By Agence France Presse (AFP) Friday, October 23, 2009 - Powered by DUBAI: The author of a UN report accusing Israel and the Palestinian Hamas group of war crimes in the Gaza conflict challenged the United States on Thursday to justify its charge that the findings were flawed. “I have yet to hear from the [Barack] Obama administration what the… 
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AP - Home resales in September clocked the largest monthly increase in 26 years as buyers scrambled to complete their purchases before a tax credit for first-time owners expires.
AP - Iran is still studying a U.N.-drafted plan to ship much of its uranium to Russia for further enrichment and will formally respond to the offer next week, Iran’s envoy to the U.N. nuclear watchdog said Friday.
By MARIETTA CAUCHI LONDON — The European Central Bank on Thursday threw its weight behind critics of the European Commission’s proposals to regulate hedge funds and private equity, saying the plans failed to create a level playing field between all financial institutions and that the “one size fits all approach” was inappropriate. An EU draft directive aims to identify and reduce… 
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AFP - Iran will respond next week to a UN-brokered deal aimed at easing fears about its nuclear programme, rejected a Friday deadline for the agreement on uranium enrichment, the UN atomic watchdog said.
FOLLOWING this week’s release of a global report on childhood immunisation, some of the nation’s heaviest hitters in medical research and public health have warned of the risks of failing to vaccinate children against preventable infectious diseases. Among those urging parents to keep their youngsters’ vaccinations up to date are Nobel prize-winning immunologist Peter Doherty, former Australian of the Year and co-developer of the cervical cancer vaccine Ian Frazer and Frank Fenner, the immunologist who drove the eradication of smallpox and the control of Australia’s rabbit plague through the introduction of myxoma virus. Speaking of The State of the World’s Vaccines and Immunisation –… 
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Reuters - Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives struggled on Friday to agree on which version of a government-run health insurance plan to include in a reform bill, but said one was certain to be in the final legislation.