Paris - US President Barack Obama and his French counterpart, Nicolas Sarkozy, were to meet in the French city of Strasbourg on Friday for their first head-to-head meeting since Obama's election to the White House.
The meeting was to take place at lunchtime, ahead of a NATO summit in Strasbourg and in the German cities of Kehl and Baden-Baden.
Paris - Costa Rica, Malaysia, the Philippines and Uruguay have all been tagged by the OECD as countries not complying with international guidelines designed to stop countries from acting as tax havens.
The list hopes to build momentum on pledges made at Thursday's G20 summit in London, where world leaders again proclaimed the need to crack down on tax havens, countries where banking secrecy allows people to hide income from their nation's tax authorities.
Strasbourg, France - NATO heads of state and government headed to Strasbourg and Baden Baden on Friday to attend a summit marking the alliance's 60th birthday.
It will be the first NATO summit with new US President Barack Obama, who like a number of other leaders was due to arrive directly from London after attending a G20 meeting in the British capital.
Albanian President Sali Berisha and Croatian Prime Minister Ivo Sanader were also set to make their debuts at the high table after their countries officially became fully fledged NATO members this week.
Strasbourg, France - Twelve people were arrested after violent anti-NATO protests in the French city of Strasbourg on Thursday, one day before leaders from the
28-member alliance were due to meet there, a police spokesman said.
Demonstrators hurled rocks, broke windows and set trash bins on fire before police fired tear gas canisters and order was restored.
The demonstration turned violent after police prevented some 600 protesters from marching into downtown Strasbourg.
Strasbourg, France - Success in Afghanistan and improved relations with Russia are vital to the future of NATO, the alliance's secretary general, Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, said Thursday in the French city of Strasbourg.
"We need to succeed in Afghanistan," since "success in Afghanistan will have an impact on how NATO is perceived in the rest of the world," de Hoop Scheffer told a group of students from around the world on the eve of a two-day NATO summit in France and Germany.
Strasbourg, France - United St
Paris - US President Barack Obama and his French counterpart, Nicolas Sarkozy, were to meet in the French city of Strasbourg on Friday for their first head-to-head meeting since Obama's election to the White House.
Paris - Costa Rica, Malaysia, the Philippines and Uruguay have all been tagged by the OECD as countries not complying with international guidelines designed to stop countries from acting as tax havens.
Strasbourg, France - NATO heads of state and government headed to Strasbourg and Baden Baden on Friday to attend a summit marking the alliance's 60th birthday.
Strasbourg, France - Twelve people were arrested after violent anti-NATO protests in the French city of Strasbourg on Thursday, one day before leaders from the 
Strasbourg, France - Success in Afghanistan and improved relations with Russia are vital to the future of NATO, the alliance's secretary general, Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, said Thursday in the French city of Strasbourg.
