Robert Zoellick, president of the World Bank, said the global financial system may have reached the point when a crisis cascades into a full-blown meltdown ...

World Bank leader urges modernization of G-7

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The Group of Seven industrialized countries is outmoded and should be replaced with a new entity that would include growing economies in Asia and Latin ...

Police work in Caribbean not always fun in the sun

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A lawsuit filed by Antigua's ousted police commissioner shows it's not always a tropical idyll when a veteran officer from Britain or Canada chooses ...

Group calls for free malaria treatment in Africa

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Making tests and treatment for malaria free dramatically increases the number of people who seek treatment ...

Vietnam charges 2 journalists over false reports

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Two journalists will go on trial after being charged with reporting false information about one of Vietnam's most high-profile corruption cases, state ...

Vancouver professors on aid mission to Afghanistan

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There are many struggles going on in Afghanistan, and two Vancouver professors are planning their own campaigns for the war-torn nation. ...

Crisis boosts urge to regulate in Europe

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In France, President Nicolas Sarkozy says the death knell has rung for freewheeling, U.S.-style capitalism. ...

Cambodia eyes nuclear plant for electricity

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Impoverished Cambodia hopes to build a nuclear power plant to meet its future energy needs and help offset its dependence on imported oil, Prime Minister ...

Global leaders pledge $4.5B to send kids to school

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A coalition of governments, charities and U.N. agencies pledged $4.5 billion on Thursday in an effort to get all the world's children in school by 2015. ...

Leaders try to rid world of malaria deaths by 2015

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Malaria as a mass child killer would be virtually eliminated globally by 2015 under a plan backed by nearly $3 billion in pledges, officials said Thursday. ...