AFP German Chancellor Angela Merkel says Greece does not need financial aid at present and the stability of the eurozone is "assured", after talks with Prime Minister George Papandreou. "Greece has not asked for financial assistance. The stability of the eurozone is assured today. As a

Some 150 riot police stood guard outside the country's top court that on Friday stripped the fugitive tycoon of the money they said he had accumulated by abusing his power as prime minister. Thousands of other security personnel manned checkpoints and key buildings around Bangkok despite

Supermarket chain Woolworths has sacked one of its executives as police investigate claims of corruption. Fairfax newspapers say there are allegations that some food wholesalers have had to pay so-called "promotional surcharges " to have their goods stocked by the

The army destroyed positions controlled by the rebels, known as Houthis after their leaders’ family, in a mountainous district along the Saudi border and killed an unspecified number of fighters in the area, the Defense Ministry said in a statement on its Web site. Troops inflicted losses in.

Dec. 16 (Bloomberg) -- Pakistan’s top judges today scrapped a law that had given amnesty to President Asif Ali Zardari and thousands of other officials against corruption and criminal charges, GEO television reported. Supreme Court Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry , who led.