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Franois Hollande has won France’s presidential election in a swing to the left at the heart of Europe that could start a pushback against austerity.
Nicolas Sarkozy and Francois Hollande will clash in their only television debate, seen as the conservative incumbent’s last chance to turn the odds.
France voted on Sunday in round one of a presidential ballot, against the backdrop of a feeble economy.
France’s Nicolas Sarkozy and Germany’s Angela Merkel are preparing to centralise control of EU members’ budgets in order to rein in their debt crisis.
The world’s leading economies are pressing Europe to act boldly within eight days to resolve the eurozone’s sovereign debt crisis.
Former IMF head Dominique Strauss-Kahn apologised to his country on Sunday for a sexual encounter with a hotel maid.
Former Finance Minister Trevor Manuel says he won’t run for IMF chief, making French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde a firm favourite.
G8 leaders will approve billions of dollars in aid to new Arab democracies on Friday as they end their summit.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy moved closer to victory on Wednesday in his showdown with unions over pension reform.
A strong aftershock struck Haiti on Wednesday, creating panic among people camping out in the capital’s streets after last week’s earthquake.
US troops protected aid handouts and the UN sought extra peacekeepers in Haiti on Monday as looters emptied shops as survivors received medical care.
World leaders pledged massive aid programmes to rebuild Haiti but desperate earthquake survivors are still waiting for food, water and medicine.
Haitian earthquake survivors fought over food and water and others fled their wrecked capital on Saturday as the US rolled out its relief effort.
As many as 200 000 people died in the earthquake that devastated Haiti and three-quarters of the capital will need to be rebuilt.
Thousands of people injured in Haiti’s massive earthquake spent a third night twisted in pain, lying on sidewalks and waiting for help.
In a glint of good news for a world rattled by the threat of a flu pandemic, new data showed fewer people have died in Mexico than first thought.
A new virus that has killed 149 people in Mexico was found further around the world on Tuesday and the specter of a pandemic began to hit air travel.
New Zealand and Israel confirmed cases of swine flu on Tuesday, the latest countries hit by a new strain that has killed up to 149 people in Mexico.
The world’s top epidemiologists fought on Tuesday to curb the spread of a new strain of flu that has killed up to 149 people in Mexico.
Governments acted to stem a possible flu pandemic on Monday, as a virus that has killed 103 people in Mexico was confirmed to have reached Europe.
