Mindful that Russians have been traumatized by two other financial crises in the last two decades, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin tried to assure the country Thursday that it would be able to weather the current one.

Prime Minister Raila Odinga will lead an ODM walk-out from the coalition government if the Waki report is used to settle political scores.

Russia's Gazprom said it will lower prices starting in 2009, while Prime Minister Vladimir Putin swore the country has no plans to join a gas-exporting cartel.

New Zealand elected its first conservative government in nearly a decade on Saturday, ending a three-term run for Prime Minister Helen Clark.

Yehude Simon, the governor of the northern province of Lambayeque, told RPP radio that he had accepted an offer to become Peru’s prime minister.

Leaders of Thailand's anti-government protests said Thursday they would surrender to police after a court dropped treason charges against them, but they vowed to continue their sit-in at the prime minister's office.

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin of Russia is flexing his muscles again, this time in an instructional martial arts video.

PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe is now demanding all key ministries - except finance - in a move which has left incoming prime minister Morgan Tsvangirai disturbed by the renewed clashes with his soon-to-be boss.

Moulaye Ould Mohamed Laghdaf, the prime minister appointed by Mauritania’s military junta, said that the government would ban all protests.

Greece’s governing conservative party teetered on the brink of collapse after the country’s beleaguered prime minister dismissed one of his deputies.