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Page last updated at 20:02 GMT, Saturday, 11 October 2008 21:02 UK
IMF director Dominique Strauss-Kahn during a Washington news conference earlier this week on 9 October 2008
IMF in global 'meltdown' warning
The world financial system is on the "brink of systemic meltdown", the head of the International Monetary Fund warns.
Brown to meet Sarkozy for talks
Bush plea for unity amid crisis
Bush applauds G7 collaboration

People outside Icelandic bank Landsbankinn 'Progress made' in Iceland talks
Significant progress has been made over frozen UK cash in failed Icelandic banks, say Treasury and Icelandic officials.

A file photo from February 2008 of a US inspector studying disabled nuclear equipment at Yongbyon plant in North Korea N Korea taken off US terror list
The US removes North Korea from its state terror list after the North agrees to nuclear inspection demands, the US says.


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