French president Nicolas Sarkozy unveiled a plan to cushion the impact of the credit crunch on the French economy, including targeted measures to support construction, the car industry and small businesses

The body of the first president of Afghanistan, Mohammad Daud Khan, is identified three decades after he was killed in a coup.

The body of the first president of Afghanistan, Mohammad Daud Khan, is identified three decades after he was killed in a coup.

Power-sharing in Zimbabwe is dead and Africa must unite to oust President Mugabe, says Kenya's prime minister.

Power-sharing in Zimbabwe is dead and Africa must unite to oust President Mugabe, says Kenya's prime minister.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy unveils a 26bn-euro ($33bn, £23bn) stimulus plan to help France fend off financial crisis.

The template of Google-owned YouTube got an overhaul. The page is now stretched wider, with the former top tabs being more like a single-element navigation bar, integrating the search box at the same horizontal position. Just recently, YouTube rolled out wider video boxes (causing a black left and right margin on a portion of the videos).

On the one hand, the recent YouTube changes might cause a more cinematic, higher quality feel for YouTube, optimizing the layout for those with bigger resolutions. On the other hand, the videos might convey less of a home made, quirky, embeddable, I-can-do-that-too mood – it’s hard to tell.

In other recent “YouTube growing up” news, the video site’s official blog published a post detailing stricter standards on adult-ish content and video still choices. You can still pick a still from several options, but “but they will no longer be auto-generated from the 25/50/75 points in the video index”, YouTube says. Also not too long ago, YouTube launched a feature which would allow a commenter to read their comment back to them (using text-to-speech) before posting, perhaps aimed at cutting down on the more casual, throw-away or rude comments. And by now, even the US president-to-be uses YouTube as his own communication channel.

[Thanks Jérôme!]

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President-elect Barack Obama's pick for energy secretary will likely lead the department through a new era with a sharp focus on renewable energy, but who'll lead a revamped agency is far from clear.img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/rss/money_latest/~4/ssAelgOpi4o" height="1" width="1"/

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin held his annual live television call-in program Thursday -- an event that shows he still runs Russia even though he stepped down as president earlier this year, an analyst said.

Pakistan's president tells the US secretary of state he will take "strong action" against anyone linked to the attacks in Mumbai.

Pakistan's president tells the US secretary of state he will take "strong action" against anyone linked to the attacks in Mumbai.

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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) -- Pakistan's president says he will take "strong action" against elements in his country that were involved in the terrorist attacks in Mumbai....

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För 30 Ã¥r sedan mördades Afghanistans president Mohammad Daud Khan i en kommuniststödd militärkupp. Nu har presidentens lik identifierats, uppger tjänstemän i Kabul.img src="http://server-dk.imrworldwide.com/cgi-bin/imodecount?url=http://www.expressen.se/RSS;cid=se_expressen-se_0"/

För 30 Ã¥r sedan mördades Afghanistans president Mohammad Daud Khan i en kommuniststödd militärkupp. Nu har presidentens lik identifierats, uppger tjänstemän i Kabul.img src="http://server-dk.imrworldwide.com/cgi-bin/imodecount?url=http://www.expressen.se/RSS;cid=se_expressen-se_0"/

By Nicola Nasser* Failing to substantiate for the President of the autonomous Palestinian Authority (PA), Mahmoud Abbas, a credible “legal” basis to extend his term from the Basic Law, which is the constitutional terms of reference that govern the rotation of power and the (...)

Barack Obama may be the President-elect at this time, but it's not a certainty that he will become the next president (at this time). I wonder why the MSM isn't covering this, they're taking a backseat to bloggers. Oh yeah! They're in the tank for Obama, perhaps already (...)

French President Nicolas Sarkozy is set to unveil 20bn euros of support for the car industry, housing and household spending.

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Eric Holder, President-elect Barack Obama's nominee for attorney general, met Wednesday with 12 retired generals and admirals to discuss changing the U.S. government's current interrogation and detention policies.

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President-elect Barack Obama's initial round of cabinet nominees would bring significant changes to state and local government IT, according to Chris Dixon, manager, state and local industry analysis at INPUT. (PRWeb Dec 4, 2008)

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