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Malawi may be a poor country but its economy is growing fast and President Bingu wa Mutharika, in his second term in office, wants to lure investors to help diversify away from tobacco and ensure stability.

The Tory leader cautioned against concluding that the general election was 'in the bag' following his party's victories in the local and European elections

The UK prime minister faces a showdown with his MPs after a humiliating night at the polls, as a slump in Labour support helped allow the far-right British National party win its first two seats in the European parliament

The Central Court tried TV reporters Laura Ling and Euna Lee during proceedings running from Thursday to today and found them guilty of a 'grave crime' against the nation and of illegally crossing into North Korea, the country's state-run Korean Central News Agency said.

Green bloc takes up 10 more seats in European parliament after spectacular wins and disastrous defeatsEuropean Green parties enjoyed wildly fluctuating fortunes in the European elections, ranging from winning a spectacular 16% in the French polls to being effectively wiped out in Ireland. In the UK, the party held its two English seats, and knocked Labour into fifth place in two regions.While centre left and socialist parties were heavily hit by a general swing to the right, the Greens increased their overall share both of the European vote and the number of seats in the parliament. The party now has 54 seats compared with 44 in 2004, and, in alliance with Plaid Cymru and a Catalan group, is now now the fifth largest block in the European parliament.Overall, the party gained seats in nine countries. The most spectacular results by far were in France where Europe Ecologie, led by the man who led the student riots in Paris in 1968, Daniel Cohn-Bendit and peasant leader José Bové, gained

Seoul - Two US journalists were sentenced Monday to 12 years in a North Korean labour camp after being found guilty of a grave crime and illegal entry into the country, the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported. The Central Court in P...

'Honestly, I wish that all Africans could behave in the same way, that is to say, as though the country belongs to everybody ... Mandela and De Klerk have...

Seoul - Two US journalists were sentenced Monday to 12 years in a North Korean labour camp after being found guilty of a grave crime and illegal entry into the country, the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported. The Central Court in P...

David Cameron will on Monday start negotiations to form a new anti-federalist grouping in the European parliament, after the Tories notched up a comfortable victory in the European elections

IAN WOOSNAM toasted yet more success in Ireland after defeating Bob Boyd in a play-off to win the Irish Seniors Open, his third European Senior Tour title. The former world No 1, who won the Irish Op...