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Drug companies are blocking or delaying the entry of cheaper generic medicines into the EU, pushing up medicine bills, the European Commission has said.
Their actions cost EU healthcare providers 3bn euros ($3.9bn; £2.5bn) in savings between 2000 and 2007, it said.
It added that drug firms used legal action and multiple patents to stop rivals getting [...]

At least two foreign contractors have been killed and 15 others wounded after a rocket fell near a UN compound in the Iraqi capital Baghdad, according to a UN official.
In a separate incident on Saturday, three people died and 13 others were injured when a car bomb went off in central Baghdad.
The car bomb exploded [...]

MUMBAI: Security forces freed the landmark Taj hotel here after an intense night-long firing amid a series of explosions, with three terrorists gunned down by the commandos, authorities said this morning.
“Three terrorists have been killed but we are still continuing our operations,” Director General of NSG, J K Dutt, told reporters outside the hotel. [...]

The government finalized the order Friday to end the Air Self-Defense Force’s airlift mission in the Middle East, terminating a nearly five-year Japanese military presence in Iraq.
This means Tokyo, which supported the United States decision to invade Iraq in 2003 and sent Ground Self-Defense Force troops to help with reconstruction under the protection of other [...]

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev is in Cuba for the final stop in a tour of Latin America intended to strengthen Russian influence in the region.
Mr Medvedev and Cuban President Raul Castro are expected to sign deals on nickel mining and oil exploration.
The Russian leader arrived in Havana from Venezuela, where he and President Hugo Chavez [...]

Two people have been killed and five others are missing after an Airbus A320 jet crashed during a test flight after maintenance work, officials have said.
The plane went into the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of France near Perpignan with two Germans and five New Zealanders on board.
Two bodies have been recovered and search crews [...]

NEW YORK (Reuters) - General Motors Corp, whose chief executive was blasted last week by U.S. lawmakers for flying on a private jet to ask for public funds, has asked the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration to prevent public tracking of a jet it leases.
“We availed ourselves of the same option as others have,” to have [...]

MUMBAI (Reuters) - Indian commandos traded fire with Islamist militants as the endgame neared at a luxury hotel and a Jewish center in Mumbai on Friday, but the gunmen were thought to be still holding a handful of foreign hostages, officials said.
The head of one commando unit flushing out militants at the luxury Taj Mahal [...]

The UN Security Council has approved a plan to hand over security duties in Kosovo to a European Union force.
All 15 members of the Security Council backed Secretary General Ban Ki-moon’s plan, which earlier this week won the approval of both Kosovo and Serbia.
The 2,000-strong EU mission is due to take over police and customs [...]

Anti-government protesters in Thailand have shut down Bangkok’s second airport, a day after blockades forced the closure of the capital’s main international gateway.
The Don Muang airport, which until 2006 was Bangkok’s main airport, was closed to all air traffic early on Thursday, officials said, after about 3,000 protesters from the People’s Alliance for Democracy (PAD) [...]