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Merkel calls for “sensible” exit strategy

In a wide-ranging and rambling speech during a luncheon at the G20 Business summit in Seoul, Korea, Germany’s chancellor Angela Merkel called for a “sensible” exit strategy from the global credit crisis.

Korea head calls for more corporate investment into Africa

South Korean President Lee Myung-bak answers a reporter's question during a news conference regarding the upcoming G20 Summit at the presidential Blue House in Seoul, November 3, 2010.

The president of South Korea, Lee Myung-bak, has called for more corporate investment into Africa and other poverty-stricken regions of the world, as part of a comprehensive program to encourage the private sector to spur sustained global economic growth.

Emerging G20 nations to brace for 'tsunami' of dollars as currency row persists

Thousands of U.S. dollars notes are piling up

The Group of 20 (G20) leaders in Seoul could not thrash out any agreement on contentious forex and currency issues though talks ran through past midnight on Wednesday, said a spokesman at the summit media hall on Thursday morning.

A woman suffering from HIV/AIDS waits to receive vaccine 'Pneumovax' during a vaccination programme organised by non-government organisation 'Sngobadho' (Together) at their office on the outskirts of the northeastern Indian city of Siliguri August 5, 2008

G20 assesses the impact of poor health care in developing world

One of the greatest challenges facing the developing world lies with their limited access to quality healthcare, a situation that threatens to jeopardize or undermine economic growth in these nations.

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Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter (L) and Aijalon Mahli Gomes (2nd R) talk before they leave Sunan airport in Pyongyang August 27, 2010.

Carter gets teacher released from North Korea

Former President Jimmy Carter procured the release of 31-year-old American English teacher, Ajilon Gomes, from imprisonment in North Korea. Carter and Gomes left Pyongyang, North Korea, yesterday and Gomes is expected to be reunited with his mother and other family members in Boston today.