SINGAPORE (AP) — China is doing what it can to expand domestic demand and rebalance its economy, President Hu Jintao said Friday, calling for renewed efforts to improve international financial oversight to prevent future crises.
"Our focus in countering the crisis is to expand domestic demand, especially consumer demand," Hu said in outlining the approach of the world's third-largest economy to the global economic slowdown and its aftermath.
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) -- Saudi Arabia's most senior cleric was quoted Wednesday as saying it is permissible for 10-year-old girls to marry and those who think they're too young are doing the girls an injustice.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — From a series of street bashings in Seattle to the baseball bat murder of an Ecuadorean immigrant in New York, episodes of anti-gay violence punctuated a year now ending with police investigating the alleged gang rape of a lesbian near San Francisco.
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — At the U.N.'s first symposium for terror victims Tuesday, Naomi Monchari Kerongo's tears didn't stop her trancelike recitation of the awful things she saw that day in Kenya, 10 years ago.
(AP) The U.N. Security Council has approved another year of peacekeeping in Sudan's Darfur region despite sharp divisions over genocide charges against the Sudanese president. The United States supports the mission but abstained from the vote.
