Pearls of Wisdom

The UN nuclear watchdog passes a resolution condemning Iran for developing a uranium enrichment site in secret.

Germany's Labour Minister Jung resigns amid allegations of a cover-up relating to a deadly Nato air strike in Afghanistan.

Worries about Dubai's debt problems spill over into a second day of trading, leading to more stock market falls.

The Nobel Peace Prize medal won by Iranian human rights lawyer Shirin Ebadi has been confiscated by authorities, she says.

Commonwealth leaders are to meet in Trinidad with climate change a key issue in the last big summit before Copenhagen.

Steeplechase and hurdle racing in Australia's state of Victoria will be banned in 2010, prompted by 20 deaths of horses in two years.

A Philippine mayor whose supporters were killed in a suspected political ambush files his nomination for governor.

Khmer Rouge prison chief Duch stuns a UN-backed war crimes tribunal by asking to be released on the final day of his trial.

The online encyclopaedia disputes claims that the numbers of people editing Wikipedia are in sharp decline.

British singer Robbie Williams has officially proposed to his girlfriend, the pop star's mother confirms.