Australian court: Vioxx doubled heart attack risk (AP)

Australian court: Vioxx doubled heart attack risk (AP)
SCENARIOS - Troubled paths for North Korea nuclear diplomacy
Anwar talks trial, Muslim issues
Killer waves caused panic
Pakistan police hopeful of recovering British boy (AP)
Microsoft to stay its China course despite Google spat (Reuters)
China's Wen says seeks peace, trade deal with Taiwan
How Asian Economies Can Compete And Grow
China's Wen says seeks peace, trade deal with Taiwan
US students rally over budget cuts
Lack of funds cost British soldiers' lives: report (AFP)
China's Panchen Lama vows to defend ethnic unity: report (AFP)
Wittes has gone from critic to central character in her role at State Department
Obama aides mull Sept. 11 suspect military trial
Gunman shoots two Pentagon security officers
China looks to North Korea nuclear talks before July
How Much Does The National Debt Matter?
China Bets Big On America
Trouble In Turkey
Scion Of Hamas

Posted: 04 Mar 2010 10:32 PM PST

AP - The once-popular painkiller Vioxx doubled the risk of heart attack and was unfit for consumption, an Australian court ruled Friday, awarding a man leading a class action suit against the drug's maker 287,000 Australian dollars ($259,000) in compensation.

SCENARIOS - Troubled paths for North Korea nuclear diplomacy

Posted: 04 Mar 2010 10:43 PM PST

SEOUL (Reuters) - A senior diplomat from China, the biggest benefactor for destitute North Korea, said on Friday that Beijing wanted long-stalled international talks on ending Pyongyang's atomic ambitions to restart by July.

Anwar talks trial, Muslim issues

Posted: 04 Mar 2010 07:36 PM PST

Malaysia's opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim, who is on trial in Kuala Lumpur on sodomy charges for a second time, speaks to journalist Wajahat Ali about the controversy and discusses the country's ethnic and religious conflicts as well as issues facing the Muslim world.

Killer waves caused panic

Posted: 04 Mar 2010 02:57 AM PST

BARCELONA, Spain -Terrified passengers told Thursday how three giant rogue waves smashed through the front windows of a Mediterranean cruise ship killing two people and causing mass panic on the liner.

Posted: 04 Mar 2010 09:54 PM PST

AP - Pakistani police questioned suspects in connection with the kidnapping of a 5-year-old British boy and were optimistic of a breakthrough in the case soon, an investigator said Friday.

Microsoft to stay its China course despite Google spat (Reuters)

Posted: 04 Mar 2010 10:02 PM PST

Reuters - Microsoft said on Friday it will stick to its development strategy for the China Internet search market regardless of the outcome of Google's high-profile spat with Beijing.

China's Wen says seeks peace, trade deal with Taiwan

Posted: 04 Mar 2010 10:12 PM PST

BEIJING (Reuters) - China said on Friday it wants to sign a broad economic agreement with Taiwan, which would slash import tariffs and open the banking sector, as part of a drive to promote peaceful ties with the self-ruled island.

How Asian Economies Can Compete And Grow

Posted: 04 Mar 2010 09:00 PM PST

The global recession raised some fundamental questions about the sustainability of export-led growth.

China's Wen says seeks peace, trade deal with Taiwan

Posted: 04 Mar 2010 09:37 PM PST

US students rally over budget cuts

Posted: 04 Mar 2010 09:54 PM PST

Protests are taking place across the nation against deep cuts in education funds.

Lack of funds cost British soldiers' lives: report (AFP)

Posted: 04 Mar 2010 09:53 PM PST

AFP - Gordon Brown's failure to properly fund the military as chancellor cost soldiers' lives in Iraq and Afghanistan, a former armed forces chief said Friday, a newspaper reported.

China's Panchen Lama vows to defend ethnic unity: report (AFP)

Posted: 04 Mar 2010 09:37 PM PST

AFP - China's controversial choice as the second highest Tibetan Buddhist leader, the Panchen Lama, has vowed to defend national and ethnic unity in his debut as a delegate to a parliamentary advisory body.

Wittes has gone from critic to central character in her role at State Department

Posted: 04 Mar 2010 09:00 PM PST

Tribal rugs, weak light, visitors sporting oil-barrel black mustaches -- the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs at the State Department wafts like a Middle East teahouse. But for Tamara Cofman Wittes, deputy assistant secretary for Near Eastern affairs, there are no desultory, hookah afternoons.

Obama aides mull Sept. 11 suspect military trial

Posted: 04 Mar 2010 09:44 PM PST

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Advisers to President Barack Obama are close to recommending that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the self-professed mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, be tried in a military tribunal instead of a civilian court, the Washington Post reported on Thursday.

Gunman shoots two Pentagon security officers

Posted: 04 Mar 2010 09:44 PM PST

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two Pentagon security officers were wounded on Thursday when a gunman shot them at the entrance to the giant U.S. Defence Department headquarters beside a commuter rail station, officials said.

China looks to North Korea nuclear talks before July

Posted: 04 Mar 2010 09:44 PM PST

BEIJING (Reuters) - China wants stalled six-party talks aimed at ending North Korea's nuclear arms activities to restart before July, a senior Chinese diplomat said, warning that progress was by no means certain.