The Paris prosecutor's office said Friday it has opened a preliminary investigation into accusations by a French writer that former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn tried to rape her. (July 8)

The new head of the International Monetary Fund, Christine Lagarde speaks to the BBC's Stephanie Flanders.

With Malaysia's Borneo rainforests already under pressure from palm oil plantations, they are now facing a new threat from the country's growing industrialisation.

The News of the World, a Sunday-only tabloid in Britain, is shutting down amid a phone hacking scandal. The 168-year-old newspaper will publish its last edition on Sunday. (July 7)

A few injuries were reported but nobody was gored at the annual running of the bulls in Pamplona, Spain. Jeff Glor reports.

Could violence arise in Israel?

The Palestinian Authority [PA] in Ramallah has a budget deficit of over 500 million dollars, and it's reached its borrowing limit -- taking over 1 billion dollars from the banks .

Peter Esho, Chief Market Analyst at City Index talks about his investment strategy.

Ali Abdullah Saleh makes his first appearance after being severely wounded in a bomb blast at his palace last month.

A journalist in Taiz, Yemen, speaks to Al Jazeera about attacks on Wednesday night, which targetted a sheikh's house, but landed near a bus, killing one civilian and wounding seven others.

An amendment barring funds from being used towards fighting in Libya passed the house, dividing some Democrats.

Will Iraq ask the U.S. to maintain troop presence?

European and Greek outcomes should be lessons for the U.S.

Prime Minister David Cameron says he would have accepted an offer of resignation from former News of the World editor Rebekah Brooks if he were in charge at News International.