Police in the Central American nation of Belize said Monday that they are looking for the founder of the software company McAfee Inc. to question him about the slaying of another U.S. citizen, his neighbor in an island town on the Caribbean.
Sierra Leone leader rebuts corruption charge before vote
FREETOWN (Reuters) – Sierra Leone President Ernest Bai Koroma denied on Monday accusations he is soft on corruption in a last-minute defen se before November 17 elections in which he is seeking a second term. Koroma will face top opposition rival and former junta leader Julius Maada Bio in polls widely seen as a test of the resource-rich West African state's recovery a decade after a civil war. Koroma, a former insurance broker in power since 2007, is favored to win but has drawn fire from rivals claiming he has done little to root out graft. … Emirates A380 jet returns to Sydney after engine fails
CANBERRA (Reuters) – An Emirates Airline A380 jetliner bound for Dubai was forced to return to Australia on Sunday night when one of its engines failed soon after take-off, with some passengers reporting flames trailing from the unit. The aircraft, with 380 passengers on board, was just 20 minutes into its flight from Sydney to Dubai and climbing at an altitude of 10,000 feet when it experienced a problem with one of its four engines. “Emirates flight EK413 from Sydney to Dubai on 11 November turned back shortly after take-off due to an engine fault. …
Analysis: European austerity protests far from revolution
PARIS (Reuters) – In a cafe near the former site of Paris's Bastille prison, activists held a meeting last month to decide whether to join unions in protesting the French government's belt-tightening. Only five people turned up at Cafe Maldoror, a favored haunt of the radical left. Even in the city whose revolutionary credentials date back to the 1789 uprising that began at the gates of its famous prison, calls to build a European-wide popular front against the toughest budget cuts in a generation are falling on deaf ears. "In France people… … 
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