By THOMAS FULLER
BANGKOK — Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi of Malaysia dissolved Parliament on Wednesday, paving the way for what is likely to be a rancorous election campaign amid ethnic tensions, scandals in the country’s judiciary and concerns over corruption and rising food prices.
The election commission is expected this week to announce the date […]
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By ALISSA J. RUBIN
BAGHDAD — Iraq’s parliamentary leaders on Wednesday pushed through three far-reaching measures that had been delayed for weeks by bitter political maneuvering that became so acrimonious that some lawmakers threatened to try to dissolve the legislative body.
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By VICTORIA SHANNON
BARCELONA, Spain — Toru Arakawa, chief executive of Access, the biggest cellphone software company in Japan, took a diplomat’s view of Google’s foray into telecommunications.
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By MIGUEL HELFT and ANDREW ROSS SORKIN
Can Yahoo avoid being gobbled up by Microsoft?
Many analysts say it is increasingly unlikely.
Since Microsoft first made public its buyout offer on Feb. 1, Yahoo has held talks with several potential partners, including Google, the News Corporation and Time Warner’s AOL unit, about an alternate deal that would […]
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By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Genetically engineered agriculture is spreading worldwide, and its biggest growth in 2007 was in the developing world, according to a report released Wednesday.
Farmers in 12 developing countries planted biotech crops in 2007, and for the first time these countries outnumbered the industrialized countries where such crops are […]
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By WARREN E. LEARY
WASHINGTON — Two spacewalkers, including a German astronaut who was too ill to venture outside the International Space Station earlier this week, replaced a large nitrogen tank on the station on Wednesday.
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