World

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – Wall Street ended a fourth  week of losses on a down note yesterday as most buyers left  the market before the weekend on growing fears of another U.S. 

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Lawyers for the woman who  accused former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn of sexual  assault have explored a deal in which they would scuttle the  criminal case in exchange for a monetary settlement in the  civil lawsuit, the Wall Street Journal reported yesterday.

AMMAN, (Reuters) – The United States and European  Union called on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to step down  yesterday and U.S.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Rising fears of another  recession hammered U.S.

CHICAGO,  (Reuters) – Black researchers are  significantly less likely to win grant funding from the  National Institutes of Health than white applicants, according  to a study published yesterday, and the director of the U.S. 

JERUSALEM,  (Reuters) – Gunmen killed seven people in  southern Israel yesterday in  attacks along the Egyptian  border and Israel responded with an air strike in the Gaza Strip  that killed six Palestinians, including the leaders of a group  it blamed for the violence.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – Osmar Herrera is the kind of  Venezuelan that President Hugo Chavez had in mind when he  launched his flagship health program eight years ago: sick,  impoverished and in need of a break.

ZAWIYAH, Libya,  (Reuters) – Libyan rebels seized an  oil refinery in the city of Zawiyah and took control of Sabratha  further west on the main highway from Tripoli to Tunisia as NATO  aircraft struck targets in the capital.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – An Indian anti-graft  campaigner whose jailing sparked mass protests and fierce  criticism of the government has accepted a police offer to fast  in a New Delhi park for two weeks, an aide said last night,  prompting euphoria from his followers.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – Venezuela will nationalize its  gold industry and is moving its international reserves out of  Western countries, President Hugo Chavez said yesterday in a  combative step ahead of his re-election bid next year.

ZAWIYAH, Libya, (Reuters) – Rebels to the west and  east of Libya’s increasingly isolated capital fought forces  loyal to Muammar Gaddafi yesterday for control of oil  facilities vital to winning the six-month-old civil war.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Many senior executives at Rupert  Murdoch’s News of the World knew about phone hacking at the  British tabloid, according to a 2007 letter written by a  reporter which contradicts James Murdoch’s denials and drags  Britain’s prime minister back into the scandal.

NEW DELHI,  (Reuters) – Police ordered the release of  India’s leading anti-corruption campaigner from jail yesterday  after mounting nationwide protests against his arrest for  planning a hunger strike forced a U-turn by beleaguered Prime  Minister Manmohan Singh.

BEIJING, (Reuters) – China yesterday  dismissed a report that Pakistan gave it access to an advanced  U.S.

BERLIN,  (Reuters) – The famine in the Horn of Africa  is manmade — the result of artificially high prices for food  and civil conflict, the World Bank’s lead economist for Kenya  Wolfgang Fengler told Reuters yesterday.

BENGHAZI, Libya, (Reuters) – Rebels fighting to  topple Muammar Gaddafi scorned reports of secret talks with the  Libyan leader on Monday as their forces fought to secure gains  and the United States said Gaddafi’s days were numbered.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – In preparation for a new  triple-x Internet domain that will launch in December, lawyers  for the most storied brands in the United States are scrambling  to prevent an x-rated rip-off of an invaluable asset: corporate  Web addresses.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – Police arrested India’s  leading anti-corruption campaigner today, just hours before  he was due to fast to the death, as the beleaguered government  cracked down on a self-styled Gandhian activist agitating for a  new “freedom” struggle.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. Republican lawmakers  fumed yesterday over potential lost American exports because of  a free trade deal between Canada and Colombia that has taken  force before President Barack Obama has even sent a  five-year-old U.S-Colombia

SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Mozambique invites Brazilian  soy, corn and cotton growers to plant on its savanna and  introduce their farming know-how to sub-Saharan Africa, the  head of Mato Grosso state’s cotton producers association Ampa  said on Monday.