When Jaafar al-Rakabi was growing up, his mother and father told him Americans are good people. Good people despite the fact that the U.S. military dropped bombs on his hometown of Baghdad twice within 12 years.

CNN was forced to apologise today after a news commentator called the Chinese as a “bunch of goons and thugs”.

BAGHDAD -- The overall U.S. death toll in Iraq rose to 4,000 after four soldiers were killed in a roadside bombing in Baghdad, a grim milestone that is likely to fuel calls for the withdrawal of American forces as the war enters its sixth year.

Jean-Claude Juncker, the EU's 'Mr Euro', has given the clearest warning to date that the world authorities may take action to halt the collapse of the dollar and undercut commodity speculation by hedge funds.

Far from heeding international calls for dialogue with the Dalai Lama, China has accused Tibet’s exiled god-king of colluding with Muslim terrorists to destabilise the country before the Olympic Games.