MONACO - FORMULA One championship leader Jenson Button put himself on pole position for a fifth win in six races after a manic Monaco Grand Prix qualifying session on Saturday.
Kimi Raikkonen, the 2007 world champion whose Ferrari team are threatening to walk away at the end of the season in a standoff over the 2010 rules, joined the Briton on the front row in a sign of the Italian team's resurgence after a dismal start to the year.
NEW DELHI - INDIA on Saturday named veteran Congress party leader Pranab Mukherjee to head the key finance ministry at a time when Asia's third-largest economy has been hit harder than expected by the global recession.
Mr S.M. Krishna, another party stalwart was chosen as the foreign minister by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to lead India's diplomatic push in a volatile region overshadowed by instability in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
SEOUL - EMBATTLED former President Roh Moo Hyun - a reformist shamed by a corruption scandal that tarnished his image as a 'clean' politician - jumped to his death while hiking in the mountains behind his rural home in South Korea, his lawyer said. He was 62.
Mr Roh was hiking in Bongha village when he threw himself off a steep cliff around 6.40am on Saturday, lawyer Moon Jae In told reporters in the southern city of Busan. He said Mr Roh left a suicide note.
BERLIN - SATURDAY was a big day for Germany with celebrations marking 60 years as a democracy, the election of a president and perhaps most importantly for many people, the climax of the football season.
A quarter of a million Germans gathered in Berlin to celebrate 60 years since the country emerged from the ruins of the Nazi era and World War II to lay the foundations for a democratic, peaceful and prosperous nation.
