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ABU DHABI // Top officials from the US and British governments are calling for transparency in the settlement of Dubai World’s US$22 billion (Dh80.8bn) debt restructuring, intensifying diplomatic pressure to conclude a deal with creditors. ...Read More

DUBAI // Hot on the heels of the unveiling of Burj Khalifa, the tallest building in the world, the world’s tallest hotel officially opened. ...Read More

WASHINGTON // A federal judge dismissed all charges yesterday against five Blackwater Worldwide security guards accused of killing unarmed Iraqi civilians in a crowded Baghdad intersection in 2007. ...Read More

A US official said president Barack Obama, China's premier Wen Jiabao, Indian prime minister Manmohan Singh and South Africa's president Jacob Zuma had reached a "meaningful agreement." ...Read More

Reporting from Moscow and Bogota, Colombia -- Russia reacted angrily Friday to U.S. sanctions leveled this week against an arms trading company, calling them an "arrogant application" of American laws abroad. ...Read More

Israel moved closer to an early general election yesterday when an ultra-Orthodox party refused to join a coalition that the prime minister-designate, Tzipi Livni, has spent weeks trying to form. ...Read More

TOKYO, Oct. 23 -- A continued flow of poor economic news undercut stocks across Asia and Europe again on Thursday, with Japan reporting its lowest trade surplus in 27 years, factory orders dropping in Europe and consumer products giant Sony slashing its expected profit by half. ...Read More

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Egypt invited Hizbullah Secretary-General Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah to a formal visit to Cairo, the Lebanese newspaper al-Akhbar reported Tuesday. ...Read More

BAGHDAD, Oct. 19 -- Key members of the Iraqi parliament's largest political bloc have called for all American troops to leave this country in 2011 as a condition for allowing the U.S. military to stay here beyond year's end, officials said Sunday. ...Read More

TEHRAN -- Iran's envoy to OPEC has been a busy guy. As oil prices plunged in recent weeks, Mohammad Ali Khatibi has been working the phones and traveling in a frenetic attempt to get the oil-producing cartel to agree to reduce supply to keep the price from dropping further. ...Read More

Israeli leaders are considering reviving a 2002 peace plan that offered the Jewish nation a comprehensive end to its conflict with the Arab world, Israel's defence minister, Ehud Barak, said yesterday. ...Read More

YITZHAR, West Bank -- Avi Ben Yakov is a soft-spoken Jewish settler who loves playing with his young children in their red-roofed home in the hills above Nablus, deep inside the West Bank. But when it comes to his Palestinian neighbors, his tone hardens. ...Read More