Dublin needs aid, minister admits Posted: 18 Nov 2010 12:52 PM PST The Irish Republic's Finance Minister says the country has nothing to be ashamed of on policy - but it now needs help.  
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GM automaker makes market return Posted: 18 Nov 2010 12:36 PM PST US government's role as majority shareholder ends as car manufacturer raises $20.1bn from markets.  
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Russia wonders why U.S. would stop START Posted: 18 Nov 2010 12:42 PM PST |
Man shot in legs in city attack Posted: 18 Nov 2010 12:40 PM PST Police are appealing for information after a 25-year-old man has been shot in both legs in a suspected paramilitary style attack.  
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NY congressman 'must be censured' Posted: 18 Nov 2010 12:32 PM PST New York congressman Charles Rangel should be censured for ethics violations, the top lawyer for the US House ethics panel says.  
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Hariri murder indictments "in months": U.N. envoy Posted: 18 Nov 2010 12:34 PM PST UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - A senior U.N. official said on Thursday he expected a court probing the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri to issue indictments "in the coming months."  
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Madagascar plot stokes pressure on Rajoelin Posted: 18 Nov 2010 12:35 PM PST ANTANANARIVO (Reuters) - An attempt by a handful of dissident troops to take over the government of Madagascar appeared to be foundering on Thursday but their rebellion increased pressure on President Andry Rajoelina to step down.  
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Anti-UN protests erupt in Haitian capital Posted: 18 Nov 2010 12:10 PM PST Like cholera itself, Haiti's protests against the United Nations spread to the capital, Port-au-Prince, as angry people took to the streets on Thursday, demanding the global body get out of their country.  
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Donald Trump eyes US presidency Posted: 18 Nov 2010 11:58 AM PST Property tycoon Donald Trump says he is considering running for US president as a Republican in 2012, in an interview with ABC News.  
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Probe flew by 'snow globe comet' Posted: 18 Nov 2010 11:44 AM PST Analysis of the data gathered by the Deep Impact probe at Comet Hartley reveals the object was surrounded by a cloud of ice chunks and fluffy snow particles.  
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Target, Afghani Hero Dog, Is Euthanized by Mistake in U.S. Posted: 18 Nov 2010 12:20 PM PST Target survived a suicide bombing, but after escaping from his adoptive family in Arizona, a shelter mistakenly administered a lethal injection.  
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Despite friendly rhetoric, suspicion abounds between Afghan and U.S. troops Posted: 18 Nov 2010 11:25 AM PST |
On Baseball: Hernandez Captures Cy Young With 13 Wins Posted: 18 Nov 2010 11:58 AM PST Felix Hernandez of the Seattle Mariners had the fewest victories ever by a Cy Young Award-winning starter in a full season.  
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Cholera unrest hits Haiti capital Posted: 18 Nov 2010 12:44 PM PST Police fire tear gas into a camp for displaced people as riots accusing UN troops of bringing cholera turn violent.  
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Holyrood 'loses tax varing power' Posted: 18 Nov 2010 12:06 PM PST The Scottish Government has lost its tax varying powers for the next three years, it is announced.  
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First planet found from outside Milky Way Posted: 18 Nov 2010 11:03 AM PST Astronomers claim to have discovered the first planet originating from outside our own galaxy, the Milky Way.  
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Cholera 'set to spread' in Haiti Posted: 18 Nov 2010 11:11 AM PST Haiti's cholera epidemic is unpredictable and the quake-devastated country is vulnerable to further outbreaks, warn US health experts.  
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Afghan Soviet-era helicopters fly again Posted: 18 Nov 2010 09:27 AM PST Newsnight's Diplomatic editor Mark Urban has been to Afghanistan to see troop development first hand, including a return to the helicopters, and pilots, of the Soviet-era.  
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Cholera protesters in Haiti capital stone U.N. patrol Posted: 18 Nov 2010 11:04 AM PST PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - Several hundred protesters stoned a U.N. patrol and yelled anti-U.N. slogans in Haiti's capital Port-au-Prince on Thursday as anger spread over a cholera epidemic that is killing dozens of people every day.  
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G.O.P. Senators Seem Unlikely to Support Treaty Vote Posted: 18 Nov 2010 10:50 AM PST President Obama escalated the pressure on the Senate to approve a new arms control treaty with Russia before the end of the year.  
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