World Highlights

• Qatar put forward proposals to Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal designed to end a standoff that has prevented the formation of a new Palestinian government and triggered the worst internal violence in a decade. • Gunmen in camouflage uniforms...

• Qatar put forward proposals to Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal designed to end a standoff that has prevented the formation of a new Palestinian government and triggered the worst internal violence in a decade.

• Gunmen in camouflage uniforms killed the brother of Iraq's Sunni Arab Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi, drawing swift condemnation from across Iraq's political divide and senior US officials.

• Russian President Vladimir Putin promised to make every effort to investigate the murder of journalist Anna Politkovskaya in his first reaction to the killing of the prominent Kremlin critic while United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour called for a thorough investigation into the murder of crusading Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya.

• American Edmund Phelps won the 2006 Nobel prize for economics for research into the interplay between prices, unemployment and inflation expectations, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said.

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