Work on Liverpool's new 400 million-pound stadium could begin before Christmas after Liverpool City Council granted the English Premier League club planning permission on Tuesday.

At least 45 would-be immigrants have died in an attempt to sail from West Africa to the Canary Islands, the Spanish police announced in Madrid Tuesday.

Seven years after the fire catastrophe in a cable car in Kaprun, Austria survivors and relatives of the 155 victims still have to wait for compensation payments.

Frankfurt Stock Exchange closing prices in euros. In brackets the point movement of index/price movement of stocks against previous quotation: <#> DAX 7,827.19 (+ 19.64) MDAX 10,360.

More US troops died in Iraq in 2007 than in any other year of the conflict that has been the deadliest for the United States since the Vietnam War. According to the website icasualties.

The following index quotations were noted on the world's major stock markets. <#> Nov 6 Nov 5 Difference New York Dow Jones 13,542.10 13,543.40 (- 1.30) New York NASDAQ Comp. 2,787.

A suicide bomb attack targeting a visiting group of parliamentarians in the northern Afghan province of Baghlan on Tuesday killed at least 30 people including at least six parliamentary deputies, the Afghan Health Ministry confirmed.

Jemima Khan, the former wife of Pakistan cricketer Imran Khan, Tuesday released a message in London received from him, which said he was in hiding preparing to "mobilize the youth" against President Pervez Musharraf.

The European Union on Tuesday urged Pakistan President General Pervez Musharraf to restore the country's constitution and honour his commitment to step down as Chief of Army Staff by November 15.

Corruption, weak institutions and ethnic tensions continue to hamper reform efforts across the Western Balkans, with European Union membership by no means assured for any state in the region, the top EU enlargement official said Tuesday.

German energy concern E.ON said Tuesday that it has acquired full control of Italian energy trader Dalmine Energie. E.ON held 75 per cent of the Italian company, following a takeover in December 2006. E.

In a bizarre twist to the EU's tortuous 50-year history, Portuguese politicians on Tuesday indicated that the Union's 27 leaders would hold two summits on the same day in December - in two different countries.

Citigroup Inc, the largest US bank, has created an new unit to manage its subprime mortgage assets after reporting massive writedowns over the weekend, and named a proven crisis- manager, Richard Stuckey, as its head.

The 102-year-old Lithuanian man has become the Baltic country's oldest bridegroom when he married the 76-year-old woman.

Thousands of Georgians again gathered outside the parliament building in Tbilisi to call for the resignation of President Mikhail Saakashvili, the Russian Interfax news agency reported.

The English Football Association (FA) has decided not to punish Manchester City midfielder Stephen Ireland for his "shorts-down" goal celebration in Monday's Premier League match against Sunderland.

In a precedent-setting case, Nigeria on Tuesday filed suit against three tobacco on allegations of damaging the health of the people, the companies' provision of jobs and scholarships notwithstanding.