London - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown acknowledged Friday that the global financial crisis helped to turn round his political fortunes, as the ruling Labour Party celebrated a crucial by-election victory in his native Scotland.
The surprise win in Glenrothes, a constituency neighbouring his own in Fife, Scotland, amounted to a vote of confidence for the government's response to the economic downturn, Brown said in London Friday.
Manila - A fisherman was killed in a rare shark attack in the northern Philippines, a police report said Friday.
The report said 38-year-old Joel Bacud suffered shark bites in his rib cage and chest in a rare attack on Thursday off the town of Paoay in Ilocos Norte province, 435 kilometres north of Manila.
Moscow- President Dmitry Medvedev warned of the ongoing threat of terrorism on Friday as the death toll rose to 12 in a suspected suicide bombing of a minibus in the worst attack in over a year in Russia's troubled North Caucasus region.
Geneva - Children have been recruited as soldiers by rebel groups in the Democratic Republic of Congo and woman and girls have suffered sexual violence, UN officials said Friday.
"The rebels need to immediately release the children," said Veronique Taveau of UNICEF, the UN Children's Fund, adding that her organization was using the radio in Congo to issue this message to the fighters.
Barely 24 hours had passed since Barack Obama's election win and Italy's Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was, it seems, unable to resist making an unfortunate quip on the US president-elect's racial background.
The 72-year-old, three times Italian premier, had initially greeted Obama's election triumph in almost avuncular terms.
He would, he said, offer the 47-year-old US president-elect "some advice given my age and experience."
Beijing- Chinese leaders on Friday called for developed nations to take the lead on climate change and share technology to help developing nations to reduce carbon emissions.
Developed nations should "take responsibility and obligations in addressing climate change" and "alter their unsustainable way of life," Premier Wen Jiabao said in a speech at a UN-sponsored conference on climate change.
London - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown acknowledged Friday that the global financial crisis helped to turn round his political fortunes, as the ruling Labour Party celebrated a crucial by-election victory in his native Scotland.
Manila - A fisherman was killed in a rare shark attack in the northern Philippines, a police report said Friday.
Moscow- President Dmitry Medvedev warned of the ongoing threat of terrorism on Friday as the death toll rose to 12 in a suspected suicide bombing of a minibus in the worst attack in over a year in Russia's troubled North Caucasus region.
Geneva - Children have been recruited as soldiers by rebel groups in the Democratic Republic of Congo and woman and girls have suffered sexual violence, UN officials said Friday.
Rome - Oops he's done it again.
Beijing- Chinese leaders on Friday called for developed nations to take the lead on climate change and share technology to help developing nations to reduce carbon emissions.
