India long has had trouble acquiring land to build the infrastructure essential for rapid economic growth. Now its own ruling party is increasingly opposing developments.

House Republican Leader John Boehner on Wednesday proposed a two-year freeze on all tax rates and a cut in government spending to the levels of 2008, before a deep recession took hold of the economy.

UK house prices have stabilised, according to the latest survey from the Halifax.

Senior administration officials said the three proposals Obama is announcing on Wednesday would be the full extent of new economic policies the president would announce before the midterms.

The DUP MP for North Belfast Nigel Dodds is to step down from the assembly within days, the BBC learns.

Sir Paul McCartney is to be presented with a Kennedy Center honour at the White House in Washington in December.

Thousands of London Underground staff return to work after taking part in industrial action which severely disrupted the network.

Fire crews scale down their operation at the Linamar car parts factory in Swansea after a large blaze overnight.

A Florida church's threat to burn copies of the Koran to mark the September 11 attacks called "disrespectful" and "disgraceful" by Secretary of State.

Men armed with automatic weapons burst into a shoe factory in northern Honduras, killing 18 people in a suspected gang attack.

UN troops failed the victims of mass rapes in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo where more than 500 sex assaults have now been reported in the past month, a top peacekeeping official has admitted.

More companies see a lucrative opportunity in supplying religiously sanctioned food to the growing ranks of young, professional Muslims in France, who want Western food that is halal.

The U.S. Export-Import Bank, an independent federal agency, loaned more than $1 billion to the Mexican state oil company PEMEX in 2009 to support the company's oil drilling in the southern Gulf of Mexico.

A diplomatic row between China and Japan intensifies after collisions between two Japanese patrol boats and a Chinese trawler.

Iraqi officials said at least six people were killed and 35 were wounded in two separate attacks in Baghdad on Wednesday.