Capto Veritas

The agencies took nearly half a billion dollars for administrative expenses in 2008, a study found.

On Saturday, two-thirds of Jefferson County employees will be laid off in an effort to stave off financial ruin.

Barack Obama says new figures on the US economy indicate progress is being made in tackling the country’s problems.

The body of Brazilian boxing champion Arturo Gatti is exhumed for a second autopsy at his family’s request.

A senior Conservative MP asks the home secretary whether al-Qaeda sympathisers were mistakenly recruited by MI5.

A new law is coming into effect in Taiwan to ban commercial matchmaking companies from brokering international marriages.

Cuban President Raul Castro postpones what would have been the the ruling Communist Party’s first congress since 1997.

The US is checking reports that three American tourists were detained by Iranians while near the northern Iraqi border.

Japanese carmaker Honda announces it is recalling 440,000 vehicles in the US due to an airbag defect.

Aerial photographs reveal a lost Roman city called Altinum – which some scholars regard as a forerunner of Venice.