WASHINGTON - THE United States has proposed a US$770 million (S$1 billion) emergency food aid package for poor countries in response to rising food prices across the world.
LONDON - BRITAIN'S ruling Labour Party slumped to its worst local election defeat in 40 years yesterday. The humiliating result is a bitter blow to Prime Minister Gordon Brown in his first test at the polls since taking over from Mr Tony Blair.
DUNGEON GIRL 'MAY NOT RECOVER' AMSTETTEN (Austria): Ms Kerstin Fritzl, 19, who lived her entire life as a prisoner of her father in a subterranean dungeon, has suffered multiple organ failure and is in a coma from which medical experts say she will not recover.
KUWAIT CITY - EUROPE is pressuring sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) more than the United States and may be discriminatory in enacting new investment rules, says the chairman of Dubai World, an investment group with assets of more than US$100 billion (S$136 billion).
