Reuters – The U.S. Army, which fell short in
recruiting last year, made its 14th straight monthly goal in
July and is expected to hit its 2006 target despite the Iraq
war making recruiting harder, officials said on Thursday.

Aug. 10 (Bloomberg) — Brazil’s currency rose to a five- week high on optimism rising exports and low inflation will sustain healthy demand for the real.

AFP – Iraq needs one to two years to rebuild its security forces, Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi has said despite predictions they would be fully operational by the end of the year.

AFP – Shiite Iran has called for foreign troops to leave war-torn Iraq following a deadly bombing near one of Shiite Islam’s holiest shrines in the southern city of Najaf.

PODGORICA — Although many of the tourists vacationing in Montenegro come from Serbia, it is difficult to exchange dinars.

Reuters – A suicide bomber killed at least 31
people and wounded 100 near a sacred Shi’ite shrine in the
southern Iraqi city of Najaf on Thursday, hospital sources
said.

GHANA WILL today battle it out for African honours at the Germain Commarmond Stadium in Bambous, Mauritius, as its athletes compete in the 15th Africa Senior Athletics Championships, reports Isaac Franklin.

By Burleson, Elizabeth I. INTRODUCTION The groundwater shared by Israelis and Palestinians is not sufficiently covered by international water law, leaving open the issue of reasonable and equitable water use as it relates to the Middle Eastern and North African peace process.

DOHA: Kuwait-based Global Investment House, set to start operations in the Qatar Financial Centre, has reported 70% expansion in net profits to $119mn during the first half of this year.

Beijing, Aug 8: Police in China have busted five underground forex markets and arrested 27 people for making illegal money transfers and unauthorised foreign currency conversions to the tune of USD 1.3 billion.