DAVOS (Switzerland)- AFRICAN leaders made new calls on Friday for Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe to stand down with Senegal's President Abdoulaye Wade saying he had offered him asylum.
DAVOS - BRITISH Prime Minister Gordon Brown set out Friday his agenda for the G20 crisis summit in London, saying he would push for a new global financial architecture to prevent future turmoil.
Laying out his priorities for the meeting, which is a follow up to a crisis summit in November, he emphasised the need for beefed up global institutions and international coordination that reflected the inter-connected world.
NORTH KILLINGHOLME (England) - ENERGY workers staged unofficial walkouts on Friday when anger over the use of foreign workers at an oil refinery spread across the country.
Contractors at Total's Lindsey refinery here, in Lincolnshire, began a protest on Wednesday after a project to build a hydro desulphurisation unit was given to an Italian company.
NEW YORK - TATIANA Carvajal has a new job at a telecommunications company that lets her work from home, a benefit she says lured her to leave her former position, despite fewer bonuses and raises.
'It's really nice. It was one of the things that attracted me to it and made me decide to make that change,' said the mother of two who lives in Plaistow, New Hampshire.
