Three employees of the Spanair airline, the head of the maintenance team and two mechanics, have formally been cited for manslaughter over the August plane crash near Madrid. According to investigators of the crash, the two mechanics failed to spot a pro
A majority of debate watchers think Senator Barack Obama won the third and final presidential debatein the US, according to a national poll conducted by CNN and Opinion Research Corporation by phone on Wednesday night. Fifty-eight percent of the watchers
The US Republican presidential nominee John McCain used the final debate with Democrat Barack Obama to attack his rival over taxes, spending and past associations, while Obama countered by stressing his approach to the economic and health-care issues that
The Bush administration issued two secret memos to the CIA that explicitly endorsed the use of harsh measures to extract information from captured al-Qaeda leaders and suspects, according to an article published in the daily "Washington Post."
The Austrian far-right politician Joerg Haider was drunk at the time of his fatal car crash last Saturday, an official from his party said Wednesday.
Thailand and Cambodia's forces skirmished Wednesday in a disputed border area around the 11th-century temple Preah Vihear, dariknews.bg reported.
The Conservative Party of the incumbent Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper has won Canada's 2008 General Elections, which took place Tuesday.
The Democratic Party candidate for the 2008 US Presidential Elections Barack Obama has a 4% lead in public support before the Republican John McCain.
Barack Obama's former competitor for the 2008 Democratic Party presidential nomination Hillary Clinton stated she was most likely never going to bid for the presidency again.
The US Treasury Department disclosed on Tuesday a plan to bring in USD 250 B into struggling US banks in order to deal with the credit crisis that could lead to a global economy recession. According to the plan, the government is going to spend USD 250 B
The presidential candidate of the Democratic Party Barack Obama has a 6% lead before his Republican opponent John McCain in the 2008 White House race.
Protesters in Podgorica have clashed with police at a rally against the government's decision to recognise Kosovo's independence.
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has declared a state of emergency in Los Angeles over raging wildfires, which have caused two deaths, with 12,000 people driven from their homes. "Winds are causing fire conditions to change by the hour, which is
An earthquake measuring 5.1 on the Richter scale shook northeastern Greece early on Tuesday.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has announced Monday a huge financial rescue plan that will provide as much as 500 billion euros in loan guarantees and capital to bolster the banking system. "We are taking measures in order to prevent a repeat of what we
A protest rally against the Montenegrin decision to recognize Kosovo's independence is staged downtown Podgorica on Monday. The opposition SNP, NS, the Serb List and the Democratic Serb Party (DSS) are the organizers of the protest.
A new poll, 22 days before the US presidential elections, shows that Democrat Barack Obama is still ahead of Republican candidate John McCain.
North Korea has welcomed its removal from the US list of terrorism sponsors and said it would resume disabling its nuclear weapons complex. Pyongyang said it would cooperate on the "verification of objects of the disablement of nuclear facilities," as lo
The Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich has been elected member of the Duma of Russia's Chukotka Autonoumous Region with a near absolute support ITAR-TASS reported Monday.
The cause of the Saturday accident that killed Austrian far-right politician and Governor of the Carinthia province Joerg Haider was speed twice above the speed limit, leading world information agencies reported Sunday, citing Austrian court officials.
A Soyuz spacecraft with two Americans and one Russian on board lifted off from Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan on Sunday for the international space station.
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