London - Finance ministers and central bankers from the world's big economic powers moved Saturday to paper over sharp differences in their efforts to combat the global recession.
The Group of 20's (G20) top financial officials said they were committed "to deliver the scale of sustained effort necessary to restore growth" and to set the stricken global economy back on the path to recovery.
London - German Chancellor Angela Merkel German expressed confidence Saturday that the leaders of the world biggest economic powers would be able to bridge their differences and reach agreement at their summit next month on steps to combat the global recession.
Speaking at a joint press conference with British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, Merkel said she was "very optimistic that we can come up with good results" at the London summit of the Group of 20 (G20) states.
Tripoli - Dressed in a traditional Libyan brown cap and cloak punctuated by a broach in the shape of the African continent, Moamer Gaddafi looked completely in his element rushing from one conflict-beset African country to the next last week.
On Friday, Libya's 66-year-old "Brother Leader" triumphantly returned to the Niger capital, Niamey, with six hostages whose release he had just secured from the rebel Movement of the Niger People for Justice.
Washington - US President Barack Obama has abandoned holding detainees at Guantanamo Bay as "enemy combatants," and will instead use the authority to do so already provided by Congress and under international law, the US Justice Department said Friday.
In a document filed in federal court, the Justice Department broke with the Bush administration, which argued the president had the sole legal discretion as commander-in-chief to order the detention of captives in the war on terrorism.
Washington - The United States sought to reassure other countries Friday that its long-term economic prospects remained strong amid grumblings from China over its US holdings and increasing divisions with Europe over how to manage the global economic crisis.
President Barack Obama, who held a key meeting with his economic advisors at the White House, said the US potential for growth is "undiminished" and the world's largest economy would recover in the coming years.
Washington - The US government is urging Brazil to return an 8-year-old boy to his father in the United States in a case that could come up when US President Barack Obama holds his first meeting with his Brazilian counterpart on Saturday.
The boy lives with his stepfather in Brazil. A New Jersey court has ruled in favour of his father, David Goldman, and decided the boy, Sean, should be returned to the United States. But a Brazilian court has granted custody to his stepfather.
London - Finance ministers and central bankers from the world's big economic powers moved Saturday to paper over sharp differences in their efforts to combat the global recession.
London - German Chancellor Angela Merkel German expressed confidence Saturday that the leaders of the world biggest economic powers would be able to bridge their differences and reach agreement at their summit next month on steps to combat the global recession.
Tripoli - Dressed in a traditional Libyan brown cap and cloak punctuated by a broach in the shape of the African continent, Moamer Gaddafi looked completely in his element rushing from one conflict-beset African country to the next last week.
Washington - US President Barack Obama has abandoned holding detainees at Guantanamo Bay as "enemy combatants," and will instead use the authority to do so already provided by Congress and under international law, the US Justice Department said Friday.
Washington - The United States sought to reassure other countries Friday that its long-term economic prospects remained strong amid grumblings from China over its US holdings and increasing divisions with Europe over how to manage the global economic crisis.
Washington - The US government is urging Brazil to return an 8-year-old boy to his father in the United States in a case that could come up when US President Barack Obama holds his first meeting with his Brazilian counterpart on Saturday.
