MELBOURNE, Nov 17 (Reuters) – Title-holder Ian Poulter trumped Adam Scott in a thrilling shootout at the Australian Masters on Saturday to take a one-stroke lead over the local favourite into the final round. The 36-year-old Briton, riding high after his Ryder Cup heroics in September, went toe-to-toe with playing partner Scott in a 17-birdie rout of Melbourne’s Kingston Heath Golf Club to set up a mouthwatering finish on Sunday. …
Egypt: Train hits school bus; 22 children killed
A security official says a train has collided with a bus carrying kindergarteners to their school in southern Egypt, killing at least 22.
Sierra Leone's voters vow peaceful election
A decade after Sierra Leone's brutal civil war, voters on Saturday chose between an incumbent president who has provided new roads and free health care and a field of opposition candidates who decry the poverty and pace of economic recovery. As eurozone economy shrinks, gov't debt loads grow
Europe’s government-debt crisis is no longer panicking financial markets. But it won’t end until the region’s economy starts growing strongly again.
40 Egyptian school children killed in crash: report
CAIRO (Reuters) – Forty school children were killed when a train crashed with a bus south of Egypt’s capital on Saturday, the official state news agency reported. The train hit the school bus from the city of Manfalut, near Assiut, the agency reported, adding that the governor had ordered an enquiry into the incident. (Writing by Edmund Blair; Editing by Andrew Heavens)
Bruised French conservatives to pick new leader
PARIS (Reuters) – France's conservatives will elect a new leader on Sunday who will determine whether the p arty ousted in May from a 17-year presidential reign will hold to the centre or move to the right in a quest to regain power in 2017. Moderate ex-prime minister Francois Fillon, who regularly tops political popularity polls, is tipped to narrowly beat Jean-Francois Cope, a disciple of ex-president Nicolas Sarkozy and his hard stance on issues including immigration. … Territorial disputes, human rights top Asia summit
Disputes over South China Sea territories are expected to overshadow a summit of Southeast Asian countries that has opened, with host Cambodia seeking damage control after the previous regional meeting it hosted collapsed over how to handle the territorial conflicts involving China.
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