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The day's top showbiz news and headlines including Adam Lambert's performance backlash, Tyler Perry's generous donation, and Susan Boyle's album debut.

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A program that pays forest families to guard the environment is Brazil's latest tool to cut deforestation ahead of December's global climate talks in Copenhagen.

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The World Health Organisation is looking into reports of the spread of a drug-resistant strain of H1N1 swine flu in several countries -- including the U.S., the U.K. and China.

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Iran's Ahmadinejad arrives in Bolivia as part of South American tour to rally support in region.

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President Barack Obama said at a joint news conference with India's Prime Minister, that he will announce a new U.S. strategy for Afghanistan within days.

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Exhaustive hearings into why Britain entered the Iraq war have just opened in London, but critics are already branding it a failure.

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Conservationists release a rare falcon back into the wild after rescuing seven of the birds from poachers.

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President Obama welcomed Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at the White House, as Obama played host for his first state visit.

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More than two million Muslims gather this week for the annual haj pilgrimage to Islam's holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia.

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A plane powered by renewable fuel has circled the skies over the Netherlands, in the world's first biofuel passenger carrying flight.

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A Munich school and job centre gets Santa Clauses ready for the Christmas rush.

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Demonstrators wearing blood-smeared masks of the former British and U.S. leaders stage a protest at the start of an official inquiry into Britain's involvement in the Iraq war.

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Venezuelan students stage a hunger strike in Caracas to protest President Hugo Chavez's policies.

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Three cheetah cubs debut at a Tokyo zoo, attracting thousands of visitors.

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The White House is acknowledging that getting a binding agreement for cutting greenhouse gases at the Copenhagen Summit is very unlikely.

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Indonesians express disappointment with President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's handling of a corruption case.

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Heavy security patrols the streets of a southern Philippines town, after a massacre left at least 24 people abducted and brutally murdered.

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As India's Singh arrives for State visit in Washington, President Obama may face a balancing act when it comes to South Asia.

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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrives in Brazil for the first leg of the controversial Iranian President's South American tour.

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The day's top showbiz news and headlines including Taylor Swift wins big at AMAs, Michael Jackson's white glove headed to Macau casino, and Dr. Conrad Murray back to work.

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A town in Cumbria cut in two after its last standing bridge was closed due devastating floods.

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The South African Mint Company manually presses a FIFA 2010 World Cup coin at the renovated Soccer City stadium that will host the first and final matches of the tournament.

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Following a tradition that goes back hundreds of years, Hamburg's swan representative takes his birds to their winter abode.

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Rescue workers free 18 people trapped in a van caught up in an avalanche in Turkey.

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Hundreds of Malaysian boys begin the journey into adulthood at mass circumcision ceremonies.

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Bartenders from around the world show-off their bottle juggling skills with the hope of winning the Grand Slam in flair bartending in Warsaw, Poland.

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Thousands of Pakistanis are displaced as the government offensive against the Taliban on the Afghanistan border picks up.

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An Australian couple competing in a speedboat race in Temora Australia escape a spectacular accident without injury.

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Family members search in vain for answers after their loved ones were killed in a gas explosion in China's northeast.

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Ferry crashes in bad weather off Indonesia's Riau islands, killing at least 29 people.

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The world's last running narrow-gauge passenger steam train is still going strong in mountainous rural China, but that's not necessarily a good thing for the locals.

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The day's top showbiz news and headlines including "New Moon" rules the box office, Jackson's white glove is sold, and Robbie Williams is looking for investors.

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Honduras gets ready to vote for a new president on November 29 in an election overshadowed by a military coup that toppled elected president Manuel Zelaya and plunged the impoverished nation into ...

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Thousands of students at California's top public universities staged demonstrations against a 32 percent rise in tuition fees prompted in part by the state's budget crisis during the recession.

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A herd of elephants goes on a rampage, destroying a tea garden in Doars region of India's eastern West Bengal state.

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An overloaded ferry sinks in bad weather off Indonesia's Riau islands.

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The Maersk Alabama cargo ship captured by Somali pirates in April arrives in Kenya after foiling a second attempt.

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Iranian armed forces launch air defence war games to show off the country's deterrent capabilities in the face of pressure from the West over its nuclear programme.