Ex energy giant Enron has unexpectedly put its top assets up for sale. The sale of the assets - which include key pipelines - would leave almost nothing behind and would be tantamount to liquidation, sources familiar with the firm said.
Delegates at the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg have called for urgent action to provide clean drinking water and decent sanitation to billions of the world's poorest people. According to the United Nations, 1.
The BBC's former Belgrade correspondent, Jacky Rowland, has clashed with former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic while giving evidence at his war crimes trial. She was cross-examined by Mr Milosevic in a tense exchange, which focused on the BBC's obj
The International War Crimes Tribunal in The Hague has been hearing evidence for the first time of an alleged massacre committed by Serb forces at a Kosovo prison in 1999. Former prisoner Musa Krasnici told the trial of former Yugoslav President Slobodan
Slovak President Rudolf Schuster has travelled to Austria to try to find the cause of a mystery illness that has left his own doctors baffled. The doctors are unsure whether Mr Schuster, 68, is suffering from a gall-bladder problem, a viral problem or a g
A man listed as missing after the 11 September attacks on the World Trade Center has been found alive in a New York hospital, almost a year after the tragic events. George Sims, 46, who is suffering from amnesia and schizophrenia, was found earlier this m
The United States has not taken any decision to launch a military attack against Iraq to remove President Saddam Hussein, and would consult its allies before any such action, President George W. Bush has said.
Officials along central China's swollen Yangtze river remained on flood alert on Tuesday, but a flood crest passed by the large industrial town of Wuhan without incident. Wuhan had been braced for flooding after thunderstorms brought torrential rains to t
Oil prices in London have risen to their highest level for 11 months. They were pushed up by renewed fears of a US attack on Iraq and by worries about a reduction in oil supply.
The head of a chemical factory in the Czech Republic has been sacked after his plant leaked poisonous chemicals during this month's floods. The Spolana chemical factory, north of the capital, Prague, released hundreds of kilograms of highly poisonous chlo
A Japanese court has rejected claims for compensation brought by more than 100 Chinese people who claim they were victims of Japan's biological warfare unit in China in the 1940s. The group had sued the Japanese Government, demanding an apology for its us
US Vice-President Dick Cheney has given one of the clearest signals yet that the Bush administration intends to depose Saddam Hussein. Mr Cheney said a policy of containment was no longer an option because doing nothing was riskier than acting against the
The trial of former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic has resumed at the international war crimes tribunal in The Hague, after a month-long summer recess. Despite recent concern over his health, Mr Milosevic appeared as defiant as ever as he returned
A Russian military helicopter that crashed in Chechnya on 19 August killing 116 people was shot down by rebels, investigators are reported to have found. Russian news agencies, quoting unnamed officials involved in the inquiry, say the huge Mi-26 helicopt
Pope John Paul II has cancelled a visit to the Philippines planned for early next year, a spokesman for Cardinal Jaime Sin, the archbishop of Manila, said on Monday. Church officials in the Philippines capital gave no reason for the cancellation, although
Spanish judge Baltasar Garzon has introduced a three-year ban on the Basque separatist party Batasuna. Batasuna, seen as the political wing of the banned armed separatist group ETA, will no longer be allowed to hold public demonstrations or political rall
The World Summit on Sustainable Development has opened in Johannesburg, with South African President Thabo Mbeki calling for greater solidarity with the world's poor. He told the first session that "a global human society...
Two policemen have been shot dead in western Macedonia, near the Albanian border. The drive-by attack occurred overnight as the two reservists were on patrol near Gostivar, some 70 kilometres (40 miles) from the capital, Skopje, police said.
China has announced new regulations aimed at tightening the controls over the export of missile technology. The announcement was made as the US Undersecretary of State, Richard Armitage, arrived in Beijing.
The German Chancellor, Gerhard Schroeder, and his opposition rival have taken part in a live televised debate that could have a decisive impact on next month's general election. It is the first event of its kind to be held during a national election campa
Police in Slovakia are investigating allegations of an attempt to poison the country's president, Rudolf Schuster. Mr Schuster is in hospital in the capital Bratislava suffering from a mystery illness.
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