U.S. presumptive Republican presidential candidate John McCain vowed on Thursday, for the first time, to bring home most troops to Iraq by 2013 after the U.S. wins the war by his watch.
Visiting U.S. President George W. Bush on Thursday reiterated an "unbreakable" relationship with Israel, vowing to stand by the Jewish state's side against its enemies.
World economic growth will drop steeply to 1.8 percent this year, from 3.8 percent in 2007, the United Nations said Thursday in a mid-year economic report.
