World leaders contact Pakistani leadership

Amid rising tensions in Indo-Pak ties after the Mumbai attacks, a number of world leaders, including British Foreign Secretary David Miliband and German Chancellor Angela Markel, held consultations......

Markel, Sarkozy ask EU to ban bonds' short-selling

German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy have called upon the European Commission to speed up its efforts to tighten the control over highly speculative financial......