JAKARTA - INDONESIAN investigators have evidence Islamist militants were plotting a 'bigger' attack than July's deadly hotel bombings in the capital Jakarta, the national police chief said on Monday.
Bambang Hendarso Danuri told the national parliament's security committee that police had uncovered documents indicating 'there would be an event bigger than the events in other places,' referring to past terror attacks.
SEOUL - LEADERS across Asia on Monday welcomed the historic shift in power after Japan's general election and sought closer ties with Tokyo, with only North Korea sounding a note of dissent.
Yukio Hatoyama's centre-left Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) won 308 seats in the 480-member lower house on Sunday, ending more than half a century of almost unbroken rule by the conservative Liberal Democratic Party.
OSLO - UN SECRETARY-GENERAL Ban Ki-moon responded to Norwegian criticism of his leadership on Monday by saying he had his own style and charisma.
He met Norway's Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg to discuss climate change during a visit that followed the leak of a scathing memo in which Norway's deputy UN Ambassador Mona Juul said Mr Ban suffered from 'a lack of charisma'.
BERLIN - GERMANY'S finance minister wants bankers to pay for the financial crisis, according to a letter sent to his G20 counterparts ahead of a September 4-5 meeting in London seen by AFP on Monday.
'The broad majority of our citizens - who are not among those responsible for the crisis - now face enormous financial burdens,' Peer Steinbrueck said in the letter dated August 27.
