KINSHASA (AFP) - Fighting between rebels and pro-government forces in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo opened up on a new front Sunday, as Kinshasa warned it may deploy Angolan troops raising fears of igniting the Great Lakes region.
Read New front opens in DR Congo amid fears of spreading conflict (Links)
SAO PAULO (AFP) - Major wealthy and emerging nations pledged Sunday "all necessary steps" to boost sagging market confidence and to give a bigger voice to developing countries in global economic affairs.
Read G20 vows action on crisis, bigger voice for smaller economies (Links)
PARIS (AFP) - A strategic tack in the quarter-century-old effort to devise an AIDS vaccine, which last year became darkly clouded by problems, could be more promising than thought, according to a study published on Sunday.
Read AIDS vaccines: New hope for problem-plagued path (Links)
WASHINGTON (AFP) - Barack Obama is looking to reverse executive orders on oil drilling and stem cell research implemented by President George W. Bush, the president-elect's transition team said Sunday.
Read Obama could reverse Bush orders on drilling, stem cells (Links)
VLADIVOSTOK, Russia (AFP) - Twenty people died of gas poisoning and another 22 were injured in an accident on a Russian nuclear submarine in the Sea of Japan that revived memories of the Kursk submarine disaster in 2000.
Read Russian nuclear sub accident kills 20 (Links)
BERLIN (AFP) - A close aide to Rwandan President Paul Kagame was arrested Sunday in Germany on suspicion of participating in an assassination that triggered the 1994 genocide in the east African nation.
Read Rwandan president's aide arrested in Germany (Links)
BERLIN (AFP) - German logistics giant Deutsche Post will on Monday announce thousands of job losses in the United States in the wake of heavy losses, a German newspaper reported.
Read Deutsche Post to shed thousands of US jobs (Links)
WASHINGTON (AFP) - Shares of US mortgage finance giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were in a freefall Friday on heightened concerns the trillion-dollar firms may face insolvency or a government takeover.
Read Key US mortgage lenders in shares meltdown (Links)
JALALABAD (AFP) - Official investigations have found that US-led air strikes a week ago killed 64 people, most of them women and children, the heads of separate investigation teams said Friday.
Read US-led strikes kills 64 Afghan civilians (Links)
NEW YORK (AFP) - About 1,000 tech fans -- and at least one confessed "gadget freak" -- jostled for a chance to snap up the first iPhone 3Gs in the US on Fifth Avenue Friday.
Read US consumers jostle for iPhone 3G (Links)
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