In Tuesday's Europe papers

FINANCIAL TIMES

Australia raises rates to 3.5%
Reserve Bank of Australia says economy resumes growth.

Stronger signs of global recovery
Manufacturing output rises across the world.

Ford posts $1bn quarterly profit
Ford Motor offered a rare ray of hope for a car industry in the doldrums by reporting that it had made a $1bn profit in the third quarter.

Overview: Risky assets respond to positive data
Fresh signs of recovery in the global economy paved the way for a strong rebound in risky assets as the markets limbered up for a series of central bank policy meetings.

INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE

Obama warns Karzai to focus on tackling corruption
President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan, now assured of a new term, was urged by President Obama "to write a new chapter" in his government’s legitimacy.

Iran’s politics stand in way of nuclear deal
Iran’s equivocating may be as much a product of its smoldering political crisis as it is a negotiating tactic, experts said.

Australia raises rates for second straight month
Australia’s central bank again raised its benchmark interest rate as widely expected, amid mounting evidence that the Australian economy is rapidly picking up speed.

Asian stock markets slip
Asian shares edged down on Tuesday despite stronger US manufacturing data as caution set in before the start of US Federal Reserve’s two-day interest rate meeting.

THE MOSCOW TIMES

Red tape swells despite Kremlin vow
For being just a small strip of gray paper, a foreigner’s registration can become quite a bureaucratic nightmare — especially when you lose it.

Miliband builds ties but differences remain
Moscow and London agreed on Monday on international issues like nuclear nonproliferation and Afghanistan, but neither side budged an inch on problems that have poisoned relations for the past three years.

Bank lending falls as rouble firms up
Bank lending fell off in September, driven mostly by the sharp appreciation of the rouble, while overdue corporate loans fell for the first time in recent months, Central Bank data showed on Monday.

RusAl lands deal with Norinco
United Company RusAl has struck a contract to sell 1.68m tons of aluminum to Chinese state conglomerate Norinco over seven years.

DER SPIEGEL

How Israel destroyed Syria’s Al Kibar nuclear reactor
In September 2007, Israeli fighter jets destroyed a mysterious complex in the Syrian desert.

‘I am optimistic’
In a SPIEGEL interview, former US vice president and Nobel Peace Prize winner Al Gore, 61, discusses Barack Obama's environmental policies, the endless push by lobbyists to derail reforms and his hopes for a global deal at the climate change summit in Copenhagen next month.