US campaigns duel over storm-ravaged New Orleans
White House challenger Mitt Romney has toured storm-ravaged New Orleans in a bid to burnish his presidential credentials ahead of his November battle with Barack Obama.
01 September 2012 16:02
Obama campaign launches Romney counter attack
President Barack Obama's team on Friday ripped into Republican Mitt Romney's big convention speech, complaining it lacked a governing vision and disguised plans to punish the middle class.
Australia says killings will not speed up Afghan exit
Australia said Friday it would complete its mission in Afghanistan despite suffering its deadliest day in combat since the Vietnam War and the prospect of further deaths caused by rogue soldiers.
Rappers lead underground monitors at Angola polls
Through an unmarked door, down a passageway and behind a padlocked metal gate lies a room littered with cell phones that is the nerve centre of an underground effort by Angolan rappers to monitor Friday's vote.
31 August 2012 17:32
Mexico court rejects bid to scrap presidential vote
Mexico's electoral tribunal rejected Thursday a left-wing bid to overturn the presidential election win of Enrique Pena Nieto, as protesters shouted "fraud" and threw stones at the court.
Jailed ex-PM Tymoshenko loses Ukraine appeal
Ukraine's high court on Wednesday rejected jailed ex-premier Yulia Tymoshenko's appeal of her abuse of power conviction despite threats of being cut off from Western nations that view the case as political.
IAEA report to detail Iranian nuclear advances
A new UN atomic agency report due Thursday or Friday is expected to detail how Iran is continuing to expand its nuclear programme despite painful sanctions and talk of Israeli military action.
29 August 2012 18:23
Nazarbayev named reasons of global nuclear security erosion
First of all, there is no universal regime of non-proliferation of nuclear weapons; new nuclear and some so-called threshold countries remain outside of the existing Treaty: Nursultan Nazarbayev.