Washington - The world's 20 top economies reached a deal to better regulate global financial markets and take steps to halt a global economic slide in an emergency summit hosted by US President George W Bush in Washington.

The declaration includes a call for better regulation of the world's financial system and to bolster government spending aimed at spurring economic growth at a time when the global economy risk sliding into recession.

Belgrade - A Royal Jordanian jet airliner safely made an emergency landing in Belgrade Saturday late afternoon, Serbian television RTS reported.

The Airbus A310-300 with 154 passengers and 14 crew flying from Amman to London requested to land after losing pressure in the cockpit, the Belgrade airport confirmed.

The passengers were due to be flown to London by another Royal airplane during the course of the evening, it said.

Moscow - Three liberal parties currently not represented in the Russian parliament (Duma) have decided to join forces under the new party name "Just Cause," Russia media reported Saturday.

The parties - the Union of Just Forces (SPS), the Democratic party and the Citizens' Force - announced on Saturday in Moscow that they would be disbanding and forming a unit to contest March 2009 parliamentary elections, former SPS deputy chairman Leonid Gosman was quoted by the Interfax news agency as saying.

Mar del Plata, Argentina - The Japanese film Still Walking from director Hirokazu Kore-eda Saturday received the prestigious Golden Astor as best film of the 23rd International Film Festival in Argentina's Atlantic coastal town of Mar del Plata .

A second prize also went to Japan: Kiyoshi Kurosawa received a Silver Astor for best direction in his film, Tokyo Sonata.

Washington - The world's 20 leading economies are holding an historic summit in Washington Saturday to hammer out plans for launching a new global financial order amid signs of a sharp economic deterioration and renewed share market turmoil.

Launching moves aimed at overhauling the international financial system and endorsing measures to spur world economic growth form the two strands of the Saturday summit of so-called Group of 20 (G20) leaders which is being hosted by US President W Bush.

Washington - The world must not fail to protect developing countries from a recession that was not of their making, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh warned Saturday.

"Our willingness to take specific steps to support developing countries in this period of exceptional difficulty will be a test of our collective leadership," said Singh, an economist, former central bank governor and finance minister, and the architect of India's economic reforms programme in the 1990s.