
Sudan has agreed in principle to allow a joint UN and African Union peacekeeping force
into Darfur, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan said today … 
… killing 154 people in Brazil's worst air disaster, an Air Force investigator said
today … 
Democrats in the House of Representatives defied newly elected Speaker-to-be Nancy Pelosi
today by ignoring her recommendation and selecting Rep Steny Hoyer as Pelosi's top
lieutenant … 
Spain, France and Italy unveiled a five-point Middle East peace initiative today, calling
Israeli-Palestinian violence intolerable and saying that Europe must take a lead role in
ending the conflict … 
A woman and her husband were murdered in an arson attack on their home over a school
bullying row involving their daughter, a court heard today … 
Turkey has suspended military relations with France in a dispute over whether the mass
killings of Armenians in the last century amounted to genocide, the land forces commander
said … 
Stocks gained for a fifth straight session and the Dow Jones industrials achieved their
third straight record close today after the Labour Department said falling gas prices
helped push inflation … 
FRANKFURT: the DAX 30 closed up 12.1 at 6443.0 … 
The ISEQ soared 67.38 points at 8791.96 by close this evening as traders world wide were
sent into a buying frenzy prompted by huge gains New York when softer than … 
140 jobs are to go in at a games manufacturing company in the south east, it emerged this
afternoon … 