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Tokyo - Asian stocks took a big dive Thursday, reacting to a sharp fall overnight on Wall Street and wiping away gains from earlier in the week.

Ankara - An explosion in south-eastern Turkey late Wednesday night destroyed parts of a pipeline carrying oil from the Iraqi city of Kirkuk to the Turkish Mediterranean port of Ceyhun, the Anadolu news agency reported Thursday.
The explosion in the province of Sanliurfa was believed to have been caused by a quick change of pressure [...]

Bonn - Deutsche Telekom reported increased third quarter profits on Thursday despite falling revenue.

Madrid - Bernd Schuster is walking on a slippery tightrope at troubled Real Madrid.

Hanoi - Vietnamese health authorities have found the industrial chemical melamine in powdered milk imported from Australia and three brands of cookies imported from Malaysia, raising the number of melamine-tainted products found in the country to 29, health officials said Thursday.

Paris - French transport equipment manufacturer Alstom said Thursday it had registered record orders and a healthy profits rise in the first half of its current business year.

Vienna - OPEC said Thursday that the price of its oil had risen by more than one dollar on Wednesday, reaching 58.94 dollars per barrel. The day before the price was 57.77 dollars.

Paris - A 24-hour strike by train conductors protesting new working hours severely disrupted French train service throughout the country on Thursday.

Paris - An overwhelming majority of the French people think that the election of Barack Obama is good for the image of the United States, according to a poll made public on Thursday.

Shanghai - With Rafael Nadal in injury crisis and missing the Masters Cup, healthy contenders began finding their form in smoggy Shanghai under the closed roof at the Qi Zhong stadium for the season-ending classic starting on Sunday.