bugge / Reuters 10:43 AM | October 19,2009
G30 said that nations should quickly change the way the Fund is governed to reflect shifts in global economic power, and move to enhance its ability to provide reserves to calm future crises
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