Africa/International

Thanks to Naomi Campbell's clueless testimony before the U.N. Special Court for Sierra Leone in The Hague, the manufactured non-scandal of "blood diamonds" is once again being trundled before the collected gullibility of the world. The…

The U.S. dollar approached a 15-year low against the yen on Friday and fell against the euro after news that the United States shed twice as many jobs in July as expected added to worries about the economic recovery. Analysts said the weak…

President Barack Obama's top energy advisor said Sunday that BP will pay a "large financial penalty" for the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster but refused to say if criminal negligence charges will be pursued. With the ruptured Macondo well all…

United Arab Emirates – Bahrain's foreign minister said Sunday the country has no plans to follow its Persian Gulf neighbors in banning some BlackBerry services because security fears do not outweigh the technological benefits. His comments…

A "gob-smacked" pensioner has spoken of how she comforted her bingo-losing husband with some good news of her own - a near £300,000 TV game show win. "I ain't won owt", grumbled Keith Mullins, 69, to wife Pamela as he returned to the…

A British couple have been murdered in Pakistan because of a dispute over a wedding, it has been revealed. Taxi driver Gul Wazir and his wife, named locally as Begum, had reportedly visited the country to resolve the row which is believed…

Art works that once adorned the British and European offices of former banking powerhouse Lehman Brothers are to be auctioned off next month, the bank's administrators said Sunday. Works by the likes of Lucian Freud and Gary Hume and the…

The number of Ghanaians in the UK said to be among immigrants involved in sham marriages in that country is the highest. A Press Association report says a former immigration officer has made claims that government officials turned a blind…

After years of agreeing to moderate pay hikes to safeguard jobs, Germany's powerful unions are gearing up for a dramatic change of strategy, bidding for wage gains that bosses say could derail the recovery. Heavily dependent on exporting…

A group of Hong Kong filmmakers have started shooting what they claim will be the world's first 3D pornographic film, a report said Sunday. The 3.2 million-US-dollar '3-D Sex and Zen: Extreme Ecstasy', set for release in May, has already…