AFP - Asia-Pacific leaders including the US and Chinese presidents Sunday pledged to reject trade protectionism and pursue a new strategy for growth after the world's worst economic crisis in decades.

AFP - Even as some sectors of the US economy see a return to growth, woes in commercial real estate are deepening, raising fears that the fragile recovery could falter.

Reuters - U.S. President Barack Obama invited fellow leaders in the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation to a summit in Hawaii in 2011, but may have alarmed them with the dress code.

AFP - US President Barack Obama and 20 other Asia-Pacific leaders convened Sunday at a moment of truth for the crisis-hit world economy and for global efforts to fight climate change.

Microsoft says its Xbox 360 video game console will be able to link online starting this week with Twitter and Facebook.

The head of Optus, Australia's second biggest telecommunications provider, says the government's national broadband network (NBN) will be commercially viable and his company will be investing in it.

Japanese high-tech giant Hitachi Ltd plans to raise about Y300 billion ($A3.

US President Barack Obama announced Hawaii would host the APEC summit in 2011 and teased leaders they would be obliged to wear loud shirts and grass skirts.

Ian Woods, Sky Correspondent in Australia

Wine makers in South Australia are spending millions laying long pipelines to pump water into their drought-stricken vineyards.

The chief of the company building the Brisbane airport toll road says negative publicity about instalment payments by investors has taken the focus away from a great infrastructure project.