- Recession, rain mar opening day
- Russia vetoes UN mission extension
- Obama urges healthcare overhaul
- 'Deeply troubled' Obama urges respect for democracy
- Italy agrees to accept three detainees
- Guardian Council accepts recount, but no new vote
- Heads of state pay respects to Bongo
- Ahmadinejad blasts US at Russia summit
- European car sales fall for thirteenth straight month
- Russia hosts summit to build 'multipolarity' in global politics
- Japan bans all trade with Pyongyang over nuclear tests
- Big four emerging economies meet for first summit
- Germany 'assumes' two hostages are dead
- Singh, Zardari meet for first time since Mumbai attacks
- Court urged to shut down Church of Scientology
- Dissenting Iranian voices resonate online
- Supporters of Mousavi and Ahmadinejad stage rallies
- Sarkozy denounces 'fraud' in Iran elections
- England star Steven Gerrard could retire in 2013
- Russia's industrial output is still falling sharply
- Prime Minister Yehude Simon says he will resign in coming weeks
- Obama says nuclear-armed North Korea is unacceptable
- Government says jailed US journalists admitted smear campaign
- Jankovic and Kuznetsova out in first round at Eastbourne
- Ericsson 4 wins Volvo Ocean Race
- MySpace to slash one third of its US staff
- Attack and counter-attack on the Web
- Army attacks al Qaeda base, security forces say
- Single regulator for big banks under Obama's reform plan
- Unrest in Iran seen from abroad