RAMALLAH, West Bank (AFP) - Palestinian prime minister Salam Fayyad warned on Monday that peace efforts with Israel based on a two-state solution are teetering because of Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank. "Unfortunately a two-state solution based on the 1967 borders is teetering ...

JERUSALEM (AFP) - Israeli President Shimon Peres said on Monday that efforts to form a new government had failed, paving the way for snap elections that could turn on the future of the Middle East peace process. "After having consulted with representatives of all parliamentary factions I ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio (AFP) - John McCain launched the final week of his election campaign Monday with a searing attack on Barack Obama, claiming his rival's economic policies would lead to a deeper, more painful recession. After a meeting with economic advisors and business leaders, Republican ...

THE world's heaviest male - known as Half-Tonne Man - has got married, after being taken to the ceremony in his custom-made bed on the back of a flatbed truck. Mexican Manuel Uribe, 43, wore a white satin shirt and had a sheet wrapped round his legs as he wed his longtime girlfriend, Claudia ...

FRANKFURT (AFP) - Growing fears of recession sent share and oil prices plummeting Monday as markets shrugged off new moves to protect shell-shocked economies and a G7 pledge to stabilise the financial system. As a new survey showed business confidence in Germany, Europe's number one economy, at ...