HONG KONG (AFP) - The casino firm owned by Macau billionaire Stanley Ho said Wednesday it would list next week following a delay as his sister lost a legal challenge to block the float.
Read Macau casino tycoon delays Hong Kong listing (Links)
KHARTOUM (AFP) - Suspected Janjaweed militia have ambushed the beleaguered UN mission in Sudan's war-torn Darfur region, with one peacekeeper confirmed dead and another six missing, an official said on Wednesday.
Read UN peacekeepers ambushed in Darfur (Links)
TOYAKO (AFP) - Leaders of the world's eight top industrial powers wrapped up a summit Wednesday with pledges to act on soaring oil and food prices, but failed to bridge deep differences with poor nations on how to fight climate change.
Read G8 pledges action on food, oil (Links)
STRASBOURG (AFP) - Inflation in the 15 countries sharing the euro -- at the "worrying"level of 4.0 percent in June -- risks staying high in the months ahead, ECB President Jean-Claude Trichet warned on Wednesday.
Read 'Worrying' eurozone inflation likely to stay high: Trichet (Links)
PARIS (AFP) - Men and women in their early seventies are having sex more often and enjoying it more than their counterparts three and four decades ago, according to a Swedish study published Wednesday.
Read More sex please, we're 70 (Links)
LONDON (AFP) - Oil prices rebounded slightly Wednesday on renewed fears about possible supply disruptions as Iran, one of the world's biggest producers of crude, tested a missile, analysts said.
Read Oil prices rebound on Iran tension (Links)
JERUSALEM (AFP) - An Israeli commission has approved the building of 920 new homes in occupied east Jerusalem, the municipality said on Wednesday, in a new blow to shaky peace talks with the Palestinians.
Read Israel approves new homes in east Jerusalem settlement (Links)
ISTANBUL (AFP) - Three unidentified gunmen and three Turkish policemen were killed Wednesday in an attack on a checkpoint outside the well-fortified US consulate in Istanbul that officials labelled a "terrorist" act.
Read Six killed in attack outside US mission in Istanbul (Links)
LONDON (AFP) - Oil prices rebounded slightly on Wednesday after falls of more than five dollars a day earlier, as world leaders pledged to make the crude market more transparent.
Read Oil prices rally as G8 promises transparent market (Links)
TEHRAN (AFP) - Iran on Wednesday test-fired a missile whose range puts Israel within reach, angering the United States amid growing fears that the standoff over the contested Iranian nuclear drive could lead to war.
Read Defiant Iran angers US with missile test (Links)
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