Washington - With only eight days left in office, US President George W Bush Monday wished his successor Barack Obama good luck in the White House and warned that his biggest task will be protecting the homeland.
"The most urgent threat that he'll have to deal with and other presidents after him will have to deal with is an attack on our homeland," Bush said. "I wish I could report that's not the case, but there's still an enemy out there that would like to inflict damage on America."
Washington - US President George W Bush asked Congress Monday to sign off on the remaining 350 billion dollars of the finance bailout package after receiving a request to release the funds from president-elect Barack Obama.
Bush had said earlier Monday that he was willing to do so if Obama, who takes office in eight days, asked the president to move forward on the 700-billion-dollar bailout for the embattled financial industry.
Prague - An ally of eurosceptic Czech President Vaclav Klaus launched a political party that aims to campaign against the European Union's Lisbon Treaty and run in June's European Parliament polls.
The party's leading founder Petr Mach, 33, a former aide to the president, chairs the Centre for Economics and Politics, a free- market thinktank founded by Klaus.
Washington - With only eight days left in office, US President George W Bush Monday delivered an emotional defence of the country's moral standing in the world, lashing out at Europe for its constant criticism and at countries that have refused to take detainees from Guantanamo military prison.
Bush, who is ending eight years in office with one of the lowest popularity ratings ever, stood before the White House press corps for what was billed as his last press conference, bridling under pointed questions about his shortcomings.
Harare/Johannesburg - The government of Zimbabwe on Monday deployed heavily-armed riot police in Harare amid fears that a deepening economic crisis might see people protesting in the streets.
Armoured cars and water cannons patrolled the capital while some stayed put at a park opposite the parliament building where opposition and civil organizations and soldiers have held regular protests.
Berlin - Heads of the three parties supporting German Chancellor Angela Merkel gathered in Berlin Monday for make-or-break talks on a fresh round of stimulus for the weakening German economy.
The Social Democrats (SPD) and Christian Social Union (CSU) have been wrangling for weeks with Merkel's Christian Democratic Union (CDU) over the package, with each of them eager to piggy-back long- standing party policies onto the huge surge of state spending.
Washington - With only eight days left in office, US President George W Bush Monday wished his successor Barack Obama good luck in the White House and warned that his biggest task will be protecting the homeland.
Washington - US President George W Bush asked Congress Monday to sign off on the remaining 350 billion dollars of the finance bailout package after receiving a request to release the funds from president-elect Barack Obama.
Prague - An ally of eurosceptic Czech President Vaclav Klaus launched a political party that aims to campaign against the European Union's Lisbon Treaty and run in June's European Parliament polls.
Washington - With only eight days left in office, US President George W Bush Monday delivered an emotional defence of the country's moral standing in the world, lashing out at Europe for its constant criticism and at countries that have refused to take detainees from Guantanamo military prison.
Harare/Johannesburg - The government of Zimbabwe on Monday deployed heavily-armed riot police in Harare amid fears that a deepening economic crisis might see people protesting in the streets.
Berlin - Heads of the three parties supporting German Chancellor Angela Merkel gathered in Berlin Monday for make-or-break talks on a fresh round of stimulus for the weakening German economy.
